By Linda on Jul 19, 2011 in F.I.G.H.T. | comments(0)
Linda’s comment: WHEN I was first diagnosed, they diagnosed me with SLE, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Fibromyalgia and a host of other autoimmune disease…I remember when a group member, whom I’m not close friends with, said, “no, you have lyme disease and co-infections”…I thought he was nuts….didn’t take long until I realized, after hours and hours of research that HE WAS RIGHt….I even had carotid surgery, as a spirochete was wrapped around the carotid and choking me….the idiot doctors, argued with me that it was not Lyme…it wasn’t until 6 months later when I finally got my hands on the pathology report, with the pathologists requesting more testing using specific dyes, did I know….THANK GOD for my alternative docs who diagnosed me and alternative treatments began….
Excerpt:
A
number of studies previously published, and new information presented
here, suggest that EA infections may be an underlying, undiagnosed cause
for these and other immune system diseases. This hypothesis, long
overlooked, has never been subjected to adequate, rigorous study
sufficient to prove or disprove its truth. If so, patients may be
treated with antibiotics, and marrow transplant manipulations already
used in treatment of diseases such as lupus and leukemia may become more
effective.
By Linda on Mar 22, 2011 in Infections | comments(0)
Linda’s comments: This comment by Wormser raises my blood pressure ::::“It is so new in our area, it has flown under the radar,” says Moore’s physician Gary P. Wormser, M.D., the chief of infectious diseases at Westchester Medical Center and New York Medical College and head of a team researching tick diseases. “A lot of patients haven’t heard of it, and a lot of doctors don’t know about it.”::::
Link: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41973641/ns/health-infectious_diseases/
Excerpt:
Wild raspberries lured Jacqueline Moore over the wall of her new garden in Westchester County, New York. It was July 2008, and Moore, her husband and their two small kids had just moved up from Manhattan. She was painting the kitchen, up on a ladder, when she glanced out the window and spotted the flash of red. She was thrilled: This was what they had left the city for. She called the kids, and they hopped over the wall. They picked raspberries every day for two weeks.
About the time the berries ran out, Moore—who was 34 then, a personal trainer and marathoner—started feeling an achein her neck and shoulder. She thought painting the ceiling was to blame; or maybe it was the borrowed mattress she and her husband were sleeping on. Then she noticed herself getting irritable. Family were visiting to see the new house, and “I was having trouble taking care of the guests,” she recalls. “Every day, I would be twice as tired as I had been the day before.” …..
“It is so new in our area, it has flown under the radar,” says Moore’s physician Gary P. Wormser, M.D., the chief of infectious diseases at Westchester Medical Center and New York Medical College and head of a team researching tick diseases. “A lot of patients haven’t heard of it, and a lot of doctors don’t know about it.”
By Linda on Jan 20, 2011 in Infections | comments(0)
Link: http://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&id=21104602&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks
Excerpt:
Members of the CURCUMA plant species (Zingiberaceae) have been used for
centuries in cooking, cosmetics, staining and in traditional medicine as
“omnipotent” remedies. Herbal preparations made with, and molecules
extracted from, CURCUMA have been shown to possess a wide variety of
pharmacological properties against malignant proliferation, hormonal
disorders, inflammation, and parasitosis among other conditions. This review
evaluates CURCUMA and its associated bioactive compounds, particularly
focusing on studies examining the parasiticidal activity of these components
against the tropical parasites PLASMODIUM, LEISHMANIA, TRYPANOSOMA,
SCHISTOSOMA and more generally against other cosmopolitan parasites
(nematodes, BABESIA, CANDIDA, GIARDIA, COCCIDIA and SARCOPTES). (c) Georg
Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart .
New York.
By Linda on Jan 19, 2011 in Infections | comments(0)
Excerpt:
Among the 20 tick species described in Switzerland, Ixodes ricinus, the most
frequent one, is implicated in the transmission of pathogenic agents. Lyme
borreliosis and tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) are the major tick-borne
diseases transmitted to human.
**Presently 5 Borrelia species, belonging to the group Borrelia burgdorferi,
are recognized as human pathogens**.
The risks of infection depend on the stage of the vector, the multiple
hosts, the pathogenic agent, as well as human behavior in nature.
The detection of other pathogenic agents in ticks: Anaplasma, Babesia and
Rickettsia predispose to infections or co-infections. Results of
sero-epidemiologic studies suggest human infections. Active surveillance by
physicians is necessary and clinical studies are required to evaluate the
importance of these infections in Switzerland.
By Linda on Nov 10, 2010 in Infections | comments(0)
Full article: http://betterhealthguy.com/joomla/blog/216-ilads-2010-conference-takeaways
Excerpt:
In October 2010, I attended the ILADS 2010 Annual event. The event was packed. Almost 400 people attended in person and over 1,000 people watched on the live webcast. It is exciting to see so many people taking an interest in this controversial area of medicine. The event was full of great information and people working hard to help us all find answers.
In this blog entry, I will share a few of the key takeaways that I learned at the event. The slides from the event are available for purchase here for a very reasonable $40. The DVDs (Friday’s sessions) and CDs of the presentations can be obtained from ZenWorks Productions. Thus, I am not going to attempt to repeat information that is available elsewhere, but I will focus on some of the key things that caught my attention.
