Soothing the - Itchy Skin Parasites

Soothing the Itch Within and
the Diet to Control It
Alternate title:
How to Get Your Life Back From
Morgellons and Other Skin Parasites
Limited Edition
By Richard Kuhns B.S.Ch.E.
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Third Printing, 2012
Printed in the United States of America
Richard Kuhns, author
Previously published as: Soothing The Itch Within and The Diet
to Control It.
How To Get Your Life Back from Morgellons and Other Skin
Parasites
ISBN- 978-1475010527
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Table of Contents
Introduction i
Bonus for Sufferers of LYME and Candida Albicans ii
Help from the Medical Profession? iii
Other Serious Fungal and Unknown Diseases (Infections) xii
Chapter I--My Personal Hell on Earth 1
The Event That Changed My Life for the Worst 1
Eaten Alive 4
Searching for Relief 5
Lady Bugs 6
Finally, Temporary Relief 7
Trip to the Expert 7 My
Own Analysis 9 More Complications
10 Parasites Kill Romance
12 The Best Advice in Years
12 Infecting Others
13 Finally A Little Help from a Doctor
16 Skipping Ahead 17
Search for Answers 18
Chapter II—Types of Skin Parasites &
Available Tests 23
Symptoms Caused By 24
Collembola 24
Strongyloides Stercoralis 28
Laboratory Diagnosis 31
Treatment 34
Other Nematodes 35
Morgellons 35
Symptoms Associated with Morgellons 36
Other Morgellons Symptoms 39
Mites 40
Fungus and Yeast 40
Protozoan Infection (Babesia) 40
Mold and Yeast Growing on Skin 41
Chapter III-- Bathing, Skin Treatments,
and Environment 43
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Part I Bathing and Skin Treatments 43
First Stage of Attack 43
Second Stage of Attack 44
Kleen Free 46
Klean Green 46
Ice Bath? 47
Dealing With Early Infection 47
Helpful Skin Creams/Ointments 50
Treating Old Lesions 52
Morgellons Bathing 53
Part II Disinfection of Environment 53
Sources of Infection 53
Controlling the Environment 55
Fighting the Parasites 56
In My Home 56
Bathroom 57
Personal 57
Bedroom 58
Heating Cooling System 58
Disinfection of Laundry 59
Bedding 59
Automobile: 61
Outside environment: 61
Peppermint Alternative to Ammonia 61
Kleen Green 62
Cedarcide 62
Camphor Crystals 62
Kleen Free 63
Microban X-580 63
Oxcine 63
Move to a New Home 63
Precautions to Keep Others From Infection 64
Electromagnetic Contribution 65
Microwave Ovens 67
Contaminating Other Areas 67
Cloth Mites or Cloth Parasite 68
Morgellons Disinfecting Protocols 69
Mold Growing on Skin 71
Carpet 73
For Cleaning Furniture 74
Removing Mold From Clothing 74
Controlling Mold/Mildew in Your Home 75
Disinfection to Nth degree 75
Pets 76
Chapter IV--Diet And Compatible
Supplements 79
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Parasites Have Food Preferences 79
Basis of the Parasite Lyme Diet SM
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Different Foods—Different Reactions 82
Time Dilation Factor 83
Making Headway 83
Nearly a Decade of Relative Freedom Shattered 85
Starting the Diet—Eating Plan 87
Stage I of the Diet—Call it an Eating Plan 88
Foods that Cause Parasitic Activation 89
Lyme Diet 90
Getting Started on the Diet 93
General Notes: 94
Breakfast 95
Snacks 95
Lunch and Dinner 95
Candida Albicans 97
Candida Symptoms 97
Ordering in Restaurants 99
Going Off the Diet 100
Stage II 101
Compatible Supplements 102
Multivitamin 102
Minerals 103
Vitamin C 103
Enzymes 103
Antioxidants 103
B-100 104
Stage III of the Diet 104
Chapter V—Recipes 107
Breakfast 107
Lunch & Dinner 107
Recipes for Stage I of the Parasite Lyme Diet SM
106
Perfect Rice--the #1 staple 108
Fancy Rice 108
Staple #2 Perfect Pasta 109
Perfect Vegetables
Steamed
Sautéed
109
Perfect Shrimp Scampi for Two 110
Perfect King Crab Legs for Two 112
Perfect Lobster 112
Perfect Steamers 113
Perfect Chicken in Wine Sauce 113
Perfect Lemon Butter Chicken 114
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Perfect Sausage Peppers and Onions 115
Perfect Salad 116
Shrimp Cocktail Sauce 119
Pasta Sauce Amatrciana 119
Pizza Crust 120
Pizza Toppings 120
Deserts 121
Pancakes (Breakfast or Desert) 121
Homemade Ice Cream 121
Chocolate Walnut Cake (Stage II only) 122
Chocolate Butter Frosting 122
Chocolate Brownies 123
Cheeseless Cheese Cake (Stage III) 124
Banana Nut Bread (Stage III) 124
Chapter VI--Medical Approaches 127
Finding A Doctor 127
Collembola 128
Early Treatment 128
Chronic and Acute Folliculitis 129
Medications That Help 133
Strongyloides Stercoralis 135
My Thiabendazole Experience 135
Morgellons 136
Medical Diagnostic Tests to Identify Morgellons 137
Dr. Hildegarde Stainger 137
Dr. Overman 138
Dr. Sloan 138
Dr. Swartz 138
Dr. Amin 140
Treating the LYME and Protozoan Infections 140
Using Your Doctor 143
Fungus 146
Doctors Recommended by Dr. Harvey 146
Dr. Klinghardt’s Approach to Lyme 147
Family Practice Notebook 155
Chapter VII--Other Approaches and Therapies 159
Gamma Globulin 160
Morgellons 160
Collembola 161
Strongyloides Stercoralis 162
Other Approaches 162
Lufernon 162
Revolution 163
Glutathione 163
Intravenous Peroxide 166
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Honey/Cinnamon
Urine Therapy
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Antioxidants 166
Dewormers 167
Vitamin B1 168
Handling New Lesions 169
Handling Old Lesions 170
Ionic Minerals 171
Rife Machine 171
Herbal Cleanses 173
Salt & Vitamin C 174
Mercury Detoxification 174
Flushing Heavy Metals
Bentonite Clay
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Phenolated Iodine 176
Faith 177
Pressure Point 178
Lyme Disease 179
Samento for Lyme 179
Herbal Remedies 179
Yoga 180
Exercise 180
Affirmations 180
Nicotine 180
MMS 181
Morgellons 183
Mr Common Sense
Fungus 185
Mold 186
Follicular Mites 186
Dogs and Cats 187
Glutathione Testimonials 187
CHAPTER VIII—Others Stories 191
Twelve accounts
Chapter--IX Depression and 207
Connecting with Source
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Introduction
It’s 3:00 am and you don’t know what to do. Your sleep has been
interrupted by something crawling on your face, legs, private parts—
any number of places on your skin. First you wonder if it’s your
imagination, but then the crawling feelings are accompanied by a
biting stinging sensation. You get out of bed, turn on a light and take a
look to see what’s causing the problem. You see nothing. Hoping for
relief you scratch it. Moments later, the biting returns and it’s
relentless. What’s causing the biting and what can you do to stop it?
Your doctor may have told you that it’s stress, in your imagination, or
worse yet that you have acarophobia. Actually, you’ve been invaded
by one of several strains of skin parasites
This is the complete guide to taking your life back. It provides
information that every doctor should be able to share with you, but
none know enough to do so—how to disinfect your surroundings,
bathe, skin treatments that provide relief, and most importantly the
King Diet SM that can provide relief to such as degree you may actually
think you’re cured.
Bonus for Sufferers of LYME and Candida Albicans
And there’s a bonus. Although this diet was discovered to control the
symptoms of parasites, it turns out that a decade later I tested positive
for LYME disease at which time I learned that most parasite sufferers
also end up with LYME—many of the parasites are carriers (a vector)
for the LYME--back to the bonus. The good news is that even with
LYME—for at least a decade, my symptoms were zilch and my
physical and mental health overall was near excellent at age 60. I
attributed all this to the King Diet SM . The bonus is that it is also a
LYME diet. And there’s more. It is also an excellent diet for Candida
albicans.
Background on the King Diet SM .
I discovered the diet through ten years of trial and error. I named it the
King Diet SM because its tops—King.
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Help from the Medical Profession?
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Thousands of men and women of all ages, despite the presence of open
and or non healing sores, rashes, and in some cases strange looking
fibers coming out of their bodies, have turned to their doctors for help
and told that it’s all in their heads. What causes them? Can it be
because of parasites?
As opposed to many who suffer from these same symptoms who have
no idea of the source, I can pinpoint the exact time and nature of my
exposure.
The irony is that even for doctors who know of these parasites, there is
no known diagnostic procedure or treatment. Why? Are they
something out of the future or a military lab experiment escaped? Or
have they been around for centuries? In the Old Testament, Job
describes a pestilence. Is he the first recorded victim? Is it that maybe
they’d indeed been around for centuries and only today through the
communication available by the internet, the sufferers are going
beyond the doctor’s, “all in your head” diagnosis to find each other?
The parasites that infected me came from a cloud of dust dislodged
from a tree as I pulled a vine from it. That was back in the mid 90’s
and was the starting point of turning my normal daily life into a hell
that only Job of the Holy Bible or another sufferer could understand.
It Looks Like a Mosquito Bite or the Beginnings of a Zit But It Never
Goes Away. In fact it multiplies over the years and the dermatologists
I’ve seen are convinced they are a result of stress, anxiety, general
nervousness, or Rosacea's Red Face (if it occurs on your face). But
might it be alive? Might it be skin parasites or a fungus?
This book is about what I’ve learned about these parasites over a
period of twenty years—how they can be transferred (contagious) to
others, how to bath, how to disinfect your surroundings, and most
importantly the most effective medical approaches to date—things that
I’d have hoped any one of a dozen doctors or health care specialists
that I’d consulted over the many years would have known. Initially the
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diet and what I knew up until 2006 was available as an on-line report
to subscribers from around the world (Australia, UK, Canada, Japan,
Norway, Africa, and so on). It was first made available as an e-book
in 2006. Over the years since then I maintained a blog of updates as I
learned more and more—mostly from my subscribers. Six years later,
I'm updating the book for the second time with all I've learned and the
good news is that what I've learned has benefited countless others as
you can see from the testimonials at
http://www.skinparasitesebook.com/Testimonials.html
While most skin parasites are harmless, there are some skin parasites
such as Morgellons (of unknown origin), unknown to most doctors,
that can make life a living hell.
Some species of skin mites, for instance that usually live outdoors on
plants and animals can adapt to living both in human skin and bring
protozoan, bacterium, and fungi organisms that live systemically (in
the blood). Without guidance in an effective treatment the parasites
can reside in one's skin for years and make scabies (a form of mite)
look like common cold. Likewise, some skin fungus can result in
fungal infections that last for years and unless effective treatment is
found lead to death as can happen with Blastomycosis.
In some respects I'm lucky compared to some individuals with whom
I've communicated. Although they drove me practically crazy and
consumed every living moment of my thinking for quite a few years, I
was lucky in that I was able to limit the parasites’ effect on me. I was
lucky in that I discovered a few things about these dangerous parasites,
that no doctor could diagnose, that made life bearable for me. It’s
natural to question the identity of the offending parasites. Are they
nematodes (a STRONGYLOIDES), OR COLLEMBOLA (SPRING
TAILS) OR WHAT SHOWS UP ON THE MORGELLONS SITE?
ARE THEY A RESULT OF SOMETHING ELSE SUCH AS THE
MERCURY IN THE AMALGAM OF YOUR FILINGS? TO
OBTAIN RELIEF, IT DOESN'T MATTER; THE KING DIET SM I
DISCOVERED HAS PROVEN TO PROVIDE SYMPTOMATIC
RELIEF FOR ALL PARASITES SUFFERERS suspecting any of the
above parasites or causes. The KING DIET SM which I also identified
as the Parasite Lyme Diet SM has been 100 percent effective in dealing
with very virile subcutaneous parasites (mites, nematodes, and fungal
infections) that left untreated can run rampant throughout all the major
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organs in the body. The KING DIET SM has provided relief while we
discovered the additional benefits of boosting glutathione and
medications such as ORAP and Zyprexa. This book goes beyond the
diet to include the latest scientific findings, findings provided by those
suffering and finding their way, and my personal research.
Early on, I discovered how easily the parasites are transmitted and
began vigorously disinfecting everything inside and outside of my
home to minimize contamination of others and recontamination of
myself—see chapter III. The parasites I experienced, while in an active
state, can be easily transmitted from animal or human to human by
simple contact, i.e., beauty parlor, lying down on an infested couch or
rug, trying on new clothing in a store that was tried on by someone
who was infested.
Many people who consult physicians for relief in spite of exhibiting
rashes and infected sores are told that it's all in their head. Because I
knew the exact moment that I was contaminated, the doctors couldn't
pull that psychosomatic stuff, stress, or pass me off for a nut with a
strange phobia like they have for many who have purchased my book.
I also experimented early on with garlic and found significant relief. I
also tried other things like curry, but garlic was the ticket. I started
with 30,000 mg. of garlic per day and eventually had to take
approximately 240,000 mg. per day to stay free of the parasitic itchy
bity symptoms. For me, garlic completely tamed the itchy parasites to
where I could be human. Of course I tried many different medications
during this time and each time I went off garlic to see if the medication
or remedy was working, it would flare up again because none were
working. Eventually, massive dosages of garlic weren’t enough to
stave off the miserable symptoms. Fortunately soon there after, I
discovered the value of the KING DIET SM . It can be a tasty (if you
like dishes such as shrimp scampi) but it's a very limiting diet so call it
an eating plan. Yet, it’s far healthier than most diets and for those
overweight, it’s impossible to not lose weight—something most
subscribers were glad to have happen. In the early years I promoted it
as a leaf on a tree—something that could help. When I was reinfected
in 04 (after ten years of relative freedom from parasites), I gained a
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higher appreciation for the diet as it is really more like the “trunk of
the tree,” for I really don’t think any treatment will work without the
use of diet. Initially in the mid 90's I had suffered with the itching and
biting for nearly three years when an acquaintance suggested the
possibility of a dietary connection. Within a few days I was itch and
bite free--it worked that fast for me. I’ve found that there are foods
such as fruits and many carbohydrates that feed the parasites and foods
that starve them. Ultimately, it took me over ten years to expand my
diet from eggs to a variety of other food and additives--I now refer to it
as the Parasite Lyme Diet SM (Stage I).
Nothing known works as fast or is as effective as the diet to relieve the
itchy bity symptoms. As time went on, with the use of a prescription
drugs (ORAP and Zyprexa), I could eat more leniently and I refer to
that as Stages II and III of the diet. It didn't take long to think I was
cured, but every time I went off the diet for a week or so, the itching
and biting returned within days. I realized there was more than just
diet which is also what this book is about--putting it all together.
After approximately 2 1/2 months I discontinued the use of ORAP and
stayed on Stage II of the diet for approximately eight years during
which time I was free enough of symptoms to marry and have normal
intimate relations--a dream come true.
Over the years, I've had opportunity to further develop the diet as I had
become reinfected from one of the many environmental factors also
discussed in Chapter III. I was reinfected in Oct of 05 and again in
Aug of 2010.
In late May of 05 I was taking some special antibiotics and anti
protozoan medications for Lyme disease and protozoan infection.
After six weeks, I found that my diet could become normal again
without any new lesions forming. I ate normally—no diet--for nearly 6
months and thought I was cured (it happens); then it caught up to me
and I became reinfected and also infected my significant other.
When I first became reinfected (after ten years of freedom), I first
considered suicide and then I realized that I could learn more about the
diet which is what I chose to do. Later when I was reinfected in Oct of
05 I learned to perfect Stage I of the diet and to use it without the
benefit of any medication (as I used in the past) to become totally free
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of all itch and biting symptoms within 6 days. Can you imagine that, a
tremendous feat in itself? Of course I used diet along with a bathing
and disinfecting protocol--all outlined in the Chapters II and III.
To my knowledge, I was the first person to suggest a dietary
connection to help control parasites back in the late 90's. Since then,
some others have jumped on the band wagon and have come up with
their own diets. My experience says that some of these diets might
work for someone newly infected, but for someone such as I who
suffered for a few years before discovering diet, they most likely won’t
work. For instance, the diet/s may allow soy--strictly a no, no from my
experience. Soy also contributes to inflammation which is another
reason to avoid it—especially for Morgellon's sufferers. The other
diets are not nearly as extensive which will leave you with lots of
unanswered questions such as, "How about a tic tac?' or "how about
guar gum?"
There are literally dozens of questions of this nature that are not a
question with the KING DIET SM . Should you rosemary or not, or how
about walnuts, or almonds? Each of these questions cost me two to
four weeks to discover the answer so it's unlikely that anyone who has
experimented less than three or four years can come close to
discovering the nuances of the diet plus the reality of there being three
stages to the diet--even when to advance from one stage to the next
will make a big difference. I learned that there are many foods that fed
my parasites, many foods that kept them in remission and many foods
that starve them. No, I don't have all the answers, but I do have what I
believe to be the most complete information available regarding these
parasites at this time with a diet that has worked for many sufferers.
Not until a couple years after I got rid of the itchy parasites--the ones
that felt like they were eating me alive--did I realize that there were
more than one type of parasite. Since most doctors can't effectively
sample and examine your skin for analysis, I had no idea if I only
contracted mites or nematodes, or perhaps fungus as well.
According to the experts there are several things to look for on your
body to determine if your parasites are the ones that are connected
with Morgellons disease or other itchy skin parasites. Any one of the
following could mean parasites.
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1 Presence of tiny strawberry type of spots--look like bright red blood
spots just under the skin.
2 Presence of a filament type of structure at various non-healing sites
where the parasites reside. They are often very visible and in some
cases can only be seen with 10 power magnification. They are also
fluorescent and can be seen with an ultraviolet light.
3. Cotton-like balls on your body without any reasonable explanation.
4. Black specks on the skin and bed sheets.
I had #1 and #4 along with some other symptoms listed in Chapter VI.
Chapter I contains my personal case history. Since your doctor hasn't
been able to diagnose you, the only way you have of determining at
this time if you have the same or similar problem is to read about my
hell which is caused by Strongyloides Stercoralis (a nematode) and
Collembola (commonly known as spring tails); and if you relate with
it, in the following chapters you’ll get the details on how I and many
who have purchased my book are successfully beating this parasitic
scourge. Details in disinfection of home, work, and everything else,
details on diet, nutritional supplements that work and don't work,
medical approaches that don't work, two medical treatment plans (one
with which you can use your attending physician) and one involving
one of the few MD's who are familiar with some of these parasites.
But the book goes deeper than simply parasites--not that they are
simple--but they are the carriers that transfer protozoa and a bacterium
(Lyme disease) into your blood which reduce your immunity further
enabling other organisms such as fungi and organisms such as
Toxoplasma gondii often found in cat feces to infect your body. It is
also suspected that the protozoa and bacterium can also be carried into
your body via ticks, mosquito, bed bugs, and Collembola (spring
tales).
The only good news is that how to test, identify and treat one of the
parasites, although unknown to most physicians, is known. This means
the first part of your fight that took me 13 years is over for you and
this book is probably one of the most comprehensive you'll find on
these subjects. Yes, lab tests have been used for Lyme disease for the
last 15 or so years, but did you know that often chronic Lyme disease
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goes undetected by these same tests and that often when identified, the
Lyme pathogen changes to the form of a cyst, when in the presence of
antibiotics, and then back again when the antibiotics are stopped.
Chapter VI provides the research labs that have developed proof
positive methods for identifying some of the pathogens and the
physicians’ protocols for their effective treatment.
When I was at the height of personal suffering I would have endured
great monetary hardship and gone to China if need be to rid myself of
the parasitic scourge, the good news is that all that information is
available in this book which may well save you thousands of dollars
and point you in the direction to obtain effective medical treatment--
saving you the expense of that trip to China or for instance spending
thousands of dollars to remove all your amalgam filings. One last note
before reading on: If you've been following the chat lines on this
subject, don't bother randomly investing in colloidal silver, ionic
silver, ionic copper, herbal remedies, dewormers, and many other
remedies listed in Chapter I. I’ve only found a few effective skin
products which are in Chapters II and then, they may be useless
without the diet.
Once you’ve read this book, if you desire to communicate via email
with questions that your doctor has no answers, go to the QR code on
the back cover to subscribe to that service. It’s contact with me-someone
who has been through this dark tunnel, helped hundreds of
others through it too, and finally found a great deal of light. There
were times I thought I'd die with this problem or as a result of it and
simply would have loved some guidance from someone who didn't
look at me as though it was all in my head and could have given me
just a drop of hope to want to go on another day.
Appendix F has some of the many testimonials from those who
subscribed to the original report, received e-mail updates and also had
received e-mails answering their questions.
If indeed you've encountered these pathogens via a virulent parasite as
I have, you are fighting two hells: One is the itchy parasites on your
skin that literally feel like they are eating you alive and the other one is
the pathogens they have brought to your blood stream which lowers
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your immunity, can attack your central nervous system and worsen
any symptom, medical, or psychological problem and make them non
responsive to treatment. Headaches, muscle pain, brain fog,
fibromyalgia, arthritis, memory difficulties, Parkinson's, cancers,
bipolar disorder, ADHD... are just a few of the many complications
possible.
This book provides you with:
1. Alternative medical treatments in Chapter VI. There are three basic
skin parasites covered in this book: Morgellons, Collembola (Spring
Tails) and strongyloides stercoralis. You'll be able to identify which
parasite/s you have in Chapter VI.
2. A three phase special diet in Chapter IV (I call the first phase the
KING DIET SM and the second phase the "Ice Cream Diet." Phase I
could also be called “the Shrimp Scampi diet” as there are lots of
delicious entrees--with tasty recipes in Chapter V. Phase II could also
be called the Honey Diet as it brings some sweetening to your diet.
Phase III brings a delicious chocolate cake. Phase I and II are also
great for getting rid of extra weight. Phase I may also be very valuable
as an aid in the treatment of Blastomycosis fungal infections and
Dercum's Syndrome—discussed later; and if for some reason the diet/s
don't work for you, how to create your own diet that will work.
3. A means of determining if you're also dealing with yeast infection
(candida albicans) and what to do about it plus the candida diet if you
have it--also in Chapter IV. Turns out that lots of parasites sufferers
also are host to candida albicans which complicates recovery
4. How to bathe and skin treatments in Chapter II.
5. Methods to eliminate recontamination and contaminating others—
Chapter III.
6. How to eat in a restaurant without feeling like a leper—Chapter IV-and
how to explain to acquaintances why you’re on a special diet.
As a side note, I had gone from 195 pounds to 180 pounds on the Ice
Cream Diet and I ate tremendous quantities of everything. Of course,
losing weight was not an issue, I just wanted to get back to my normal
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life of waking up in the morning itch free and staying itch free all day
and all night with the possibility of having an intimate relationship
with a member of the opposite sex.
I spent literally thousands of dollars on getting rid of this ailment and
the equivalent of millions of dollars of pain and suffering. The good
news is that even though I still have remnants of the scourge, I have
gotten back to a normal life, rough house with my son, have normal
intimate physical relations, and anticipate one day being at 100%
freedom. This book outlines what works and what doesn’t work.
Forgive me for charging a few dollars for this book. None of the eight
medical doctors (three specialists) that I've visited felt guilty for telling
me that I had a phobia or prescribing medications which were useless
and absolutely none knew anything about how to control my
surroundings, diet, and so on, and charged me their fee which totalled
in the thousands. The good news is that if your symptoms are similar,
the information in this book could be worth your life. Note: many
typical treatments, Prednisone, skin lotions, and so on have worked for
those who have been accidentally contaminated by my condition, but
if you were chronically infected like I was, none of those treatments
work and you probably have already tried most of them.
I must share that I am not a doctor and am not making any medical
recommendations. I am an ex sufferer of collembola (commonly
known as Spring Tails) and strongyloides stercoralis for nearly fifteen
years. I am merely reporting diagnosis and medical advice given to me
along with my experiences and those of many who subscribed to the
report. I suggest that you contact your family physician for further
consultation. I make no representations concerning the efficacy,
appropriateness or suitability of any products or treatments.
Any information regarding diet is from years and years of my personal
experience and that of others who have also used the diet. I am not
making any dietary recommendations other than to share what worked
with me and others who have used the diet. If you use the diet/s, you
are using it at your own risk as it can be a high fat diet and for some
may increase the risks of increased levels of cholesterol and contribute
to heart disease (if one goes crazy with bacon and hamburgers--not
necessary though). I am merely sharing in this book what has and
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hasn't worked for me along with many referenced sources for you to
make your own evaluations and determinations.
No clinically controlled studies have been done regarding the diet and
its impact on any other disease such as heart disease. No
recommendations made in this book have been evaluated by the Food
and Drug Administration and are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure,
or prevent any disease or health condition.
From years of experience, I find that there are several types of
parasites which may cause similar or the same symptoms of itching
and biting of the skin. It seems that although the dietary preferences of
most are similar, they are not the same. The diet I used is the most
stringent of all diets of which I'm aware which means it has worked for
most parasitic infections. However, I have used products over the
years highly recommended by other sufferers only to find that they
worsened the situation as opposed to making it better. Therefore, I can
not guarantee you that all of what I've used and works for me will
work for you--you must test them the same way I did.
Information concerning this subject changes very quickly which is
why it's taken me six years to revise and update this book. There exists
a possibility that inadvertent errors exist in this book, therefore, I can
not verify that there are no errors or omissions contained in this book.
