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How Did You Treat Parasites?

AmyNColorado

By AmyNColorado
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I've been doing alot of research on how to treat parasites naturally. It lists a HUGE list of herbal remedies and I'm wondering if you take all of them together?! It seems pretty extensive to do at home so I'm wondering how others have treated it and how long it took to heal? Any recommendations on products?

Also, have you ever treated with medications from a doctor? How did that go? Is that possible even?

One last thing I'd like to add...I'm in Colorado and we have the best gluten free beer! Well from what I've tried anyway and I've tried pretty much every gluten-free beer there is. New Planet Beer makes a lightly treated ale, Rasberry ale and a Pale Ale!! Just wanted to pass that on! you can check them out at www.newplanetbeer.com. I was reading through postings about gluten-free beer and thought I would share, they are spreading quickly! More and more bars here carry it regularly, its pretty awesome!

Thanks for feedback on the parasites, I really appreciate it.

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The first thing you do is go to the doctor and get stool testing to make sure you actually have parasites. The doctor can then prescribe the proper medication to rid you of them.

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The first thing you do is go to the doctor and get stool testing to make sure you actually have parasites. The doctor can then prescribe the proper medication to rid you of them.

I agree. I was diagnosed via stool test with cryptosporidia and treated with alinia. Later I was diagnosed with dientamoeba fragilis, but my ND still wanted to treat me with Alinia, even though that drug was not recommended for D-frag. Some docs get stuck on one drug for everything. So after 2 unsuccessful treatments with 2 different drugs, I found another doc who had lots of experience with parasites (treating people in South America). She had a book which listed appropriate treatments for each different parasite. Her recommended treatment worked. Then she ordered tests to figure out why I got 8 different gastro infections and frequent colds over a 4 year period. 2 years later my immunity is much stronger and rarely get colds. I haven't had another gastrointestinal infection since D-Frag. (My next stool test was clear of gut bugs, except for the good ones.)

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