I have been hearing about this a lot since Joe Rogan got sick a month ago. Ivermectin is not proven to be effective in any way against COVID, and is being pushed by morons everywhere to play to their vaccine skeptic base. For a few months, it has been referred to as Horse dewormer, even referenced by the FDA as a livestock treatment. Given the recent controversy with CNN and Joe Rogan, is it accurate to call Ivermectin Horse Dewormer? And was it designed primarily for livestock or for humans?
Hello fellow sebdermers,
I'm entirely prepared to be banned and downvoted into oblivion for even suggesting this but if even one person is helped after this point, it'll be worth it.
Please keep an open mind and try to follow a harmless protocol and report back because I'm really curious if we can reproduce the results of this experiment.
I've never had intense sebderm luckily, though as a guy having long curly hair never helped with itchy and dry scalps. The flakes manifested themselves primarily on my scalp in the last five years or so (didn't have or notice anything before that). However more recently, they spread to my right eyebrow since a year or two. I kept it more or less under control.
This summer, I caught a case of COVID and after somewhat of a not so great time I was up and about again, and went to my doctor. I asked her to prescribe me some micotal because my sebderm had flared up greatly during and after COVID.
First strangeness: her response was "oh that's weird, more patients have come to me about sebderm after getting COVID"
I would use the cream and nizoral shampoo for my head and my flakes would be relieved and not itchy anymore. However two days after stopping their use, the flakes and itchiness would return rather quickly.
Fast forward a month if two later, I still had pretty intense sebderm (relative to my past with it) and got a bit tired of using expensive shampoos and creams.
And this is where it gets a bit crazy: I come across this theory on 4chan and tiktok that's spreading like wildfire. Essentially, reading through the Karen tiktok soccer mum bullshit and crude language of 4chan, the following conclusion is drawn: parasitic infestation is largely misdiagnosed in western countries and might be responsible for more diseases and illnesses than we give them credit for, and particularly chronic diseases.
For example: toxoplasma gondii in humans (30-50% of the world population infected with this cat parasite: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3963851/#:~:text=Background,individuals%20is%20usually%20considered%20asymptomatic. ) was thought to be harmless until somewhat recently but it turns out there is a direct correlation with mental illnesses such as chronic anxiety and depression, OCD and BPD ( https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7040223/ )
Which is absolutely insane to think about.
Multiple herbal based antiparasitic treatments on the internet had reviews in the thousands, full of ver
... keep reading on reddit β‘I keep reading stories that Ibogaine is supposedly a strong antiparasitic/antibacterial substance in the gut?
Anecdotal stories on this sub seem to report better stools and better guts after ingesting Ibogaine.
What is the mechanism behind such action?
Are there any studies one would recommend reading from PubMed?
Angela Betsaida B. Laguipo, "Antiparasitic drug Ivermectin kills coronavirus in 48 hours," News-Medical.net, April 6, 2020.
Specific claim to be debunked: The drug Ivermectin "reduced COVID-19 viral RNA present in cell culture by as much as 93 percent after 24 hours and by 99.8 percent after 48 hours, at around a 5,000-fold reduction in coronavirus RNA, hinting that the medicine can potentially eradicate the virus. [...] βWe found that even a single dose could essentially remove all viral RNA by 48 hours [...],β Dr. Kylie Wagstaff of the Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute said."
Edited to add: I intend to take what I learn here, certainly valuable in itself, and respond to that person on Facebook who posted the article for the sake of others who read the comments on it. So your contributions could be enormously helpful. If it's possible to turn even just one person toward a more skeptical approach, it would be worth it to me.
Hello. If anyone is curious how Valentine is doing after his treatment, here's an udpate for you. This is the original post, but basically I bought a garter snake and he was kind of reluctant to eat, ended up regurgitating once, refused to eat long after and I noticed there was blood in his urates. I wanted to test him for parasites, but since he didn't poop, there was nothing to test. A vet gave me medication that should cover a wider range of problems and he quickly got better after the first dose.
