Article about allergies - relates to colitis and crohn's

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I found this after looking at one someone else posted. This bit was interesting,

as was the whole article:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg18624951.900-filthy-friends-and-the-rise-o\

f-allergies.html?full=true

Even harmless microscopic worms may be important. In 2003, a multinational team

headed by parasitologist Nutman of the US " National Institutes of Health

reported a study of more than 2800 schoolchildren in Ecuador. It showed that

allergies were less prevalent among the children infected with worms than among

those who were parasite-free. Last year, researchers in the Netherlands reported

a study from Gabon in which allergy rates rose among a group of children who

were given worm-killing medication.

Many scientists are now convinced that better treatments for immune-related

diseases lie just around the corner. In London, Rook's group has already

developed a vaccine from dead M. vaccae for treating eczema and asthma. The

vaccine is now showing encouraging results in clinical trials. Other researchers

are studying the effects of using live lactobacilli to treat children with

eczema, allergic rhinitis, food allergies and inflammatory bowel diseases. There

is even growing interest in using the eggs of worms such as the pig whipworm

Trichuris suis - which cannot survive in humans as adult worms - to treat

patients with colitis, type 1 diabetes and multiple sclerosis. In January,

Weinstock and his team at the University of Iowa in Iowa City reported that

drinking a sports drink containing 2500 T. suis eggs once every three weeks for

24 weeks resulted in the disappearance of symptoms in 21 of 29 patients with

Crohn's disease. "

Kat

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