Flukes and Isopropyl Alcohol

BUT SOMETHING SPECIAL HAPPENS TO PEOPLE WHO HAVE ISOPROPYL ALCOHOL IN THEIR BODIES.
The liver is unable to trap and kill these tiny fluke stages. These baby-stages are actually allowed to make their home in the liver and other tissues. It is as if the immune system has no power to kill them. The flukes begin to multiply in people with
isopropyl alcohol in their bodies! The miracidia (hatchlings) start to make
little balls inside themselves, called rediaA. But each redia (ball) is alive! It
pops itself out of the miracidia and begins to reproduce itself. 40 redia can
each make 40 more redia! And all of this out of one egg! This parasite
is laying eggs and producing millions of redia right in your body! In
your cervix or lungs, wherever your cancer is growing! These redia are swept
along in your blood, landing in whatever tissue lets them in. Smokers' lungs,
breasts with benign lumps, prostate glands full of heavy metals are examples
of tissues that give the redia their landing permits .
Multiplying continues at a hectic pace, generation after generation. Redia are nesting in the liver and other organs. Suddenly they change their shape. They sprout a tail and can swim again. Now they are called cercaria . The cercaria only need to
find a place to attach. After they glue themselves to your tissue,
their tails disappear and they begin to grow a "cocoon". Now they are called metacer-
caria. Normally, this would happen on a leaf growing near a pond, so the metacercaria develop an extremely thick shell around themselves to withstand
Fig. 8 Cercaria the winter. Does the presence of the solvent isopropyl alcohol in
your body dissolve this tough shell? That would remove the last barrier to the fluke completing its entire life cycle anywhere in your body! After the shell is gone, they grow into adult flukes in your Adult eggs miracidia redia cercaria metacercaria tissue. NOT IN THE INTESTINE BUT IN YOUR LIVER! Now the cycle is complete. From egg to miracidia to redia to cercaria to metacercaria and then the adults! And all of them eating and sucking and devouring your vital body fluids.