I am now asplenic. When I travel to visit family in PA and NJ in a few months I would like to take a preventative for Babesia while there(besides using bug spray). Any suggestions? I do not know if I can get malarone from anyone here... but I could find artimisinin I suppose.
Posted by tick battler (Member # 21113) on :
Take Agrisept-L (GSE). It is what our practitioner uses to kill babesia. The mosquitoes are very infected around here (we live in Chester County, PA). Our babysitter got a mosquito bite last fall when one got into our house and that night had babesia symptoms. I told her to start Agrisept and her symptoms improved. (We saved the mosquito and later tested it with our EDS practitioner and she found it was carrying babesia and bartonella.) Our sitter didn't increase the dose beyond 3 drops twice/day so her babesia symptoms are returning....she is upping the dose now and seeing improvement once again. An adult needs at least 10 drops twice daily to kill babs. It takes about 7 months.
There is no way to prevent getting it besides avoiding bug bites. You can put Agrisept directly on the bite as soon as possible and that may help lower the infection load.
tickbattler
Posted by dal123 (Member # 6313) on :
What brand
Posted by tick battler (Member # 21113) on :
Agrisept-L is the brand - you can get it on ebay from KIverson....she can give you a good price.