- The 2011 ILADS event will be in Toronto, Canada – October 28-30, 2011
- Dr. Richard Horowitz proposed that Chronic Lyme is really MCIDS – MultipleChronic Infectious Disease Syndrome
- Biofilm treatment may be with EDTA or a Banderol/Samento combination. There may be a strong antigen release with biofilm treatment which may make it a good candidate for pulsed therapy
- Dr. Steve Harris mentioned that yeast may cannibalize dying Borrelia and that yeast is not always the result of antibiotic therapy alone. He suggested up to 100 billion probiotic organisms daily. In terms of diet, he said, “If it’s white, it ain’t right”
- Minocycline may have longer toxic effects than doxycycline but has better CNS penetration. Mino also has less sun sensitivity than doxy. That said, Dr. Joe Burrascano commented that the effectiveness of minocycline may be regional as he never observed it working well in his patients
By Linda on Aug 29, 2010 in F.I.G.H.T. | comments(0)
Stress ECG pales in comparison to www.PREMIERHEART.com. Multigate ECG requires a $35,000 advanced computerized painless 15 minute ECG but has real predictive value that you can use to motivate patients to stay on my protocol and virtually eliminate all fatal heart attacks.
The statements you can make about the badly outdated stress ECG is that it has some limited usefulness. Investing in the future moves this into meaningful predictive medicine.
Here is a statement from the proponents of the outdated stress ECG that are unwilling to move into the future and use multigated ECG from www.premierheart.com. Anyone can have this test in a cardiologist’s office in Tucson, AZ for $150 cash. That is the logical next step in testing anyone with a real desire to know the status of their coronaries better than angiograms non-invasively and quickly.
Here is the data from the attached report on stress ECG, clearly better than nothing but not very predictive. The $1000 www.bioclip.com vascular age test tells us that those who do poorly have a 90% probability they will be dead within ten years!
Here is what you might learn from a treadmill ECG. Low aerobic capacity in young adulthood appears to predict a higher likelihood of established cardiovascular risk factors later in life. Carnethon et al. performed aerobic exercise testing in more than 4000 apparently healthy males and females between 18 and 30 years of age.[95] There was an increasing risk for the development of hypertension, diabetes and metabolic syndrome with a progressively lower aerobic capacity during the 15 year follow-up, which was maintained after adjusting for baseline body mass index.
Also here is the link for those of you who couldn’t open it to yesterday’s article:http://www.scribd.com/doc/35263197/Dumbing-Down-Part-I
Garry F. Gordon MD,DO,MD(H)
President, Gordon Research Institute
www.gordonresearch.com
Full article: http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/722941_2
Excerpt:
The four traditional vital signs: resting heart rate, blood pressure, respiratory rate and body temperature, serve as the cornerstone of a physical examination. Other assessments such as pain have been proposed as additional vital signs. To this point however, there has been limited consideration for aerobic exercise assessment as a vital sign. A wealth of literature demonstrating the prognostic, diagnostic and interventional value of the aerobic exercise assessment now exists, supporting its use in numerous clinical scenarios. Moreover, the assessment of the aerobic exercise response allows for the manifestation of physiologic abnormalities that are not readily apparent during the collection of resting data. This review will provide evidence supporting the assertion that the aerobic exercise assessment may be afforded vital sign status in future clinical practice.
By Linda on Jul 2, 2010 in Infections | comments(0)
Full article: http://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&id=20513567&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks
Excerpt:
Although the risk of infection with hepatitis and human
immunodeficiency viruses from blood transfusions has been reduced
to negligible levels, emerging infections continue to offer
threats. Such threats occur with any infection that has an
asymptomatic, blood-borne phase. In the past, it was thought that
any emerging transfusion-transmitted disease would have
epidemiologic properties similar to those of AIDS or viral
hepatitis. Over the past 20 years, however, greatest concern has
arisen from variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, West Nile virus,
and Babesia. These and other emerging infections are discussed in
the context of blood safety. Copyright (c) 2010 Elsevier Inc.
All rights reserved.
By Linda on Jun 10, 2010 in Infections | comments(0)
Full article: http://www.parasitesandvectors.com/content/3/1/42
Excerpt:
Lizards are considered zooprophylactic for almost all Borrelia burgdorferi species, and act as dilution hosts in parts of North America. Whether European lizards significantly reduce the ability of B. burgdorferi to maintain itself in enzootic cycles, and consequently decrease the infection rate of Ixodes ricinus ticks for B. burgdorferi and other tick-borne pathogens in Western Europe is not clear.
Results
Ticks were collected from sand lizards, their habitat (heath) and from the adjacent forest. DNA of tick-borne pathogens was detected by PCR followed by reverse line blotting. Tick densities were measured at all four locations by blanket dragging. Nymphs and adult ticks collected from lizards had a significantly lower (1.4%) prevalence of B. burgdorferi sensu lato, compared to questing ticks in heath (24%) or forest (19%). The prevalence of Rickettsia helvetica was significantly higher in ticks from lizards (19%) than those from woodland (10%) whereas neither was significantly different from the prevalence in ticks from heather (15%). The prevalence of Anaplasma and Ehrlichia spp in heather (12%) and forest (14%) were comparable, but significantly lower in ticks from sand lizards (5.4%). The prevalence of Babesia spp in ticks varied between 0 and 5.3 %. Tick load of lizards ranged from 1 – 16. Tick densities were ~ 5-fold lower in the heather areas than in woodlands at all four sites.
By Linda on May 7, 2010 in Infections | comments(0)
Excerpt:
Abstract – Neuropathogenic protozoa have evolved strategies to
breach the blood-brain barrier and invade the central nervous
system. These include transcellular, paracellular and the Trojan
horse routes but the associated molecular mechanisms remain
incompletely understood. Here, we summarize the current
understanding of protozoa penetration across the blood-brain
barrier, focusing on Plasmodium, Babesia, Trypanosoma,
Toxoplasma, Acanthamoeba and Balamuthia. Advances in
understanding the molecular pathways will offer opportunities for
the rational development of novel therapeutic interventions.