If you notice any mistakes or inconsistencies, please send an email to
knic2@verizon.net with “parasites” as the subject of the email. You,
the reader, are likewise encouraged to consult other sources and
confirm the information contained within or referenced.
The information in this book is intended for educational and
informational purposes only. It is not intended to replace or substitute
the evaluation, judgment, diagnosis, and medical or preventative care
of a physician, pediatrician, therapist and/or health care provider.
Any medical, nutritional, dietetic, therapeutic or other decisions,
dosages, treatments or medical regimes should be made in consultation
with a health care practitioner. Do not discontinue treatment or
medication without first consulting your physician, clinician or
therapist.
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The information, services, products, messages and other materials in
this book, individually and collectively, are provided with the
understanding that the author is not engaged in rendering medical
advice or recommendations.
I am writing this book in the context of, “if I were reinfected today,
this is what I’d do and the order of what I’d do them in.
xx
From my experience, it has become apparent that I was
infested/infected with several types of mites, maybe fungus, and
nematodes. The virulent ones (probably a nematode--a form of round
worm), would cause me to itch intensely and nothing gave me any
relief except for a hot (almost scalding) bath and the diet.
Other Serious Fungal and Unknown Diseases (Infections)
Along my path of research and communicating with others, I
encountered the existence of other dangerous infections such as
Blastomycosis and Dercum’s Syndrome. The CDC website describes
Blastomycosis as a fungal infection generally from being in contact or
breathing spores found in contaminated soil. High risk groups are
campers, farmers, hunters and forestry personnel. The fungus infects
lung tissue and can also show up as subcutaneous abscesses as well as
localized infections in several organs as described by Dr. Bob's All
Creature Site at http://www.petdoc.ws/zoonotic_diseases1.htm.
Approximately 5% of those infected with Blastomycosis die of the
disease. Anti fungal agents Itraconazole, 100-200 mg/d orally, is now
the therapy of choice for nonmeningeal disease, with a response rate of
over 70%. Amphotericin B is given for treatment failures or cases with
central nervous system involvement.
It's not a pretty disease and while this book is not about Blastomycosis
or Dercum’s Syndrome, described below, if you have the either
disease, and find progress slow, you may consider the KING DIET SM
in Chapter IV along with bathing and disinfection protocols in
Chapters II and III to augment your medical treatment.
Dercum's Syndrome: Described as a chronic, almost unknown disease,
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for the first time in 1888 by the American neurologist Francis X.
Dercum.
In spite of the fact that the disease has been known and described for
more than 100 years, neither the cause of this disease nor the treatment
is yet known.
Most common symptoms:
Pain, definite or indefinite swellings or lipomas, weight gain of maybe
50%, fatigue, difficulty in walking. The disease occurs mainly among
women and increases with age.
If you read the literature, you'll find a pretty bleak picture with little
known about treatment and the disease eventually attacking internal
organs.
Some believe that Dercum's Syndrome is an umbrella term for a whole
host of health problems with unknown cause/cure, but could it be
parasitic?
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Chapter I--My Personal Hell on Earth
The Event That Changed My Life for the Worst
In 1993, while pulling a strangulating vine from a tall pine tree in my
back yard, a cloud of what appeared to be pollen floated upon me from
the tree. I stopped work after I disposed of the vine, showered and
thought nothing more. This was the beginning of my life being
interrupted for what seemed like forever. It took one and a half years, a
half dozen doctors, many external and internal elixirs, and an
incredible dietary change before my life approached some form of
normalcy. Within days of the dusty floating cloud, both the lady I lived
with and I were itching all over and experienced what felt like
thousands of tiny bites from head to toe. No bug or parasite was visible
except once we found something that looked like a dust particle on the
end of her finger and one end of it was moving--it was alive. It was too
tiny to capture and was lost. The only other visible things were tiny
sparkled specks on our bodies--only visible in bright light. We
presumed these were the eggs. Once I was able to observe them under
a microscope and they appeared as a perfect tiny sphere at 600
magnification. One seemed to be hatching on the slide and had what
seemed to be pinchers.
Within two-to-three days of the beginning of the itching, dozens of
bite-like sites were all over my body--many with big red rashes
surrounding them. And no matter what I did, they got larger and
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multiplied all over my body. Even though I had blood tests and plug
samples taken (biopsies), I never received a diagnosis or a positive ID
of what plagued me from any physician or specialist. However, from
personal research and observation, it’s apparent that it was from an
infestation of parasites which may have been accompanied by a fungus
infection. Either chiggers, or no-seeums, or red mites, or bird mites, or
some relative of theirs, or nematodes were the probable cause of my
personal hell. The nearest I can guess is that the pollen-like substance
contained eggs that when exposed to my body heat, hatched into larvae
which took up residence in my skin as a parasite and fed on me at will.
As they fed and matured, it felt like they were eating me alive. Given
the right conditions, they evolved from the larvae stage and on several
occasions I observed the result of what I believe the metamorphosis in
the form of a tiny small flying insect matching the appearance of the
red mite fly from inside my coat as I opened it to take it off. It was as
though I gave birth to the insect.
There are many species of mites, some of which are harmless and
normally live on the human body, and there are those which seem very
vicious in nature. Everyone has encountered them at some time or
another. You can be walking anywhere, usually in the summer, and
suddenly feel biting sensations all over and see nothing. This is usually
the red mite also known as chiggers and no-seeums.
Normally, there is no serious repercussion from the attack, you feel
buggy and take a shower later on which rids you of any potential
problems.
Long before this happened, once in Alaska, while wading in a warm
sulfur spring, I felt a biting sensation of intense pain from an
indigenous mite to that region. It felt as though the insect was drilling
into my bone. It swelled and took months to go away—definitely
different than the chiggers of the East coast of which I’m familiar.
Back to my story, this was the beginning of a horror story of scalding
baths, scrubbing our skin raw, emergency trips to the dermatologists,
and many types of treatments and reading everything in sight in an
attempt to control this parasitic scourge. Over the counter treatments
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were, Rid, Nix, sulfur, boric acid, skintastic (by Avon), Gold Bond
powder, and so on. Prescription treatments were Elimite and Lindane
by the first dermatologist--no relief for more than four days.
There was $125 for a naturalpathic treatment consisting of Vermex,
Lympth/lept drops plus bromelain papain and herbal hepatox, $60 for
Bioceedin--terrible tasting drops dissolved in juice or whatever liquid
could camouflage the taste. All these remedies for parasites failed too.
Not even temporary relief. It took two years to rid myself of the itchy
biting symptoms of the parasite—that was over 600 days of pure
torture.
On my own I used rubbing alcohol, witch hazel, and boric acid-nothing
helped.
In an attempt to further rid myself of the mosquito type papule, I
visited an iridologist who found spoke-like black lines throughout my
iris. According to her references these spokes in the iris indicates an
infestation of a skin parasite. She recommended herbal walnut and
pumpkin which did very little except give me an upset stomach after
several weeks. Next she recommended Artemisa with mugwort and
wormwood by Natures Sunshine which actually made them more
active. Unfortunately, except for Artemisa and herbal walnut and
pumpkin, I don’t know what the results of early treatments with
Elimite, Lindane, Vermex, Liquid Needles, and so on would have been
had I known how to control my diet and environment.
In the beginning, it seemed that every time I’d try a new medication or
lotion, the symptoms would begin to disappear and I’d start to cut back
on the baths thinking I was getting rid of them. But then picture this,
you go to bed after a vitalizing bath and you notice slight crawling
sensations on your body. Of course, if you are presently suffering from
these symptoms, you don’t have to picture anything; you live this
nightmare day after day. I have no idea what would have happened to
me if I had not discovered some methods of temporary relief. I often
feared that I’d never find an answer and end up dying with the
problem or because of the problem as many have done.
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Eaten Alive
Here’s what it's like to have the itchy type. The slight sensations can
occur on your face cheeks, in your hair, stomach, legs, and private
parts--anywhere. You scratch and they seem to go away. In fact you
even wonder if some or most of it is in your imagination. All during
the following day it's more of the same. The following night you again
go to bed and instead of only crawling sensations you feel itching and
biting feelings first on your legs, then your private parts, and then on
your neck, back, and to your legs. Scratching does no good at all. It's
so intense you can't stay in bed. You feel like you’re being eaten alive.
The question of it being your imagination has disappeared. You jump
out of bed, take a scalding hot bath, change the sheets, and return to
bed hoping for an extended relief, but only find temporary relief for a
day of so before you begin to experience the same hell all over again.
You begin to appreciate what Job may have suffered in his trials with
pestilence as described in the Holy Bible.
The next morning you get dressed, go to work, and while at your desk
notice that around your waist where the clothes fit tight and under your
thighs where your skin is pressed against your chair, the itching and
biting is almost unbearable. Then, much to your surprise you see a tiny
little bug fly up in front of you from the direction of your clothing
while you are at your desk or in your car or sitting in your favorite
chair at home and you wonder if you have just given birth to one of
these things. You wish you could capture it and show it to the doctor-but
he'd probably say it was just probably flying by on its way to the
opera and has nothing to do with you because you have a phobia.
Anyway this takes you back to the beginning of the cycle. For me it
was near scalding baths two or three times daily, washing sheets daily,
dusting the mattress and comforter with a diatomaceous earth, and
spraying ammonia solution on the chairs in which I sat.
Diet control is paramount and took me over three years to initially
discover what is safe to eat and what foods contributes to their
spreading; and then it took another 10 years to discover the various
nuances. In the beginning dozens of times when I'd feel that I was on
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my way to freedom, i.e. a day or two without any crawling, itching or
biting, I'd select something that I thought was safe to eat only to find
myself reacting with a new lesion (papule)--each cost me a week of
recovery time and each step back contributed to further development
of the diet.
Searching for Relief
In the beginning, I turned to sulfur lotions on the skin as a treatment
and went to work with jaundiced looking hair, and skin. Needless to
say it was tremendously embarrassing to have the problem and not
know how to treat it or get rid of it. "What’s wrong with you?" was a
common question from which I had no reasonable answer but to shrug
off the inquiry.
Or you experience an itch on your wrist and forearm, you scratch and
scratch and no relief. Day in and day out, the itch continues. You try
everything you can think of and nothing helps the itch.
Eventually you notice mini vampire looking marks with about 1/16"
between the bites—and the biting is so intense that you practically
scratch your skin raw and no relief for hour upon hour. Nothing takes
away the biting sensation. It feels like a needle that keeps digging into
the skin. Eating tuna in oil would bring this on within 10 minutes.
I’m getting ahead of myself. No physician that I had ever seen has
diagnosed these symptoms as caused by parasites (except for the Dr.
Harvey of Texas), but then no other diagnosis was given either.
Through the process of elimination, i.e. sphere-like eggs, dust particle
moving, and the presence of tiny flying bugs in the house closely
matching the description of the red mite, I surmised it was caused by
infestation of several types of mites. I've since learned that these mites
were only the host to other parasites that are resistant to standard
medical treatments for mites.
A book, Life That Lives on Man by an Englishman, recommends a
25% benzyl benzoate emulsion or Eurax cream. I checked with several
pharmacists and none knew of the emulsion or the Eurax cream. That
was before I had access to the internet. Google Eurax cream if you'd
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like to try it. I never tried it and can’t report on it although if I weren’t
happy with what I did use, I’d definitely try it—more in Chapter II.
The book also described the rash that occurs as a secondary bacterial
infection as a result of the bite from the mite.
My lady friend remembered being treated with Prednisone for a
similar problem years before. None of the doctors we contacted had
any experience with the use of Prednisone for parasites. We searched
high and low for pesticides to kill them in the house. Fortunately we
found diatomaceous earth which is nontoxic to animals. This brand
doesn't have pyrethins which were in the initial brand of diatomaceous
earth that we used. Pyrethins are a contact killer--it kills within
seconds of contact. But, it isn't really necessary to have pyrethins
because, long after the pyrethins may be inactive, the diatomaceous
earth still causes the bugs to dehydrate and disintegrate within 10-to-
15 minutes of contact. And from my experience of having dealt with
these parasites day after day, 10-to-15 minutes is pretty darn fast.
Google diatomaceous earth to find a supplier. I bought a duster for
about $30 and dusted the whole house every two or so weeks.
Needless to say we were not dusting off the furniture--we wanted to
give the critters every opportunity to get their tiny feet dusty. I bought
a new Kirby vacuum cleaner--one that eliminates dust discharge while
vacuuming to keep the dust from our lungs. I understand an Oreck will
do the same thing and for a lot less money.
The first dermatologist I contacted prescribed Lindane and took a
biopsy of my skin. Lindane did nothing and the biopsy showed no
evidence of a skin parasite. She ruled out scabies since there was no
evidence of the tunneling and generally scabies are limited to hands
and wrists. Skin fungus nor the idea of a fungal infection was ever
suggested.
Lady Bugs
I thought I was dealing with some kind of mite. I read where lady
bug’s natural food source is mites. I ordered several hundred and
released them in my home. Two days later, I couldn’t find one—they
were gone. Even they didn’t want to stay in my home. Where they
went, I have no idea but I know where my money went.
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Finally, Temporary Relief
On my own, I experimented with garlic and curry. The curry did
nothing. The only relief came from what seemed like massive doses of
garlic taken internally--30,000 mg. per day in the beginning. In fact,
use of the garlic eliminated the itchy symptoms. Of course when the
symptoms disappeared, it was easy for me to think "cure" only to find
the symptoms reoccur within days of stopping the garlic. So, it’s, “let’s
try another specialist.” One was highly recommended.
Trip to the Expert
The appointment took three long months to obtain (you'd think these
guys are Gods)—it was three long months of massive doses of garlic.
The first thing he did was check for scabies and he found nothing
which confirmed the findings of the previous doctors I consulted. I had
back-up this time in the form a slide of a specimen I removed from my
skin (showing what looked like a microscopic organism with pinchers)
and a piece of thick gelatinous sample of skin that I had removed from
a site thinking once he checked it in his microscope the mystery would
be solved.
Now these samples of skin are not easy to get. The papules that
initially form eventually forms a lesion that covers over with a hard
mass on the skin which is somewhat like a scab but it never heals or
goes away. Yet, it’s very tenacious and practically has to be dug loose
and pulled from the skin. He checked it and much to my
disappointment found nothing. He suggested that I might have
acarophobia.
Acarophobia is:
1. an abnormal dread of skin infestation with small crawling
organisms.
2. a delusion that the skin is infested with small crawling organisms .
(Definition from www.fasthealth.com/dictionary/a/acarophobia)
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And when I explained that the person I was living with also contracted
them, he gave me a hand-out which explained that "many times their
beliefs," (referring to the belief that one is infected with parasites), "are
shared with others, in which case it's referred to as folie a duex or trios
which is defined as a madness shared by two or three.
This disorder is part of a psychosis and is rarely amenable to medical
treatment." When I handed him another microscope slide with what I
thought was part of a specimen of the parasite, he was ready for me as
he handed me a handout which also had a heading, "Delusions of
Parasitosis," in which it states, “Delusions of parasitosis are firm
fixations in a person's mind that he suffers from a parasitic infestation
of his skin. The belief is so fixed that he may pick small pieces of
epithelial debris from the skin," which I did, "and bring them to be
examined, always insisting that the offending parasite is contained in
such material." He examined the slide and found nothing out of the
ordinary. After I begged for a blood sample, because I thought they
might be systemic (in the blood), he took blood samples from me and
ordered several blood tests and a biopsy.
Thinking that finally this problem would be resolved, I was shocked
when he called a week later and reported that aside from a slightly
larger than normal CBC (complete blood count) nothing was found in
the extensive tests. He indeed believed my symptoms were mental and
did also say that perhaps the parasites were gone because maybe the
massive doses of garlic did kill them--if I had them to start with. I
reminded him of how Lyme disease went undetected for many years
and tried to convince him to do a research study, i.e. if I gave him a
towel I had used without washing it bleach or ammonia, whoever used
that towel would contract the same itching and biting within days. He
thought the idea amusing and said he'd get back to me. He never did
and I thought, "Who knows, maybe they are gone."
Were it not for the smell of garlic oozing through my armpits and God
knows about my breadth, I would have kept taking garlic simply for
insurance. I wanted to stop the garlic, but I wanted to wait until my
son--he was six years old at that time--had gone back to my ex-wife
after our vacation together. I had done everything I could to keep my
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son from being infected with them--limited physical contact and
disinfection of his room. Except for my brief remission period when
the symptoms disappeared, our wrestling matches on the living room
floor had come to a halt, holding him close and even rides on my
shoulder had stopped. I hoped that he wouldn't grow up with some
kind of complex--Daddy's close and then far away and then close
again and then far away. I feared that if I had explained it to him, he
would have told his mom, and knowing how over reactive she could
be, she would have complicated things even more. After our summer
vacation was over and he returned home, I stopped the garlic and was
completely free of symptoms for seven glorious days when I began
noticing some symptoms--first I thought my mind was playing tricks
and then during a business trip to Chicago the symptoms returned in
full force. Back to the garlic once more.
As most doctors in the U.S. limit themselves to plug samples
(biopsies) and blood tests, I wonder if it's possible that everyone who
is diagnosed with folie a deux, folie a tois, and acarophobia actually
have an infestation of some kind of skin parasites, mites and or skin
fungus. Not that they do, but is it possible? Chapter VI gives the
results of a study which confirmed my suspicions—they found that
90% of those classified as “delusional” do indeed have a parasitic
infection. So I was left to find the answers to my plight on my own.
My Own Analysis
It seemed that I was dealing with at least two types of parasites--ones
that itched and bit everywhere, but didn't leave any visible bites—at
least as long as I was taking regular hot (almost scalding) baths 2-to-3
times a day. I've since been told that an ice bath would be more
effective, but I don't know if I'd be capable of taking an ice bath. And
the second type were the parasites that left mosquito-like bites
(papules) that never went away. The latter would shortly develop into
an ulceration of the skin and swell to look like and itch like a mosquito
bite but never go away except to become hard and gelatinous. With
some of these sites I'd end up with a sharp pain like a crab's pincers
biting me under the skin which led me to believe it was some kind of
bug. But then I sometimes wondered if it were a fungus that apparently
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had attacked my nerve endings which caused the intense pain--not a
mite. Eventually I came to suspect two or more different parasites
operating in unison.
But at that chronological point I hadn't even considered the possibility
of skin fungus, fungal infections, Collembola, or nematodes (worms)
and I didn’t even know of the term Morgellons as it was years before
the Morgellons website was published and the word coined. These
papules, even though they were not as virulent, have been with me for
the long haul--20 years. They never disappeared or went into
remission like the itchy ones did, but after I stopped the garlic, they
seemed to become more aggressive and were showing up on other
parts of my body--arms, shoulders, legs and pelvic area.
The lady I lived with moved to Atlanta back in the mid 90's and has
gotten rid the skin parasites. For some reason, she never contracted the
ones that left a mosquito like bite. She used cold water baths in garlic
oil, and a product called Liquid Needles and was successful in
eliminating them within four-to-six weeks. I don't think Liquid
Needles is available any more—it was a salt solution. We assumed that
she was more successful than I was in getting rid of them since she
wasn't the primary source, i.e. they seem to have taken residence in
me--either systemically or dermatologically. Over the years I've
learned that if treated early on, there are many different treatments for
some people that will work--double descending dose of Prednisone,
Neosporin Plus, Skin Zinc, tree tea oil, 999 skin lotion, and even
perhaps Caladryl lotion... It's when the parasite gets to the stage of
reproducing itself within the body that the simple basic diets and
treatments don't work.
More Complications
In 2005 I learned that these parasites, pose yet another threat. They can
bring along Lyme disease and other parasites both protozoan and
fungal in nature. Some of these contagions often are not a problem for
one with a strong immune system, but fairly easily contracted by one
with a challenged immune system or exposed to a high concentration
of parasites. These parasites can be transferred to humans by other
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humans as well as by mites, ticks, mosquitoes, bed bugs, and other
bugs that bite or as in my case--a dust cloud.
It's unfortunate that the dermatologists I've consulted couldn't locate or
identify them to advise treatment. And according to the last
dermatologist I consulted, thousands of people every year are seeking
help. The book to which I previously referred, Life That Lives on
Man, published in the late 70's also spoke extensively of how little
physicians know of parasites that live on man and how easily they
diagnose the problem as a fear. The book went into great length how to
sample the skin for different mites by trapping them with oil, yet none
of the physicians I consulted used any similar method, much less knew
what to look for or how to sample for them. I had to tell them what I
thought were the visual evidence of skin parasites in the form of mites.
The irony was that even though they couldn't find anything to
diagnose, one look at my skin and they would put on their gloves
before touching me.
From my own experience, I was in private practice as a biofeedback
clinician and quite successfully specialized in the treatment of fears
and phobias for 15 years--there are over a hundred different fears--not
one that I know of has ever been shared with another person.
So I wonder how many horror stories there are like mine and think that
maybe collectively we can learn what the doctors don't know. I was
told of one lady who after visiting the Amazon returned to the states
and had been fighting something of this nature for seven years. She
has been to many physicians, turned to homeopathy and still had no
cure. Everything I tried was encouraging for a few days, it's as if they
adapted to the poisons with which I assaulted my skin and came back
stronger. The itchy skin parasites seemed to regenerate within eight
hours. I went off garlic because eventually 240,000 mg. per day were
ineffective and I became so affected that I began bathing every 8 hours
with a quart of alcohol. Every two or three days, I used Liquid
Needles (4 ounces in a bath--it's described later in this article) to attack
the bugs that multiply more slowly and mimic a mosquito bite. I used
Calamine lotion and camphor. Everything worked for a couple days
but just as soon as I stopped the alcohol baths and was hoping to stand
up and holler, "I'm free," the symptoms returned.
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I went back to the doctor. Of course I can't obtain an appointment with
the dermatologist for 12 weeks so off to the general practitioner--my
third. With some urging on my part, he prescribed sulfamethoxazole
for a week, a sulfa antibiotic. It seemed to help as everything does for
a short while and then back to ground zero.
Parasites Kill Romance
In fact it was during a date with an attractive lady with whom I was
hoping for a romantic evening, after a glass of wine that the parasites
began itching and biting like crazy. I did what I thought I'd never do--I
told her about my problem and prepared for the worse. Well she wasn't
happy and felt that I had placed her at risk because we had gone
dancing a couple of times and had a few slow dances together. Several
years before, she had contracted a fungus from simply hugging
someone and knew how easily some of these things can be passed on.
She is in the healing arts and is attuned to alternative therapies. She
told me about a physician prescribing sulfur--she described is as being
horse pills--for her skin problem.
I was somewhat uplifted because I had searched previously for sulfur
to be taken internally--I remembered my grandmother using it once
internally, but every pharmacologist and physician I'd spoken with
never heard of sulfur used internally, except in ancient times. The
People's Home Medical Book published in 1913 by RC Barnum Co.
lists sulfur to be taken three times per day as powder, tincture or
pellets plus sulfur ointment on the affected parts. Unfortunately it
didn't give dosages. Since then I've found it in ionic form and have
tried ionic copper, silver, molybdenum, zinc and sulfur and after over
$100 can only say, "Save your money." You've just saved more than
cost of this book. You can also get flowers of sulfur from your
pharmacy.
The Best Advice in Years
It was clear that any romantic notions I had with this lady were forever
out the window, however, she also mentioned diet sensitivities which
intrigued me and I thought I'd give it a try which turned out to be the
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best advice in years. I began an elimination diet with only eggs and
within two days the itchy symptoms stopped.
Then I added cheese to the diet so it was eggs and cheese for a few
days. Some cheeses were OK and some were not. Over the course of
the next seven years I tested various foods and additives to pretty well
perfect the diet which consists of three phases. Phase I is the strictest
diet that is used. With it, along with bathing and disinfection
techniques, the itchy bity symptoms were totally gone within 6 days.
Phase II is a bit less strict and is used to minimize the formation of
new papules and minimize infecting others. Phase III is even less strict
and allows deserts. The diets are detailed in the Chapters IV and V.
Following are a few of the many things I learned:
1. just one tic tak breadth mint can activate these
parasites.
2. Foods containing carrageen will also activate them.
3. Walnuts are OK, but not almonds.
Chapter IV details everything you need to know to make the diet easy
including many very tasty recipes in Chapter V for entrees such as
shrimp scampi, chicken in butter sauce, steamers, perfect rice, sautéed
spinach, and so on.
Infecting Others
In the course of fighting the infestation I infested six different people
to varying degrees. First, the lady I was living with at the time when I
initially acquired the itchy virulent parasites developed the itching and
biting at literally the same moment in time that I experienced them.
We were visiting my mother when suddenly we both began itching
intensely. We left rather abruptly and took a quick hot bath together to
diminish the itching. Apparently, the eggs or the larvae were simply
transferred from my skin to either the bed sheets and then to her skin
or direct from my skin to hers the same night after I was infected from
that cloud of dust.
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The second person was my girl friend’s sister. I stayed at her home
while on a business trip. I was in the midst of suffering from the
parasites without the aid of diet at the time. It was after the garlic
became ineffective I took hot baths for hours and was careful to not
use a towel to dry so I wouldn’t contaminate my hosts. I was too
embarrassed to tell my girlfriend’s sister and her husband about the
parasitic scourge so I took every precaution I could to avoid
contaminating anything. I ironed the sheets after I slept on them
hoping it would kill the parasites and hoped that they used bleach in
the laundry. In retrospect, I should have just come clean with them
with the truth or taken along diatomaceous earth. It was before I knew
about spraying bed sheets with ammonia to kill them. Nevertheless,
my girlfriend’s sister became infected and fortunately for her she also
used Liquid Needles to eliminate them.
