But wait there's more....
Parasitic infection is extremely common and most everyone has some. Most people have Lyme spirochetes, liver flukes, trichina cysts or worms, and often others. Most people are asymptomatic because your immune system controls it. You live in harmony with it until your immune system is down.
Its a good practice to deworm annually. I don't know how we ever got away from this practice and maybe this is why diseases are more prevalent.
Infection is more likely if you work around the soil, are not that clean in your living and sexual habits, travel the world, eat pork, ham or bacon, or live in Lyme-infected areas such as the East and West coast of the USA, and the mid-west as well.
Parasites are everywhere, and not that easy to avoid.
These parasites mate, lay eggs, and grow throughout the body causing diseases such as cancer, heart disease, infections, diabetes, and many more.
Certain products such as pork products contain parasites that grow and affect the brain cells causing very serious illness so when intimately involved with a person who consumes pig products you too can become contaminated with the Trichina Worm which is found in all pig products whether it is cooked well or not.
Bug bite? Hell why not? Likely an asymptomatic nematode larvae is very possible. Because you are asymptomatic it is considered acceptable. We are all carrying something that doesn't belong. Some of it will live in symbiosis with us. Doctors were found studying the
benefits of hookworm. Its hard to believe there would be any (and by the way, no thanks, Doc). Many do not make us ill until our immune system becomes stressed and that is when they overpopulate and we become symptomatic.
Haven't many described periods of great stress prior to succumbing to disease? It is because we willingly carry a few of these buggers around. They may never experience a population explosion until our defenses against them become weakened.
Ingestion of raw vegetables represented an important mean of transmission of several infectious diseases.
Strongyloides stercoralis larvae (43%) and Cryptosporidium parvum oocyst (16%). Others present were Hookworm ova, Entamoeba histolytica cysts, Giardia lamblia cysts, Cyclospora cayetanensis oocysts, Entamoeba coli cysts, Trichuris trichiuria ova, Enterobius vermicularis ova, Isospora belli oocysts and Fasciolopsis buski ova. Contamination was highest in lettuce (61%) and cabbage and the least contaminated was tomato (18%)
Do you think a doctor would even be able to test you unless you knew which parasite you suspected? I think not. Do you think he would want to? No he would just think you are bat crap crazy.
Yes bagged triple washed veggies in North America also:
globalnews.ca/news/406249/are-parasites-lurking-in-your-pre-washed-bags-of-lettuce/This is why I will be deworming annually from now on.
Post Edited (ChickenArise) : 12/1/2016 12:05:29 AM (GMT-7)