LYME DISEASE: SURVIVING TO FLUKES AND PARAGONIMUS!

This is not good news but very needed to open the eyes and properly treat this Lyme, because Borrelia enters the immune system some big bad opportunistic bugs show up and if not treated well, there is no recovery at all... many Lymies have shown to have FLUKES OR PARAGONIMUS... sometimes Praziquantel could help (I found it in Zimectrin Gold for horses and there is a human version in the US); but unfortunately the only medicine that really seems to work for treating flukes is  called TRICLABENDAZOLE, but the human version Fasinex is almost impossible to find anywhere in the world,  so most countries have to treat with the veterinary version.  If the person has flukes or paragonimus could get cancer if not properly treated and even after being treated; most lung problems are from the flukes, most liver problems are from these too and they also could cause intestinal parasitic infection.  Please note these super mega bugs are not being treated with the antibiotics you have been taking, nor the IV abx, nor oral and less herbals; if the person has flukes the medicine has to be as strong and equivalent as the bug.  
This is not bacteria, nor filarial parasites, nor the common spaghetti worms some might have seen in their toilets, these are the masters of disguise, real huge monster demons!  
 The way to test is in stool samples if the lab is looking for them, or if you see your "samples" like if you had eaten black beans... or with some brown seeds like whole almonds... plus the symptoms: Symptoms of parasite infection, specifically fascioliasis "include headaches, rashes, muscle pain, jaundice, abdominal pain, loss of appetite, anemia, nausea, and vomiting".  - And there might be other testing like DNA art testing or the biofeedback machines?  those might save our lives I think if we get a proper dgx.

This is other reading that states that the other anthelmintics could work but it is an older article, I present it here just for information: "Symptoms of schistosomiasis appear in three distinct phases.  In the initial phase, symptoms include:  fever, skin rash, abdominal pain, bronchitis, enlargement of the liver and spleen, and diarrhea.  In the intermediate phase, symptoms include pathological changes in the intestinal and urinary tracts, and eggs in the urine and feces.  The final phase results in complications involving major bodily systems."

"Diagnosis is accomplished by finding eggs in the urine or feces. The most effective drugs for treating schistosomoiasis are organic trivalent antimonials.  However, these drugs are toxic to humans, and of these drugs, only pentavalent stibogluconate is still in use.

The current drug of choice is praziquantel.  Other drugs used to treat schistosomiasis include metrifonate, oxamniquine, bithionol, albendazole, or mebendazole.  The mechanism of these modern drugs is not known.  However, it is known that one of the drugs (albendazole) starves the parasite and its offspring."... NOT TRUE, TRICLABENDAZOLE IS THE CHOICE NOW!

If I may add, I found a veterinary medicine called TRIVENTOR that contains all the anthelmintics such as Triclabendazole, febendazole, Ivermectina and Praziquantel - does not contain Albendazole but I guess it is because the Albenda is the one that most probably hurt the Central Nervous system, but opposite of what we think, Albenda is one of the antiparasitics preffered by the American Doctors because they do not know the other anthelmintics plus they ignore the studies about the central nervous system...

Anyways, I'm talking about monsters, huge, affecting Lyme patients who's bodies and immune system cannot combat by itself!  Hope we all could get tested and treated against FLUKES!.
Read this: 
"Symptoms of schistosomiasis are caused by the body's reaction to the eggs produced by worms, not by the worms themselves.
Digestive symptoms: The following list incomplete:
abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, inability to pass gas, abdominal pain on breathing, constipation, diarrhea, abdominal sensitivity, abdominal pain near navel, abdominal pain on sneezing, abdominal pain on activity, right-side abdominal pain, abdominal pain on coughing, abdominal swelling, upper abdominal discomfort, abdominal burning, abdominal bloating, malabsorption, partial intestinal blockage, Diverticulosis* Acute kidney failure ... nausea, vomiting, diarrhea * Bowel Obstruction ... green vomit, constipation, fecal vomiting, vomiting, abdominal swelling http://www.earthtym.net/ref-fluke-info.htm"

The study made in Egipt that showed Triclabendazole as the proper medicine to treat for flukes here: 

http://www.emro.who.int/publications/emhj/0402/07.htm

Links of pictures of parasites a wonderful blog, by

Carol Poore, thank you:

http://www.epi-center.com/parasite.html

And more Links and info about triclabendazole,

http://www.drugs.com/mmx/triclabendazole.html

http://parasitology.com/worms/index.html

"[Fascioliasis (treatment)]¹—Triclabendazole is used as a primary agent in the treatment of fascioliasis caused by Fasciola hepatica (sheep liver fluke) and Fasciola gigantica (giant liver fluke). ^{{01} {02} {07} {08} {11} {13}}

