THIS IS NOT MEDICAL ADVICE

My father is a medical professional in a rural town, and he approached the ivermectin craze during the pandemic really seriously to ensure he was making evidence-based treatment decisions. He was coming across a lot of data showing significant improvement in supposed covid symptoms after taking antiparasitics in a significant number of individuals. The leading hypothesis for this effect, however, is that a fair number of people taking ivermectin probably had parasitic infections they didn't know about, and that's why they were seeing improvement.

It's been both mine and my father's experience that many medical professionals in the US (and I've heard it's similar in other western countries) handwave away many concerns about parasitic infections. I literally had several worms come out of my damn nose, and every single medical professional I spoke to about it didn't believe me until I showed them the proof.

Others in this thread are saying that if you don't have symptoms, why should you take a medication you don't need, but a lot of symptoms don't even get recognized as symptoms; chronic fatigue, digestive upset, and even psychological symptoms could be caused by an undiagnosed parasitic infection. (And parasitic infections can even be asymptomatic)

Serious adverse reactions to ivermectin are rare, but be smart. If you choose to circumvent the medical system and seek self-treatment, triple check dosaging (if you're bad at math, ask a friend to check your work (NOT AN LLM)), review interactions and contraindications lists, and start with a small dose (ideally under supervision of a trusted friend and/or close to an ER) to ensure you're not allergic

Well, of course there's a benefit.

To anyone selling the ivermectin or whatever to people that don't need it.

Seriously. That's it. There's zero benefit to taking medications like that if you don't have symptoms.

Go ask your GP so you can get real medical advice.

Just be mindful about who is advocating for what. If someone is randomly talking about parasites and hawking some cure that only they know about and that the guverment aint want you to find out about, its probably a grift

AFAIK there's no evidence to suggest this is real, probably a scam for hypochondriacs. I'll look into it more when I get off though

1. in richer countries sanitary conditions of food and water means there's less risk of parasitic infection

2. if there's no symptom, you probablu don't have a parasitic infection. Remember that billions of bacteria and other microorganisms live in your body in a symbiotic relationship, that's totally normal and without the you would die

3. For the love of God, please don't take any medicine without your doctor telling you to do so. Esoecially any "purification", " cleansing" or "detox" substance some randos on the internet tell you it's good for you. Those are people with no medicanl knowledge at best or scammers at worst

If there aren't any symptoms, then how is it a parasite? The presence of harmful symptoms is kind of central to the very definition of a parasite.