Parasitic Diseases Lectures #25: Hookworms

Dickson and Daniel discuss the hookworms Ancylostoma duodenale and Necator americanus.

[yakopro]

I can explain in words how much I appreciate you two genius doctors ❤❤ God Bless. Keep up the fantastic educational videos

[NateO]

This is a great lecture, anecdotes and information delivered with care. Too many lectures are just a stream of information with no context, yours are great.

[Doumais_theelsa]

Thank you so much sir for your wonderful video! I am studying microbiology and by accident, discovered your channel! How inspiring! I highly appreciate your work!

[susanyoung]

Thank you! Incredible coverage. Re: Civil War: they also suffered mites, lice, ticks, scarlet fever, mosquitoes malaria, leeches, and who knows what-all parasites. And these things are STILL a menace today! Especially after floods and hurricanes. But US doctors are in denial. 😢🤬🙈

[blissbrain]

Good to know that the 6 or 7 foot hole is needed for the outhouse, as well as the 4 foot radius to prevent stepping on the soil there with the covering, and also the filter on the side for updrafting air. These design specs are good to know just in case.

[dashagudym]

Wow! The most informative stuff I’ve come across so far.

[janetdurham]

How informative I just came across this it's great it's good to know how these things got started and what can be done to cure them

[KathyHussey]

I really appreciated you taking your time to go into this topic as much as you did and not just rapidly shooting a succession of facts at us, too fast to soak in (as a lot of these kind of videos do) but talking to your audience in a conversational tone. It helped how you taught about the causes & symptoms of the hookworm and their similarities to other helminths. Thank you for such a detailed, information packed discussion of the history of the hookworm and how they discovered them and then mapped out it's life cycle. I always wondered when, why and how mankind started building outhouses and privy's which led to today's modern sanitation and the toilet's use.

[davewilliams]

Very interesting the connection between hookworm and the recovery of the south post civil war

[blissbrain]

This method of teaching surpasses any other. I've studied parasites for decades and now I can finally start remembering which is which, because the rich historical context brings it to life. THANK YOU SO MUCH, FASCINATING INFORMATION. I wonder if the hot sun had anything to do with 'southern laziness? Or maybe the plantation owners got spoiled from previous dependance on slaves who miraculously did all the work from raising kids, cleaning house, cooking, and working in the fields. Add that to hookworms and you have a magic formula for triple laziness.

[victoriagossani]

Thank you for all this lectures. I send a bottle in the ocean to have an answer to my concern. In 2007 I was in India for 1 year, and in the early begining of my stay probably by mistake I drunk contaminated water. My symptoms was: anorexia with some days normal appetite, rapid loose of weight, general weakness, inconfort on the bowel, no diarrhea but the stools was like inflate by air and so no formed stools and no fever. I was certain it was parasitic infection but the doctors I visit the first 2 months of symptoms was not agree with my assumptions. I ended to visit an Ayurvedic doctor who diagnosed parasitic infection but he doesn't says me what was those parasites. After on month of Ayurvedic treatment without any improvement, I quit the treatment. I spend on month more and more weak, then I visit a reputed doctor who's also diagnosed a parasitic infection but unfortunately I havent understood the name he was giving for the parasites (I'm French and at the time was less fluente in English). When he've make the palpation of my belly, he says me: do you ear this noise of walking in the snow, it's typical of... (the name of the parasites that I haven't understood). The treatment was (it's hand writting, I can't read well and I don't remeber the brands) : take first Rablet-D 7 days, after those 7 days Oflin or Ofliw T2 5 days, after those 5 days Neutradin B for 5 days, Zentel 1 night repeat after 6 weeks, and reciepe to make electrolytes.
He warned me that it would be a "horse's treatment" (meaning strong) and that will weak me more, and it was, but after the sixth week all the symptoms have ended. Later and for years, I was notice that in hot weather my stomach was upset and my appetite low. And after approximatly 10 years this have ended.
So, 17 years later, after a lots of researchs, I'm still looking for an answer: what was "my" parasites? If anybody have an answer it would be great. Thank you for those who've read me.

[wilting_hyacinth]

Discover of the day thank you for this explicit explanation

[birgittelvstrm]

Thank you so much for making these program. I am from Denmark 🇩🇰. For 5 1/2 year I have been bitten

[cecillekinnear]

Very common in the coastal areas of South Africa. I was interested in your reference to dew point and how wearing good quality shoes help. Unfortunately sanitation and the treatment of waste has all but collapsed. Sadly nowadays nobody talks about this infection even though it surely must be endemic.

[MT-kjzv]

Methylene Blue works! I have tried everything and all I would get is drug resistance. This blue dye passes the blood brain barrier and can get through there protective measures.

[mkgreen]

How many undetected hosts in the USA? No doctor I have ever been to so far has approached this issue even though it is so obvious a cause to ulcerative colitis.

[notabrickinthewall]

makes sense that rockerfeller wanted them to get better, he needed the slaves.

[buckeye]

Nothing scares me more than parasites but I must know all about them

[DRdukedexster]

What do you think of parasite zappers?

[joellopezgarcia]

Thank you for exist and share your knowledge... you are my idols!