[Paragonimiasis (treatment)]¹—Triclabendazole is used as an alternative agent in the treatment of paragonimiasis caused by Paragonimus westermani (lung fluke) ^{01}"
Mechanism of action/Effect:

Fasciolicidal not only against the adult worms present in the biliary ducts, but also against the immature larval stages of Fasciola migrating through the hepatic parenchyma; the mechanism of action is not thoroughly understood; however, triclabendazole is shown to penetrate into liver flukes by transtegumentary absorption followed by inhibition of the parasite's motility, probably related to the destruction of the microtubular structure, resulting in the death of the parasite; the immobilizing effect is paralleled by changes in the parasite's resting tegumental membrane potential, strongly inhibiting the release of proteolytic enzymes, a process that appears critical to the survival of the parasite ^{{05} {06} {07}}.
 Absorption:
Following oral administration, triclabendazole is absorbed from the gastrointestinal tract; absorption is increased twofold to threefold when triclabendazole is taken after a fatty meal ^{{02} {08}}. Distribution:
Triclabendazole and its metabolites attain high concentrations in the biliary tract, through which they are excreted back into the intestine over a period of several days ^{02}; less than 1% of orally administered triclabendazole is distributed into breast milk ^{09}. Biotransformation:
Triclabendazole is oxidized to sulfoxide (the primary metabolite) and sulfone (present in lesser amounts) over the first 24 hours following oral administration ^{02}.
 Time to peak concentration:
Approximately 8 hours ^{02}.
 Elimination:
    Fecal—Approximately 95% of orally administered triclabendazole (unchanged or as the primary metabolite) is excreted in the feces ^{09}.      Renal—Approximately 2% is excreted in the urine ^{09}. Precautions to Consider
Mutagenicity Studies conducted in laboratory animals have not shown triclabendazole to be mutagenic ^{{07} {08}}"

BUT THE ONLY POSSIBLE TRICLABENDAZOLE IS VETERINARY THE HUMAN VERSION IS STILL IN LIMBO LAND!   FASINEX IS IMPOSIBLE TO BUY, SO NADA, THERE IS NON HUMAN MED TO TREAT FOR FLUKES, NO EXISTE!
Only vet med and it is considered illegal in the US? ... :(
 

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Why we need to use Ivermectin or other antiparasitics for treating lyme Disease?

My friend Thane Fredrickson-Lyme asked me:
"Hey Maria, can you briefly tell me your theory of why we need to use Ivermectin or other antiparasitics for treating lyme?"
Here is my answer, I'm doing a document so it can help others.

Thank you for saying MY THEORY, because I don't have the scientific way to prove it, I'm just a lymie!  Most of what I say is learned from my Dr in Colombia who I call and has taught me and helped me through this nightmare - ten Drs here in Fl dismissed me and I was dgx and tested in Maryland with Lyme Borreliosis, Babesia, and two more bugs in my blood by Dr J.

I have written a couple of blogs showing that Lyme Disease is basically a parasitic infection, not a bacterial alone.For me the bacteria in Lyme comes after the parasitic infection.

If it is parasitic needs anthelmintics and my doc thinks the treatment should not be antimalarials because those act by immune suppression so they are not helpful when talking about multiple infections, like killing the cat leaving the rats take over?

So why is Lyme parasitic?

1. It is a zoonotic infection - read CDC, all zoonotic

infections are parasitic; so why we hear lyme is bacterial and the parasitic side was erased?  zoonotic=parasitic = all but Lyme? weird!

2.  Borrelia goes intracellular - if this doesn't mean parasitic what it means?  and Borrelia doesn't die with abx, lol, of course if it is a parasite behavior it needs the medicine for it!

3. Dr Burgdorferi talked about filarial infection and other of the infections transmitted by the tick simultaneously with the Borrelia, but that was ignored?  US didn't want to hear there is a parasitic infection passed by the tick? why? because it is like a malaria?

filarial like as the worse parasitic infection in Africa?  Well Dr Sapi after so many studies decided to not ignore those words and recently stated that if there is a filarial infection in Lyme as Dr Burgdorferi said, this could be the reason why some patients never recover with conventional treatments and would requires "strong antifilarial treatments. The drug of choice in Europe is Ivermectin" - her words almost literal.  She said she suspect a filarial infection similar to the onchoneriasis or River blindness of Africa but not the same one - we don't get elephantiasis, but yes we can have bugs coming out the eyes, and in the brain and out from the skin.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filariasis