The third person was my mother who wasn’t infected until two years
later. By this time, my girlfriend had become my ex-girlfriend and was
living nearly a thousand miles away. My mother and I visited her for
Thanksgiving. My mother stayed with us at my ex girl friend's in a
spare bedroom.
A few days after returning home my mother noticed that she was
itching on her face and head. Initially, she thought it was dry skin and
began using moisturizers. I began to suspect the parasitic scourge. She
recalled the first crawling sensation on her skin at my ex-girl friend's
place from a blanket she was given to keep her warm at night.
The following week-end was our company Christmas party. I had
already started to veer from my "no sugar" diet and continued to feel
great. I was disheartened only in that the sites on my neck were not
shrinking as I hoped they would. We had lots of deserts left from the
party. I had two pieces of cake and noticed no indications of the
parasitic scourge. Each day for about 10 days, I'd indulge in another
dessert. Gradually I noticed that the sites on the neck were enlarging
and spreading.
Within three days, the itchy bity parasitic scourge was on my body-just
after I had completely cleaned my bedroom from top to bottom of
the diatomaceous earth dust. The new ozone purifier didn't seem to be
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doing much to decontaminate so I broke out the diatomaceous earth
and vigorously attacked the bugs again. My mother and I confidently
started with the "no sugar King Diet SM ". My mother who sometimes
wondered if my problem in the past was in my head gained a new
appreciation for my plight through the last year and a half. Stage One
of the diet gave both of us immediate relief.
Because it can be rather tasteless, we thought some potato and corn
chips would be a welcome addition. Two days later we were itching
and I learned that potato and corn chips were off the diet. My mother
was thinking that she'd be stuck with these bugs for the rest of her life.
We noticed that the increased activity of the bugs occurred after eating
the corn chips. I also noticed that the sites on my neck shrank in size as
long as I stayed sugarless and that after a two evenings of nachos they
began enlarging. Now I also wonder if what I described as two types
of bugs aren't some how connected.
I infected the third person six years after initially contracting parasites.
I was controlling the parasites with diet alone and apparently ate
something off the diet which caused a brief flair up. A lady I had dated
at that time contracted a rash on her face from sharing my pillow. Her
doctor diagnosed her as having Rosacea's red face and treated it
accordingly. It gradually went away.
The fourth person I infected was two years later, after I married. Again
a dietary mistake led to a moderate flare-up and my step daughter had
itching lesions develop on her shoulder area. The source apparently
was from clean laundry that was not disinfected. Her doctor prescribed
a double descending dose of Prednisone which worked for her.
The fifth person infected was my ex wife. Fortunately I had told her
about my parasitic scourge beforehand. She didn’t seem to take it too
seriously and wondered if it was all in my mind. Nevertheless, she had
been very helpful in helping me maintain my strange diet all during
our marriage. We had just been married two years when she developed
her first lesions. Again, it was during a time when I had a diet
problem—this time in a restaurant. Fortunately, my flare up was
limited and she responded to early applications of over the counter
creams such as Caladryl lotion although today I'd use 999 cream.
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After I divorced, the sixth person I infected was my finance (now my
wife) in late 05. I had been on antibiotics and anti protozoan
medication for approximately three months and found that I could eat
everything I wanted without any new lesions forming.
Approximately two months after my 120 day treatment with Mepron,
the itchy bity symptoms quickly returned and unfortunately it was the
night my fiancée stayed over. I really thought I was cured and hadn’t
told her anything about the parasites. Fortunately, through the use of
several products she got rid of them—more details and photos in
Chapter II.
Unfortunately, there may have been some others that I unknowingly
infected from sitting on seats in waiting rooms, air planes, and so on
when the parasites were active and I didn’t know how to control them.
I was really afraid I’d infect my colleagues at work and stayed my
distance and as far as I know, no one contracted the parasitic scourge
or if they did, they were fortunate enough to use the right over counter
remedies early on.
I remember that as I was winning the fight against some of the
parasites, the rashes surrounding the sites and the swelling would
gradually go down leaving a small dark speck about 1/32" in diameter
that I could scratch off much like a scab or pick out with tweezers. I
surmise it was a dead mite that carried the parasites.
Finally A Little Help from a Doctor
It took me nearly two years to find a helpful medical treatment for the
virulent itchy type of skin parasites. I searched high and low on the
internet and found little information. Fortunately, I found part of my
relief from an old-timer dermatologist--ironically my next-door office
neighbor--just prior to infecting my mother. Along with Stage I of the
Parasite Lyme Diet SM and using precautions to avoid recontamination I
was able to eliminate symptoms from the itchy biting parasites in just
ten weeks with a prescription for ORAP—more later.
Skipping Ahead
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Ten years later, staying on Stage II of the diet, I finally could say that
for the most part I was free of infecting others, and 99.9% free of all
symptoms.
If my experiences sound familiar, you’ll want to continue reading this
book. Until I discovered the diet, garlic worked miracles and it might
also for you until you kick the diet into action.
It was really difficult to discover which foods offended my health and
which foods benefited my well being--particularly so since the
additives--carrageen, modified starch, gar gum, etc.--get involved.
Reactions to food happen within 20 minutes to 36 hours. And once I
reacted to something, the reaction continues with generally a new
papule every day or two for an entire week. Not knowing this at first, it
was really confusing because I'd still be reacting even though my
eating habits were perfect. Then it takes about 10 days for the new site
to dry up and disappear--eventually turns to a normal scab and falls
off. The sad thing is that during these 17 days total, there can be no
progress on the older sites--even though many don't seem to swell or
become more swollen, they don't reduce in size either.
So every time I went off the diet it added a half month to my recovery
time. I ended up testing a lot of foods not by choice but by accident
and sometimes I had to question the chef in a restaurant to get to the
bottom of some quirky reactions. And every time a doctor would
prescribe something, I'd get cocky and think I could start eating
normal again and guess what--no go--even with the super antibiotics
for Lyme. I learned that best goal is to "never go off the diet until I
have absolutely zero sites on my skin. The question was whether I
could do it with Stage II instead of having to stay on Stage I of the
diet.
From my experience, it was impossible to make headway against the
mites and parasites until I stopped new reactions from happening and
the only way I could get any headway against the mites and parasites
was from the King Diet SM . Let me be redundant and repeat what you'll
read later on in this book. Every time I tried to go off the diet/s
thinking I was cured or had the cure, I began to itch like hell or have
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tremendous breakouts of skin lesions within days. Hopefully, this book
will be worth the investment from my trial and error experiences that
may save you lots of your own trial and error (pain and agony), and
speed your recovery by directing you straight to the approaches and
products that worked for me and steering you away from the ones that
didn't work for me. Fortunately as you'll read later, there are other
things you can do along with the diet that makes life a lot better.
Search for Answers
In an attempt to find answers I looked into the possibility of mites
being the cause of my torment and found an Australian reference
which suggested checking for bird nests near your home. It suggests
that you might be able to use scotch tape to catch the mites on your
skin and should be able to see them with a 40 to100 power microscope
as quoted in the next paragraph.
"Blood-sucking mites are ectoparasites of a wide range of domestic
and wild birds, as well as small mammals and certain reptiles. Bird
mites are an important cause of ill health in poultry, and infestations
result in decreased egg production, weakness, and susceptibility to
infection. Under unusual circumstances, such as when breeding birds
and their nestlings desert a nest, mites may attack other vertebrate
hosts, including humans. Insecticide treatment of infested humans and
temporary vacation of infested premises are not sufficient to eliminate
the problem because adult mites can survive for weeks or months
without feeding. Identification of bird mites can be attempted with a
microscope with illustrations from a standard parasitology text.
Because most bird mites are less than a millimetre long, a
magnification of 40 to 100 times is necessary for accurate
identification."
I happened across a description by Dr. Colin Davis BVSc. in the web
site of birds2grow.com describing cnemidocoptes pili, commonly
known as Scaley face mites. These mites are typically known to
borrow in the skin of birds such as pigeons and other small birds. The
resultant condition is called Scaly Face which leaves scaly sites on the
skin. The mite lays eggs under the skin which are impervious to
paraffin oil, Dettol, and insecticides. There is also an Air sac mite
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known to infest canaries, Gouldians and pigeons. One of the few
known treatments is Moxidectin which is typically taken internally and
used as a wormer for equestrians. For skin applications, the
Moxidectin is applied externally direct to the skin over a period of six
weeks. I applied it several times a week by rubbing and saturating each
site with it. It seemed to help but I found myself feeling too confident
and ate some reactive foods and ended up running out of the product
only to find the supplier discontinued it because the manufacturer was
working on a better method of application.
I had a few e-mails with Dr. Colin Davis, the supplier, in Australia
concerning the Scaly Face mites. I asked him if there were any
reported cases of humans contracting these mites and if so, what, if
any treatment and the source for such treatment. According to him
"These mites have very transient times on humans. They will cause
some discomfort in their rush to get off the human body. Generally
changing clothes and a shower is all that is necessary.
“In fact very few mites live off the host species,” he said.
Through my reading I learned of 1% Ivermectin being used with
finches for mites. I asked him about Ivermectin which is used with
cattle in hopes of finding an alternate to Scat. Generally Ivermectin is
used with dogs and cattle. There is a much stronger solution-- 1.8%
used on cattle. Applications suggested for the Ivermectin with canaries
are on a biweekly basis. I ordered Ivermectin and found little benefit in
topical application in dealing with the mosquito type cycle of the
parasites.
I researched Ivermectin on the web and found that it is an insecticide
which is harmful to the parasite but not to the host. It works much the
same as Moxidectin. In fact, Ivermectin, is typically used as a wormer
in animals and is known as Heartgard--the medicine used for heart
worm control and elimination. Some animals are more sensitive to it
than others as listed in the site. Further research led me to find
application of Ivermectin for humans.
http://mywebmd.com/search is a web site which describes Ivermectin
(systemic), known in the U.S. by the name of Stromectol. It is as an
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approved medicine taken internally for treatment of scabies,
Bancroft’s filariasis, worm infections, river blindness
(onchorecaciasis, and certain type of diarrhea (strongyliodiasis). It acts
by paralyzing the parasite, and then killing the offspring of the adult
parasite to reduce the amount of parasites in the blood, skin and eyes.
It’s available in tablet form by prescription. After two years of
research, this was the first good news I found--too bad one of the many
physicians I’ve encountered haven’t been aware of it. I had to learn of
it through the veterinarian route to solving animal infestations.
A site (no longer active) by the director of Merck who is the marketing
director for Stromectol who points out that as of 2000 FDA approval
has not been issued for it’s use against scabies and head lice and
makes note that caution should be used in its use for these maladies
since many of those suffering from these conditions are small children
whose response to the chemical insecticide is unknown.
I went to my general practitioner for my routine blood work and asked
about Ivermectin. She was very unaware of it. I asked for a
prescription, she checked it out with a dermatologist and prescribed 15
mg in tablet form to be taken all at once. After 6 weeks, it did nothing
for the papules that remained on my scalp.
In as far as what's known about mites from my readings; they travel
from the animal’s nest to the animal, suck its blood and then return to
the animal’s nest. They are not known to reside in the animal. Yet, hair
follicle mite and scabies do reside in the human.
Moxidectin and Ivermectin are insecticides which are applied directly
to the skin and adsorb into the skin to kill the mites. Fortunately,
Ivermectin is used with humans for scabies and can be prescribed by a
physician, although most are unfamiliar with the drug. Ivermectin is
listed as a one time application drug. The physician that prescribed it
for me, in 1999, was new to the field of medicine and only prescribed
it on a one time basis. According several subscribers they’ve had
multiple applications at 3 month intervals and reported some success.
Later on you'll read about a far more effective alternative to
Ivermectin. However, for the strongyloides stercoralis, thiabendazole
was the preferred treatment as is explained in Chapter VI.
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My general practitioner referred me to a dermatologist who didn't
dispute the fact that at one time I had been infested with bird mites, but
he did dispute the fact that the mosquito type was either a mite or a
fungus. He injected each site with cortisone and prescribed Diprolene
(which I had used unsuccessfully before) and a special shampoo. All
sites decreased 80% in size within a week. After that, I used the
Diprolene and shampoo for several months with little benefit. Perhaps
I should have returned for more cortisone shots.
I experimented with topical lotions such as Monistat and other lotions
for yeast infections and eventually moved onto Lamisil lotion which
seemed to be helpful. I asked my GP for a script for Lamisil taken
internally and she refused to write it because of possible side effects on
the liver. As I recounted my experiences, I’m certain it was initially a
mix of problems and that initially I was infected with mites along with
STRONGYLOIDES STERCORALIS OR COLLEMBOLA—SEE
CHAPTER VI. THE ORAP APPARENTLY AFFECTS THE
PARASITES ABILITY TO REPRODUCE.
While researching the net, I also found a fungus, coccidioidomycosis
which is caused by inhaling spores. Certainly, I may have inhaled
some of the dust cloud that descended upon me. The suggested
medications are amphotericin B, ketoconazole, fluconazole,
itraconazol, for weeks to months or perhaps a year to clear up.
However, my symptoms didn’t include coughing, muscle pains,
weight loss, and many others associated with the disease so I
discounted it.
In the following chapters I’ll share the bathing protocols that provided
relief for me, how to disinfect your home and surroundings (car, yard,
work space), the amazing three stage King Diet SM that makes life
reasonably normal, and the glutathione accelerator which has provided
more relief to more people than any other single thing.
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Chapter II Types of Skin Parasites and
Available Tests
Symptoms Associated with Itchy Skin Parasites
Basically there are several basic symptoms associated with parasites.
They are:
• Non healing lesions or
sores.
• Fibers or filaments on skin.
• Itching on skin.
• Stinging or biting.
• Hair Loss.
• Chronic Fatigue.
• Cotton-like balls
• Brain Fog.
• Hard nodules under the
skin.
• Spider like veins under the
skin
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• Fibromyalgia or joint
swelling and muscle pain.
• Lower Body Temp (96
degrees)
• Something invisible
jumping onto ankles or
lower leg
• Strawberry spots on skin
• black or brown specs on
skin
• insects/bug coming from
body
• Sleep disorders
• Sand-like grandules
Untreated, these parasites, physical and mental symptoms can
accelerate to:
• Visual Impairment
• Disintegration of Teeth
• Mental Symptoms
• Neurological Disorders such
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• Mental symptoms can include BiPolar behavior, anxiety and panic
attacks--a whole host of psychological disorders depending on one’s
disposition. In reality, it’s unclear if these symptoms can be solely
attributed to the parasites, but rather the parasites may be co-factors
to Lyme and Protozoan infection that often accompany the parasites
into one’s body plus the presence of Candida Albicans as a result of
one’s diet. Any way you look at it, it is no picnic.
Symptoms Caused by:
Parasitic organisms or physical conditions that produce many
of the symptoms listed above are:
1. Collembola (spring tails).
2. Strongyloides stercoralis and a variety of other
nematodes.
3. Morgellons.
4. Mites, fungus, and yeast.
5. Heavy metal toxicity (mercury)—can cause symptoms or
environment conducive to parasites.
6. Lyme and protozoan infection.
Collembola (Spring Tails) Diagnostic Tests—There are none.
Collembola known as spring tails—are so named because of their
ability to literally spring from rugs, furniture, etc. onto one’s ankles
and legs. Apparently they can detect body heat from inches away
and spring into action. According to information at approximately
6,000 species exist. Normally they play an important role in the
ecological environment by feeding on dead or decaying matter—
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A study conducted under the auspices of the National Pediculosis
Association (NPA) in Needham, Mass., and the Oklahoma State
Department of Health found over 90% of those in the study
diagnosed with delusions of parasitosis were infested with
collembola. The full report in pdf format is at
http://www.headlice.org/report/research/jnyes.pdf Twenty people
participated in the study.
From the report, “Pollen, conidia or spores, hyphae, mycelium or
fibers, or what appeared to be clumped skin or cellular debris were
identified during the first six months of image analysis. One or twocell
algae, nematodes, or what appeared to be insect eggs, larvae, or
embryos were also identified. Although everyone in the group had at
least one of the above findings, none of the findings were a common
factor in every subject, making it necessary to continue looking for a
common denominator.” They eventually identified collembola as the
common factor in 18 of the 20 participants. This was conducted by
skilled technicians and it took them over six months of studying the
microscopy to identify the parasites—something your doctor needs
to know. The eggs were 20 to 100 microns in size and the organisms
were from 50 to 300 microns in length. For reference, a micron is
one millionth of an inch.
The report notes that, “collembola are abundant in waste water and
contaminated environments making them of growing ecotoxicologic
importance (Hopin, 1997). Generally they feed on decaying matter,
algae, fungi, and bacteria. Typical collembola habitats are moist
environments with high humidity and abundant organic debris.”
The results of the study indicate that they generally are a common
factor with which we must deal. The noted presence of nematodes in
some of the samples leads us to the STRONGYLOIDES
STERCORALIS and other nematodes which are discussed in the
next section.
Collembola is highly contagious, however, not everyone is subject to
being infected by them meaning one spouse might have them and the
other spouse might not contract them.
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Microscopic images from skin scrapings at 100 power are shown on
the report referenced above.
The organism is definitely difficult to discern.
Most physicians and experts would say that it’s impossible for this
insect to exist in human hosts. But then, they would also say that
flies can’t exist in humans. An exposé done on Ripley’s Believe it or
Not TV show reported on a child in India who had somehow
swallowed a fly and began actually giving birth to the larvae through
a lesion in his abdomen. Treatment by the physicians was to simply
let all the larvae be hatched over the course of time at which point
the lesion healed and the incident passed without affecting the health
of the youngster.
A TV show of real emergencies had a case of a woman complaining
of bugs crawling in her scalp. She had seen two doctors prior to the
visit to the emergency room, one labeled her as a mental case. The
other didn’t even look at her scalp. As the timing worked out, while
she was waiting for the doctor to return from another patient, the
parasites surfaced through a small opening in her scalp. At first it
was described as bubbles and then something emerged from the
opening and quickly retreated. Fortunately, the doctor observed the
retreating organism and pursued the matter. Being there’s only scalp
and bone—no muscle or fat in the way—he simply squeezed the site
and the larvae emerged. He used forceps to capture two of them at
which time the patient reported the crawling symptoms were gone.
Seems that she had visited some ruins in Costa Rica where some
debris had fallen onto her from an above structure.
And you will always find someone arguing for the insects/parasites
being the result of some kind of biochemical warfare. Who knows,
but then the symptoms of sufferers have been reported for hundreds
of years—long before biochemical was a word. Is it becoming an
epidemic or is it that because of the internet, sufferers for the first
time in history can find each other to compare notes and symptoms?
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I dealt with spring tails by diet and disinfection using diatomaceous
earth and dilute ammonia spray as outlined in chapter III. The ones
in my surroundings were killed, but the one’s residing internally
have simply been put in remission initially with ORAP and the diet.
Subsequently with Zyprexa and diet and also I have found the diet
alone can put this parasite in remission. Using ORAP and or Zyprexa
along with the diet and a glutathione accelerator made it speedier
and more effective than with the diet alone, but the meds didn’t work
for me without the diet. The CDC site makes no mention of the
existence of the parasite in humans.
http://allstop.com/skin-parasite-news is a site that offers a mud
pack with diatomaceous earth and essential oils for applying on the
lesions. I haven’t any experience with their products nor as of this
writing have I received any testimonials from anyone using the
products so there is neither a recommendation or a non
recommendation.
Symptoms associated with collembola (spring tails) are:
• Non healing lesions or
sores.
• Itching on skin.
• Stinging or biting.
• Hair Loss.
• Chronic Fatigue.
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• Something invisible
jumping onto ankles or
lower leg
• Brain Fog.
• Hard nodules under the
skin.
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Strongyloides Stercoralis is a rare nematode, not indigenous to
the United States, described in some literature as a round worm,
other literature as a hook worm and still other literature as a thread
worm. It’s transferred thru infected feces. One could step barefoot
onto infected dog or cat feces or from cleaning shoes inadvertently
touch infected feces that were stepped in. Rodent droppings, bat/bird
droppings (may have been in that cloud of dust that descended upon
me). The experts don’t believe it can be transferred without physical
contact with infected feces; however, if you study the life cycle,
there is a part of the cycle when the larvae do exist on the skin of the
infected animal. The unknown is whether these larvae can lay eggs
or stay alive almost indefinitely in infected clothing and furniture
which is a characteristic of at least one of the parasites infecting me.
Basically there are several basic symptoms associated with these
parasites. They are:
• Non healing lesions or sores.
• Itching on skin.
• Stinging or biting.
• Hair Loss.
• Chronic Fatigue.
• Brain Fog.
• Hard nodules under the skin.
• Fibromyalgia or joint swelling and muscle pain.
• Sleep disorder
If you have the above symptoms, you may have what is described as
Strongyloides Stercoralis. The main difference between collembola
and strongyloides is that there are no feelings of something jumping
onto your ankles or lower leg. Aside from that, the symptoms are
nearly identical. Unfortunately, very few doctors are aware of these
parasites, much less know how to diagnose them or treat them.
It can also be identified by stool analysis. However, according to Dr.
Klinghardt in Seattle, the stool for many parasites need be analyzed
within 20 minutes of elimination to identify them.
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During a time of strong parasitic activity, I performed a microscopic
stool analysis on my feces within ten minutes of elimination (I used
to have a dog kennel and am accustomed to doing stool analysis for
round and hook worms). I found the larvae in my stool.
Unfortunately my doctors refused to look at the slide, but instead
gave me vials for collection over a three day period. The Lab-Core
analysis came back negative.
I then insisted on the antibody test which is done with a blood
sample--discussed later in this chapter--and it came back positive.
My family doctor was confused by the presence of the nematode.
She thought that at the level I had them that I'd have had lots of
lower digestive track problems including loose bowels. She did
prescribe a dewormer (thiabendazole) for me (which I avoided
taking until I was finished with my nicotine research). My other
doctor—the Lyme specialist--just passed it off as possibly a false
positive. Eventually I did take the thiabendazole in three doses over
a period of six weeks and noticed no substantial improvement
without the diet. More details in Chapter IX. In retrospect I believe
that the thiabendazole did get rid of the strongyloides and my
returning symptoms when I went off the diet were the collembola
that were still in my system. Nevertheless, with regard to stool
analysis, here's the irony. Veterinarians test animal stools routinely
for parasites such as round and hook worms and as I noted above, I
routinely checked our dogs for worms. But, never doth a doctor
suggest a stool check for humans. I wonder why? Don't they think
the nasty little critters can get into our bodies? I should have thought
to analyze my own stool years ago, but then I really didn’t know for
what I was looking (the microscopy is shown later in this chapter).
The better way to test for it is the antibody blood test --
Strongyloides Igg—which is the better route to go since you’re not
going to get a stool analysis in less than a few hours/days. Parasitic
Disease Consultants at 2177 Flintstone Dr., Suite J, Tucker GA
30084 is a lab that performs it for about $75 (six years ago pricing)
phone number is 770-496-1370. They require approximately ½-1ml
blood serum (a small tube) to run the tests. It must be put on ice and
sent overnight. You can also ask to see if your HMO lab can have it
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sent to a lab in CA called Focus Diagnostics.
Go to Appendix A for instructions on how you can send a sample
direct to a laboratory.
According to Dr. Kagan of Parasitic Disease Consultants
Morgellons is not connected to Strongyloides stercoralis and with
what I’ve subsequently experienced, I concur. But nevertheless it's a
parasite that is compromising our immune functioning and
complicating the issues.
Google “Life cycle of strongyloides stercoralis to see the life cycle
of this worm in even greater detail. Additional medical info at
http://www.emedicine.com/emerg/topic843.htm and .
http://www.diagnose-me.com/cond/C654193.html
It states, “Clinical Features: Frequently asymptomatic.
Gastrointestinal symptoms include abdominal pain and diarrhea.
Pulmonary symptoms (including Loeffler’s syndrome) can occur
during pulmonary migration of the filariform larvae. Dermatologic
manifestations include urticarial rashes in the buttocks and waist
areas. Disseminated strongyloidiasis occurs in immunosuppressed
patients, can present with abdominal pain, distension, shock,
pulmonary and neurologic complications and septicemia, and is
potentially fatal. Blood eosinophilia is generally present during the
acute and chronic stages, but may be absent with dissemination.”
Besides occasional loose bowels during activity, I never developed
many of the symptoms and I attribute that to using high levels of
garlic since the beginning and then moving onto the diet.”
Contagious: Strongyloides stercoralis is highly contagious—
everyone is susceptible to it.
Laboratory Diagnosis:
Diagnosis rests on the microscopic identification of larvae
(rhabditiform and occasionally filariform) in the stool or duodenal
fluid. Examination of serial samples may be necessary, and not
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always sufficient, because stool examination is relatively insensitive.
The stool can be examined in wet mounts:
• directly
• after concentration (formalin-ethyl acetate)
• after recovery of the larvae by the Baermann funnel technique
• after culture in agar plates
The duodenal fluid can be examined using techniques such as the
Enterotest string or duodenal aspiration. Larvae may be detected in
sputum from patients with disseminated strongyloidiasis.
Diagnostic findings:
• The next page shows what the larvae looks like in the stool.
• Antibody detection – Google “antibody detection of
Strongyloidiasisa” for a good reference for you to print and give to
your doctor. It's important to note that according to the CDC that
once the antibodies are found, they will always show up on future
tests only tells that there was an infection either present or past. Of
course if you're suffering from these symptoms you damn well know
of its presence. However, levels can be compared from one test to
the next. If I have a higher level in a later test, it may indicate
reactivation of the parasite.
