How far are you willing to go to treat your allergy and asthma problems?
Would you allow your doctor to infect you with parasitic worms in order to suppress your allergy immune system? Apparently there are allergy sufferers who would.
A physician/scientist conducted a study that involved the intentional infection of 15 allergy patients with hookworms. Another 15 were part of the control group (allergy patients in the study that were not infected for the study). The infected patients had
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Source: HealthCentral Encyclopedia
Allergies are abnormal reactions to ordinarily harmless substances. The sensitizing substances, called allergens, may be inhaled, swallowed, or come... Read more »
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