"Can species other than bacteria, virus or fungus be responsible for these chronic problems found in Lyme patients?  It has been proposed that certain parasites could also be a factor in Lyme disease.  European doctors have already incorporated Ivermectin, an antihelminth drug, into their Lyme disease protocol with surprising success. Ivermectin is well known for its effectiveness against filarial nematode infections and is often used by veterinarians to eradicate parasitic infections ... Can Lyme disease patients have filarial nematode co-infection and can they acquire this infection from ticks?  The only evidence reported of filarial worm presence in ticks was from a study by Burgdorferi’ in 1984 where thirty microfilarial worms (species not identified) were found in one adult Ixodis dammini tick in Shelter Island, NY. ⁽⁴⁾ Black flies have already been identified as vectors of filarial nematodes.  Interestingly, ticks can also be used as an in vitro experimental vector system to study the transmission of filarial nematodes and it was shown that the infected nymphal stage could transmit the filarial worms.  If filarial nematodes could be a tick-borne co-infection of Lyme disease patients, their eradication would require additional treatments using specific filaricidal drugs, which could explain why standard antibiotic based protocols often fail in some chronic Lyme disease cases."

 

4.  Babesia is not enough to consider? LD patients with Babesia are given antibiotics to treat them, like if the Babesia could be treated with antibiotics?  it is like trying to kill a snake with flea spray?  yes the spay has killed tons of fleas but the snake is not going to die until you pour this flea sprays for years and tons of it right?  Babesia is a malaria kind of parasite and malaria is been treated with Ivermectin in South America  and Africa with outstanding results for about 20 years? So if the Drs here didn't give me any treatment for Babesia I had to dare to try to help my self and the human Ivermectin I took initially showed me I could recover, so I kept treating my self with a low dose, once a week and because of the recovery I have had much different and significance compared to when I was treated with antibiotics alone, I start posting about Ivermectin as a vital part to help and treat Lyme Disease patients.  And I didn't know about the filarial infection yet; now more than ever I am convinced that the first drug of choice has to be Ivermectin.

Tons of research in Norway and even here in the US have shown Lyme Disease cannot be treated with antibiotics alone, and the studies that have been made with potent herbs like Samento, banderol, Cat's claw always end up using an anthelmintic to kill the remaining parasites.

5. Flukes:  as my Dr states lots of opportunistic show up when there are huge poly-infections but what if flukes are the ones causing the majority of the damage?  I have seen that most of my Lymie friends end up having Flukes or in the lungs, or the liver or the intestines... these huge parasites cannot be ignored at all.  I have been taking Praziquantel combined with Ivermectin and felt the best in 6 years of nightmare.  The medicine I got is called Zimectrin Gold and it is veterinary.  I also got a horse medicine called Triclabendazole, very difficult to find in the world, to treat the flukes in case the Praziquantel is not enough; if flukes are not treated people get cancer... or people with cancer have them...

6.  Parasites in the intestines, with Lyme for sure, the opportunistic are there and with a compromised immune system they are reproducing every full moon and require to be treated.  Yes Ivermectin is good for this!  But note, when I talk about parasites in Lyme these are the least ones I'm talking about, the chain is much bigger than just having parasites in the intestines; these are just the obvious result or product from such multiple infection.

And there is so much more research that shows Lyme Disease is by all means a multi-infection of parasites and bacteria that has to be properly treated: first the big ones then the small ones.  It is the logic way to do it.  My Dr said, you kill the master and the others in the chain or go with him or will be easier to defeat with other medicines or even your own immune system could fight them.  The Drs in the US chose the other way around, first antibiotics and even IV antibiotics for three years and then some might give Flagyl, or other use antimalarials like Mepron or Malarone or Artemisinin... an approach that has shown no complete recovery and barely a so called remission in some patients.

I'm talking recovery as being healthy, strong and able to live a normal life.  My heart is hurt and my liver and stomach too after so many years of antibiotics, full of fungus and other toxins but I can tell you my muscles are coming back after the Ivermectin treatments, like if I am going to a gym or having any kind of workout which not only I have not had nor any kind of food or shakes for this, but I am almost 50 years old, sick sedentary 6 years and this never seem to be even possible after all my muscles fall off from my bones in 2006 when Lyme started...  I believe there could be recovery from LD with Ivermectin and proper antiparasitic treatment! Note: if you are lucky enough to have a good Chinese Doctor to treat you for your GU symptoms you won’t need my advice or Ivermectin!

Hope my info helps.  Will post it and do another blog hoping I can reach Lymies and they can recover slowly as I have had this God given gift too!

Hugs 

Maria.

