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Hubby had a similar response in the beginning of treatment 10 years when he had G.I. parasites -- giardia, ascaris and another one.
It is my opinion that you actually killed some parasites and that is what the immune system was responding to. I feel like the cellular debris challenges the immune system kind of like a cytokine storm. The intact parasites are invisible to the immune system for some reason, but the dead parasites most likely have a diferent protein structure.
I personally do not believe that the WBC goes up in a similar fashion when the parasites are bloodborne such as babesia.
I do think the ECP (eosinophil cationic protein) test is valid for bloodborne parasites. You can search here for hubby's results. On that test even though his WBC was low and did not change his ECP was considerably elevated from taking babesia meds. We did not have orders to do a challenge test which I think would be an even better testing method.
Bea Seibert
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