Paromomycin for Dientamoeba fragilis User Reviews
Brand names: Humatin
Paromomycin has an average rating of 7.0 out of 10 from a total of 4 reviews for the treatment of Dientamoeba fragilis. 50% of reviewers reported a positive experience, while 25% reported a negative experience.
- P-A42
- March 8, 2016
"Recently diagnosed with D Fragilis, had IBS-like symptoms for 20 years. Took medication twice, 6 months apart. First time did not clear parasite and symptoms returned a week after finishing medication. Second time, now free of IBS-like symptoms 2 weeks after finishing medication."
- Dana
- July 25, 2021
"The doctors around in Israel are so late behind in acknowledge and understand that Dientamoeba Fragilis is a problem, that I only discovered the pathogen by myself when sent a stool sample to the qPCR lab in the United States. Otherwise I wouldn't know about D.F till now. Anyway five years after... are too late to discover about the ameba, and it's already have become one with the intestine tissue :( Too late. We are suffering from infection while a live.. All the doctors keep quiet together against us. No great medication is available. Not enough research. Many years I didn't know what I have had, and I have spent on searching all by myself/on alternative medicine hundreds of thousands!"
- Anonymous
- February 22, 2011
Humatin (paromomycin) "No bad side-effects, but did not eliminate my DF infection!"
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"Had severe fatigue etc. for 2 years, UK London Hospital for Tropical medicine prescribed paromomycin (750mg tid) for 10 days. Almost instant recovery. Problems: diagnosis (need test kit to stabilise protozoa) and treatment (only 1 effective drug is licenced for use in UK (iodoquinol), but professor at LHTM stated that he would not use it (side effects were very bad). Important to get dose right otherwise the protozoa come back and are resistant to further treatment. Had been treated with metronidazole and that rendered the parasite resistant to the cheap effective secnidazole (used in other countries)."