Since then I've finished the treatment and he seemed absolutely fine, but slowly got worse again. Because the treatment seemed effective, the vet didn't think it was necessary to do the fecal after he started eating and pooping again. But he gradually got disinterested in food again and started passing more frequently, so I'm guessing he had a bit of diarrhoea (that was the case the first time too, but it was harder to notice since he was a new snake).
We did a second round of treatment and I took extra extra care to disinfect the enclosure. The treatment was once again very effective and he's back to normal, but since he relapsed, the vet agreed we should do a fecal.
I got the results yesterday and the vet didn't find anything to worry about, so I'm really hoping he's in the clear now! Thank you to everyone who left comments on the original post, I was really stressed since I didn't know if the treatment would work and the comments really helped me to calm down. I hope this post can cheer you up if you're having a bad day or if you're having similar troubles!
35/F. 5'2", 110 lbs. Usual medications, once daily: Bupropion 300mg. Spironolactone 100mg. Levothyroxine 112mcg. Apri birth control. For the past week, twice daily: Sulfamethoxazole 800mg / Trimethoprim 160mg. Metronidazole 500mg.
Two years ago, I hiked the Appalachian Trail and contracted some sort of water-borne parasite, with Giardia being the most likely suspect. The first time I got it, I didn't realize what it was for a long time, and the infection got catastrophically bad before it was finally treated with a course of Metronidazole, which cleared up the symptoms right away. The infection recurred three weeks later, and then again three months later, each time resolved by another course of once-daily Metronidazole. That seemed to be the end of it, but in January of this year, I had another recurrence. I eventually saw a doctor who prescribed me the Sulfamethoxazole / Trimethoprim / Metronidazole in a bid to hopefully wipe it out once and for all. For the past week I have been taking, and will continue to take, Florajen high-potency probiotics.
What I'd like to know now is what I can do to both recover from the course of meds, which was brutal, and to re-nourish myself after having played host to intestinal parasites for so long. (The doctor said some of my symptoms were likely caused by poor absorption of nutrients.) I imagine advice will be mostly dietary / nutritional, but I'm open to anything that might help. Anything in particular I should be supplementing? Anything I should avoid? How long should I keep taking probiotics? How can I make my gut flora healthy again? Thanks very much in advance for any insight you can offer!
Sorry for the long post in advance.
It's a long story but a month ago I bought an almost two year old male garter from a lady. She's succesfully kept garters for a very long time and they seem in great condition, so I trusted it will be okay, even if i knew she sometimes fed them wild caught frogs, which I'm aware are known for the risk of carrying parasites. I managed to feed the guy two times, small portions of turkey heart and trout just until I can get frozen feeder fish for him. His second meal was on the first of March and I gave him a bigger portion, since the first meal was very small. Three days later he ended up partially regurgitating it so I thought he might not be ready for big meals after brumation and I overfed him. I waited two weeks so any potential damage from the regurgitation could heal (also he had a nice, i guess post-brumation, shed in the meantime) and offered him a small meal twice, which he wasn't interested in. I noticed small drops of blood in his urates and he has lost some weight during the month I've had him so I contacted a veterinarian and got oral medication for him for suspected parasites (fecal couldn't be done since there's nothing he could poop out), administred the first dose today.
I will say I'm worried sick, I hate that there's something wrong and not knowing if it can be fixed. Have any of you ever treated parasites? Were you successful? Also how easy is it to hurt the snake while giving the medicine? I tried to be as gentle as possible and he was a great sport but opening his mouth with a card was super stressful. I hate this.
When I think about history, I often think about the vast differences in the quality of life that we enjoy today that past civilizations didn't have the luxury of. One of the examples of this that haunts me is scabies. Aristotle refers to it as "lice of the flesh" and its been known for at least 3000 years. Its one of the first diseases where the cause was actually identified. But both of the treatments used today were only developed in the 1970s.
What did people used to do for diseases like this? Would they just live with them for the rest of their lives? It was also called the 7 year itch. Did it just go away on its own eventually?
