Doctors warn that the parasite cleanse trend misleads patients, causing health risks and delaying proper diagnosis of ...

EXPERIENCED travelers recall trips abroad that were memorable mainly for bouts of diarrhea. Few who have visited the Continent, Mexico or more distant lands are unacquainted with intestinal disease ...

THIS is a treatise which will be very valuable to the medical investigator of the microscopic intestinal parasites of man—other than those belonging to the great group of Bacteria. Its origin is due ...

(NEXSTAR) – If talk of binders, wormwood and “scrubbing your gut microbiome” sound familiar, you may have seen one of the many TikTok videos promoting so-called “parasite cleanses.” A common theme in ...

Gastroenterologist Dr. Joseph Salhab warns that many "parasite cleanses" promoted online are ineffective, often consisting of laxatives and herbs that don't treat actual infections. He emphasizes that ...

You don’t need to spend much time hobnobbing among wellness circles—on social media or in real life—before parasite cleanses come up. Long before they started trending on TikTok, I succumbed to doing ...

The aim of this study was to evaluate the association between a longer sedimentation time, the reading of a larger number of slides, and the collection of multiple samples on the efficiency of the ...

Intestinal parasites are a prevalent health concern, found in millions of people around the globe. They reside in the intestines without having any overt symptoms for months, years, or even decades.