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I had the same thing happen. Killed the borrelia, and the bartonella got worse.

I don't know exactly why, but I figure that either the bartonella hides in the biofilms/cysts that borrelia creates, and killing borrelia releases it, or that low levels of antibiotics that are insufficient to kill bart cause it to become more metabolically active.

HeartsinPain said...
Will anything “kill” the Bart?

Yes - the best antibiotic is the fluoroquinolones class BUT because of the fda black box warnings for at least 3 (or 4?) risks of damage (CNS/pns/tendons)
many people aren’t willing to take them.

The next best is Rifabutin and then Rifampin
I got rid of a slew of bart symptoms with Rifampin (plus a second antibiotic) a couple years ago and now I’m hitting it hard with something stronger : Rifabutin - and I am herxing bad on it.

I found that minocycline can kill bart, but it only kills the active bacteria.

So I would take other things which would make the bart come out, and then kill it with minocycline.

Yes sorry to the original poster for taking over her post! I was thinking the same thing are you sure they’re Bart starches?

Could it be his age - puberty? Puberty seems to be a vulnerable time, similar to peri-menopause for women.

My bart stretch marks first appeared around age 10 or 11. I didn’t get “sick” until age 39. I did have ENT and later sinus problems, headaches, and aching pain in legs and forearms, tender feet, and occasional unexplained afternoon fevers around 99F.

My stretch marks faded during the last 10 years since I have been knowingly sick. My marks were embarrassingly visible when young and healthier and faded when much sicker. I have no idea why.

Did you ever see or communicate with Dr. J the pediatric dr? I wonder what he would say about this.

Has he ever had VEGF tested? Maybe his VEGF increased. I’m not sure if VEGF is the cause of stretch marks or not. Googling doesn’t produce any studies that I can quickly find. Actually, I could not even find any scientific studies on bartonella stretch marks or striae. Seems it is “anecdotal.”

Of course, good ole lymescience pops up twice in the search to quickly warn the good people of the quackery and lies that the internet spreads about stretch marks having anything to do with bartonella AND the lies that bartonella “cat scratch disease” is caused by anything other than cats and is NOT related to ticks or Lyme disease (ughhh).

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Hi Daisies. I recently noticed my son (16) has striae where neck and shoulders meet. At first I worried about bart - since our cat had bart. But after reading the below link, I'm pretty sure his is due to weight lifting which he's been doing for basketball. How old is your child? I found this link helpful:
https://www.bjmp.org/content/striae-distensae-what-s-new-horizon

My youngest had a Bart rash when she was sick with Lyme. Once she finished her lyme treatment, it was about 2 years later I think that the rashes reappeared. I treated her on my own the second time with herbals and it cleared up - Cats claw, JKW and A-Bart

I was clinically diagnosed with bart but never had the rashes or stretch marks. Bart is just as hard or maybe even harder to clear than Lyme. That was my problem - and still is. The darn Bart loves to attack my nerves!! I figured out that was the cause of my relapse bc I have all of my problems on one side of my body.

Yes, age can be a factor. Stress, school, not enough sleep, anything. Does he take vitamins daily, immune boosters? The trick is to get them better but keep supporting the immune system and keep detoxing despite the low symptom list, if any at all.