• Google “Morphologic comparison of strongyloidiasis with
other intestinal parasites” Microscopy below shows what the
larvae looks like in the stool. Rhabditiform larvae of Strongyloides
stercoralis in wet mounts after fixation in formalin 10%. Diagnostic
characteristics: length 200 to 250 µm (up to 380 µm); buccal cavity
short, and prominent genital primordium.
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A: The prominent genital primordium in the mid-section of the larva
(black arrow) is readily evident. Note also the Entamoeba coli cyst
(white arrow) near the posterior end of the larva. Following is
another microscopic view of the larvae in the stool from a fecal
smear.
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B: The rhabditoid esophagus is clearly visible in this larva; it
consists of a club‐shaped anterior portion, a postmedian
constriction, and a posterior bulb. Antibody detection--
Strongyloides Igg.
Treatment:
The drug of choice for the treatment of uncomplicated
strongyloidiasis is ivermectin with albendazole* as the alternative.
All patients who are at risk of disseminated strongyloidiasis should
be treated. For additional information, see the recommendations in
The Medical Letter (Drugs for Parasitic Infections).” Search for
Strongyloides to find the recommendations. Suggested treatment for
the nematode parasite is at:
http://www.medletter.com/freedocs/parasitic.pdf that suggests
thiabendazole at 50 mg/kg/d in 2 doses X 2d which I understand is
becoming the treatment of choice. It is an anti-worm, medication
that prevents worms from growing or multiplying in the body. Once
every two weeks up to two months in duration. This site is
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recommended by the CDC.
http://www.path.cam.ac.uk/~schisto/Nematodes/Strongyloides.html
is another microscopic view of the larvae in the stool from a fecal
smear.
The CDC also suggests that the parasite may not show up in every
stool sample so several samples should be taken for analysis. But
what could I do in the mean time?
a. If I had a good relationship with a veterinarian, I could show him
the CDC microscopy analysis and ask him to analyze several of my
samples within 20 minutes of elimination (as suggested by Dr.
Klinghardt).
b. I could contact some of the labs on the Google search or any
search engine. I found the Great Smokey Laboratory that does a
stool analysis for $56, but remember, I’m not going to get an
analysis within 20 minutes going this route which may or may not be
important. They require that my doctor has to order the collection
kit. They are familiar with Strongyloides stercoralis and they have
you collect stool samples over a three day period. Contact info:Great
Smokies Diagnostic Laboratory/Genovations 63 Zillicoa Street
Asheville , NC 28801 Telephone: (828)253-0621 (800)522-4762
Fax: (828)252-9303 8:00AM - 6:30PM Eastern Time, Monday
through Friday
c. I could purchase an inexpensive microscope—good ones on Ebay
that link to computers with a camera are less than $300. But I could
probably pick one up without a camera for less than $50 that will
give me 300X or greater. The larvae and the cysts are not visible to
the naked eye. But, since neither of my doctors would look at my
slides, the microscope with a camera would be a better choice.
Depending on the reflection of light, I saw the cysts sparkle in the
microscope. Preparing a slide is easy, I simply used a clean popsicle
stick to take a small sample from the my stool (the mucous portion if
it’s not totally solid) and smeared it across the center of the slide.
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Other Nematodes
James R. Garey, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Director of Facilities,
Safety and Security, College of Arts and Sciences, University of
South Florida reports that a nematode to be a "onchocerca like"
worm was found in one sufferer’s sample. This nematode is
suspected to be transmitted by via the black simulium fly from
Mexico. He goes on to explain how some worms can exist in a dry
environment.
The DermaTechRx site suggests the presence of Schistosoma
worms under the skin contributing to the symptoms of itching and
biting and provides a list of websites with more information about
the parasite.
Morgellons
Diagnostic Tests: There are none available.
Sufferers report similar symptoms of crawling and biting or stinging
under or on their skin. Lesions which often contain fibrous material
as single strands or cotton-like fuzz balls, can be minor or
disfiguring. Accompanied often with what sufferers describe as
black specs, seeds, eggs or sand. Images of the parasites are shown
http://www.thecehf.org/
Symptoms Associated with Morgellons
Basically there are several basic symptoms associated with parasites.
They are:
• Non healing lesions or
sores.
• Fibers or filaments on skin.
• Itching on skin.
• Stinging or biting.
• Hair Loss.
• Chronic Fatigue.
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• Brain Fog.
• Hard nodules under the
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• Spider like veins under the
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• Fibromyalgia or joint
swelling and muscle pain.
• Lower Body Temp (96
degrees)
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• black or brown specs on
skin
• insects/bugs coming from
body
• Sleep disorders
• Sand-like granules
Untreated, these parasites, physical and mental symptoms can
accelerate to:
• Visual Impairment
• Disintegration of
Teeth
• Mental Symptoms
• Neurological
Disorders such as
Parkinson’s Disease,
ADHD…
• Mental symptoms can include BiPolar behavior, anxiety and panic
attacks…--a whole host of psychological disorders depending on
one’s disposition. In reality, it’s unclear if these symptoms can be
solely attributed to the parasites, but rather the parasites may be cofactors
to Lyme and Protozoan infection that often accompany the
parasites into one’s body plus the presence of Candida Albicans as a
result of one’s diet. Any way you look at it, it is no picnic.
The best approach is first with the diet—the King TM diet is universal
as it works with a whole host of parasites as opposed to some diets
that are effective for certain parasites. It seems that most of us have
gravitated to Morgellons because it’s at least a name associated with
the symptoms of itching, biting, and non-healing lesions from which
100% of us suffer. The fibers, cocoons and fuzz balls are not typical
to all of us.
Usually no one has all the symptoms, but instead five or six of them.
Some sufferers are highly contagious and some are not contagious.
Dr. Harvey of Texas (advisory board of directors of Morgellons.com
estimates that 96% of Morgellons sufferers have Lyme disease as a
by product of the parasites. It’s estimated that there are 2,000
Morgellons sufferers in this country. From extensive communication
with many of these sufferers it is apparent that there are several
parasitic organisms at work. As of this writing 49,500 people search
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How To Get your Life Back From Morgellons and Other Skin Parasites
Morgellons is a word coined by Mary Leitao, a former hospital lab
technician, whose young son began exhibiting symptoms of lesions
and growth of fibers. In researching the symptoms she found that the
disease was first described 350 years ago by Sir Thomas Browne in
1674. Perhaps its been around since then but until 2002 when Ms.
Leitao noticed the symptoms in her son no medical professional has
reported it. In fact usually those who seek medical attention for these
symptoms are diagnosed as having delusional parasitosis and if two
people from the same family have the same symptoms its diagnosed
as folie a deux or if three people have it it's folie a trois.
Sir Thomas Brown described the symptoms as some kind of wormlike
parasite crawling just under the skin creating itching, biting and
stinging sensations with a brightly colored parasite burrowing out of
the skin for several moments and then back into the epidermis.
From where does it come? How does one catch it? Answer: The
infecting organism varies. One lady was infected from a backed up
cesspool. Testing her home revealed a high level of a certain
bacteria. Another was infected from slime mold. Some are infected
from their pets or stay animals that they have taken in. Many have no
idea of what the infecting organism was or even the conditions that
led to infection.
Those who are infected immediately turn to their physician for help.
But doctors are totally ill equipped to identify much less treat
Morgellons disease. Many physicians believe the symptoms are from
the patient scratching their bodies to the point of creating rashes.
This has always confused me. How a doctor can look at the lesions,
rashes, and strange fibers growing from the skin (that are
fluorescent) and say that they can't find anything wrong. How they
can take biopsies and do blood tests and when nothing is identified
say that there is no reason for the symptoms.
Why aren't these doctors sending their patients to local universities
for study or reporting them to the CDC? No, they just dismiss their
patients. Sure they might pass the patient along to a dermatologist or
an infectious disease specialist, or a parasitologist and the end result
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is the same, they get dismissed.
But Morgellons disease is real and has led many to consider suicide.
And usually the only way a Morgellon's disease sufferer identifies it
is to search the internet. They search for “itchy skin parasites” or
“skin parasites” And would you believe that many doctors actually
believe that their patients who complain of the symptoms spend too
much time on the internet or simply have too much time on their
hands. By the time the Morgellons sufferer discovers the reality of
Morgellons disease, they find that Morgellons has completely
invaded their home. That the Morgellons parasite has spread
throughout their homes and even if they could miraculously get rid
of Morgellon's disease they would become reinfected as soon as they
returned home. In fact anyone visiting them or riding in their car
could likewise contract the disease. Even if they rode public
transportation, the next person sitting in that seat could contract the
disease. In 2002, Morgellons association began accepting
registrations from those experiencing the symptoms in 2002.
The CDC has a Morgellons hot line 404-718-1199 and they are
planning research which will be based in Texas. As of 2011 not
much has happened.
Morgellons Symptoms
One of my subscribers who is suffering from Morgellons believes
that there are several strains of Morgellons and based on my many
conversations with other subscribers I definitely agree. She reports a
symptom uncharacteristic of most of my subscribers which she
describes as percolating. I asked her to describe it and she insisted
that if anyone had it, they'd relate with the word "percolating."
Also two of my subscribers suffering from Morgellons have reported
the production of what seems like a flying insect from their bodies in
addition to the cotton balls, fibers, lesions and so on. One of the
subscribers is new and has recently acquired the parasite. The other
subscriber had the experience of some kind of insect coming from
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her body a year ago and reports that within six months of using the
glutathione accelerator, it no longer is happening.
At first I thought they were describing a mite that was a carrier of the
parasite, but now maybe it's actually connected with a strain of
Morgellons.
Mites
Mites are definitely a part of the equation, but most likely the Quill
and Elemite that has probably already been prescribed has taken care
of the ones on your body. If not, the diet along with the bathing
protocols described in the next chapter does take care of them.
However, I suspect that mites could be the vector (carrier) of
collembola (spring tails), other parasites, and Lyme and protozoan
into our bodies. The bigger problem is from mites in the
environment that may be carriers and continue infecting you.
Fungus and Yeast
Skin fungus is usually diet connected. Getting rid of it is to go on the
diet and use topicals such as Lamisil or Lotrimin. For extreme cases,
Lamisil is available in tablet form. Of course, environment is
important to reduce damp moist areas with dehumidification. Using
an air purifier that kills molds, bacteria and fungi in the environment
is recommended. The Eco Quest model is available on Amazon for
about $450. There's another one on Ebay which seems to do the
same thing for about $150.
Fungal skin infections can cause rashes with a variety of different
appearances. Some are red, scaly and itchy, whereas others can
produce appear similar to dry skin. The fungus may infect just one
area or several areas of your body.
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(Babesia) According to Dr. Harvey, babesia is characterized by
strawberry-like spots on the skin.
Symptoms of this protozoan infection are similar to those of Lyme
disease. It generally starts with chills and a high fever. Often it is so
mild it is not noticed.
For others it develops into fatigue, drenching sweats, headache,
muscle aches, nausea, and vomiting develop. Babesiosis can
sometimes be misdiagnosed as malaria.
For those with no spleen, the elderly, and people with weak immune
systems it can be life-threatening.
Complications include very low blood pressure, liver problems,
severe hemolytic anemia (a breakdown of red blood cells), and
kidney failure.
Mepron is the treatment of choice. It can be identified by
microscopic examination – more information in Chapter VI.
Mold and Yeast Growing on Skin
The main symptoms are itching and crawling sensations. Chapter III
has a section on how to deal with mold in your environment and
clothing.
A Note About Black Specs and Fuzz Balls--Parasites or
something else?
Black specs are associated with all these parasites for most sufferers.
But what are they. Perhaps this email I received provides an
answer."Thanks for all the wonderful information. I would like to
cancel any further updates at this time. It appears I have finally
found a competent doctor and have been diagnosed with a severe
skin yeast infection. The black specks were from yeast die off and
"fuzz" was from damaged hair follicles. I have been on a strict
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sugar-free, yeast free, gluten free, no sugar substitutes except for
Xylitol, dairy free, also no vinegar, malt, fermented or foods prone
to fungi/mold in production i.e. chocolate, nuts, cheese,mushrooms. I
have been on the diet for 2 weeks and the results have been
remarkable. I had severe rash, open oozing sores (at warmest areas
of body), severe itching, which became worse with antibiotics,
steroids, or warm baths. I am currently taking Diflucan orally and
nystatin cream but just started these yesterday. I was missing work
and canceled family plans for Christmas due to debilitating
symptoms. I feel alive again. Yeast infections are common with
parasites as well so a colon cleanse and probiotics are another
important part of the equation."
Although I think she canceled her subscription prematurely, she is
using the King SM diet. Almost every day I get feed back as to the
importance and effectiveness of the diet.
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Chapter III—
To get the most from this chapter, make copious notes.
Part I. Bathing and Skin Treatments
A full blown reinfection would bring me incredible itching and
biting to the degree that I’d have to take immediate action to escape
the extreme discomfort. However, as soon as I would be aware of
reinfection, I’d make sure I’d only eat the foods on Stage I of the
diet which are given in Chapter IV. If I were hungry and wanted to
grab a bite to eat either before bathing or after wards, I’d have bacon
with eggs made in either butter or bacon grease.
I realize that not everyone is dealing with a chronic infection and if
handled effectively in the beginning (within a week or so of
infection), one can save him/herself from serious complications—
more about that later.
First Stage of Attack
I got rid of the itching and biting symptoms in six days (even though
the itching and biting symptoms were gone, I was still infected with
the parasite). I used to first shower with medicated shampoo such as
Denerox or Scratchex (for dogs), T Gel, or some type of over the
counter remedy such as Rid (two times per day for two days). I keep
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most of these shampoos from my eyes and private parts. After the
shower I bathed in very hot water (being careful not to scald myself)
with two cups of Epson Salt and submerge as much of my body as I
can for 20 minutes. That was what I used to do.
After my last reinfection with collembola in 2010 I only bathed
twice a day--first thing in the morning and before going to bed. I
used about ½ cup of bleach and about a half cup of Epson salts in a
third of a tub of hot water. I soaked my head and hair as much as I
can with the hot water. After the bath, I used tea tree oil (available in
health food stores) on my skin by dampening a facial cotton with
water and applying two drops of tea tree oil to it. I then proceed to
suave my entire body rewetting and applying more oil as the cotton
becomes dry. All of these products can be obtained within hours at
local grocery stores and health food stores.
Bleach is very abrasive to your skin. Recently a subscriber who has
Morgellons has shared that he uses alfalfa tablets instead of bleach—
about twenty of them. They dissolve in the hot water. Apparently the
organisms are attracted to the alfalfa and leave the skin. I don't know
if they will work for collembola or strongyloides.
Caution: I once got into a full tub of hot water and collapsed when I
got out of the tub from dehydration. So be careful.
Second Stage of Attack
Years ago I'd order a product called, “eco vie” but overall it hasn't
proven very effective for many people and isn't worth the money and
may not even be available any longer. Many report that the Kleen
Free product from www naturalginesis.com works well although I've
never needed it—it's not cheap—more about it and other products
later. Having suffered from collembola and strongyloides I'd make
sure I had sufficient ORAP or Zyprexa on hand. If not, I'd make an
appointment with my doctor for a script of ORAP (see medical
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After the third day, 90% of itching and biting are gone (strictly
adhering to Stage I of the diet), and taking the glutathione
accelerator—more about glutathione in Chapter VII-- with ORAP or
Zyprexa. Then I reduced bathing to once at night. After the fifth day,
I dispensed with the Epson salt bath.
For a while I used to use Neem cream (inexpensive--around $15 and
available in many health food stores) and have it at my bedside.
More recently I relied on 999 cream—even less expensive. The
Neem can be ordered from www.organixsouth.com or call 1-888-
989-NEEM. It will also provide relief from any itching I applied it
whenever I felt any itching. However, it doesn't seem to kill the
parasites, but only seems to paralyze them for few minutes whereas
the 999 cream provides more effective relief. In the beginning,
before I knew of Neem cream, I dabbed diatomaceous earth on any
itching areas and likewise found relief--more about diatomaceous
earth in the next part of this chapter. One thing to note, even though I
didn't know it until 2005, I wasn't dealing with Morgellons, but
collembola and strongyloides stercoralis. 999 cream doesn't provide
any relief for Morgellons although it helps greatly with rashes
regardless of the parasite you have.
Then I replace the bathing with hot showers--all the while diligent
about disinfecting my surroundings (Part II of this chapter) and
adhering strictly to Stage I of the diet (Chapter IV).
After a week, I was taking normal showers, changing my bedding
only once every four or five days, no longer needed the Neem cream
or to use the tea tree oil, and was no longer spraying my coats after
every use with ammonia solution (explained in Part II of this
chapter); and I’d still be on Stage I of the diet with the glutathione
accelerator. Some subscribers report that they continue with Epson
salts baths--one reports that she uses 4-6 pounds in a very hot bath
on a daily basis. Others use the Klean Free.
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One subscriber writes about the Klean Free product, "Klean free can
kill even bugs such as roaches, yet no harm to human being. When
diluting, the ratio of klean free and water is 1:8. I used 1:4 to
increase its effect. When bathing in tub, it requires 4 oz, about half a
small cup (8 oz) of yogurt that sold on the market. However, I put at
least 6 oz to only half a bath tub of water. I found when I submerged
the infected area, scalp, low legs and feet for over one hour,
allowing water with Klean free completely saturated the cells of my
skin, it works very well to kill parasites living inside the skin. After
the bath, you are supposed to let it dry out naturally without rinse.
Then, spread the most infested area of the skin by 1:8 diluted Klean
free. Allow it to dry naturally. I have very dry skin. The Klean free
produces a layer of natural oil that protects my dry skin. It's the best
to clean the environment. No other chemical can perform as good as
Klean free. Yet, it's not harmful to human at all."
Kleen Free is about 64 oz is $54.95 and five gallons is $259.
Amazon.com also handles it.
Kleen Green
Kleen Green is from Natural Ginesis at 1-800-807-9350 or on the
web at www naturalginesis.co. Kleen Green. It is an enzyme that has
been found to kill the organism that spreads the parasites. You can
spray it in the air on your skin and clean with it. It's $75 for a gallon.
One subscriber fighting Morgellons writes, “The only problem with
it is it dries out your skin after 3 days of using it so use lots of lotion.
It is a natural product and is great but only for certain jobs. I use it
now only for cleaning and some spraying for the mite. I continued
using it to get the mite out of my hair. I would take a bathing cap
and soak my hair in it then put the cap on. The Kleen Green only
works when it is wet. So if it dries you just spray more water on your
hair. I also used Kleen Green to spray on the dryer vent to kill any
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Ice Bath Any One?
Dr. Harvey (one of the doctors—now retired—who specialized in
the treatment of Lyme and protozoan infection caused by parasites)
suggests that cold (ice if you can stand it) is more effective at killing
the skin parasites than a warm bath. See which works better for you.
It's been reported by another sufferer that applying Listerine to the
skin reduces the itch substantially. However, she reports that
Listerine can smart the skin like alcohol when applied to a laceration
smarts. She found that other mouth wash brands equivalent to
Listerine are reported as being less harsh on the skin. I have tested
spraying with ionic copper and silver, calamine lotion, the
mouthwash wash (none of which worked for me).
Deodorant?
One subscriber writes that ArridXX deodorant kills springtails
collembola). Worth a try.
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During a recontamination in late 05, I accidentally infected my
significant other and this is what worked for us: Early infection: If
you are not the primary source, you may have contracted this
parasitic scourge from someone else, and you notice lesions on your
body similar to those above—photo shows a spread out group of
lesions on the upper leg from Stronglyoides Stercoralis—early
treatment with the right approach may eliminate them.
o above shows many more lesions on the lower leg.
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I believe that the lesions are entry points of the Stronglyoides larvae.
We treated the lesions with Neosporin with pain reliever, tea tree oil,
Ellagiderm cream, and skin zinc. We used everything we had at the
moment morning and night for about a week and the lesions began
healing. Today we'd only use the 999 cream and maybe the Tea Tree
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were militant about disinfecting the source of the infection--bedding
and clothes. However, we did not rely 100% on these over counter
treatments (my best guess is that the 999 cream probably would have
worked). We went to her doctor and asked for a script for double
descending dose of Prednisone and since a rash had also developed,
her doctor prescribed Metronidazole which is both an antibiotic and
an anti-protozoan. Dr. Harvey believes that 95% of these parasitic
infections also bring with them the Lyme spirochete (a bacterium)
and protozoa, this particular antibiotic will kill the bacteria
associated with the rash and any infectious Lyme or Protozoan.
Even so, with the Metronidazole, it didn't stop the parasites dead in
their tracks--hopefully it took care of any Lyme or protozoan
contagions. The lesions began healing and things looked up except
for a couple welts on her leg which didn’t respond to anything we
were using until she did two baths in eco vie. At first there was no
apparent change, but three days later, all welts had completely
disappeared. Today I'd rely on 999 cream instead of eco vie.
She experienced continual breaks-outs--far less in size and
magnitude for over six months. Part of the reason was that she didn’t
take the parasites seriously. So when she was with me, I was on
those lesions like a honey bee on a flower, but when she was at her
place for a few days, she skipped treatment. She thought that her
immune system should be able to handle it and even though I
attempted to explain my early years of hell and my dependence on
the diet to keep from outbreaks; she actually thought my problem
was because I was taking too many vitamins and supplements. She
thought the parasites were from the house not being as clean as it
should be and thought my story about a dust cloud silly. Not until we
saw a show on TV with this woman with worms coming out of her
head did she begin to take it seriously.
She had just moved in with me soon after she had an outbreak with
about a half dozen lesions on her legs and back. I asked her what her
plans were to deal with them and she had no idea what to do. She
finally asked me for help; and with continued treatment with eco vie
baths, skin zinc and or Ellagiderm cream (I would now use 999
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cream) we gained slow but steady ground.
I suggest 999 ointment as a must for collembola and strongyloides—
no reported experience with Morgellons.
Just to give you an idea of how quickly reinfection can occur, I
accidentally wore a coat (took it out of storage from the previous
season) that was contaminated (I’d forgotten to disinfect it) for only
ten minutes. I took it off as soon as I felt the itching start and began
spraying every chair I sat in with diluted ammonia solution or Lysol
spray. I only noticed mild itching thereafter and took a shower when
I got home (didn't use any precautions as specified above but figured
I'd caught it early and the soap would take care of it). Within twenty
minutes of my shower, I was itching all over my body. Prior to this I
was itch free for months and months. Since I had a social
engagement planned, I used the skin zinc all over my body--maybe
the Listerine or a bath in Epson salts or a cup of bleach would have
been less expensive. The point is that it's so easy to get
recontaminated--something I have to constantly guard against
forever.
Helpful Skin Creams/Ointments
Following is a list of skin creams and ointments and their relative
value.
1. 999 Itch Relief Ointment—the most effective skin cream for
Collembola and Strongyloides—works wonders for rashes, lesions,
weals, and new papules. It’s available in oriental stores, comes in a
red and white tube, and is less than $5 or get it from
www.DStressDoc.com/morgellons/products.htm
2. Neosporin Plus: Available in any pharmacy for about $5 and is
great for rashes.
3. Caladryl, Zirodryl, calamine lotion: All relatively inexpensive,
easily found in most pharmacies, and fairly effective against new
papules.
4. AmLactin 12% Moisturizing Cream: Another promising skin
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rashes is AmLactin. It contains alpha hydroxyl and is available
without prescription for about $20 at any pharmacy.
5. Eucerin alpha hydroxy cream
6. Formula Five for Morgellons—see below.
7. Boric acid solution for Morgellons
8. MSM (Methyl-Sulfonyl-Methane) for Morgellons as you'll find
in Morgone TM Debriding Gel at http://www.Morgdebride.com which
cleanses the skin. One subscriber claims that it was one of the most
important things she has done. It's $60 plus shipping for a month's
supply and is probably one of the most important things to do for
Morgellons and possibly collembola if your skin is full of black
specs and debris. It's best to start in conjunction with the glutathione
accelerator discussed in the Alternative Approaches chapter and if
necessary advance to Formula Five or Restore (which are
considerably more expensive debriding agents) discussed next.
9. Formula Five is a powder that dissolved in water works as a
topical spray. One subscriber who also uses the MaxOne glutathione
accelerator writes, "I have tested a new product for the last month. It
works well with the MorGone Gel and is making a difference. A
powder that you turn into a spray and the skin works like a derma
patch and the benefits go inside also. What happens after you start
using it is that you realize how involved your body is. What has
happened to me is my brown skin surface has started to dissolve. Got
worse before better. Felt movement in feet and muscles I had not felt
before - most of those have disappeared. My skin appears much
different.
The man that developed this product, Gordon Stamp, is willing to
talk to anyone about it. He is a former nurse and along with other
members of the family developed Morgellons. His progress in curing
himself and his family was remarkable, so he is passing it along to
others. The product is not inexpensive but he will not deny anyone
for money. It lasts a long time. Progress depends on the depth of the
disease.
He only sells it by phone presently and just recently has been set up
to take credit cards. Welcomes the chance to talk to anyone. Gordon
Stamp - 612-644-7717 Formula 5. Besides his family one of his first
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successes with this product was a man who has had Morgellons for
years. He is director with the Morgellons research group. Oh yes, no
toxicity, or side effects. (other than the effects of the Morgs coming
out of the body)
I don't like to report every thing I hear right away because often
times a few weeks later, the results are reversed, however six weeks
later she wrote,"Just to let you know this spray is the best thing ever.
