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I just came from my daughter's pediatrician and asked him to retest her for Bartonella as she had positive antibody titres last year. He reluctantly agreed but told me the CDC just came out with a report that says that Bartonella will go away on its own.
I find this hard to believe and was wondering if anyone else has heard of this? Thanks!
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All I have to say is: Aughhh, the CDC.
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I think it might be self-limiting in the absence of lyme (or maybe even in the presence of Lyme? Do we truly know?)
When I was a kid my pet cat bit my hand to the bone. I had a fever following that but never went to see a doctor. It went away on its own.
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The acute illness went away, but how do we know that an even more insidious, chronic, stealthy infection didn't become established?
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I wouldn't trust it to be self-limiting ever.
You need an LLMD for all tick-borne infections;
I personally know someone who'd have died of unaccompanied
Evidence of infection helps all involved (patient, family and the stubborn PCP). It's not a solution, but often a very constructive first step to take in the long journey.
Fry Labs requires payment up front, but some-many insurance companies will reimburse the patient.
No, I don't work for them -- I just see many patients get valuable information from their services!
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Wow...he's gotten fancy. My daughter was one of the early patients to get her blood smear done
I would even add that bartonella is also transmitted by lice and mosquitoes. We don't ever recall a tick bite, but my daughter has had numerous mosquito bites on our trips to OK, and in first grade, she kept getting lice from a little girl who's parents didn't treat.
It's very difficult to treat. I am not sure it is self-limiting. I think it goes into remission if your immune system is healthy.
Dr. F (blood guy), thinks that I may have had a good immune system keeping my bartonella suppressed, and now it's starting to show itself with seizures, vision problems, fatigue, and depression.
I may have gotten infected as long ago as 1990 when my husband and I were sick for three years with EBV. Then, I got Parvo, then a weird double viral pneumonia.
I'm putting off treatment....I really don't want to go back to the place I was in 1990. I need to take care of too many people.
If you suspect bart...get tested and treat it.
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Llmds in our area are saying that bartonella & the bart-like strains that Dr. B.speaks of are nasty players in this disease & preventing folks from getting well.
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