Re: Ultrasound for liver flukes
I don't know. It isn't conclusive that's all I can say about it. Is the person running the ultrasound familiar with
parasites or is it contracted out to a lab. I've run a lot of abdominal ultrasounds and I knew exactly where a fluke was during one of the sessions. When the operator simply hung the probe up and said everything was o.k. I raised up and grabbed it and put it on the site. It was so distinct and clear. This was in Italy. The problem was this person didn't know what a fluke looked like. The one before that a parasitologist said my bile duct showed evidence of a fasciola infection but couldn't diagnose me as having a current infection. Since I told him I took biltricide. There was a white layer behind the duct that showed inflammation or something. I can't remember. But, I didn't get anything out of it.
The one before that the doctor put the probe on one of the tracks that a fluke made inside my subcutaneous fat just below my navel. The doctor said I needed to see a urologist because there was a cyst on my bladder. I asked him to take a picture of whatever looks suspicious. He asked me to urinate before he took the picture and when I came back the cyst was no longer there.
I haven't had very good luck with them because most doctors don't know what they are looking at if they happen to see it perfectly. There is a lot of distortion with the ultrasound. The problem is the fasciola
parasite is so rare that most doctors running the machine simply don't see it.
Same thing for a CT scan. I did an abdominal ct scan with and without contrast and the next day I was frustrated and zapped my liver with an electrical device that was dangerous to my health, which was stupid. But, I killed ~25 flukes then. I still have then in a bag and that was last December. That's why I feel if you truly believe you have the
parasite try to use one of the treatment regimes that people have had success with. It's a lot of money to spend on something that may not pan out right. If you have access to affordable tests then it makes sense to use it but if it really costs a lot of money then I don't consider them reliable.
The only medicine that has killed the flukes for me has been the daxon coupled with Chinese medicinal herbs introduced on the 7th or 8th day of the treatment. I wish I had more success stories.
David