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Anyone have any experience with this little bug.
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Hi,
That is the bacteria from cats, right (actually, it is a protozoa)? According to a D.O. I had gone to, many people will carry antibodies to it. These showed up in a stool specimen that had been sent to Diagnos-Techs. Their presence meant a previous exposure or current infection.
So, the D.O then ran a follow up blood test, to test for serum antibodies, which determined (somehow!) it was a past exposure, not a current infection.
Apparently it is quite common if you had cats, or worked in garden/soil, etc.
Amazing all the cruddies we have been exposed to. I think there is a concern if there is exposure during pregnancy, i.e. fresh inoculation, and pregnant women are not supposed to clean kitty boxes, which is a source of contamination.
I do not know treatment for it, perhaps a google. Also, look into herbs.
Northstar
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This is another of those protozoan infections that are basically self-limiting and mostly asymptomatic in a *healthy person*, and something like 30-50% of the world population shows having exposure to it at one time or another.
However, in immunocompromised folks, it can be a lot worse --- even fatal in some cases. I'd imagine we lymie types could get a nasty case of it....
Generally carried by cats and spread to humans by contact with cat feces (like humans cleaning a litterbox, or by kitty paws that have been in the litterbox) or eating the meat of a bird or mammal that is infected with it -- mice, rats, etc. can infect cats who eat them...
That is about all I know about it.
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Leonard Cohen, from the song "Closing Time" Posts: 822 | From California | Registered: Jan 2006
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roxithromycin(= rulid,and other names) is one abx used for toxoplamosis; its also used in europe for neuroborreliosis. supposedly, oral roxithromycin crosses the bld.brain barrier.
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That was interesting. I am always blown away by reading the literature from outside the US --seems there is no "lyme controversy" in most of the world, and that chronic lyme is accepted as a certainty, scientifically speaking.
I've had a theory for a while now that some other infection (other than the usual co-infection suspects) may be playing a role in the severity and treatment recalcitrance seen in some people with lyme....
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Leonard Cohen, from the song "Closing Time" Posts: 822 | From California | Registered: Jan 2006
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Thanks to all on the information. The artical was very interesting.
I get a lot of energenic testing done and this toxo showed up 4 days after having some symptoms that I never had durring any of my lyme infection treatments. Lyme glands swollen on left arm pit and very sore, some eye pain, a burning sensation around the brain area, a cool feeling in the lymph systems muscle akes, headack, and a sort of confustion thing, also a couple of spiking fevers up to 103.6, they would only last a short time and then go down. This is a protozoa bug and it does remind me of babs but different.
I have been tested 3 times since and it is very stong. One of the only meds that came up as being very effective so far was PhytoArtemisinin - You guys might want to take a look at this form of art. Its made by allergy Research - it claims that it get deeper penitration - could be handy for babs treatment.
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for borreliosis, roxi is used in conjunction with bactrim(septrin). search, "gasser", medical section, this site for one abstract.
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