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Our daughter has Lyme and possibly ehrlichiosis and is currently being treated with 400mg doxy.
Because she lives in a tick environment, we are concerned about new co-infections while she is on doxy.
Does anyone have any resource info about whether while actively being on doxy, there is any protection from co-infections?
Does this apply to Lyme as well? Is there protection from any additional Lyme infection from new tick bites while on the doxy?
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Hi Richard, my understanding is that DOXY will work on ehrlichiosis. Prior to being treated for Babesia my LLMD put me on Minocin because it also had anti malarial properties it was used off label until the tests were repeated and came back +, I did gain some benefit before going on azithro/mepron. , the tetracycylines like Mino and Doxy also protect against Rocky Mountain Spotted fever. Make sure you use a good lab for babesia like Igenex, NY has a tight hold on what tests can be run. the WA1 strain can be tested at most labs out of Ny. Alot of people like te tetracyclines for their intra and extra cellular work, minocin is stronger than DOXY but has a few side effects like headaches, dizziness, it's suppposedly the 2nd med that gets more ino the BBB next to Rocephin and is an oral. Blue Skies
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I thought doxy has some effectiveness against bartonella, lymetoo?
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Probably depends on the strain of bartonella. There is a BLO (bartonella like organism) that can be transmitted by ticks too and while doxy may help, it probably won't get rid of it.
Doxy worked to bring out the red/purple bart rash for me but would not get rid of bart.
Ticks can transmit viruses too for which doxy would not help. And as tutu said, babesia needs other treatments. It is protozoan so needs an anti-protozoal medication.
I think mycoplasma's are covered by doxy but I'm not sure if it will completly get rid of it.
I'm not sure what you mean by "protective" but I don't know that doxy would "protect" one from getting any of these infections since most of them seem to need combination therapy from what I've seen.
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