Helminthic Therapy

The hypothesis has emerged about using Helminthic Therapy to treat certain autoimmune conditions, including IBD, Coeliac Disease, MS, and Asthma.
Essentially, it includes deliberately infecting a patient with a Tapeworm.

Look, there are always going to be strange and weird attempts to help reduce the symptoms on the way to trying to find a cure for various diseases. Any illness that has no known cause or no known cure is going to have some whacky treatments available.
You can get healthy poo transplanted into someone with IBD in an attempt to transplant the good bacteria and have it 'catch on' with the immune response.

I, personally, would not want to try this. At all. In my opinion, as a patient, adding a parasite to an already compromised system simply sounds insane. I would prefer to wait until clinical trials are all completed and they have isolated the exact component of the tapeworm that results in improved symptoms.
To me, in its current state of use, it is simply trading one illness for another, in a situation that is awfully difficult to control.
It is distraction.
It distracts one's autoimmune cells to attack the foreign body instead of one's own organs - so it makes sense why it works. But what is the cost? Trading autoimmune symptoms for voluntary malnutrition?

If this is something you are trying, or something you have heard of and would lile to try, please please please do so with the careful eye of a physician. Not that my opinion really matters in the long run, but if pure distraction of your cells is all you are after, then I am certain there are various other ways. Also, once the clinical trials of these tapeworm experiments are completed, researchers will likely use the components of the tapeworm and begin working on reducing the adverse effects.
Just like with the poo transplants, there is now a super easy way to do them.
I am supportive of anyone who is simply trying to experience reduced symptoms, I simply encourage concise research and critical thinking before jumping on a new fad, and to try new treatments with the aid and care of a qualified physician.

Tapeworms.
Wow.