The disease runs deep - but this makes it come out inside and out but
applied only outside. Am improving greatly in 6 weeks time."
Formula 5 which is $175 for a month's supply. His new formula is
Restore which costs $225 for a month's supply. She uses both
Morgone and Restore. For more information go to
www.bigislandskincare.com
10. 10% sulfur compound. Another great debriding agent. Call
Ken's compounding in Farmingdale, NJ at 732-938-5545 and ask for
the 10% sulfur compound for Morgellons. A 4 oz quantity is $45.00
which is enough for maybe two head to toe treatments or 1 pound is
$75.00 which will last much longer.
Treating Old Lesions
Old lesions are a challenge. If they are less than a year or so in age,
any of the above products may be of value.
Older ones become more difficult and I can’t make any specific
recommendations as of this date I haven’t had total success with any
of them although with continued use of the glutathione accelerator
there is progress—one I had for twenty years had gone after two
years of boosting glutathione. It seems that every one of the above
ointments seems to work in the beginning, but in time, a plateau is
reached and progress is stopped. Whatever cream you use, make
sure you use a loofah sponge daily when you bathe on the lesions to
break loose old skin and then disinfect it.
Morgellons Bathing
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As previously noted, using alfalfa in your bath water with Epson
Salts is beneficial to aid in debriding the skin.
As a lotion, One subscriber writes that she uses boric acid solution,
Listerine and MSM (Methyl-Sulfonyl-Methane) which is a sulfur
powder on her skin. Supposedly it strengthens joint and skin
structure and can be taken internally (mixed in water) or externally
mixed in lotion. It seems to make for a more comfortable sleep.
MSM is also an ingredient in Morgon Gel written about above.
She uses Dove for sensitive skin on a long-handled brush and sprays
Listerine in her hair before shampooing.
She doesn't use cloth towels, “I dry off w/ paper towels or a hair
dryer. I've gotten specks and strands all over me from towels,
especially dark ones.”
Part II Disinfection of Surroundings
There are two things which would take me back to the hell of itching
and biting and they were:
1. Making a mistake with my diet
2. Re-contamination
Sources of Infection
It's very important for me to control my environment. Most doctors
don't even talk of this because they have no experience with the
infestation. Remember, I was infected from a cloud of dust/pollen of
bird mites shaken loose from a tree as I pulled a vine from it in back
yard. The dust spread over a wide area and probably infected any
animals that went through that area which in turn potentially could
carry it into my home, all around my home, and perhaps even to
neighbors.
The actual parasites (Morgellons, collembola, strongyloides) are all
nearly impossible to identify with a microscope. However the
carrier, know as the vector, can sometimes be seen. It transmits the
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parasites and sometimes diseases such as Lyme and protozoan to the
host. The carrier can be bird mites, rat mites, pepper mites, bed bugs,
no-seeums and the list could be endless. Not that every bed bug,
pepper mite, bird mite and so on is infected with these parasites or
diseases but if they are, then we end up being a host to these
parasites. And not everyone bitten by any of these carriers gets
infected with the parasites. Many people are immune to them and
many are not immune.
According to Dr. Harvey of Texas, retired specialist in the treatment
of Lyme and Protozoan on the Board of Directors of the Morgellons
Association, the vector for Lyme/ protozoan can be almost anything--mites,
and mosquitoes included. He also feels organisms from
wind currents in the stratosphere from other continents can find their
way to our continent.
Some sufferers have reported that they have been infected from bed
bugs, rat mites, a cloud of dust (as in my case from the top of a tree),
air conditioners, pets, toilet seats, sleeping on an infected sofa, one
from a dust cloud created by cutting a dead tree, and some simply
from having been in contact with clothing, bedding, on furniture
used by someone who was already infected. One lady claimed that
she got it in a meeting at work by sitting across from someone who
appeared to be badly infected with something and she reported that
he spit as he talked.
For these people, it's simply to deal with the parasite, however, for
those who have contracted the parasites from a carrier such as some
kind of mite, then the first step is to eradicate the carrier which may
not be so easy. There are several things to be done. First if it was
from say an infected bird or pigeon nest, the nest must be destroyed-
-I'd suggest saturating it with ammonia spray and putting it in a
plastic garbage bag—wear gloves and then disinfect them when
finished disposing of the nest.
If the carrier was from rat or mice mites, the rodents must be
destroyed. And as time goes on, any place that you go in your house
such as crawl spaces, attics and so on must be decontaminated with
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ammonia or some other disinfectant before you come in physical
contact with the area. Any new rats or mice to inhabit this area will
be contaminated again unless the area has been disinfected.
If the carrier is a some kind of flying insect the goal is to kill it. With
my latest infection I found some kind of black flying insect in my
shower drain and they were easy to kill with ammonia spray. The
carrier could well be no-seeums (flying mites that are invisible)
which could live inside and outside of your home.
When we relax on our patio, my wife often gets bitten by no-seeums
resulting in a bump on her skin. For some reason they leave me
alone. If those no-seeums were infected with parasites, we'd have a
big problem. She would have to constantly use deet or Klean Green
or Klean Free all over her skin before going out. I'm mentioning this
just to let you know how complicated things can get. See below for
products for killing jiggers, which are a mite) around your home.
This can be the most challenging and important part of your
recovery—disinfecting your environment. There's no chance of
getting better until this is done.
Controlling the Environment
This is a most important part of this chapter and your recovery. Once
you are infected with these parasites, you get reinfected on a daily
basis unless you take extreme precautions. First its important to
know that there are organisms (vectors) in your environment that
need to be eradicated and until they are eradicated, you will
continually be reinfected. Following are several methods and
products to disinfect your environment and kill the infecting
organisms. However, you must remember that until you have
become symptom free, you too are an infecting organism. Many
things that you come in contact with are infected with the parasites
on your body. They are discussed in detail later on in this chapter.
For instance, you sit in a chair. That chair has become infected with
the parasite. After you get up, you must disinfect the chair and the
flooring near where you sat. This is what scares me about some of
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these doctor who see parasite infected patients in their offices and
for that matter the yearly national Morgellons meeting in Texas
where they invite Morgellon's sufferers to attend. There are two
main issues:
1. Morgellons can be highly contagious.
2. Many parasites sufferers attending the event (thinking they have
morgellons) may have collembola or strongyloides which are
likewise highly contagious.
Fighting the Parasites:
In the beginning it's very much like learning to drive an automobile
with a clutch. You must coordinate letting out the clutch with
applying gas to move forward. Let the clutch out too fast and the car
will stall. Apply too much gas and your engine will red line.
Fighting parasites is to constantly disinfect your environment
(chairs, bedding, clothing, autos, atmosphere...) to keep you from
recontaminating yourself and anyone else who may come in contact
with something that you have infected by being in close contact with
it.
When I first was infected, it took me weeks before I realized that the
parasites had gotten into my furniture, rugs, car, office and so on. I
had to get really fastidious about disinfecting all my clothing,
bedding, rugs and upholstery.
And then I started disinfecting my watch band, combs, shaving razor
and even outside around my house--they were everywhere. It took
two weeks before I could start relaxing.
Inside my home: I dusted diatomaceous earth everywhere. I
purchased a spray duster at a garden center for about $30. Then I
misplaced it and used a couple tablespoons into a cloth bag (a sock
will do), and I put on a dust mask to minimize breathing the stuff
and shook it around the house. I closed food containers and cabinets
with dishes and I dusted all rooms, carpets, mattress, furniture, etc. I
wore a dust mask while dusting to avoid getting it into my lungs.
Search for it on the internet—you don't need food grade.
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Some sufferers have reported that their infection came from inside
their home as with bed bugs or rats/mice. For them it was very
important to get rid of the rugs and employ an exterminator to get rid
of the vermin. Bed bugs are reported to be much harder with which
to deal and even a challenge for the most knowledgeable
exterminator. And moving to another home may not get rid of them
as they can be transported in bedding, boxes, chests and so on. The
best approach is to use the diatomaceous earth wherever the bed
bugs might travel. Newer methods used by exterminators use a
trained dog to find them and CO2 to freeze them. Some
exterminators use heat to kill them. Both Kleen Free and Kleen
Green are also to kill bed bugs. Many exterminators use pesticides,
but they depend on you being live bait to entice the bed bugs to
come out from where they hide and crawl over the pesticides. The
bed bugs need to sense both warmth and CO2 to become active.
Bathroom: I washed the bathroom floor and rugs with ammonia
solution (one part ammonia to three parts ammonia—laundry
grade—not custodian grade which is far more concentrated) and
dusted the rugs with diatomaceous earth. I treated my razor with
ammonia solution after using it, washed my watch's wrist band and
the back of the watch with ammonia solution, hair comb or brushes,
eye glass frames, finger rings, neck chains with ammonia solution as
well.
Personal: Ladies, they can even take up residence inside your purse
so you may want to empty your purse, treat all of the contents and
spray the inside of the purse with dilute ammonia on a weekly basis
until your symptoms are gone. Fellows, maybe even your wallet
could become home to them.
Bedroom: I sprayed the inside of all shoes and bedroom slippers
with ammonia solution daily. Also spray the souls of my shoes
(dusting with diatomaceous earth will work too) and slippers-it's
how the parasites get transferred from outside to inside or
visa versa or to the carpet in your auto or at your workplace. In
fact, this makes a good argument for using diatomaceous earth
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through out your home, auto, and around your work station at work
until you get your environment under control as you'll always be
stepping in carpets dusted with it and thus stop transporting the
parasites from one location to another. Please note that this is not
only true of carpets, but the parasites can be deposited on any tile,
hardwood floor, linoleum, or even concrete--just not as easy as
carpeting.
I sprayed all furniture I sat in at work or home daily (including
leather or Naugahyde) after each use with ammonia solution or
Lysol and dusted with diatomaceous earth where possible.
Heating/Cooling System: I didn't have forced air heating or air
conditioning duct work with which to deal, so I don't know exactly
what to do in that case. There are companies that specialize in
cleaning of air ducts, otherwise, I'd change the filter and be tempted
to spray a lot of diluted ammonia (3 parts water to 1 part ammonia)
into the air return of the furnace. If I were to contract a company to
do it for me, I'd make sure they use a disinfecting agent.
I checked all air conditioners/dehumidifiers. For window air units, I
removed filters and washed them with ammonia, sprayed intake
vents (inside and outside) with ammonia solution as it is operating
till the point where I could smell the ammonia coming out into the
room. I had to step away from the unit as the ammonia passed
directly through the unit and would smart my eyes if I stayed too
close to the unit. I sprayed the ammonia through the dehumidifier as
well.
If we're dealing with mites as the vector, the eggs might not hatch
for days--usually has to be a heat source to hatch them, so I wouldn't
expect them hatching in summer air conditioning, however, the
turning on and off of the blower might dislodge them and blow them
into the air space and winter heating probably would hatch them in
the heat duct. The eggs of some parasites can exist for years--maybe
indefinitely.
Disinfection of Laundry: I washed all my clothing with a cup of
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bleach or ammonia (I never used bleach and ammonia together as it
will produce deadly chlorine gas), or I dry cleaned them. I
accidentally wore some clothing from the early era (when I was first
infected) that were not sanitized ten years later and noticed itching
within hours. One thing that appears on the message boards time and
time again so it must work is using bounce in the dryer. Something
about the bounce product that is miraculous. I use it with every load
in the dryer for additional insurance, even though never had any
problem with ammonia or bleach not working.
Bedding: I washed the mattress cover, all covers, and comforters
with ammonia or bleach in the laundry and then I changed the sheets
daily.
I vacuumed the mattress with a vacuum cleaner that uses a hepa
filter. Then I used the shampoo attachment to shampoo the mattress
using Glamorine, diluted ammonia, and warm water. After it dried, I
dry dusted it with diatomaceous earth and then put on the mattress
cover. I laundered all comforters in either ammonia or bleach
(depending on whether they were white or colored). I dusted the top
sheet with diatomaceous earth to prevent them getting back into the
comforters. I changed my sheets daily and sprayed the mattress
cover and the comforters with ammonia solution. Although in my
more recent re-infections, I didn't need to use the diatomaceous
earth--simply washed all comforters, bedding, clothing and throw
rugs with ammonia or bleach, disinfected my razor, eye glass ear
pieces, chairs, and so on.
I washed pillows using ammonia in the wash and covered them with
a plastic garbage bag to prevent re-contamination. However, I
believe it’s possible for some of these parasites to penetrate plastics
and even leather which is why the diatomaceous earth is always
good to use until you know you’re surroundings are completely
sanitized.
Clothing: Before I knew of 999 itch relief ointment in the Fall of 06
I found that simply dabbing the diatomaceous earth which is a dust
on an itching site would reduce it within seconds. Today I'd only use
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999 cream. I had to be real careful about wearing any clothes for a
second time. It gets expensive dry cleaning pants and jackets after
every use. Initially I dusted my clothing on the inside with
diatomaceous earth.
Diatomaceous earth made life more livable than ever before. Some
diatomaceous earth products contain pyrethrins, which are natural
insecticides produced by certain species of the chrysanthemum
known as a contact killer; the instructions suggest no contact with
skin. Find a brand that has no pyrethrins. Both brands suggest using
it to dust the sleeping quarters of the animals and it's represented as
being nontoxic to humans and animals. You can even find food
grade diatomaceous earth although no one has reported any value
from taking it internally.
With continued use of the diatomaceous earth insecticide and stage
one of the King Diet SM , I ridded myself of the pestilence--except for
the sites on my neck. It was freedom I never thought I'd experience
again. After all, here I was with the cleanest clothes and the cleanest
bed in town and felt like a second rate citizen infected with some
parasitic scourge. It was a start. As you read on you'll see how to
move from Stage One of the diet to Stage II, III, and maybe off the
diet.
Later I discovered that I could use 25% ammonia solution instead of
diatomaceous earth. I would turn the sleeve inside out, spray and
then turn right side in and close the jacket to trap the ammonia
fumes, Other clothes, underwear, sheets and all washable clothes
had to be washed with a cup of bleach or sudsy ammonia per load.
I bought an ozone air purification machine, but didn’t find it that
helpful in dealing with the parasitic scourge. However, I found that
the EquoQuest Living Air unit is important in helping kill mold and
fungus. As I noted in a previous chapter there's a less expensive on
on Ebay that kill fungus, bacteria, and viruses.
They don’t kill the parasites; however, I know of one subscriber
whose Morgellons infection started with a septic tank problem.
Sewage accumulated under her house and contaminated her home
with a bacterium. The only hope she has is to either move to another
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home or use an air purification unit to kill the bacteria.
Automobile: I sprayed seats, safety belt (both sides) and carpeting
with ammonia or Lysol spray and then dusted with diatomaceous
earth after every use until I was free of any itching for at least three
days. For a while I used Lysol and then realized that breathing it
might not be beneficial so I switched completely to dilute ammonia
spray (approx 1/4 ammonia and 3/4 water) in a Windex spray bottle.
However, beware; one subscriber pointed out that ammonia can
trigger depression in some individuals.
Outside environment: Unless you're dealing with a contaminating
source similar to mine—dust cloud that infested a large area—I'd
recommend starting with spraying dilute ammonia where ever you
walk. If you're dealing with chiggers or no-seeums outside like I
was, I obtained pesticide effective for chiggers from a garden supply
house in a granular form for spreading on the lawn. I used a spreader
to distribute it. I also used a sprayer to spray all the shrubs close to
the house with a pesticide effective for chiggers. I don't remember
the actual pesticides I used, but I'm sure there are several from which
to choose. Remember, I was infected from a cloud of dust from one
of these trees and apparently they had gotten everywhere from that
dust cloud. I treated the outside every two weeks for a month and a
half.
Peppermint Option to Ammonia
All of this worked for me and many others, however, with some
sufferers, the ammonia spray and diatomaceous earth just doesn't do
it. An option to ammonia is a natural insect/parasite repellent. A
subscriber shared the following recipe that works great and smells
good too, here it is:
21 drops Patchouli essential oil
21 drops Peppermint essential oil (if you put a bug in a bowl of
peppermint oil it will die)
A small squirt of natural dish soap or Bonner’s Peppermint Liquid
Soap.
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Put drops of the essential oils in the bottom of a large empty spray
bottle. Fill with water close to the top then add the dish soap
otherwise the soap bubbles up too much and it take too long to fill
the bottle. This is a healthier alternative to using ammonia.
A subscriber emailed me about a youtube.com video. Go to youtube
and search for “spring tail treatment methods” which you will want
to watch—especially if your home or surroundings was the source of
the collembola as opposed to getting infected elsewhere and bringing
them home. He uses:
Bifen Granules around the foundation of the house.
Cyonara to activate the Bifen.
Deltamethrin dust for under siding and under bath tubs. I would
think that diatomaceous earth could be used for this aspect of
treatment.
Bifen spray for exterior and interior around bathroom and kitchen
Then there are alternate products such as Kleen Free. Kleen Green,
Cedarcide, and Camphor.
1. Kleen Green from Natural Ginesis described earlier in this
chapter.
2. Cedarcide: You'll find it at www.cedarcide.com or call 1-800-
842-1464. You use this product to fog your home daily in the
beginning and then just certain areas that are problem areas. You
have to fog your car and garage as well. The subscriber who shared
this information spent $1600 to disinfect her home and it worked.
She then went to the cedar diffuser that uses pure cedar oil. She uses
it day and night and uses it in her bedroom. Call Cedar Air at 760-
877-0443 for more information.
3. Camphor Crystals: They also help with the problem. Available
at Gene’s All Natural Products -541-688-3265 or by emailing
naturalinfo@genesallnaturalproducts.com.
The same subscriber writes, “I bought from Gene Camphor Crystals
and a plug in Aroma Lamp light that would burn the Menthol
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Crystals. Gene’s theories are if you burn this on high for 4 hours it
would kill the mite. The plug in the wall (Not the ones that have a
cord attached which are not as powerful) in Aroma lamps are much
cheaper and easier to use. I do like the cedar oil better for fogging
but this burning of camphor does help. I burn camphor daily. I also
bought pretty purple and pink bags and can fill them with Camphor
Crystals and put them in the drawers. I put the Camphor Crystals
bag in the car in a plastic container because it melts all over
everything as it dissipates. It has helped get the mites out of the
car.”
Kleen Free as discussed in the first section of this chapter.
Microban X-580 disinfectant spray kills roaches, fleas, bed bugs,
mold, odors and much more. Microban works very well with a
fogger pure mist machine or spray bottle. A fogger pure mist
machine allows you to disinfect a room or even in vehicles to
freshen.
Oxcine: You can search ebay for oxine and you'll find it. It's a liquid
and costs $24.99 per gallon plus shipping. You can buy their fogger
for around $325 or rent one from home depot. Wear a mask while
fogging and leave your home for a while after treating it. You can
fog the returns on your air conditioning vents or the returns on your
window air conditioners.
Follow the instructions with the product. It will kill molds, viruses
and bacteria. You can fog your bedding, your closet and any place
the parasites might hide. The draw back is that you need to use a
product that you can use on a daily basis as re-contamination is very
easy. This makes oxine impractical.
Move To a New Home
There are many sufferers who have done exactly that in hopes of
getting rid of the hell of parasites. For the most part it doesn't make
things better. There are a couple conditions for which this would
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work:
1. If your home is infected with something like slime mold or some
kind of dangerous bacteria (like from a sewer back up) that is
impractical to get out of your home, then it may be beneficial to
move.
2. If your home is being bombarded with high levels of EMF
(electromagnetic force) and there's nothing you can do about
reducing the EMF then relocating may be helpful.
3. If your home has crawl spaces or attic areas that can not be
disinfected—but generally a diffuser with cedarcide would handle
this.
Many people have thrown out all their rugs (certainly a good idea if
they can't be disinfected effectively as described above in this
chapter). Some have gotten rid of all their furniture—don't give any
furniture to anyone else as they may become infected. But for the
most part, you should be able to disinfect all of your furniture with
the instructions given above.
But generally moving to another home doesn't solve the problem
because you take the parasite with you—you are a carrier until your
get your symptoms under control.
Precautions to Keep Others from Becoming Infected
1. I never let others use my:
• Hats
• Clothing
• Wash cloths
• Towels
• Jewelry
• Bedding.
2. I stopped going to the barber for a hair cut--it can be passed on to
the next person unless the barber sterilizes his equipment. Maybe
this is what is known as Barber’s itch. If discovered in time, it can be
treated successfully with Caladryl, hydrocortisone, 999 ointment, or
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3. I didn't shop for clothes while symptoms persist because trying on
clothes could contaminate them for someone else who might buy
them. Some subscribers have reported contracting their skin
parasites from wearing someone else's clothing.
4. I didn't let anyone use my razor blades while they are active—
generally a good practice anyway. Anyone using a razor blade
contaminated will within a day have skin lesions. If that happens, I'd
have them use 999 ointment or Tea Tree oil or hydrocortisone lotion
on the sites for a week. Kleen Free will work too just more
expensive. I disinfect razor blades, hair clippers with disinfectant
spray or ammonia solution. I wash razor blades thoroughly to
eliminate the ammonia which if not removed completely can cause a
skin reaction itself.
5. I didn't sleep with unaffected people; I didn't carry my four year
old son or let him ride on my shoulders; I didn't rough house with
my him or anyone; nor did I even hug anyone--distance is the best
precaution.
6. I shampooed my carpeting with a disinfectant or I added ammonia
to the shampoo. My experience is that the mites/larvae/parasites
generally don't jump to others, they are passed with clothing,
bedding, combs, jewelry, or by walking barefoot or lying down on a
contaminated carpet, or sitting in a contaminated stuffed or fabric/
leather chair. If one sits in a contaminated area, they may be felt as
something jumping onto their ankles or legs.
7. I got rid of all standing water outside and inside my home--even
made sure dishes in the sink were dry. Check gutters to make sure
they are draining and not collecting water.
8. I sprayed ammonia solution down all drains (kitchen sinks,
shower, bath tub, basement) where mites that transfer the parasites
might thrive.
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What's confusing for many people including myself at first was that
while I had no symptoms any place else, I’d notice symptoms
whenever I worked with my lap top. I just couldn’t understand why I
could sit in that same chair and feel nothing one time and the next
time, feel crawling feelings. Then I learned from another sufferer
that any device that emits electromagnetic fields, activates the
parasites causing the crawling sensations. Of course, when I leave
the electromagnetic source, TV's, computers and so on the crawling
symptoms disappear. Electromagnetic devices seem to drive them
crazy and this continued for several weeks. Eventually as I continued
with the diet, ORAP and the glutathione accelerator within a few
weeks I stopped reacting to electromagnetic sources.
A young lady had an intense problem with itching and biting
symptoms. After several email exchanges we suspected cloth
mites—basically because since none of what I suggested worked.
Finally a year later she began improving after she had something
done about an EMF problem she discovered. She wrote, "My
neighbor placed a large Solar System on his home just before I
became ill. I finally tested my house for EMF and had a large
readings in the kitchen, living room and basement. This is an older
neighborhood and the homes have copper piping. This Solar System
was large and feeding energy to the Utility Company. The system
was throwing current thru the copper water pipe system into the
street, because the homes are grounded the the water pipe and
current was traveling into my water pipe into my grounding system
into my home. I had high levels of Electric magnetic Fields in the
house. It has been fixed now and I am recovering - this made me
very ill as you know. It broke down my immune system and nothing I
did would get me better. I think this is happen all over the country-
Grounding to the water pipes is NEC code. It needs to be changed-
of course no one listen to me. I have it all documented. This almost
killed me!!
You can buy a EMF meter on line for $40.00 and test the copper
water pipe coming into the house, they need to tum off the power to
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the house and then test- if you have emf- then you could have a
problem also. Need to be careful with electrical!!!! Test the whole
house- I found it in my grounding system to my house.
Please spread the word-
I also believe that EMF breaks down your immune system and then
you have a fungus/yeast over growth."
Microwave Ovens
While we're discussing EMF, sometime ago I wrote about
microwave ovens in one of the updates. They are a good thing to
GET RID OF. Not only do they literally destroy nutrient value of
food, they produce EMF as well. EMF certainly doesn't cause a
parasitic infection but it may affect your body and immune
functioning in such a way as to make you more susceptible to
infection and then almost impossible to get rid of the parasites.
All in all, it's a great argument for getting EMF checked--especially
if something new was installed in the neighborhood just before
parasite problems began. And it's a good argument for throwing out
the microwave. And it's also a great argument to also boost your
immune system with glutathione.
Contaminating Other Areas
Collembola (Spring Tails) and Strongyloides are only transferred by
what ever your body (body heat) comes in contact with for several
minutes. Example, if you're sitting bare footed in a chair, they will
transfer to the chair and the floor. Later when you again sit in that
chair (if not decontaminated) the parasite will transfer to your
clothing and body and the souls of your shoes. Where ever you walk
you will transfer them to flooring and steps—more so on carpet.
If you hang contaminated clothing in your closet, they will not
transfer to other clothing as there's no heat source.
If there's a contaminated bird nest on top of your window air
conditioner, the air conditioner will blow them into your home.
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Rats, mice or other animals such as squirrels must be exterminated
from inside your home otherwise they will continue being a source
of mites that transfer them. Spray ammonia solution where ever the
vermin may have been or on their fecal matter before cleaning it.
Strongyloides is a nematode generally transferred by contact with
fecal matter. Once it's found a host, it matures on the skin and then
migrates inside the body where it breeds and ultimately surfaces on
the skin again. It's transferred in much the same way as collembola
is.
