A LITTLE BIT OF POISON
“Nobody loves me, everybody hates me, 
Think I’ll go and eat worms.
Big fat juicy ones,
Eensie weensy squeensy ones,
See how they wiggle and squirm.
Chomp off their heads
Squeeze out the juice
And throw their tails away
Nobody knows how I survive
On worms three times a day.”
Whenever my children had a hard day at school and came home with the weight of modern expectations squarely on their shoulders, we broke the tension by chanting this popular children’s rhyme while play-acting the depth of their misery. It became our mantra with which to banish the stresses of everyday suburban life at the kitchen table, and to give our immune systems a fair chance to recover from the knocks and needs so typical of life in an affluent Western society.
Recently, when I read the research about the effect of excessive hygiene on our immune systems and the use of ‘worm egg capsules’ as treatment, I couldn’t help smiling. The irony in this clinical use of worm parasites as a so-called breakthrough in the treatment of allergies and auto-immune diseases is quite amusing. It seems that in the end we are going to ”…go eat worms…” again to survive our modern life style.
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A little poison goes a long way.