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Topic: Does tinidazole kill Babesia?

kellyb2411
LymeNet Contributor
Member # 15467

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I have recently started tinidazole as my cyst buster and have read some things stating it also had an effet on babesia. Is this correct?

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Sx Start Jan 08 (test neg, but herxing)Susp Lyme, Bart + Babs??

ABX
Doxy 400mg + Amox 1g Jun - Sep 08
Rifampin 600mg + Biaxin 1000mg
Tinidazole 1000mg/day - Sep 08 to June 08

Currently taking Salt/C 15g (himalayan salt)

85-90% better

Posts: 231 | From Australia | Registered: May 2008 | IP: Logged |

Stefan
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Member # 19150

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I read that too. I am suspecting it too. (Air hunger, dark urine, diarrhea) But at the moment I am treating bart and cpn with Rifampin 900 and Azithromycin 500 and Tini pulses. Any Babs regimen wouldn t fit in my protocol at the moment I think. Or can I take Artemisinin with Rifampin?

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psano2
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Member # 11711

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I think that's one of the reasons I started feeling so much better after I started taking Tini. It was given to me as a cyst buster, but I never herxed a lot with it, and most of the time, just felt better.

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tcw
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Seems kind of unlikely that tinidazole or metronidazole would have an effect on babesia. Those drugs seem to work on anaerobic bacteria and parasites, babesia lives inside RBCs which is certainly an oxygen rich environment.

Tests on hamsters does not seem to show much effect for tinidazole for babesia, and I think babesia lack the electron transport chain that tinidzole targets.

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Tracy9
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If you aren't already there, join us over on www.lymefriends.com. There is a discussion about this very topic on there as well.

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kellyb2411
LymeNet Contributor
Member # 15467

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I just started taking artemesinin with tinidazole, clarithromycin and rifampicin. Not much as yet.

I've been getting aching muscles and night sweats since starting the tini and have had a decent herx too.

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Sx Start Jan 08 (test neg, but herxing)Susp Lyme, Bart + Babs??

ABX
Doxy 400mg + Amox 1g Jun - Sep 08
Rifampin 600mg + Biaxin 1000mg
Tinidazole 1000mg/day - Sep 08 to June 08

Currently taking Salt/C 15g (himalayan salt)

85-90% better

Posts: 231 | From Australia | Registered: May 2008 | IP: Logged |

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