Although I don't have any personal experience with Morgellons, I
understand it can be transferred by being in physical contact with
anything that a sufferer was in contact with as described above.
Rather than mites being the vector, it's often slime mold or a virus
that is the infecting organism.
Cloth Mites or Cloth Parasite
Cloth mites don't respond to the diet or the approaches as described
in this book. Over the years I've found a few suffers that are not able
to kill their skin parasites by laundering their clothing with bleach or
ammonia and maybe it's because they suffer from a different parasite
other than one with which I'm familiar. The source recommends
microwaving and or freezing your clothing. The cloth mite behaves
differently than the springtails (collembola) and Strongloides or
Morgellons of which I'm familiar.
It's is also different than Morgellons. I don't have any proof of this
parasite other than to notice that some sufferers are describing its
behavior. The source recommends Kleen Green (which I haven't
had any negative feed back on the product) and is indirectly an add
for the product. This source was shared with me by one of the
subscribers whom I thank very much for passing the information
along.
Subscribers have reported that the only way to kill the eggs in the
laundry is to use four or more cups of either bleach or ammonia. One
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fellow uses a whole gallon.
Subscribers also report that the only relief they can get from the
critters is to dust their bodies and clothing (after laundering as
described above) that they wear with diatomaceous earth.
The mite or parasite is more like a microscopic flea which eats any
thing made of cloth.
If you put an infected garment in your closet, they will spread
throughout your closet and infest all the clothing in your closet. A
heat source is not required to spread them as it is with Collembola
and Strongyloides.
Morgellons Disinfecting Protocols
As I've already shared, I'm not a Morgellon's sufferer so I turn to
other subscribers who also use the King Diet SM to share what they do
to control their environments. Following are answers to questions
one Morgellons sufferer (who is doing well) supplied me. Please
note that she did not need to use Kleen Free or Kleen Green or any
of the expensive products, but you might have to.
1. What you do to protect your home and environment from
recontamination?
I can tell if they are in the rug or furniture. These things really seem
to keep them under control.
Windex or ammonia solution sprayed liberally on floor, rug, chairs.
Alcohol: 91% as a spray for some surfaces (not electronics) mainly
in bathroom.
Ammonia spray and HotShot fogger in car, vacuuming 1-2
times/month
Bounce sheets in shoes, car seats, and dryer.
Vacuum house 3-5 times a week at first, now 1-2 times a week. It's
best to use a hepa filter in your vacuum.
Frequently wash and spray surfaces with ammonia solution.
Lint roll couch and cloth chairs, bedding, and clothes.
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I asked how how she can tell if they are in the furniture and this
is her answer:
"I just notice more prickliness or stings for one. Also, I can lint roll
and see the specks or fuzz balls. It sometimes take sitting there
awhile. When I got in to my husband's car and drove it for a couple
of hours I felt more itchy than usual, felt little things lighting on my
legs and a sting on my foot. Sure enough, that was the day my friend,
Lib, caught it. She was sitting in the passenger seat"
2. What do you do to deal with the fuzz balls in clothing and
from your body?
I only see them on the lint roller when I roll clothes or bedding. If
they're on my body I haven't noticed them. I swab w/ white cotton
and boric acid solution so may not see them. I get black specks,
black, red and blue crescent shaped threads, strands and filaments.
I asked her the strength of the boric acid and she replied,
"1/2 tsp boric acid to 32 oz water sprayed on a cotton swab. (I
always look at it w/ a jewelers eye to guage how I'm doing.)
Someone you included in a newsletter recommended it for before
and after showers. I'm not convinced it does anything but I've gotten
used to using it. It's the same as eye wash so I use it on cotton to rub
the things out of my eyes."
3. What products serve you best?
Ammonia solution, lint rollers from Dollar Store, Generic of Aveeno
Daily Moisturizing Lotion with MSM powder mixed in, Bounce
sheets, boric acid solution, Listerine. MSM is Methyl-Sulfonyl-
Methane, a sulfur powder. I saw it recommended for this type of
thing on-line. Supposedly it strengthens joint and skin structure and
can be taken internally (mixed in water) or externally mixed in
lotion. It seems to make for a more comfortable sleep.
4. What precautions you take to keep from infecting others?
swab frequently w/ boric acid solution and sometimes alcohol, lint
roll sheets and car upholstery, avoid spending the night at people's
houses, only brief hugs if at all, spray my hands w/ alcohol before
touching their things.
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5. What bathing protocols and products?
Dove for sensitive skin on a long-handled brush. I spray Listerine in
my hair before shampooing.
6. If any others in your home have been infected and when did
that occur?
My partner got it but he only notices occasional itching spells (every
couple of weeks). He gets the two bite marks that have been
characteristic of it, but believes it's spider bites.
Another friend was infected (referred to in question #1 above. (As of
today her friend by using some aspects of the diet, garlic, and
Max glutathione is free of the parasites plus maybe some other
things we don't know about at this time).
7. How do you treat your clothing?
Clothing is the main way I get reinfected daily.
a. Soak in detergent, borax, bleach or ammonia in hot water
b. Dry for 45-60 minutes
c. Boil occasionally or microwave but too much troubled, Keep each
article in separate plastic bags w/ a bounce sheet.
d. Wear light colored, loose, non-cotton clothes when possible
(almost always feels better when I can do it)
e. Now I mainly lint roll my sheets and clothes and spray seams with
ammonia solution and iron w/ a steam iron. This seems more
effective than washing.
8. How have you dealt with your work environment?
I work at home fortunately. I have contaminated my keyboard, chair,
rug and everything where I work, but by spraying daily w/ ammonia
solution I keep it from spreading.
Mold Growing on Skin
A subscriber had issues with crawling and itching. She suspected
Collembola or maybe the beginning stages of Morgellons. She was
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finding all kinds of stuff in her 5 yr old daughter's stool with a
microscope but there were not bites or lesions and her daughter
seemed to be unaffected. Her husband was similarly affected with
itching and crawling but no bites or lesions.
“The diet helped, but didn't relieve the symptoms.” After about a
month of searching she discovered it was a mold issue and writes, "It
turns out that we never had parasites but had a mold issue which
caused all these weird symptoms. That would explain why nothing
worked as long as I kept my house the same. But throwing out
carpets and old beds helped.
Anyone who has this crawling and itching with no bites, should
check their house for air quality, and mold before spraying and
using chemicals.
Detoxing my liver and my house was the solution, going back to no
chemicals, getting a fresh air exchanger, opening the windows. Once
I cleaned up my air, my skin stopped producing the weird stuff. My
body is now a 'canary' like in the coal mines in determining if the air
quality is bad. Before the air circulation comes on at work, I get
symptomatic. The anti-candida diet also helped. We almost
immediately had no symptoms.
Also decreasing anxiety significantly reduced the skin and whole
body symptoms, as that alone can cause problems.
Anxiety + chemical toxicity = more problems than parasites. In my
case the cure was worse that he disease. Diet also helped. We almost
immediately had no symptoms.
Because of the chemicals ad maybe pesticides I sprayed, the 3%
sulfur soap, was irritating my skin. I am now using such a mild soap
and no cream until my skin heals.”
If you go to www moldblogger.com and go through the site there are
three main causes of mold growing on the skin:
1. Excess moisture from humidity or improper drying
procedures.
2. Diet; too much fruit, yeast, etc. |
3. Skin reaction from infection or other outside source.
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To get rid of mold it's important to also control your environment
just as it is with skin parasites. In this case, mold may be growing in
carpets and cloth chairs as well as on surfaces.
Carpet
If it's an old carpet, take the easy route and throw it out.
If you want to keep it, first determine if the area of mold growth is
small enough that you can take care of it yourself or if you should
hire a professional. It's recommended that if mold growth is more
than 1 to 10 square feet, it's strongly suggested that you hire a
professional. Make sure they know how to deal with mold.
If you have a small area wear gloves and use a breathing mask. Start
cleaning the carpet with a basic solution of detergent and water in a
steam-cleaning machine. After wetting the surface suck up the water
and repeat until the water starts coming out clear. If you're not
allergic to Lysol you can use it in the solution too.
Even more effectively you can use a hypochlorite or laundry bleach.
The solution is made with 1 cup bleach to 1 gallon of water. This
solution can be used on hard surfaces as well as carpets and rugs.
The solution must remain on the surface for 15 minutes.
But here's the kicker which may simply make it more reasonable to
replace the carpeting. It's recommended that you remove the
carpeting and place them on a flat area such as the car port or
driveway. Check for colorfastness in an inconspicuous area 24 hours
before doing a complete clean as follows: Hose both sides well to
remove dirt and soil. Dump several buckets of the bleach solution on
each side and scrub with a broom or hard bristled tool. Rinse both
sides well, and remove as much water as possible with a wet/dry
vacuum or another cleaner that will pull water. Allow the carpet or
rug to dry thoroughly.
Whichever method you choose, always dry the area completely by
opening all windows, using a heater, fan, or dehumidifier. This is
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very important, or the mold will just grow back.
For Cleaning Furniture
Soak a clean, soft wash cloth in a solution made of 3 parts water and
1 part mild detergent. Wring the solution till the cloth is almost dry.
Wipe only a small area of the surface of the furniture to remove
mold from it. Then wipe with a cloth in plain water and use a dry
cloth to dry the surface.
If you notice a white greasy film on the furniture (wax build up) use
furniture cleaner such as a paint thinner to get rid of it.
If the mold has grown into the wood under the finish gently scrub
the affected area with a solution made of 5 parts water and 1 part
chlorine bleach. Rinse the surface thoroughly with plain water. Dry
thoroughly. Do not use bleach on finished surfaces.
Then apply wax to protect the furniture.
Leave out the cleaned furniture in the sunlight for a couple of hours
if you can. Sunlight aids in oxidation and will help eliminate the
source of mold/mildew. Ensure that the day is clear, with very little
humidity in the air. Check the weather before proceeding. You want
to eliminate mold, not encourage it. For more information please go
to www ehow.com and search for “how to remove mold from wood
furniture.”
Removing Mold From Clothing:
Take all the clothing that is affected out of the closet or drawers. If
mold is growing on the clothing, take them outside, wear a dust
mask, stand up wind, and beat the mold from your clothing.
You can then launder the clothing using a cup of detergent, a cup of
borax, and ¾ cup of white vinegar to a load of laundry. Make sure
the closet or drawers from which the clothing has been stored has
been treated before returning the dried clothing to it. For more
information go to www moldblogger.com and search for “how to
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remove mold and the smell of mold from clothing”
Controlling Mold/Mildew in Your Home:
Use a dehumidifier, an air purification unit, and circulate air. In my
finished basement I use a small counter top dehumidifier by Eva-
Dry at www eva-dry.com which I modified by drilling a hole in the
tank of the unit. I attached a hose to the unit's tank with a sealant
(Geocel 2020) so it would drain into the basement kitchen's sink.
Otherwise I'd have to be dumping the tank every day. I also use an
air purifier that also has an rf (radio frequency) unit to kill bacteria
and mold. Additionally I have an exhaust fan in the basement's bath
room that I have set to turn on automatically everyday for a couple
hours or so to vent the basement air outside. I also had to add a fan
to circulate air in one corner of my basement. Professional units to
do this are by Wave company. My system is a lot cheaper. For Wave
Google wave home solutions.
Eva-Dyr also makes portable dehumidifiers for closets. You simply
hang them or place them on a shelf and when the indicator changes
color (indicating it has absorbed moisture) you plug it in to a wall
outlet for a few hours to reactivate the unit.
Disinfection to Nth degree video
Sandy, a subscriber shared a site with me that no longer active. The
fellow who did the video believes that the parasites are on the walls
and ceilings as well as the floor. He wipes down the ceiling and
walls with a swifter sweeper using disinfectant and then dusts the
floor with diatomaceous earth to kill any that escape the walls and
ceiling. Cedarside may have been a better approach for him.
After he launders and disinfects his clothing, he stores them in
plastic containers. I can only say for the parasites I experienced,
collembola (spring tails) and Strongyloides stercoralis, I never had to
go to the length of wiping the ceiling and walls. This is also true for
those who I know who deal with Morgellons. I did however dust the
floor and furniture with diatomaceous earth and used ammonia or
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bleach in the laundry. I also found that dilute ammonia was just as
effective as the product which he used.
Regarding the site, it's about how they believe genetically modified
organisms (GMO) have created Morgellons. From what I see, they
are selling a book (Got Body Bugs?) for $69 plus $4.50/month for
updates. For my take on GMO's go to www
GlutathioneForHealth.com/Parasites.htm
Pets
Pets: Many report that their pets are infected. They find that the pets
are a source for re-infection with which has to be dealt. If nematodes
are a part of the problem, having their veterinarian perform a stool
analysis for Strongyloides stercoralis is the way to go and then a dewormer
treatment. Chapter II has the microscopy for Strongyloides.
Finding of the nematode in their pet is generally a pretty big bet that
it's also in their body.
Dogs and cats
A subscriber, who is a dog groomer, writes, "I am giving them
Program every two weeks to load dose and gave them Pancur
wormer for five days in a row as proscribed by vet for strongyloides.
Ear treatment: I used DermaPet TrizUltra+ Keto ear cleaner (RX)
works well for collombola in dogs ears and does not cause
irritation. When that ran out used DermaPet TrizEDTA (Entirely
Pets.com).
This is by no means a quick fix. If ears are inflamed or filled with
waxy debris, have vet clean thoroughly and treat for mites and any
secondary infection. As a dog groomer, I've seen many people make
the ears worse by improper cleaning, so have vet instruct on proper
cleaning. Keep in mind when using a miticide that some breeds
cannot tolerate ivermectin. My boxer had a severe reaction, and it
cost me $300.00 to have her ears treated. It was not a problem for
my rat terrier. After ears are cleaned, use DMV products no more
than every other day. Check ears every day."
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FYI Program is a pet medicine available at petmeds.com with it's
main ingredient being lufenuron.
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Chapter IV Diet & Compatible Supplements
that Make it Work
Parasites Have Food Preferences
I have found that these parasites have food preferences and the goal
is to stop feeding them what they like. The only problem is that I like
many of the same things they like. There are foods that they love
such as most common carbohydrates, breads, most fruit... and they
rewarded me with itching and biting. Some theorize that these foods
contribute to formation of yeast on your skin which is the preferred
food of the larvae.
Then there are foods that generally starve them. Perhaps if one has
been recently infected within 6 months or so they can be gotten rid
of without the diet, but for those who have been infected for years, I
firmly believe that the diet in combination with other therapies is
required.
The Diet works best when used in conjunction with the glutathione
accelerator (MaxOne). The benefit of the glutathione accelerator was
not discovered until 2010. With certain parasites, collembola and
strongyloides, ORAP or Zyprexa (more about them in Chapter VI)
speed up my ability to move through the stages of the diet explained
in this chapter.
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The diet, as I initially discovered it in the late 90's, has up to three
stages (stage I, II, and III). Stage I was necessary to get rid of the
symptoms of itching, crawling and biting. I experimented with Stage
I of the diet for up to 90 days and found no benefit for being on it for
that length of time versus just a few days. I found that if I’m on
Stage I of the diet and free of any foods that activate the parasites, I
can advance to stage II of the diet within several days when in
combination of ORAP or Zyprexa and the glutathione accelerator.
The trick is making sure no foods are eaten on stage I that activate
the parasites. For years I thought cheese was a stage I food, but
because of the time dilation factor—more about that later, cheese
was never truly tested. I did have an opportunity to test cheese—
actually it was by accident—and found that cheese activates the
parasites during the Stage I phase. Now I understand why I’ve had
trouble from time to time with Stage I.
If I’m free of any foods that activate the parasites for several days,
they seem to go into some kind of remission at which time I can add
tastier foods on Stage II such as selected flavors of Haagan Daz ice
cream and chocolate cake after many months on Stage III (but only
with ORAP). More about these foods later. In general, I can be very
happy on Stage II of the diet and was for ten years. Fortunately for
Collembola and strongyloides sufferers ORAP or Zyprexa makes it
possible to move beyond State II of the diet.
Basis of the King Parasite/LYME Diet SM (also known as the
Parasite/Lyme Diet SM )
There is no theory to this diet. I found this diet by trial and error
through doing an elimination diet. I started initially by eating only
eggs--nothing else--no oil or butter with the eggs--and noticed the
symptoms (the itchy bity all over the body) had practically
disappeared within hours at which time I really became interested in
learning more about diet.
Of course I had to make sure that all clothing, jewelry, and furniture-
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-anything I was physically in contact--was disinfected as I explained
in the previous chapter. Now eating eggs can get boring so I began
adding protein in the form of meats and found the symptoms
remained minimal. Eggs and meat can get boring so I would add
other foods and each time I added an ingredient or food that the
parasites liked, they let me know they were alive by biting and
itching me everywhere. The strange thing was the timing. If I had a
breakout and went to safe foods, the symptoms disappeared within
hours.
On Stage II cheese can be added, however, I know that if I had been
affected by Candida Albicans, it would be important to eliminate
cheese. Of course goat and sheep cheese are healthier for me than
cow's milk cheese. I found that in Stage II, I could eat all types of
cheese except for the processed cheeses. I went to a website that
provides a diet for eliminating candida. It starts with lots of
vegetables, yet some of those vegetables such as asparagus and
artichokes which are on the candida albicans diet contributed to
reactivating the parasites when I ate them so they are not on this diet.
One problem I found with testing foods is that once I had my
environment disinfected and the diet started, there was little time to
test some foods. And even this was complicated because I often use
my lap top computer. As I noted in the last chapter, being physically
close to computers, TV monitors, or electromagnetic equipment
brings on the crawling sensations. Initially, I didn't know this and it
made food testing somewhat confusing.
Within a day or so of a parasitic break-out, if I ate something that the
parasites enjoy, the parasites activate within minutes or hours.
However, if I'm successful at staying on the diet for a week or
longer, then if I eat something they enjoy, it takes them up to 48
hours to activate. I call this the time dilation factor. Keeping an
eating diary was important, for if I’m on the diet for weeks and then
notice a reaction, I need to look back a couple days to find the food
that is the problem. See the Appendix for an example of a diary and
what I suggest you do for yourself.
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Whenever I attempt to add a new food to my plan, I watched for
reactions for up to 48 hrs; and the reactions change too. When I’m
sensitive and have just started the diet, the reaction can be all the
itching and biting along with some papules (skin break-outs). Later
on--particularly when I’m in stage II of the diet, unless I really eat a
lot of something (like a whole pizza), the reactions are limited to the
formation of new papules. And if I didn't get back on the diet, these
papules, after they ulcerate or weep would develop into a hardened
mass somewhat like a scab that is impossible to remove without
creating extreme pain.
In the late 90’s I had no one to communicate with who had
experience with the parasitic scourge or the diet and it was easy to
think I was cured. So from time to time, I'd declare myself cured and
begin eating normally. At most I'd get away with it for a week before
hell broke loose with itching and biting and disappointedly I'd get
back to Stage I of the diet and go through the daily washing of
laundry. Sticking with it for me was preferred over regular food
which would bring on the symptoms of the parasitic scourge. I
attribute the diet to my sanity and relatively excellent health after
being infected/infested with the parasites and the blood contagions
(Lyme and protozoan) for nearly twenty years.
Different Foods—Different Reactions
I had reactions on my forearm that were interesting, i.e., one time I
accidentally ate a can of tuna thinking I bought tuna in water but it
was in oil. I was famished and ate some of it and within 20 minutes
had an incredible itch on my forearm accompanied by what looked
like a vampire bite--two tiny marks about 1/16" apart. Over the years
I made the same mistake with consuming oil from one source or
another and always produced the same strange reaction on my arm.
But for the most part, the reactions were on my back, neck, and scalp
although early on, no part of my body was sacred.
It was really difficult and a challenge to discover which foods
offended my health and which foods benefited my well being--
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particularly so since the additives like carrageen, modified starch,
gar gum, and so on get involved. Reactions to offending foods
happen within 20 minutes to 36 hours. And once I reacted to
something, the reaction continues with generally a new papule every
day or two for an entire week. Not knowing this at first, it was really
confusing because I'd still be reacting even though my eating habits
were perfect. Then it takes about 10 days for the new site to dry up
and disappear--eventually turns to a normal scab and falls off. The
sad thing is that during these 17 days total, there could be no
progress on the older sites--even though many don't seem to swell or
become any more swollen, they don't reduce in size either.
So every time I made a dietary mistake or went off the diet, it added
a half month to my recovery time. I ended up testing a lot of foods
not by choice but by accident and sometimes I had to question the
chef in a restaurant to get to the bottom of some quirky reactions.
And every time a doctor would prescribe something, I'd get cocky
and think I could start eating normal again and guess what--no go-even
with the super antibiotics for Lyme. Early on I learned that best
is to "NEVER” go off the diet until I have absolutely zero sites on
my skin. However, 999 Itch Relief Ointment reduced this 17 day
cycle to more like 4 or 5 days and the glutathione accelerator over
the course of a year has dramatically improved my ability to eat
normally with minimal if any reactions.
Time Dilation Factor
Back to timing! After staying on Stage I of the diet for several
months, the time dilation factor lengthens. In fact it was possible for
me to go off the diet and eat completely normally for up to ten days,
all the while thinking I was cured, before I reacted. Other subscribers
report very similar experiences which if not understood, they look
for recontamination (which although always a possibility, is unlikely
if the diet has been suspended).
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From my experience, it was impossible to make headway against the
mites, skin fungus, parasites, and so on until I stopped new reactions
from happening and the only way I could get any headway against
the mites and skin fungus was from the diet. Let me be redundant
and repeat what you'll read later on in this book. Every time I tried to
go off the diet/s thinking I was cured or had the cure, I began to itch
like hell or have tremendous breakouts of skin lesions days later.
This book will be worth the investment from my trial and error
experiences that may save you lots of your own trial and error (pain
and agony), and speed your recovery by directing you straight to the
approaches and products that worked for me and dozens of others
and steering you away from the ones that didn't work.
Basically, this diet is very high in certain proteins and zero in
vegetable starch. Most dietitians would tell you that it could be
unhealthy for long term eating. However, after a year and a half of
being on this diet and again a year later, I had my cholesterol
checked.
• Total cholesterol was 173
• hdl was 47
• LDL was 112
• Glucose at 115.
A perfect bill of health. However, my cbc's (lymphocytes) were
slightly elevated. This has been ever since the infestation which may
mean that it's systemic (in the blood). Blood rechecked every other
year since then bears pretty much the same results.
My latest blood tests were
• Total cholesterol 187
• HDL 51
• LDL 125
• Glucose 97
Aside from the HDL only slightly higher than recommended, it’s a
perfect bill of health and the HDL is probably higher because with
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all the remodeling I’ve been doing, I stopped the regular physical
exercise that I’ve been doing for the last fifteen years—running 2
miles per week and had been experimenting with nicotine patches.
I've been basically off the diet for the last four years and there's been
little change in my blood since then, but basically my blood tests
demonstrate that the diet is healthy. In fact sometime ago I noticed a
diet on the news called the Cave Man Diet which closely resembles
the Stage I of the King Diet SM . The similarities are that both diets
contain foods basically available to early man (cave man) that don't
cause health problems that come along with processed foods.
From my experience, it has become apparent that I was
infested/infected with several parasites--mites, maybe fungus, a
nematode, and Collembola (spring tails). The virulent ones (probably
the larvae of the nematode--a form of round worm—details in
Chapter VI), would cause me to itch intensely and nothing gave me
any relief except for a hot bath and the diet.
Remember, I was initially infected with the mites around 1994 and
found no help from nearly a dozen doctors. I felt like the parasites
were eating me alive. I finally got 99% free of them in 1998 and
remained 99% free of all symptoms until Feb 04 when I became reinfected.
I once again freed myself 99+% and stayed free until
November of 05 when I went off my diet and ate normally for 6
months believing that the antibiotics I was taking for Lyme disease
and the Mepron for protozoan would strengthen my immune system
and rid myself of the parasites.
Nearly a Decade of Relative Freedom Shattered
After nearly a decade of relative normal living by using Stage II of
the diet, it was shattered when I became re-infected in 04. I quickly
became depressed—discussed in Chapter X--and my first thought
was to end my life because I remembered the pain and anguish I
went through between 1994 and 1997. But then I realized that it
could be an opportunity to learn more about the parasitic scourge
(although I wasn't looking forward to that). I learned about Zyprexa,
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the new treatment my doctor told me about and refinements to the
diet and in the process made the information in this book more
useful.
At that time I was also experimenting with enzyme therapy using the
Vitazyme product in hopes that the powerful enzymes would destroy
foreign substances (parasites), and now I believe that it may have
actually contributed to my re-infection. I had also just separated
from my wife, moved back into my home, and may have also been
re-infected from an article of clothing from storage. I’ve found that
parasites such as Collembola can stay dormant for years and only
reactivate when in contact with the warmth of an animal. Needless to
say, I stopped the Vitazyme enzyme therapy as a precaution. From
the beginning of my reinfection, even though I hate journaling, I
kept a daily journal of the foods, drinks, medications, and nutritional
supplements I consumed, what I called an itch factor and general
notes. See the Appendix for a sample of my journal.
Upon reinfection which is easy to happen, the first thing I did was to
disinfect my body by bathing as outlined in Chapter III.
The next thing I did was start Stage I of the diet. From my latest
experience in 05, I found that it's a progressive diet--initially Stage I
is very strict and is effective against mites, fungus, nematodes,
Candida albicans, Collembola, Strongyloides, Morgellons, and my
recent experience indicates it’s effective against LYME. If I’m
exclusively on the diet for several days I can advance to stage II of
the diet. Yet, later in 2010 when I was reinfected I had trouble
getting rid of symptoms even with Stage I of the diet (even with lots
of garlic) and they didn't respond to ORAP either. I was beginning to
think that the parasites had mutated to a more resistant strain.
