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" Plasmodium, the parasite responsible for malaria, impairs the ability of key cells of the immune system to trigger an efficient immune response. This might explain why patients with malaria are susceptible to a wide range of other infections and fail to respond to several vaccines."
I wonder if this would also be true of babesia,not the part about hemozoin, which it doesn't have, but the immune suppression.
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Two Thumbs Up! That is why blood parasites MUST be treated first!
No amounts of antibiotics will evere completely eradicate all of the bacteria! The immune system must be well enough to finish the job.
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"Plasmodium, the parasite responsible for malaria, impairs the ability of key cells of the immune system to trigger an efficient immune response. This might explain why patients with malaria are susceptible to a wide range of other infections and fail to respond to several vaccines."
Ah, Lou, come on. The reason they have failed to respond to several vaccines is not that their immune system is compromised....they just don't really have an infection with Malaria. (At least that's how Steere et al. would see it)
Interesting article really....I'm sure your theory is correct. Our immune systems are compromised...from babesia, and from lyme...not to mention the steroids that some of us have been given...
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Lou~ I poked around a bit more on the site that you mentioned. Follows is an interesting article as well:
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Parasites (excessive) can be one huge drag on the immune response. I say "can be". My doctor says "they are one huge drag on the immune system".
There must be a hundred posts about the problems of parasites on this board.
My guess is that either the same process occurs durring a babesial infection, or something very similar.
I've noticed this exact thing occuring, and have tested it several times, but yet have not been able to find a truly scientific reason why sometimes my body responds to external stimuli in a more normal fashion, ie: bumping my knee would cause an inflamatory process due to the localized trama. Minor swelling and redness should be expected.
However, there are times when a bump, or any other accident meant to cause local inflamation, either on purpose, or as I said earlier, on accident, fails to demonstrate the excpected localized imunological response of inflamation.
The best I've been able to correlate this actually seems to be how well My babesial problem is being treated.
Supringly, after a short cycle on drugs targeting babesia, when I bump my knee, or something to cause local inflamation, the knee swells, the knee or (fill in the body part) hurts, it becomes red, and eventually it heals just like any other minor injury would.
Durring relapses I puposly inflicted to understand this process, and others which naturally occured earlier on durring my treatment, the local inflamatory reaction never happened, and this was performing the same kind of experiement.
Maybe this provides part of the answer. Very interesting, and thanks for posting this Lou.
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Thanks Lou.
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