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James (Orlando, Fl) on 03/20/2009
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Urticaria and internal parasites:

After a trip into Mexico I developed a severe outbreak of measle like red spots on my body. A fecal examination revealed I was infested with 3 different amoebas: Coli, Hystolytica, and Blastocystis Hominis.

See descriptions here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entamoeba_histolytica
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blastocystis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entamoeba_coli

Three separate treatments with Flagyl cured the infestation. I do not know if it was one or a combination of the parasites which caused the outbreak but the red spots disappeared after treatment and have never returned.

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Replied By Florie (San Francisco, California) on 04/23/2011

Flagyl is very very very bad stuff and should be avoided.
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Replied By Andrea C (Cardiff, Wales) on 06/25/2011

FLAGYL IS FLUORIDE IN PILL FORM! FL IS THE CHEMICAL SYMBOL 4 FLOURIDE. FLAGYL ALSO GOES UNDER ANOTHER NAME STARTS WITH AN M. I CAN'T REMEMBER THE SPELLING BUT WILL POST IT A. S. A. P LOVE ANDREA C X X X
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Replied By Kristi (Nanaimo, Bc) on 06/27/2011

Flagyl's other name is Metrondiazole. The chemical compound is not the same as flouride. Many drugs have multiple names, however you can't read into all of their names and assume that just because the beginning of the name is similar to an element that that is what it contain.
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Replied By Someone In Nyc (Somewhere In Ny, Ny) on 11/13/2012

Flagyl saved my life. I had Giardia. After 3 courses of medication, Flagyl combined with Albendazole finally cleared it. I thank God for this medication. Yes, it was awful to take, should not be taken lightly and always under a doctor's supervision, alcohol definitely needs to be avoided while taking, and it does have nasty side effects. For me, the side effects passed and I was able to finally recover from the horrible nightmare of Giardia.
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Replied By Me (Pdx, US) on 08/28/2014

My friend suffered from, "chronic fatigue" (I believe that all illness have a cause and cure) for years . And new doctor found it was amoeba. They did an IV flagel for 10 days and was cured and I always lean towards a natural so if they had a natural equivalent what would it be?
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Replied By Xan Adams (Puerto Vallarta, Mexico) on 06/17/2016

There is also a chemical in goldenseal that functions much the same as Flagyl, for those who hate western medicine (a lot of which is based on pursuing the benefits of traditional effectiveness of such things as goldenseal and garlic.
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Replied By E. Hystolitica (Canada) on 06/02/2017

Do not mess around with E. Hystolytica as it is a very serious infection. I contracted this a year ago and was only put on Metronidazole by an intern who failed to prescribe luminal agents following a 10 day treatment to kill the cysts and they incubated and a year later I had a re-infestation and this time much more serious. I use all kinds of herbs in leaf and tincture form and have a very clean diet and take DE but these will not/do not kill amoebas.

If left untreated you can develop cirhosis of the liver and the amoeba can be active in the blood and penetrate the brain and lungs. Go to your Doctor and follow treatment with probiotics.

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Replied By Art (California ) on 06/05/2017

According to the following PubMed abstract, colloidal silver may be active against the E. Holistica parasite.

Art

J Egypt Soc Parasitol. 2015 Dec;45(3):593-602.

ANTIPARASITIC ACTIVITY OF SILVER AND COPPER OXIDE NANOPARTICLES AGAINST ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA AND CRYPTOSPORIDIUM PARVUM CYSTS.

Saad HA, Soliman MI, Azzam AM, Mostafa B.

Abstract

Nanoparticles (NPs) have received more attention as antiparasitic agents. In the present study, silver and copper nanoparticles were synthesized and characterized using scanning electron microscopy (SEM), transmission electron microscope (TEM) and X-ray fluorescence (XRF). The antiparasitic activity of Ag and CuO nanoparticles were tested against two of the most environmentally spread parasites in Egypt (Entamoeba histolytica and Cryptosporidium parvum). The average sizes of synthesized Ag NPs and CuO NPs were 9 & 29 nm respectively and a significant reduction for cysts viability (p > 0.05) was observed for CuO NPs against E. histolytica cysts and Ag NPs against C. parvum oocysts. Moreover, LC50-3h of CuO NPs for E. histolytica and C. parvum were 0.13 and 0.72 mg/l, while Ag NPs recorded 0.34 and 0.54 mg/l respectively. Accordingly, these NPs could be suggested as a new nanoform agent for safe and effective treatment of E. histolytica and C. parvum parasites.

PMID:

26939237

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