4 Signs You're Infected with a Parasite - HowStuffWorks
4 Signs You're Infected with a Parasite - HowStuffWorks 4 Signs You're Infected with a Parasite - HowStuffWorks Posted: 31 Jul 2019 08:00 AM PDT Self-professed "gut obsessed" functional medicine healer, Victoria Albina, FNP-c, MPH , was sick for most of her teens and twenties, struggling with unrelenting gastrointestinal symptoms that doctors just couldn't diagnose. "I had what was diagnosed as irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) because they had tested me for everything else they could at that time and didn't find anything else," she says. Despite 10 conventional stool tests that all revealed "normal" results, Albina strongly felt there was something else at the root of her symptoms, which included gas, bloating and a long list of alternating bowel issues that she just couldn't make sense of and didn't believe to be IBS. After working with a naturopath and completing years of her o...