LYME DISEASE: AN OVERLOAD OF BUGS AND SYMPTOMS!

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This is my thinking, not a scientific advice of course:

I was asked by a friend if I agree we all have a germ overload, and if I think that by killing the parasites the bacteria and other might be fixed by the immune system?

Yes in Lyme Disease there is an overload of bugs, organisms, bacteria, protozoans, viruses and mold. 

Why or how? By the transmission of the tick bite, other might be awakened because the immune system is suppressed maybe by some bacteria capable of doing this or precisely because the system is totally overloaded.  Also because the ticks transmit not just one type of bugs, at least the American ticks seem to pass more than one organism and they all enter our bodies and create an "ecosystem" inside us.

For example the mold, we might all have some of it in our "regular healthy lives", but because of the infection, the parasitic die off or the large amounts of antibiotics the mold grows.  So probably it was not received from the tick but it is an "opportunistic organism"??  When we kill the parasites if there are no bacteria to eat that dead body, the body will have a fermentation process which really means fungi or mold trying to destroy it. Meaning count on having mold too for sure, and this is a big organism not easy to eradicate!

Another thing very obvious to me is, if we have a little stick inside our skin, let's say the tip of a finger and we do not take it out what happens?  it gets infected, meaning the bacteria would show up and live there unless we treat the infection and get rid of the stick.  Now imagine thousands of sticks inside our bodies, and then hundreds of thousands in the blood, brain, muscles?  well, those are the parasites and yes the bacteria feeds from the left overs of these parasites.  There are some researchers who dare to say that these parasites are so smart they "grow" these bacteria as food for them?

I just think it is obvious to have multiple organisms if an infection is not treated on time, more this type of zoonotic Disease that brings big parasites that go to our blood and then the brain and glands and muscles and bones.  So of course the response is to have an overactive immune system, adrenal system, circulatory system; the Central nervous system is infected almost since the beginning, the Lymphatic system is their favorite dessert and with all these the constellation of symptoms is obvious.  Pains of all types, infection all over, septicemia, countless signs.

So because of my posts you ask me if I think that by first treating the parasites the other infections could be fixed by the immune system?  I would have to say I don't know for sure, but I can say that it is not logic to treat the bacteria first and after years of being devoured by parasites consider treating them.  I can say for sure the logic is to treat the big ones first.  Yes treat the parasites and then try to fix the infections and mold and viruses before the body is so broke, is the logic thread.  I cannot understand people having intravenous antibiotics for two three years and not having one anti-parasitic.  It is like trying to kill a snake with flea spray?  yes it has killed thousands of fleas but it might take many years to kill that snake!

But the problem is much bigger; the problem is the concept of what Lyme Disease is or what it is not.  I hear people saying, "my Doctor found my bigger problem was not Lyme but the Babesia?"; others "I found pots is my problem and not LD"?  So the concept of what is Lyme has to be defined, to be able to properly treated; the same as the bugs in Lyme have to be IDENTIFYIED to be properly treated!

I've seen LD as the multi-infection that generates a constellation of symptoms, but I don't loose the North of seeing the origin of such infection as a zoonotic disease and as such what type of medicines to use.  This because most Drs and specialists treat the symptoms but not the cause, so the person receives tons of pain killers, psych medicines and hundreds of supplements but not even one anthelmintic?  So Lyme is what and how it must be addressed to fully recover the person? 

So we have to go back to the concept again because most Doctors and medical books in the US think there are no parasites in this huge piece of earth; everything is free of worms and longer bugs?  the soil, the water, the grass, the animals??  I don't know why parasites are denied with such fervor, lol, it is like saying the rest of the world could be round but this part is flat! 

So if the WISE say there are no parasites at all, just very weird cases, so exceptional they are good to do a scary TV program full of Monsters, how can someone like me say LD has a huge component of parasitic infection?  And let me clear, not just me but a Dr and a group of Drs that have influence from other places of the world, meaning this is not "American made"... so is there or is there not a parasitic infection in Lyme Disease.  Are parasites transmitted by the tick when it bites the victim or not?  Is Babesia a parasite?  Is Borrelia a parasite?  and do some of the co-infections re or not parasites or act like parasites?  And if this concept is not defined due to it might raise susceptibilities as saying the US is now ewww full of parasites, LD is not going to be properly treated.  Like the spray for fleas to try to kill a snake, or ten snakes or one hundred snakes or thousands hatched every 21 days inside our bodies... does this is a picture that needs to be taken care or we can still ignore it to not be offended?

