Subject: Adult
Length of illness: x years
Treatment: Flagyl (Metronidazole) x 1, Iodoquinol x 2
Severity of symptoms: unknown

Hi
I was researching dientamoeba fragilis as I have had it for a long time. I went to a specialist and he put me on Idoquinol 20 days then Flagyl 10 days followed again by idoquinol seemed to work but always came back.
I have heard that they associtae this with pin worms...I'm trying to reasearch the fraglis and understand its cycle in order to kill the bastard . Please send my your information on fraglis I am also going to look into pinworms. Hope my information is helpful to you Sincerely S.

Hi,
I've done some research at our medical school one of the journels was from New Zealand . One researcher swallowed some pinworm eggs and was infected 25 days later with both pinworms and d fraglis. The pinworm medicine seems to be working for me . I am going to try repeating it 25 days after the first dose. On the botttle it says to repeat it 2 to 4 weeks
We have discovered that our water is contaminated so that could very well be the cause. It was contaminated before and we put in a new well 2 years ago I had been well for 1 years and 1/2 . I did not suspect the well as it was new.. Now I have to try and treat the well.
It is so frustrating.
Hope to hear from you
S

Subject: mother & child
Primary diagnoses: mother — IBS, child infection with D.fragilis
Length of illness: years
Treatment: Metronidazole (Flagyl) x 2 courses
Severity of symptoms: unknown
Outcome: cured

Hi Jackie,
My daughter seems to be over her infection of DF. It proved to be a stubborn bug to get rid of, we had to treat her twice. I am still not sure where she picked it up from, we had our water tested and no one else in our family developed DF. I suspect she got it from an island we stopped at this past summer to swim, it was populated with cows.
My family physician had not seen a case of DF before and couldn't offer me much information.
L

Hi Jackie,
How interesting! I wish there had have been a site like yours up this past summer, I couldn't find much information on d. fragilis when I needed it. My daughter was treated with Metronidazole. It wasn't easy getting a three and a half year old to take the tablets but I came up with an idea that worked quite well. I coated the bottom of a teaspoon with applesauce, crushed the tablet and placed the powdered tablet on the applesauce and then put more applesauce over the crushed tablet. I still use this method today with Acetaminophen. Perhaps it will help other parents.
Good luck!
L

Hi Jackie,
My story sounds like so many others... Initially I was looking for information on D. Fragilis for my daughter (then age 3). She was diagnosed in 1998 with D. Fragilis treated for 28 days with Metronidazole and tested again. The results came back positive and she was treated again with Metronidazole & retested, once again there was D. Fragilis present. At that point my family doctor referred me a pediatrician. I was told by the pediatrician that the D. Fragilis would probably live in her system harmoniously and could flare up every now and then. Sounded like BS to me but her symptoms had disappeared after the second treatment. There have been a few flare ups but what is peculiar is that I had come to believe my daughter may have IBS.

How very helpful reading the comments from other people. Let me tell you why... During a trip to Mexico in 1987 I developed "Montezuma's Revenge". After returning home I stayed ill for several weeks and finally went to my physician. He ordered test for a number of different parasites and the results were positive and I was treated. Unfortunately I can't recall what I was treated with or what parasite I was diagnosed with having. Over the next three years I had frequent episodes of diarrhea, stomach cramps, weight loss, tender abdomen, headaches. I could not get half way through a meal with out excusing myself to the washroom. I never knew when the attacks would start so I couldn't stray too far from a washroom. Eventually after ruling out allergies, Chrone's Disease and Ulcerative Colitis, I was diagnosed with IBS and told to live with the symptoms. That was 10 years ago. Modulon helps relieve the severe intestinal cramps but it is a mask as it does not cure the problem.
Now after reading all the wonderful emails you've received from others who have contracted D. Fragilis I'm wondering if that DF is what we both have. Sure sounds like a possibility. I plan to ask my physician to test me for DF.
Thanks... L