Dr. Peter Hotez

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The problem is pediatricians are not really educated about that illness so much.

And so, you know, this is what I wrote about in JAMA Psychiatry.

What percentage of kids diagnosed with developmental delays are getting sent for specialty testing for toxicoriasis?

It's actually not that hard to treat.

Actually, albendazole.

Well, mebendazole doesn't get absorbed as well through the tissues.

So mebendazole would work for something like ascaris in the gut, in the lumen of the gut, but less so for that.

Yeah, there's a lot of that out there on the internet.

I think the evidence for it is extremely weak.

And again, you know, it kind of

And it's based on some erroneous assumption.

So it's based on the idea that said, well, you know, God gave us our allergic responses to fight parasites.

And now the parasites have vanished here in developed countries like the U.S.,

the allergic responses are turning on themselves.

But again, it ignores the fact that we've got significant level of parasitic disease in the U.S.

It's just that it goes undiagnosed.

And in fact, these worms themselves are causes of allergic illness, right?

What's the one leading cause of asthma?

It's Ascaris and Toxicara.

Probably not so much asterisk and trachea, but toxic hair is, I think, significant.

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