I think when you are sick, unhealthy, you will see an increase in parasites. Because you are weak, your defenses are weak.

However, I also think it's evident from the fact that black walnut hull was the dewormer of choice of american indians, echinacea the antibiotic of choice, the list goes on and on, that parasites and other malaise has been with us for quite some time. And has been dealt with accordingly. North america was a pretty clean place when the indians purged themselves with black walnut hull, and there were not any modern chemicals in their food.

Mostly, I think the difference between us and them, is that they recognized the problem and our society mostly ignores it. It really is a modern frame of thought, because that was a lot less true a hundred years ago even among people from European backgrounds. Somewhere it was forgotten.

Seeing is believing though.

I gave two cats baths today, they are quite happy afterward... smell so nice and feel so soft... they were rewarded with cooked, well done, chicken livers mashed up with minced parsley and black walnut hull tincture for treating me so well despite their fear of baths. I was rewarded with much purring. I sprinkled just a tad of boric acid in the litter box and then sprayed a light mixture of tea tree oil/water (to mist it) on top. They can mix it in. I am going to Boric acid the whole house again in a couple days.

We are close to bug free and intend to stay that way. No doubt boric acid is not the best thing to have underfoot but it sure beats larvae of whatever sort and the multitudes of health problems that can cause.

We've never had any issues with boric acid, except many comments over the years that the place, wherever I've lived, is incredibly bug free. Sincerely, I do not like visiting the homes of quite a few people, it doesn't apply to everyone, but so many homes I've been in just reek of creepy crawling things, even if you can't see them, that I don't even want to sit down.

My daughter enjoyed the parasite gallery. I hope the photos are etched well on her brain. Trying to teach a kid to keep the house, and herself, clean is probably one of the most difficult things I have ever tried to do.