Re: Mebendazole kills flukes/hydatid sand

Actually, your advice is dangerous for the following reasons:

1. Albendazole, taken 1-2 days at the recommended dosage of 400 mg twice daily is very safe and effective for many worms (mostly nematodes) and has less side effects than Wormwood . Liver toxicity may result when the drug is administered for extended period of time, like in Tapeworm larval infections, when it has to be taken for at least 3 months (some people take it for 1-2 years, actually).

2. while not much of albendazole is absorbed, most of it is quickly converted in liver to its two sulfur metabolites. These metabolites were found effective against many helminths in the late 1990s. And so nowadays it is known that albendazole has systemic effect via its sulfur metbolites.

3. When suboptimal dosages of drugs like mebendazole and albendazole, which are in the same class, are used for round worms like ascaris, this can cause their migration, which is very dangerous (they can damage organs or exit via mouth and nose, which could be extremely distressful for the patient). => the recommended dosage must be used.

4. The rationale you employ has relevance to Antibiotics vs. bacteria and there it makes sense: bacteria divide quickly and can go through few to many generations in a day and Antibiotics disrupt this process immediately. Helminths do not reproduce many times in a day. They usually take at least a week to many months to complete their cycle and most do not complete their cycle in one host. Therefore your pulse therapy for worms makes absolutely no sense. It will do nothing to them except prompt them to develop future resistance.


Google albendazole. :)
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