Fortunately I accidentally took a double dosage of the glutathione
accelerator formulation of MaxOne, which I was using to deal with
an inflamed knee) and was quickly able to put the parasites to bed.
More later in the chapter VII.
Physicians usually boost the immune system with gamoglobulin
shots. Twenty years ago (long before I contracted these parasites)
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my immune system was the pits as I became host to every cold virus,
bacteria, and flu bug that was nearby. I spent a minimum of 6 weeks
every year in bed with high fevers; as soon as I got rid of a cold, I'd
catch another. In the early 90’s I began strengthening my immune
system with 4-5 thousand mg of vitamin C every day plus three
tablets of the Complete Nutritional system. I also moved away from
sweets and snack foods. And whenever I contracted a viral or
bacterial infection I increased vitamin C to 5,000 mg three times per
day along with zinc and vitamin A. Today I rarely contract any viral
or bacterial infections. For my immune system, I routinely take 500
mg per day of vitamin C plus three tablets of the Complete
Nutritional System and I drink water infused with Sango Coral
Calcium which provides me all my minerals in ionic form.
I avoid going into the details of the parasites by telling friends,
relatives, associates, and waitresses that I have an allergic skin
reaction and have to maintain a very strict diet—strange as it is.
Starting the Diet—Eating Plan
The diet is the result of over a dozen years of testing various foods. I
never got around to testing kamut, and oat flours although I'm glad
to report that spelt is OK as long as there's no yeast or soy lecithin
used in baking it and another subscriber reports that kamut is OK.
The Baker® makes spelt bread without yeast. The website is the
www.the-baker.com and has a zip code search you can use to find
the nearest grocer that sells their products. You can also order it by
phone. Of all breads, I'd vote it as being the tastiest. To learn more
about spelt, go to www.spelt.com which states, "But it's not just
good taste that has caught the attention of consumers on this side of
the Atlantic. The grain is naturally high in fiber, and contains
significantly more protein than wheat. Spelt is also higher in B
complex vitamins, and both simple and complex carbohydrates.
Another important benefit is that some gluten-sensitive people have
been able to include spelt-based foods in their diets."
Stage I of the Diet—Call it an Eating Plan
And now the good news (what I can eat in Stage I of the diet (the
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King Diet SM or Parasite/Lyme Diet SM )--call it the shrimp scampi
diet. Chapter V contains some darn tasty recipes:
•Protein:
• Eggs
• Bacon* or ham** (no sugar, honey, or corn syrup or
gelatin)
• Sausage (without fennel)
• Beef
• Pepperoni (Boars Head only)
• Pork chops
• Chicken
• Lamb
• Veal
• Shrimp
• Lobster
• Clams
• Crabs
• Scallops
• White fish, flounder, basa (no cod, salmon, or oily fish)
• Chocolate: only if processed with alkali--not with soy
lecithin. Unsweetened chocolate such as Ghirardelli 100%
CACO or Baker’s unsweetened chocolate.
• Cocoa processed with alkali
• Carbohydrates:
• White or brown rice, risotto
• Rice bran, spelt flour, and millet
• Bread:
• Spelt without yeast or soy lecithin www.thebaker.com
• Crackers:
• Dark Rye crisp bread (no yeast) Ryvita
• Oils:
• Butter
• Rice bran
• Garlic oil
• Vegetables:
• Spinach
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• Romaine
• Red and green leaf lettuce
• Tomatoes (technically I believe they are a fruit)
• Red and white cabbage
• Cucumbers
• Onions
• Radishes
• Celery
• Peppers and roasted red peppers (in water)
• Green beans
• Broccoli
• Snow peas
• Sauerkraut
• Garlic (eat lots of it and add it to everything)
• Cold Cuts:
• Roast beef
• Boars Head Oven Gold Turkey
• Sweetener:
• Stevia
• Condiments
• Horseradish
• Catsup (sugar and corn syrup free)
• Fruit: Lemon Juice only (haven't tried persimmons)
• Spices:
• Parsley
• Oregano
• Salt—regular, low sodium, sea salt…
• Black pepper
• Red pepper
• Paprika
• Garlic (no corn syrup)
• Cheese: It is best to avoid cheese the first two weeks of the
doing the diet. There after, if Candida is not an issue, sheep and
goat cheeses would be preferred. But remember, most cheese is a
fermented product and some actually injected with mold which
overall means it’s best to avoid.
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• Fruit: Fruit is questionable. If any fruit is OK it would
be Granny Smith green apples, lemon, and banana; but
you'd have to test them to be certain.
• Drinks:
• Water
• Black coffee with stevia sweetener
* bacon--I found Stop and Shop and Smithy Field low sodium
bacon has no sugar or corn syrup.
** ham--found Citterio brand prosciutto (ham and salt) no other
additives.
Foods that Cause Parasitic Activation
Please remember, this list is for the first stage of the diet. Some
foods that I found caused the parasites to multiply and bite, to grow,
and Candida to multiply while in Stage I (listed below) are added
back in the second and third stage of the diet. Even though this
section is about food, equally important are nutritional
supplements which often contain offending ingredients. If there are
offending ingredients in any supplement, even small amounts can
render the diet useless. Compatible supplements are listed later in
this chapter.
In Stage I, I definitely avoid at all costs eating or drinking any of
the following:
• Sugar (all types), corn syrup, maple syrup, molasses, honey,
fructose, lactose, maltose, dextrose etc. Check all tins and packets.
• Snack foods such as pretzels, chips, crackers, nachos, cookies.
• Soda and or fermented drinks.
• Yeast or yeast products: bread, pizza, buns, breadcrumbs,
marmite, Oxo, Bovril, Bisto, gravy mixes etc. flavored foods i.e.
crisps and foods containing citric acid.
• Refined grains, white flour products, cakes, biscuit, pasta, corn
flour, quick rice, all prepared breakfast cereals (Kashi has never
been tested).
• Whole grain wheat, oats, barley.
• No cured meats with additives like glycene.
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• Fermented products, vinegar, pickles, chutney, tofu, soya sauce.
• Alcohol (beer, wine, all hard liquors).
• All teas, Ovaltine, chocolate (containing soy lecithin).
• Cow’s milk.
• Yogurt (flavored or unflavored), cottage cheese
• Ice cream (all brands).
• Processed cheese as in American white or yellow, velveta,
cheese spreads.
• Salad dressings.
• Cheese (at least for the first two or three weeks).
• Fresh or dried fruit, no fruit juice.
• Oily fish such as Chilean Sea Bass, cod, blue fish, capers,
sardines, anchovies, mackerel.
• Mushrooms (red mushroom in healthy coffee are OK)
• Foods with MSG and or soy such as shushi and Chinese food, or
Asian food.
• Peanuts and peanut products, cashews and all other nuts except
walnuts.
• Starchy vegetables like potatoes, sweet potatoes, guacamole,
asparagus, sprouts, and sweet corn, pumpkin.
• Sweet vegetables like carrots and sweet corn
• All flours (except for rice bran, spelt, rye, and millet).
• Any thing with gluten (pasta, breads, pizza).
• Cooking and salad oils (vegetable, soy, palm, coconut, canola,
olive, Crisco vegetable oil, cottonseed oil, peanut oil, safflower,
olestra, or anything hydrogenated.
• Margarine, butter substitutes.
• Wheat germ.
• Canned fish, kippers.
• Vinegar.
• Foods from fast food restaurants (hamburgers may have soy).
• Glazed ham (additives in the glazing).
• Popcorn.
• All legumes, lentils, and beans.
• Sesame, pumpkin, and sunflower seeds.
• Mayonnaise, salad dressings.
• Chewing gum.
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I also found that the following additives (many found in nutritional
supplements) and Spices caused the parasites to grow and multiply:
• Fennel, licorice.
• Anisette.
• Rosemary.
• Ginger.
• Cajun spices (check all mixed spices as many have additives on
this list).
• Cellulose gum, guar gum, carrageenan, xanthan gum.
• Soy lecithin or lecithin (often found in chocolate, ice cream,
chewing gum).
• Carnauba wax, arabic gum (tic tacs).
• Pectin.
• Mustard.
• Monosodium Gluconate (MSG) used in many foods as a flavor
enhancer.
• A-1 Steak sauce and other similar products,
• Modified starch.
• Bullion or thickeners for gravies.
• Gelatin (found in Jello and capsules or in time release
vitamins/meds).
• Glycene.
• Propylene glycol (medications such as cold and flu syrups which
may have proplylene glycol such as NyQuill).
• Glycol (soups that may have problem ingredients, i.e. chicken
soup made with College Inn chicken broth has glycol).
• Brewers yeast (many nutritional supplements have it)
• Cod liver oil.
• Flax seed oil, Omega 3's.
Note: I never tested Vitamin E and Vitamin A in oil form so I don't
know if they would be a problem for me but suspect they would be
a problem.
Lyme Diet
I can say that unequivocally that stage I is the best LYME diet
possible. It fosters immune functioning and controls parasites. Diets
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that don’t keep parasites under control will not keep LYME under
control. They seem to be synergistic—LYME and parasites work
together to spoil life. Advancing to Stage II and perhaps Stage III
depends very much on the ability to keep immune functioning high
which often times is not easy to monitor. In general, more is
required to advance than simply diet. It’s diet in combination with:
• ORAP or Zyprexa, for Collembola and strongyloides (ChapVI ).
• Glutathione accelerator for all parasites.
Getting Started on the Diet is 1,2,3…
One essential item in the diet is to control the oil. A simple call to 1-
800-584-4481, Golden West Specialty Foods, will solve that
problem. They have half gallon containers of rice bran oil—I
generally order two. It’s quite affordable and turns out that rice bran
oil is the healthiest oil on the planet so there’s no sacrifice. You can
also use real butter—no substitutes or margarine. Again, it turns out
that butter is far healthier than hydrogenated margarine and the
results of my lipids after over ten years of this diet are perfectly in
line with optimal health.
Next is to plan for protein—that’s easy. Most any meat—chicken,
turkey, beef, pork (no sausage with fennel), fish (white fish,
flounder), lobster, shrimp, scallops, crabs will do. Of course if you
already have a sensitivity to shell fish, they will still be a no no.
Next is to plan your veggies which is also pretty easy—non starchy
vegetables—a long list of veggies listed above. Add garlic to
everything you can. I added chopped garlic to most meats I cooked
and rice as well.
Finally are the carbohydrates. This is the one challenge. It’s
important to go to a health food store and buy spelt, brown rice,
millet, and or rye flours to make pancakes or bread if you so
inclined. If you’re not into making your own bread, as most of us
aren’t, contact www the-baker.com or call 908-995-4040 in the
states to order their spelt bread—the only commercially available
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bread I’ve found compatible with Stage I of the diet. In Stage I, no
fruit juices, fruits of any kind, except lemon as you'll use to make
shrimp scampi, or commercially prepared breads (except as noted
above), snacks…
Oh, almost forgot drinks. Fortunately water is the good news and
black coffee is OK. Remember, this is only for a week or so until
symptoms clear up and newer papules, lesions heal and clear up.
General Notes:
• I didn't expect immediate results from the diet. It's not that the
diet doesn't work; it's about what I might have eaten before starting
the diet. For instance, if I had a steak marinated in oil for dinner just
before I began the diet, the marinated steak would cause me to react
for 5-to-7 days with new skin lesions (papules) every day. It could
be up to seven days before I'd stop reacting to what I ate before I
started the diet; and if I went off the diet accidentally or on purpose,
because of the time dilation factor, it would cost me another 5-to-7
days of skin lesions and or itching.
• After months of being on Stage II if I ate something off the diet,
I may not have a reaction for up to 40 hours unless I had something
like tuna in oil in which case I'd always react within minutes. For
example, I tested pine nuts when on stage II. I had a minimal
reaction consisting of a small papule within 40 hours. I decided to
have another small amount of pine nuts wondering if maybe the
papule was from something else and within another 30 hours, larger
papules formed and continued forming new ones each day or two
for another five days even though I went back on stage II of the diet
described below. In fact, I had to regress to stage I of the diet for a
few days or so to stop the reactions and get back on track.
• Not everyone can eat eggs. Some are actually allergic to
eggs which means that you need to adapt the diet to your
particular sensitivities.
Breakfast• I’d begin breakfast, with eggs, bacon or ham or
sausage, and brown rice--I have a bread maker and could always
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make my own rice bread although I haven't done it yet as I found
spelt bread without yeast or soy is available. I have scrambled eggs
or an omelet using spinach, chopped peppers, garlic, tomatoes,
onion and flavor with salt, garlic, parsley, oregano, and crushed red
pepper. Pancakes are limited to the ingredients of brown rice, spelt,
rye, or millet flour, egg, butter or sour milk, cocoa, rice bran oil, and
Rumford baking powder or baking soda. I add Stevia to the mix to
sweeten it and eat the pancake with melted butter. I also add cooked
rice or puffed millet to the mix with extra rice bran oil in the pan to
make them tastier. After several days, I can add walnuts and
bananas—but not in the beginning.
Snacks
• I eat rice cakes or brown rice crackers with butter or goat
cheese. I found Hol Grain Crackers by Conrad Rice Mill at www
holgrain.com.
Lunch and Dinner
• Salads are King for me—the next chapter contains recipes.
Spinach, Romaine, red and green leaf lettuce, tomatoes, shredded
red cabbage, cucumbers, onions, radishes, celery, peppers, roasted
red peppers (in water), shrimp and so on. I make a cocktail
sauce/salad dressing made with sugar free catsup and horseradish. I
use Gold's hot horseradish.
• I eat pork, beef, veal, lamb, chicken, shrimp, lobster, clams,
crabs, scallops, white fish, or flounder. I prepare them in butter, rice
bran oil** or garlic oil, add chopped onion, peppers, and garlic. If
breading, I only use rice bran, millet, dark rye, or spelt flour.
Prepared sausage is always difficult to find without fennel. Most
companies just list "spices" and don't list the specific spices and I've
generally found that fennel is one of the spices. Some grocers will
prepare sausage without fennel. I generally buy ground pork and
add my own spices.
• I eat lots of non starch vegetables: green beans, broccoli
(flavored with butter or rice bran or garlic oil. Also, I found that
sauerkraut and cabbage are other good vegetables to eat. Boar's
head hot dogs are the only ones I eat and Boar's head oven gold
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turkey is free of offending additives. Generally I find no problem
with roast beef cold cuts.
• I make lots of rice (white, brown, or basmati, risotto) made with
butter and garlic—no hydrogenated vegetable oil.
• I like to make sautéed spinach, arugula, collard greens, kale, or
green beans with garlic in butter or rice bran oil**.
• I like rice pasta with tomato sauce (no oils) and meat balls (no
breading).
• For bread, I like the spelt bread by the-baker.com
• Drinks are limited to water and coffee--no teas, juices, or
alcoholic beverages.
• I enjoy my foods fried, baked, broiled, or stir fried.
• I found that most spices, oregano, salt, pepper, red pepper,
paprika, garlic, garlic powder (unless it has additives like corn
starch) are OK. McCormack garlic powder is a brand free of
offending additives.
• I made stir-fried foods in butter or rice bran oil**. I make fajitas
with chicken, steak, or shrimp but had to abstain from the tortillas. I
imagine I could make my own tortillas from rice bran or spelt flour,
but I never got around to doing it.) I shred the onions and peppers.
• I only eat rotisserie chicken with no additives.
• One thing for certain, restaurants were usually a problem so I
learned to cook and did a lot of it. The recipes in the next
chapter make it easy for you.
• Add lots of butter and garlic as in shrimp scampi to get an extra
edge against the parasites
• I found that diet control is paramount and using the elimination
diet, it took me over ten years to discover what is safe and what
contributes to activating the parasites. I know I wrote this before,
but thre were literally dozens of times, when I'd feel that I was on
my way to freedom, i.e., a day or two without any crawling, itching
or biting, I'd select something that I thought was safe to eat only to
find myself reacting--each cost me or my mother (whom I also
infected) a week from which to recover. • It was critical for me
that all sources of non animal fats were eliminated from my diet
which meant I’d have to make my own spaghetti sauce.
• Any dietary infraction would stop any progress I made against
the parasitic scourge and often contributed to the formation of new
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sites. When I returned to Stage I, the new sites generally dry up
with the use of 999 cream or hydrocortisone lotion.
Candida Albicans
The King Diet SM (parasite/lyme diet SM )can also be called the
candida albicans diet. It is stricter than the diet you’ll find used for
candida albicans. For instance yogurt, which is generally on the
candida diet causes parasitic activity. So too do green apples and
green bananas which are generally low in sugar, but generally
acceptable to eat for candida sufferers.
I had candida many years ago before the parasitic scourge--it's no
fun either. When it gets in the gut, the bad bacteria overpopulate
good bacteria and stop digestion. For me, anything I ate lay in my
stomach like a chunk of lead and my stomach became quite
distended. It's a very uncomfortable sick to-the-stomach feeling.
Below is a list of the symptoms:
Candida Symptoms
Generally there are up to five stages of symptoms as given in www
FormerFatGuy.com (one of the various sites providing information
on candida)
• In stage one mucous membranes are affected and each day one
seems to be more sensitive to everything in the environment. It’s
typical that one may develop bronchitis, sinusitis, tonsillitis, and
strep or staph infections. And in some cases, mononucleosis or
pneumonia may be involved. The irony is that usually antibiotics are
used to treat these conditions and the antibiotics then actually serve
to fuel the candida as the antibiotics kill off the healthy bacteria and
provide opportunity for candida to grow.
• Stage two is accompanied with pain such as muscle tension and
or migraine headaches, muscle and joint pain, fatigue, arthritic
symptoms, infections of the nails, and even psoriasis.
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• Stage three involves difficulty in concentration, focus,
forgetfulness, memory loss, mental confusion, being at a loss for the
right word, dyslexia, impairment of skills such typing, playing a
sport or game. The confusion of what’s happening contributes to
crying spells, depression, sleep disorders such as insomnia,
confusion dreams, nightmares, apnea, and not feeling rested or
restored after sleep, irrational thoughts, phobias, anxiety attacks,
violence, muscle twitches, aggressive behavior, epileptic seizures,
and sometimes thoughts of suicide. At this point, diagnoses of bipolar,
or schizophrenia may be given.
• In stage four many organ systems may begin shutting down. The
endocrine system fails and the adrenals stop or the Digestive System
shuts down producing vomiting or severe constipation. Fatigue may
result in total muscle weakness. Body rashes become hives or boils.
Capillaries become clogged resulting in hypertension, coldness in
hands and feet, numbness of the extremities and easy bruising.
Constant low-grade fever, tachycardia, difficulty in breathing affects
speaking, singing, or even walking may happen. Failure of the
immune system leaves the body defenseless against all enemy
bacteria, viruses, and disease conditions--including cancer.
• Stage five can actually lead to death.
The same site provides the following list of symptoms. Ironically,
many of these symptoms are the same for Lyme disease. I hate to be
simplistic, but it simply points out the value of diet and there’s no
better diet than the Parasite Lyme Diet SM
• Adrenal/
Thyroid Failure •
PMS Symptoms
• Poor Memory •
Bad Breath
• Hyperactivity •
Colds & Flu
• Gas/Bloating
• Irritability
• Mood Swings
• Indigestion
• Lethargic/
Laziness
• Muscle Aches
• Ulcers
• Insomnia
• Chemical
Sensitivity
• Constipation
• Anti-social
• Endometriosis
• Diarrhea
• Puffy Eyes
• Vaginal Yeast
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• Suicidal
• Respiratory
Problems
• Colon Cancer
• Menstrual
Problems
• Hormone
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• Cold/Shaky
• Dry Skin &
Itching
• Low Blood Sugar
• FATIGUE
(Chronic)
• Cystitis
• Food Cravings
• Epstein Bar
• Burning
• Heartburn
• Infections
• Thrush/Gum
Receding
• Hiatal Hernia
• Asthma
• Infections
• Intestinal Pain
• Skin Rashes &
Hives
• Premature Aging
• Dry Mouth
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• Hemorrhoids
• Finger/
Toenail Fungus •
Headaches
• Over & Under
Weight
• Over-all Bad
Feeling
• Depression
• Lupus
• Numbness
There's some good and bad news. The good news is that with
parasites, I could go after both the parasites and the candida at the
same time. However, this is the main diet for up to three months to
fight candida. Doctors usually use Nystatin or Diflucan to fight
Candida Albicans if they ever bother looking for it or believe in it.
I learned that garlic and Biotin (inhibits candida) are also great to
use. Although lactobacillus acidophilus, bifidus, are recommended
for the treatment of candida, I'm not sure how they play with the
parasites--they may activate them. I believe I avoided developing the
complications of candida because early on I used a ton of garlic in
my own recovery--another reason for using it.
Ordering in Restaurants
When I order in a restaurant, I'd explain that I have a severe allergy
to different foods, vegetable oils and margarine, and that everything
must be prepared in butter. I order very cautiously, question all
ingredients, and make sure that their butter is not a butter-margarine
mix. Usually I find that hamburger is safe with lettuce, tomato,
onion, without the bun. If ordering steaks and other meats, I make
sure that they are not marinated beforehand. Usually I can get grilled
chicken and I order vegetables steamed only. I make sure that
anything done in butter such as shrimp scampi is done in real butter
as opposed to a blend of butter and margarine. Of course I have no
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If ate in a Chinese restaurant, I ordered the food steamed (no sauces)
and took along my own garlic butter sauce. I added chopped garlic
and some red pepper to melted butter.
Going Off the Diet
What happens when you go off the diet? Here's part of an email from
Krista which also describes a treatment protocol, "A while back I
went to Dr. Bransfield which is a Dr. that you recommended.
Although Dr. Bransfield doesn't know all about this sickness, he has
been the only Doctor that has given me prescriptions. He was in
contact with Ginger Savely (leader of the Morgellon's foundation)
and she informed him that she gives her patients Sulfur and
antibiotics. He prescribed Biaxin XL 500mg tablets (take 1 in the
morning and 1 at night) and also to Sulfameth/trimethoprim 800/160
tabs (generic brand of Bactrim DS tabs) (2 in the morning and 2 at
night). I started taking these this past summer. It seemed to help
quite a bit, but I still felt like I had a few parasites in me, just not
near as much) I took a trip to Florida and tied my dirty clothes in a
bag, put on new clothes, and the whole 3 days I had no symptoms at
all. I also went off my diet in Florida, and I still felt great. When I
returned home I started itching again. So I think it's probably what I
wore when I came home or just something in my home environment.
My symptoms came back full force when I got on the plane to come
home, so I don't know if God just worked a miracle for me and let me
have a stress free vacation, or if there was something actually in the
plane or my clothes. Anyway, I'm taking the medicines again and
they are once again helping me. I also order the skin zinc, also since
Ginger Savely recommends Sulfur, I bought not only the medicine
but also MSM Cream (sulfur cream) which is easy to find on the
internet"
Question. Did the meds or the diet provide Krista the relief? I know
that the level of relief she experienced is possible with diet alone and
I also strongly believe that no meds no matter how effective they
may ultimately prove themselves will work without the diet. In my
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opinion she experienced what I have many times—I’d get symptom
free for months while on the diet, think I was cured, stop the diet,
and find all symptoms returning full force within ten days.
Moving to Stage II of the Diet.
I used to think that I should be free of all old lesions before
advancing to stage II. I’ve since realized that that might not occur in
this life-time so I adopted a more realistic view and the answer is
ASAP. I advance to Stage II as soon as all crawling, itching, and
biting and new lesions have healed or been gone for at least two
days. If I advance too quickly, it only means I’ll experience some
crawling or itching and I’ll retreat to Stage I for a few more days.
And with the glutathione accelerator I started using in 2010 it's far
easier to advance through all the stages.
In stage II of the diet I could add the following to what I was eating
in Stage I:
• Light cream or half and half (no additives)
• Farmer's cheese
• Sour cream
• Walnuts
• Bananas and Green Apples
• Pumpernickel bread. One is a brand of pumpernickel
bread sold in some Russian communities--read the labels. I found
one in Brooklyn at Dominoes on Kings Hwy. Shop Rite food stores
sell a one pound loaf which contains wheat (for some reason in this
particular flour mix, the wheat doesn’t matter, however, a higher
percentage of wheat may be a problem. Unfortunately, the label
doesn’t disclose the amount of wheat or the percentage.
• Cereal (Rice Chex, Rice Krispies, rice puffs, and puffed
millet)
• Macadamia nuts (not roasted), brazil nuts--no peanuts,
pine nuts, cashews, or almonds. Other nuts have not been tested.
• Green tea (only the Salada brand all others I looked at
have additives.
• Light beer, white wine (no zynfandel, rose, or red) white
champagne, gin, whiskey -- one drink maximum.
• Root beer, cherry coke, birch beer, lemon/lime sodas
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(Parasites don’t seem to respond to these drinks, but it's best to avoid
all carbonated drinks in general because they seriously deplete the
body of calcium and contribute to acidosis).
• Selected flavors of Haagan Daz ice cream (vanilla,
chocolate, chocolate chocolate chip, vanilla chocolate chip, vanilla
and chocolate mouse—I think they discontinued this flavor) Ice
cream makes a great topping for pancakes.
• Home-made ice cream with macadamia or walnuts.
Recipe in Chapter V.
• Sugar.
• Sea bass, trout, halibut, white fish, flounder, basa… (stay
away from oily fish).
