Do Not Let the Parasites Eat Your Lunch!

Are you wondering why I picked parasites to talk about? Did I just hear you say, "hey, get a life!" I understand completely, and I would have felt the same way years ago.

I don't want to reveal my age just yet, but let's just say that I have four kids of my own now and they are all under nine years young.

My burden for this site is very real because I think for far too long there has been no mention of this matter of parasites related to human health.

It was just in the past few years that I even heard someone talk about it who wasn't talking about it in the context of vaccinating their pet.

What should have tipped me off much earlier was my excursion to the "land unknown"...the Amazon River.
Maybe you have been there...if you are reading this I congratulate you that you made it back alive.

Well, it's not that dangerous really, but it is for sure high adventure to wander nine hours down the river from Santeram and go inland a mile or two and visit a village.

We were among 150 villagers at the place that we visited, we being a team of doctors, dentists, and optometrists. The time of our stay was only a week and the year was 1993.

We were not only there to supply aid, medically speaking, we also did some carpentry work, taught the young ones how to play baseball, and did the inevitable, we took a walk in the jungle. Yeah, buddy!

Actually, it was just me that took a walk in the jungle, everyone else shyed away...and it made me wonder, "am I missing something here?" "Is this stupid or what?"...well, I obviously survived!

Of course, no one tells you in the jungle stories that all of the animals are night life creatures. In the daytime, they could care less who is hiking through their territory.

The second day we were there, a young boy was walking through the village with a snake on the ground beside him. He had tied a string around it's neck and was on the path with this six foot creature in tow.

A friend of mine beside me ask the boy if he could have his picture taken with his pet snake and the boy handed it over to him. As he held it up for the camera, I ask him what kind of snake it was and he said it was a boa constrictor.

Then he asked me if I wanted my picture taken with the boy's "pet"...and I had not a second thought about saying no to that one.

About a minute later, a villager walked up to the boy and his snake and with a machete, chopped off the snake's head and told the boy not to bring them into the village because they would eat the chickens!

As the days were passing by, the lines that were formed to see the medical ones among us grew steadily as the word got out around the other villagers that we were in town.

By the end of the fourth day, the dentist asked me if I wanted to pull teeth for awhile as he was getting a little bit tired. I had to pass on that offer as well. He had already pulled 900 teeth!

As we asked questions of the villagers, we found out that almost none of them had traveled more than a few miles from the village and that the life expectancy of the average one living there was 27 years.

It was in this discussion about life expectancy that I first heard about parasites. Since these people had very limited ways to combat any kind of infection, they were extremely vulnerable to parasites and worms, not to mention alligators.

On the night before we were planning to head back to Santeram, one of the boys asked me if I wanted to go on an alligator hunt that last night. Hmmmm, now there's another offer...a tempting one at that, should I refuse this one, too? Am I going to come all the way down to this village not to be the least bit adventurous?

I couldn't help but mention the offer to a sidekick there, and immediately, if not sooner, our caretaker stormed over to me and said, "I'll give them your answer, and the answer is NO!" He went on to say that two young boys had perished a year before when an alligator had tipped their boat over.

He was not going to have any of us chance it. The boys decided not to go after all, so I didn't have to fret over their outcome.

One of the smaller kids had his foot treated for an infection. His foot was bandaged quite thoroughly to protect the incision and to keep the medication in place. Unfortunately, within an hour he was seen sloshing around in the water and his bandages were beginning to come off.

This is when someone told me that because of things like this, the children contact parasites from the water and also worms. Eventually, it is usually a fatal occurrence.

One lady had had 14 children and she was still in her 40s. We ask how they were doing and she said that she only had eight of them still alive. Two had been killed by alligators that came out of the water and attacked, and four had died from worms and parasites.

For those of us in America, we seem to think for many years and maybe even our lifetime, that we are not susceptible to getting parasites or worms.

Especially I hear this from people who do not travel out of the country. But, actually, you don't have to travel to another country to get them. If you have pets that have not been given the proper shots, and you let them lick your hands, you can get infected.

If you have kids, they can get them from the parks and lake areas. Why the parks? Because people take their pets there and their pets will defecate in the grass and the kids play in the same grass. Them, if the kids don't wash their hands, they might get infected.

Also, parents and others who handle diapers can be infected. People who handle food, such as cafe and restaurant workers, who do not wash their hands can infect themselves and others who come in contact with food that they have prepared.

If we are married and our spouses have parasites, we will more than likely have them. This is true for sexual partners, and sometimes even through kissing, these invaders can be passed on from one to another.

When I say that they might eat your lunch, this is referring actually to the lunch that you ate and are hoping to digest.

These parasites are smart little critters, they like to lay low and just feast on the nutrients and supplements that you are so kind to supply for them.

They strip everything you eat for what they need and you not only get the leftovers, but you get their waste products as well. And this is toxic for your body.

They can end up just about anywhere in your body.
If you like to visit YouTube, check out the videos on parasites, if you think you can stomach it.

Be warned that some of them are very graphic in the way of closeups of internal organs infested with worms and parasites.

You can also get more information about this problem at http://healthysolutionsforme.com.
This is a website dedicated to making people aware of health problems that they may not be aware of, and there are more articles there on parasites and what to do about it.

Well, I think I will stop here for the moment. I realize that this is not quite as exciting to read about or hear about as, say, Beatle songs, or different kinds of coffee beans to grind, brew, and enjoy!

But my purpose is to let you know that one out of three Americans have some degree of parasites in them and they may get by just fine for many, many years, but these little critters like to multiply, and eventually, they manifest themselves in some disease or sickness.

I would like to think that since you have read this far, that you will at least be aware of the reality of the world of the parasites, and be sure to guard yourself against any ideas that they might have about checking into your body for an uninvited stay.

To Your Optimum Health,

Hoogle