How come LD is "malaria like"? i don't understand what is to be like and not to be it, what this means medically or scientifically talking; I just understand the words that mean it is as bad as malaria and it should be treated with the same priority as this disease, is this correct?  How come "Babesia" is a parasite that acts like the parasite of the falciparum malaria but it is not treated as a bad dangerous parasite?  Amoxicillin for these? Doxycycline for two weeks? This treatment was not even made in the past century in the endemic areas of the planet why would that be the treatment in the US in this century? I asked the Dr if he would consider the blood transfusion and he laughed at me... why?  Don’t I deserve to be properly treated for such infection?  My friend C asked her Doctor to test her and consider treating her for parasites, her Doctor said he won't test her because he won't change the protocol no matter the results of the labs!  TRUE STORY! And many like this one that has name and last name! 

So again, are there or are there not parasites in LD and if the answers is yes should they be treated or not???  Is it ok and proper to not treat parasites and not to treat the zoonotic parasitic infection in Lyme Disease?

And if this brings some light at the end then there will be the discussion of what is a parasite and what not?  Because many think parasites are just intestinal, they just get the concept of a white long worm, but can you even think what is like to have bugs that go inside the red blood cell and feed out from it, live there, multiply inside there; or inside the brain cells?  Something not so serious to treat or something too ewww to talk about?  We have parasites coming out of our eyes, we've seen them and have pictures.  Bugs coming out from our skin, bugs killing our brain cells to the point the "DEPRESSION" is nothing different than brain damage made by the parasites that leave the cell blank so we cannot think, remember things, connect images, get to the extreme point of not even being able to pray, the brain just can't do it, too hard to do it.  Does this sounds strange?  it is not for any Lymie! 

So are parasites just white long worms or those "malaria like" as Babesia, that invade our red blood cells three bugs at a time, sucking our life out, are, or not parasites, and should they be treated or not?

And of course we do have intestinal parasites, lol, those are the easiest ones to treat, those are the less of our problems; so why not treat them?  Why the medical profession in the US does not deworm regularly and moreover why not deworm and detox a person who is infected in so many ways with so many organisms? 

So, do I think that by treating the parasites the other bugs might be fixed by our own bodies?  Still cannot say the last word, hope there is someone that could, but Dr K said that while treating the bigger bugs the smaller can be detoxed too; and this Dr in Fl said that Borrelia attaches to the parasites so we cannot let one parasite in the body not treated in order to cure Lyme Disease.. if this answers part of the question?

The other problem I see is that if all the bugs were properly identified and addressed the point would be how to treat them, in which order and when?  From the biggest to the smallest, and then repeat treatments, ok that sounds logic, but how to know the exact combination?  The more you research about Lyme the more weird names show up, so can you explain me how can the tick in North America transmit  Rickettsia, Mycoplasma, Bartonella, Babesia, Borrelia, Viruses, etc???  Does each Lymie has them all?  Or just some of those?  And to put the cherry on top of this dessert, the homeopathic Doctors insist there is a huge load of metals blocking the body that have to be treated too to be able to respond to the rest of the long treatment! 

So we are talking about a multi-bacterial, poly-parasitic infection with numerous co-infections that cause a constellation of symptoms and damage to the body and health that is not clear how to detect it, to address it; it is denied, hidden and ignored, that is now the plague of the century, spread from the US to the world and no one knows how to cure it? (I say use anthelmintics to start, Eureka!!!).

I don't know if the chicken was first than the egg but one thing is certain, a zoonotic infection is parasitic everywhere of the planet; an "intracellular bacteria - like Borrelia - means it is a parasite but smaller - and if Babesia is not treated the person would never recover.  So talking parasites is talking Lyme Disease.

The one only truly good thing I find after so much suffering this disease brings is that no matter how many say this is chronic and won't be cured, when properly addressed by killing the parasites and treating the infections, in most cases, even the very lost ones, the immune system responds and recovers and the person can become healthy after being sick long time.  I have seen that with people just receiving some antibiotics and feeling some recovery and others having anthelmintic and starting to live again. Even the anemia goes away by itself! The immune system doesn't seem to be broken, it is overloaded and affected, but it still works everyday truly hard to help us out; it is not chronic by any means.  Treat the infection and the chronic is gone! 

So my answers is yes, I do think that if you treat first the parasites and re-treat from time to time, and properly address the infections and co-infections the immune system would do a better job and the healthy life would come back, slowly but would do! 

No it is not a fake expectation; it is the reality some business people want to take away from us just to make money by treating forever or by some companies that do not want to do long term treatments, but the sun is there no matter how much they try to hide it with a finger!

With all my heart to all my Lymie friends, may God heal you!  

©2011

M.J.

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