Posted 7/21/2014 4:45 PM (GMT 0)
Buhner only addresses mycoplasma and bartonella in the newer coinfections book. His new book on babesia won't be out until next spring according to Julie, however his full babesia protocol is listed on his website and the herbs he uses for that are discussed in the newer Herbal Antibiotics for resistant bacterial infections book.
Most of the symptoms I discuss here are my 12 year old daughter's, although I am treating myself with her protocols as well (not the abx part though, we couldn't afford 2 in treatment). Her LLMD insisted that my perimenopause symptoms (hot flashes, chills, body pain, brain fog, foot pain, emotional lability, anxiety attacks, crashing fatigue, exercise intolerance, palpitations, derealisation) were actually the same bart/babs/lyme infections that my daughter is dealing with and that I had most likely passed them to her congenitally.
I have improved along with our daughter using the herbal protocols, and I have not had to use abx. We have been on low dosages of herbs since April 2013, and will continue for another couple of years anyway.
Treatment with CSA (15 drops 3x daily) is what helped our daughter's ADHD the most. So the inability to concentrate in her case was probably caused by a protozoan infection. What it is I don't know because she was Igenex negative for both B microti and B duncani.
Our daughter has always had ADHD as well as sensitivities to light, sound and touch, and it only got worse when her physical bartonella symptoms started showing up when she was 7. Doctors wanted her on Ritalin at 3 years of age but I passed on that one. They actually told me I was a bad mother for not giving it to her.
She went from having to sit behind a screen in her classroom with ear phones in her ears, being totally unable to grasp any math/spatial subject and being constantly redirected to her work by an EA in grade 5 (when she started abx treatment) to now not being effected by anything. Dog barking, music, me cooking dinner, you name it, she is great - homework is done and is all right! The best thing was 1 week after we started dosing CSA the teacher called and asked what I had done. She was now grasping math concepts that the other children were having difficulty with. Bartonella treatment helped a bit with ADHD, but not as much as protozoan treatment.
CSA at 20 drops 3x daily initially brought out babesia herx symptoms for her - sighing, chest pressure, dry cough - so be careful of dosages when starting out.
We tried Wahl's for a while, and have tried to keep up with all the vegetables; we eat a couple of cups of greens (kale, arugula) a day, beets, carrots etc.. But we were not able to do the very low carb, nor do I think it is good for children. For this reason we mix in a little PerfectHealthDiet:
http://perfecthealthdiet.com/
safe starches (white rice, white potatoes) usually in the resistant starch form - cooked and cooled. So for us it's a mixture of Wahl's and PerfectHealthDiet.
Right now as I type this I am drinking my daily carrot, celery, beet, wilted greens, 1/2 lemon, apple and ginger smoothie. The kids gag looking at it, they prefer to eat the vegetables whole.
In his coinfections book Buhner suggests that many of the symptoms of mycoplasma are actually nutrient deficiency symptoms, that the bacteria act as parasites and use the nutrients our bodies need for themselves. That it's important to take in enough high density nutrition to feed ourselves as well as our infections as we work to decrease bacterial load.