Traveler,
Your caution is a good one that I have stated elsewhere. Parasites are an issue that should be handled at the beginning of treatment before other antimicrobial treatments are started. Yes, anti-parasite treatment may be too much for the body to handle if done WITH the the antimicrobial treatments.
Also correct is that this SHOULD be discussed with your health care practitioner first. However, what does a person do if their doctor is ignorant about
parasites? Lyme isn't the only thing that many doctors are ignorant about
. Heather's LLMD thought that parasites were only a third world issue, and yet she was mentored by the most famous of Lyme LLMD's. Heather had electro dermal screening that even identified the kind of parasites that she had. The first thing that we did was drop the LLMD and to take Heather off all antibiotics. The antibiotics were not making her feel better anyhow, only worse. The second thing that we did was to treat for parasites. It made a world of difference in how Heather felt! You could VISIBLY see the dead parasites that were expelled in her stool. The herbs to kill the parasites were very mild compared to how sick that the antibiotics made her feel. THEN, we treated for the other things, and THEN she responded to treatment when we went back to a new LLMD, although Heather's immune system still did not recover. When Heather resumed antibiotic treatment, she didn't feel nearly as sick as she was before we treated for parasites!
I agree that we should not approach treatment lightly, but that is exactly what we are doing if we are taking antibiotics indiscriminately without first going after the parasites. Fortunately, many of the health care practitioners are more recently waking up to the reality of parasites.
Caution is appropriate, but inaction due to ignorance is as bad as the IDSA fiasco. I know that you were not proposing that parasites should not be treated, and were proposing caution. I agree with that!
Don
Post Edited (Heathersdad) : 12/12/2012 11:17:31 AM (GMT-7)