Re: Bartonella

HIV popped up in testing over a year ago too, with the CMV and EBV. It hasn't shown back up as one of the priorities, but it does need to be specifically retested for. :(
So many layers to this onion. Glad for your direction for what to double check for.

>>>No magic ju ju juice for Bart?
Yes. I'll be doing both series. But the info that came up on the computer said there are 7 strains of Bartonella..but this one started with an H, hen- something or other.

BARTONELLA SERIES THERAPY
The Bartonella infection is often found as a co-infection with Lyme Disease. This Series Therapy may be used in conjunction with Borrelia Remedy.
The most common disease resulting from Bartonella infection is Cat Scratch Fever or Cat-scratch disease. Symptoms include sterile suppurative papules, slight fever, headache, chills, backache, abdominal pain, malaise, alteration of mental status, and convulsions.
It may take 7 days to two months for Bartonella symptoms appear. Most cases are benign and self-limiting, but lymphadenopathy may persist for several months after other symptoms disappear. The prognosis is generally favorable within one month. Most cases occur in fall and winter in temperate climates.
In immunocompromised patients more severe complications sometimes occur. Bartonella infection has also been linked to Bacillary angiomatosis, Bacillary peliosis, Endocarditis, Bacteremia with fever, Carrion's disease, Myocarditis, Neuroretinitis and Trench Fever. Homeless IV drug users are at increased infection risk.
Transmission and Host Sources: Transmitters are blood-sucking arthropods including ticks, fl eas and body louse. Reservoir hosts are mammals such as domesticated cats, mice, squirrels, rats and dogs.
Bartonella Infection Cycle: Immediately after infection, the bacteria colonize a primary niche, the endothelial cells. Every 5 days a part of the Bartonella in the endothelial cells are released in the blood stream where they infect erythrocytes.
The bacteria then invade and replicate inside the erythrocytes where they multiply to a certain density, and where the erythrocyte is still functioning properly. At this point, the Bartonella simply wait to be taken with the erythrocytes by a blood-sucking arthropod.
Bartonella and Lyme Disease Co-infection; Physicians first reported in 2001 that patients were co-infected with Bartonella and Lyme Disease. Multiple reports of this finding indicate that Bartonella is a tick-transmitted pathogen. Therefore, Lyme patients should be tested for Bartonella co-infection and treated accordingly. It is important to remember, in treating these conditions homeopathically, to include Drainage Remedies and Smart Silver as part of a successful therapy.
Ingredients: BARTONELLA (7 STRAINS); one vial of each of the following dilutions (all in X): 200, 100, 60, 30, 15, 12, 10, 8, 6, 5.
Indications: Cat Scratch Fever or Cat-scratch disease. Symptoms include sterile suppurative papules, slight fever, headache, chills, backache, abdominal pain, malaise, alteration of mental status, and convulsions.
BORRELIA SERIES THERAPY
Conventional treatment has proven largely ineffective in treating the pain and fatigue associated with Lyme Disease. Many Patients are labeled with Chronic Fatigue, or “It’s all in their head”.
The cause, Borrelia burgdorferi is a spiral-shaped bacterium similar in shape and appearance to the spirochete which causes Syphilis, is transferred to the host from a tick bite or other means. It is often accompanied by the Babesia microti parasite and the Ehrlichia bacteria which play havoc with the immune systems. Lyme patients generally display a particular set of symptoms that have been defined into three progressive stages:
Stage I Symptoms: Early infection - one to four weeks
60 to 90% of Borrelia burgdorferi infections cause a “bulls-eye” rash around the area where the tick bite occurred. This rash can appear from one to four weeks following the bite. The rash is called an erythema chronicum migrans (ECM). Such a rash is usually a sure sign of Lyme Disease. Because the rash is not associated with pain, itching or other discomfort it is easily ignored. Other flu-like symptoms can be more pronounced, such as chills, fever, recurrent headaches, or fatigue, joint and muscle pains, loss of appetite
Stage II: Intermediate infection - one to four months
Several weeks or months following the tick bite 5 to 10 percent of those infected with Borrelia may experience transient heart dysfunction. Such symptoms can exist undetected by the patient, but are apparent to a physician under close observation. These heart irregularities usually persist for a week to ten days and then disappear. In addition, neurological abnormalities may begin to show. These include headaches, profound fatigue, Meningitis, cranial nerve problems (neuropathies) including facial palsies. Sensory and motor nerve problems have also been observed.
Stage III Symptoms: Late persistent infections
If Lyme Disease is not treated promptly following infection there is a strong danger that severe "arthritic" symptoms will develop. These manifestations will relate to the joints, nerves, skin and brain.
Ingredients: One vial of each of the following dilutions (all in X): 200, 100, 60, 30, 15, 12, 10, 8, 6, 5. Also available in 1M and 10M dilutions in boxes of ten. Includes the following:
BORRELIA: a genus of small flexible spirochetes of the family Spirochaetaceae that are parasites of humans and warm-blooded animals and is the causative agents of Lyme Disease. (B. burgdorferi).
BABESIA: any of the sporozoans of the genus Babesia or sometimes the family Babesiidae that are parasitic in mammalian red blood cells (as in Texas fever) and are transmited by the bite of a tick – called also piroplasm.
EHRLICHIA: a genus of gram-negative nonmotile rickettsial bacteria that are intracellular parasites infecting the cytoplasm of reticuloendothelial cells and circulating leukocytes but not erythrocytes.
Indications: Lyme Disease, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, arthritis. fibromyalgia, lymphatic problems, meningitis, retinal hemorrhage.
Rev. 7/7/2008 6-1
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