Amoebic infections and rheumatoid disease

According to the author, amoebae of the genus Naegleria have been demonstrated in all human tissues, particularly in those taken from patients with various types of rheumatoid disease. These organisms can be killed in vitro by metronidazole, clotrimazole and other nitroimidazole drugs. Treatment of active cases of rheumatoid disease by any of these anti-amoebic drugs has resulted either in cessation of the disease or a temporary exacerbation of symptoms, followed by their lessening or disappearance (Herxheimer reaction).

COMMENT: It is generally accepted that protozoal infections can cause “reactive arthritis�? however, the observations of the late Dr. Wyburn-Mason have never been taken seriously by conventional medicine. I have administered a course of metronidazole to approximately 40 patients with various rheumatoid disease (including rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, and ankylosing spondylitis); nearly half of these patients experienced marked and long-lasting benefit. The most impressive case was that of a middle-aged man with a ten-year history of moderately severe psoriatic arthritis that never fluctuated in intensity. Within five days of starting metronidazole, the arthritic symptoms disappeared and did not return over a five-year follow-up period. The work of Wyburn-Mason was the basis for the formation of the Rheumatoid Disease Foundation, now called Arthritis Trust, PO Box 8949, Topeka, KS, 66608-8949.

Wyburn-Mason R. The Naeglerial causation of rheumatoid disease and many human cancers: a new concept in medicine. Med Hypotheses 1979;5:1237-1249.

 
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