• Jolly Rancher candy and sassafras (root beer-like hard
candy) are the only candies.
• Vanilla or Cappuccino Meringue Cookies.
• Wasa Sourdough Rye Crackers, or Wasa Crackers made
with rye bran, or Ryveta made of dark rye.
• Millet is great for breakfast with sugar.
Compatible Supplements:
• First, where possible, I only used caplets or tablets. If the
supplement is only available in capsule form, I removed the
ingredients from the capsules and discarded the empty capsules.
• Secondly, I found that vitamins are important. However, most
have additives, binders, or are in capsules that cause reactions.
Multivitamin: The best hypoallergenic multi vitamin I found is the
Complete Nutritional System by Rain Bow Light found in most
health food stores for about $37.50 for 180 tablets. It lists a couple
ingredients that are generally to be avoided, however in all the years
others and myself have used it, it has not produced parasitic activity
so I can only assume that these ingredients are an exception to the
rule in the formulation of this vitamin.
Minerals: Even though the Complete Nutritional system contains
minerals, I use Xooma for an ionic source of minerals and for
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another dozen reasons. I just add it to my daily drinking supply. If
you go to www dstressdoc.com/Xooma.html you'll find a very
informative write up as to its many benefits--just skip over the
earning potential info and read about its many benefits. In an earlier
chapter I referred to Coral Calcium (this is the same product
marketed under a different name).
Many ask me if I feel differently for having used Coral Calcium and
I always gave the same canned answer that I never felt badly to start
with. Recently I realized how silly that question is for it’s like asking
someone if they feel differently for drinking carbonated beverages
such as soda for two years. Forgive me for being blunt, but drinking
carbonated beverages is similar to ingesting one’s own urine. Carbon
dioxide is a waste product of the body and by drinking it;
simplistically put the CO2 ends up capturing Calcium from Ca(OH)2
to form Calcium Carbonate CaCO3 which is chalk. This totally
screws up the calcium balance in the body and after years and years
of this abuse all kinds of physical ailments can result such as
juvenile diabetes, osteoporosis, arthritis, heart problems, and so on.
Calcium is used in literally hundreds of chemical reactions within
the body every day. So, can I feel juvenile diabetes starting, or the
foundation of osteoporosis, or the beginning of heart disease from
drinking soda? Stupid questions, right? I only know that eliminating
carbonated beverages makes sense and going one step further to
enhance my mineral balance with Xooma makes even more sense.
Vitamin C: I find the best source is from Puritan Pride at www
puritan.com product # 695 phone 1-800-645-1030. Solaray also has
a Vitamin C in powder form. I take a thousand mg/day.
Enzymes: Not necessary to fight parasites but if you do use them,
the best I've found are from Health Thru Nutrition available on my
website at www DstressDoc.com/assimilator.html (need to remove
contents from the capsule)* I tried Vitazyme and they seem to have
activated the parasites.
Antioxidants: Up until 2010 the best I knew of was pomegranate
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available through Puritan Pride (need to remove contents from the
capsule). I tried the liquid from Costco (tasty, but the parasites love
it too.) In 2010 I found the Max glutathione accelerator which is
far superior to pomegranate. In fact it's about 20,000 times more
powerful than acai berry or any other antioxidant you can ingest. The
glutathione accelerator and the Complete Nutritional System are the
top two supplements I recommend. Everything after that is up to
personal preference. More information at www
GlutathioneForHealth.com/Parasites.htm,
B-100 from NOW vitamin company-again it’s important to remove
the contents from the capsule.
Notes:
*capsules are generally made of gelatin and parasites seem to love it.
The B100 and pomegranate have a terrible taste so you might
experiment making a paste with water and adding Stevia to sweeten
it. The enzymes can be sprinkled on your food and I find the taste
quite OK.
**Call 1- 800-584-4481Golden West Speciality Foods to order rice
bran oil.
*** MSG Because of the pressure for natural foods, the producers of
monosodium glutonate hide it as an ingredient by calling it other
names. Here they are:
gelatin.
hydrolyzed vegetable protein.
yeast extract.
malted barley.
rice or brown rice syrup.
Definitely you want to avoid any foods containing any of theses
ingredients for Stage I and Stage II of the diet.
Stage III of the Diet
Stage III of the diet is close to eating normally. You can have
basically everything you want to eat. However, if you have some
things on a regular basis the parasites will reactivate.
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Foods that reactivate parasites and you should forever avoid on a
regular basis are:
• All oils except for rice bran, butter, lard, and garlic oil.
• Peanuts.
• Most mushrooms.
• Except for bananas and green apples, eat fruit only
occasionally. I had been free of all reactions and my wife
brought home water melon. I ate water melon every night
for about three weeks and in spite of taking ORAP I started
noticing reactions. I stopped the water melon and the
reactions stopped too. Best thing is to not make fruit a
habit.
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Chapter V Recipes
Breakfast
• Omlet
• Two eggs
• chopped
• onion,
• tomatoes,
• scallion,
• spinach,
• chopped peppers,
•cheddar, jack, or Monterrey cheese (stage II)
flavored with:
• oregano,
• crushed red pepper,
• black pepper
• salt.
And of course what would breakfast be without bacon. Toast
(Stage I Spelt bread, Stage II Dark Pumpernickel) with butter.
Pancakes (see deserts below)
Lunch and Dinner
Recipes for Stage I of the King Diet SM (Parasite/Lyme Diet SM )
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•Perfect Rice--the #1 staple
Many dishes go well with rice. Use white or brown rice--long or
short grain, it doesn’t matter. Later when you get fancy you can
graduate to risotto.
1. Place one cup of water in a pot and about a teaspoon of butter,
1/2 teaspoon salt, and bring it to a boil with the top on—simply
makes it faster to boil.
2. Then add in ½ cup of rice to the boiling water. If you want to
rinse it in a strainer beforehand, that’s fine. The most important
thing is to reduce the heat on the burner to low as soon as the
rice is added and place the cover back on the pot.
3. Thirty to forty minutes later for brown rice (twenty minutes
for white rice) you will have perfect rice without having to
scrape it from the bottom of the pot.
1. Flavor it with pepper and butter as desired and serve.
2. Saute chopped garlic in butter and add to the rice.
•Fancy Rice
How about rice with onion or peppers, or both onion and
peppers?
1. Cook your rice as instructed above.
2. Use about 1/3 or a pepper (any color) and about 1/3 of an
onion.
3. Chop the peppers and or onions into small square pieces
about 3/8”.
4. Saute them with rice bran oil* or butter as described below
and when rice is finished, add them to the rice and stir to mix
them with the rice.
5. Flavor the rice with salt, pepper and butter as desired.
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• Staple #2 Perfect Pasta.
Sometimes you just want to break up the rice thing with pasta—it’s
the easiest thing on the planet to make. Visit your favorite super
market or health food store and purchase rice pasta. You can get
fancy with meat or marinara sauce, but let’s leave it simple.
Linguine, spaghetti, spirals or whatever: I prefer a spinach rice
spaghetti style of pasta.
1. Simply fill a large pot half way with water, add a teaspoon
of butter and a ½ teaspoon of salt,
2. Cover it and bring to a boil.
3. Then add in the pasta and keep the heat on high for the
recommended period of time (on the package—usually 8-to-
11 minutes).
4. Keep the cover off. Stir every few minutes to keep the
pasta from clumping or sticking to the bottom of the pot.
5. When finished, dump into a colander and cover it until you
serve.
6. Serve with a fine grade of parmesan cheese sprinkled on
top (Stage II)—I prefer sheep cheese (late stage I).
• Perfect Vegetables
• Steamed—
1. Cut your vegetables (broccoli, cauliflower, green beans).
2. Place 1/2”-1” of water in the bottom of a pot and bring to
boil.
3. Place the vegetables in the steamer and then into the hot
water and cover.
4. Steam on high heat for 5 minutes.
5. Make sure you set a timer so you are reminded when
finished, otherwise, if you forget, you’ll have burnt
vegetables as the water will quickly boil away.
6. To avoid your veggies getting too cold before serving
them, melt butter with salt and pepper, or warm rice bran
oil* flavored with salt and or pepper. You may also want to
warm a bowl for the veggies.
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7. Place veggies in the warm bowl and pour your butter sauce
over them and stir to distribute the sauce. If you like, flavor
by sprinkling a tablespoon of Parmesan cheese (sheep) over
the veggies and cover until you’re ready to serve.
• Sautéed— green beans, collard greens, arugula, spinach,
broccoli.
1. Use a large 13” pan with cover.
2. Place a tablespoon of rice bran oil* in the pan with the
burner on high for a minute.
3. Then add your vegetables and reduce the heat to low.
4. If you’re using spinach or collard greens, fill the pan to
the top as when heated, the greens seem to disappear as they
shrink.
5. Bring to medium low heat and cover.
6. Sprinkle with approx 1/2 teaspoon of salt (I use Morton's
light salt which is high in potassium) and some cracked
pepper as desired.
7. Stir every 4 or 5 minutes for about fifteen minutes.
8. For the last two minutes, add in chopped garlic and stir.
Garlic cooked longer than a couple minutes begins to lose its
nutrient value. Avoid over heating as too much heat will
burn the garlic along with your veggies. The trick is to keep
from burning the garlic so keep an eye on it and reduce heat
if you notice the garlic browning.
• Perfect Shrimp Scampi for Two
• 1 ¼ pound of raw shrimp
• 1 stick of butter
• Chopped garlic
• Parsley
• Lemon
1. Start the shrimp scampi about 10 minutes before the rice is
finished. Melt one stick of butter on low heat. While melting
the butter, remove the shells from the shrimp.
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2. Then add several cloves of chopped garlic to the melted
butter. You can get the garlic that’s already chopped or chop
it yourself into small pieces (fresh garlic is far more
nutritious than chopped garlic from a jar)—of course
remove the outer shell of the garlic before chopping.
3. Lay the shrimp in the butter—usually you will need a 13”
pan to accommodate 1 ¼ pound of shrimp. You can leave
the pan on the burner or take it off to add the shrimp. Do
not place shrimp on top of each other—have them all
touching the bottom of the pan.
4. Once the shrimp are distributed in the pan, sprinkle with
parsley and squeeze in the juice from ½ of a lemon.
Cover the pan and let it cook the shrimp for about 3 minutes
on a low-medium heat.
5. Remove the cover after the second or third minute to
check to see if the shrimp are finished—their beautiful
bottoms will be red and the tops might still be pink.
6. When you see the redness beginning to reach the top half
of the shrimp, use two forks or chop sticks to flip each one
over and sprinkle more parsley on the flipped shrimp.
7. Cover the pan for another two to three minutes. It’s easy
to see when they are finished—they are all red top to
bottom.
If you have the luxury of heating the plates, do so and when
the shrimp are ready, serve the rice first and keep the rice
covered to keep it warm.
8. Using a large spoon, serve the shrimp and the butter
garlic sauce on top of the bed of rice.
9. There’s only one more thing to do and that is enjoy.
Bread (spelt for stage I and dark pumpernickel for stage II)
is optional, makes a great mop for the sauce that no one can
stand to see thrown away.
While we’re on the subject of seafood, how about King
Crab legs—very easy dish.
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• Perfect King Crab Legs for Two
• 1/3 stick of butter
• 1 ¾ pounds of king crab legs
• Lemon
1. Start the king crab about 10 minutes before the rice is
finished. You’ll need pan with a cover large enough to fit in
the legs.
2. Ideally, place a vegetable steamer in the bottom of the pan
with about ½” of water.
3. Bring it to a boil with the top in place, then place the crab
legs in the pot and cover keeping the heat on high for 5
minutes.
4. While the legs are steaming, melt ½ stick of butter in a
small pot. Add the juice from about 1/3 of a lemon to the
butter along with a pinch of salt.
5. Serve the rice or pasta and crab legs with the drawn butter
and enjoy.
• Perfect Lobster
• 2 lobsters 1 ¼ to 1 ¾ pounds each
• 1/3 stick of butter
• Lemon
1. Start the lobsters about 20 minutes before the rice is
finished. You’ll need a relatively large pot with a top. Place
the vegetable steamer in the bottom—not really necessary,
but I like to use it to keep the lobster from collecting too
much water.
2. Fill the bottom of the pot with ½” of water and bring to
boil. Place the lobsters in the pot and cover.
3. Let them steam on high heat for about 14 minutes. If your
lobsters weigh more, you’ll need to add a few minutes to the
steaming.
4. Heat the butter and add the juice from 1/3 of a lemon, and
a pinch of salt.
5. Serve with rice or pasta and enjoy.
• Perfect Steamers
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• 11/2 Pound of steamer clams (enough for 2 people)
1. Soak them in cold water with black pepper for 30-45
minutes to cleanse them (they will spit out the sand).
2. Add 2" of water to the bottom of a sauce pan, bring to
boil, and then add the clams. When the water begins boiling
again, boil for 5 minutes. Steaming longer will result in
rubbery clams.
• Dipping sauce
• 1/4 cup butter
• Dried parsley
• Chopped garlic
• Pinch of salt
1. Heat the butter and garlic and add in the parsley to
your liking.
2. In stage II of diet, you can replace the water with
light beer to make beer steamers.
• Perfect Chicken in Wine Sauce
• 3 boneless chicken breasts
• 1/3 stick of butter
• 1 cup of white wine (Stage II only)
• Lemon
• Salt and pepper
1. Start by preparing the chicken 30 minutes before serving.
Prepare the chicken (wash and slice thinly—usually two to
three pieces per breast depending on the thickness of the
chicken breast.
2. You’ll need a 13” pan to fit all the chicken. Melt the butter
in the pan on low heat and then place the chicken—see
below for breading option--in the butter. Make sure all the
chicken is laid in the bottom of the pan—no stacking.
3. Turn the heat to medium low and let the chicken brown
for about 5 minutes as you sprinkle salt and pepper to your
liking.
4. Then flip over the pieces and brown the other side for
about 4 minutes as you add more salt and pepper.
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5. Add one cup of white wine and the juice from 1/3 of a
lemon, cover and cook for about 5 minutes until the chicken
is thoroughly cooked.
6. Lay a bed of rice on the plate and serve the rice and wine
sauce on top.
7. Enjoy.
• Breading Option:
• Egg
• ½ cup of rice bran, millet, spelt, or dark rye flour.
1. Place an egg in one bowl and mix to distribute the
yoke. Place ½ cup of flour in another bowl. Add the
salt and pepper to the flour and mix.
2. Follow above instructions except before placing
the chicken in the pan, wet it first (both sides), with
the egg and then dip in the flour (both sides), and
then place it in the pan. Follow instructions for
perfect breaded chicken in wine sauce.
• Perfect Lemon Butter Chicken
• 3 boneless chicken breasts
• 1 stick of butter
• Juice from 1/2 lemon
• Salt and pepper
1. Start preparing the chicken 30 minutes before serving.
Prepare the chicken (wash and slice thinly—usually two to
three pieces per breast depending on the thickness of the
chicken breast). You’ll need a 13” pan to fit all the chicken.
2. Melt all the butter in the pan on low heat and then place
the chicken—see above for breading option--in the butter.
3. Make sure all the chicken is laid in the bottom of the
pan—no stacking.
4. Turn the heat to medium low and let the chicken brown for
about 5 minutes.
5. Sprinkle salt and pepper to your liking.
6. Then flip over the pieces and brown the other side for
about 4 minutes adding more salt and pepper.
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7. Add the juice from ½ to ¾ of a lemon, cover and cook
for about 5 minutes until the chicken is thoroughly
cooked.
8. Lay a bed of rice on the plate and serve the rice and
wine sauce (stage II) on top. Enjoy
• Perfect Sausage Peppers and Onions
• 1 lb of sausage (without fennel)
• Assortment of red, green, orange, and or yellow (if
desired) peppers
• 1 large onion
• Crushed red pepper spice (if desired)
• 1 clove of chopped garlic
1. Place sausage in pan with low-to-medium heat and cover.
Note: some like to boil sausage in the water first for 10
minutes to remove excess fat and then place in pan to seer or
brown. When finished, remove them from the pan and add
them back in later.
2. Cut the peppers in strips from top to bottom about 3/8”
wide.
3. Cut the onion in half from top to bottom and then in slices
about the same width in the same direction.
4. Place a tablespoon full of rice bran oil* and about 5
tablespoons of water in a large stir fry pan and then add the
onions, garlic, and peppers and bring to medium heat.
5. Cover and stir every 5 minutes for a total of 20 minutes.
6. Add salt, black and red pepper to flavor.
7. Slice the browned sausages with a slight diagonal cut into
½” pieces and stir them into the peppers and onions and
cover for 5 minutes or until the peppers are to your liking—
some people like them soft and some like them a bit
crunchy.
8. Serve when ready over brown rice. An option is to leave
the sausages full length as opposed to slicing them.
9. Enjoy with pumpernickel bread (stage II only).
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To add zest, serve with horse radish and or ketchup (no corn
syrup). Peppers and onions can taste bland and empty—the
secret is the right amount of salt, but be careful. Too much
salt and the dish is ruined. Too little and the dish is tasteless.
So it’s best to add as you are stirring during the last 10
minutes and constantly do taste testing.
• Perfect Salad
No dinner is complete without the perfect salad. Obtain at least 10 of
the following ingredients:
• Spinach, Romaine, Red or
Green leaf lettuce
• Roasted Red Peppers (in
water only)
• Shredded Red Cabbage
• Red Onion
• Radishes
• Tomatoes
• Broccoli
• Cucumber
• Zucchini (any color)
• Bacon bits (made from real
bacon)
• Cooked Shrimp (in butter)
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• Red, Green, Yellow, or
Orange Peppers
• Celery
• Walnuts (late stage I)
• Feta Cheese
• Goat Cheese
• Parmesan Cheese from
sheep
• Yellow Cheddar (stage II
only)
• Cabbot Habanero cheese
(hot) (stage II only)
• Jack or Pepper Jack
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• Mozzarella (stage II only)

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The secret is in how the ingredients are sliced, cut or prepared—
more to come.
1. Start with the leafy greens. If you’re using triple washed spinach
you simply load the salad bowl to near the top with spinach. If
you’re using a leafy lettuce, rip off leaves and wash them to remove
any grit or dirt. Then break the leaves into small pieces about 2” by
2”. An easy way is to not break off the leaves but to use a Ginsu
knife and cut from the top of the lettuce downward 2” towards the
bottom, rotate the head 90 degrees and do it again. Then take the
knife and 1 ½” from the top cut across the top of the head and let the
pieces fall into a colander. You can continue the same procedure of
cutting top to bottom and across until you have enough lettuce and
you’ll find that the pieces are in perfect size.
2. Roasted Red Peppers--Cut the roasted red peppers on a chopping
block into bite size pieces before adding to the salad—no specific
way to cut.
3. Red Cabbage--Distribute shredded red cabbage as desired over
the salad in each bowl.
4. Wash the radishes, cut off the top and bottom and discard. Slice
the radish into each bowl about 1/8” thick.
5. Cucumbers—Wash the cucumber and thinly slice approximately
¼ of a cucumber so you have circular pieces about 1/4” thick
6. Zucchini-- Wash the zucchini and thinly slice approximately 1/4
of a zucchini so you have circular pieces about 1/4” thick.
7. Celery--Wash a stick of celery and from the end of the widest
part, make one or two cuts an inch or two deep along the length of
the stalk, and then make narrow slices (about ¼” wide) across from
the bottom where you end up with two or three pieces for each slice.
When you’re into the narrow part of the stalk, the cuts along the
length are no longer necessary.
8. Red Onion—Remove the skin and cut off the top and or bottom.
Make thin slices about 1/8” thick. Only add about three or four slices
and separate the slices so you end up with narrow lengths of onion
decorating the salad.
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9. Tomatoes—Cut into wedges—not slices although you can slice
off the bottom a piece about and inch thick and then cut that into four
pieces and from there just cut wedges. No more than about two or
three wedges per salad. Alternatively, use cherry tomatoes.
10. Bacon--Fry the bacon until crispy on medium heat. After it’s
cooled, place in a paper towel to absorb all the grease, then break it
into small pieces and add to the salad.
11. Nuts--Add walnuts (late stage I)—break them into smaller pieces
by crushing them in your hand as you add them to the salad.
12. Peppers—One or two slices from top to bottom about ½” width
and then cut into smaller pieces about ½” wide. Don’t overload the
salad with too many peppers. One slice of each color is sufficient.
13. Broccoli—Cut off the smallest heads and if necessary cut them
from top to bottom to reduce size.
14. Cheese--Add in three or more cheeses for flavor. Cut the cheddar
or any solid block cheese into slices, then strips, and then small
pieces and add to the salad. Cut the mozzarella into small chunks.
Sprinkle feta and parmesan cheese over the salad. (Stage II only)
15. Shrimp—Peel away the shell and distribute on top of the salad.
Dressing—add rice bran oil* or alternatively use the shrimp cocktail
sauce below -- usually this salad is so flavorful that little if any salad
dressing is required. Add oregano, salt, black pepper, and hot red
pepper flakes as desired.
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If you use shrimp, you may want the perfect shrimp cocktail sauce
as dressing. The trick is to have a little of everything and not a lot of
any one thing.
• Perfect Shrimp Cocktail Sauce
• Gold’s hot horseradish
• Catsup (low sugar or sugar free)
• Lemon
For two people, use a teaspoon of hot horseradish and about three
tablespoons of ketchup. Add in the juice from 1/3 of a medium size
lemon and stir. Adjust the amount of horseradish according to your
taste.
More dishes? Sure, you almost double your repertoire by using
boneless pork or lamb chops to substitute for the chicken in the
above recipes.
• Pasta Sauce Amatrciana
• 2 or more garlic cloves
• 4 medium onions, diced
• ¼ cup butter and or rice bran oil
• 1/3 cup pancetta or prosciutto--diced
• 5 cups peeled tomatoes, or 1 quart canned tomatoes diced
• 1 tsp. salt 1/2 tsp pepper
• parmigiano- reggiano cheese (stage II)
1. Cook garlic and onions in butter, over low
hear, 20 min. (covered).
2. Remove lid, cook 10 minutes until golden
brown.
3. Add pancetta and cook 10 minutes.
4. Add tomatoes and cook 15-20 minutes.
5. Add salt and pepper, reduce sauce slightly.
6. Add cheese toss with spelt spaghetti (about
12 ozs.)
• Pizza Crust
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Deserts
•1 1/2cup spelt flour
•1 Tbs. baking powder
•1 half tsp. sea salt
•1 1/2 cup water
•2 Tbs. rice bran oil
1. Pre heat over to 400 degrees
2. Place flour, baking powder, and salt in
bowl.
3. Add water and oil mixture gradually, might
need more water.
4. Knead for 5 to 7 minutes on floured board.
5. Cover and let rest while preparing toppings.
This is better than no pizza at all, but add flavorful
toppings and you won't think about the crust.
Oil pan and press dough to edges. Add toppings below
and bake about 20 min.
• Pizza Toppings
Smoked sun dried tomatoes (soaked in water first), sliced
zucchini, broccoli, oregano, peppers, onions, garlic
(minced), Boar's Head pepperoni, goat cheese,
Parmesan, sliced or diced fresh tomatoes, parsley. No
need to precook veggies.
Some incredible deserts to satisfy carbohydrate cravings.
• Pancakes (Breakfast or Desert)
• 1 cup rice bran, spelt, dark rye, or millet flour.
• 1/2 teaspoon of salt.
• 1 cup of butter milk.
• 1 egg.
• ½ tablespoon cocoa (alkali base only, no soy lecithin)
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• One to four portions of Stevia (using included measuring
spoon).
• 1/3 cup walnuts (late stage I).
• ¼ cup of cooked rice or puffed rice or millet.
• 1 tablespoon of rice bran oil.
1. Beat the egg.
2. Add the butter or rice bran oil*, salt, cocoa, cooked
rice/puffed millet/rice and stevia.
3. Then add in the flour as you continue beating the mixture.
4. Place mixed ingredients in heated pan with rice bran oil*
to keep them from sticking. I enjoy them with Haagan Daz
ice cream (stage II).
• Homemade Ice Cream (Stage II only)
• 2 egg yokes.
• 1 teaspoon real vanilla.
• 4 cups half and half (no additives such as diglycerides),
• 1/4 cup walnuts.
• 1/2 cup of sugar or honey.
• 2 tablespoons of coca (optional for chocolate ice cream).
1. Heat the yoke of 2 eggs, a pinch of salt, and one cup of
half and half.
2. Stir in ¼ cup of sugar or honey in a double boiler until
residue of the mixture sticks on the stirrer.
3. Let cool.
4. Add 1 ½ teaspoons vanilla, and 3 cups of half and half (no
additives).
5. Set the mixture in the freezer for 2 hrs.
6. Transfer contents to ice cream maker and turn until
hardened. It would be preferred to use 2 ½ cups of heavy
cream and 1 ½ cup of half and half, however, most heavy or
light creams have additives.
7. Then put it in your ice cream freezer to finish.
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Store bought--Haagan Daz is the only brand limited to the flavors of
chocolate, vanilla, chocolate chocolate chip, vanilla chocolate chip,
vanilla or chocolate mouse.
• Chocolate Walnut Cake (Stage II only)—Stage I if you replace
all sugar with stevia and leave out the walnuts and vanilla.
• 2 1/2 cups sifted spelt, dark rye, brown rice, or millet flour
(I prefer half rye and half millet).
• 1/2 cup raw sugar.
•1 ½ teaspoon of stevia (2 teaspoons stevia—no sugar for
Stage I).
• 6 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa.
• 2 teaspoons baking soda.
4 eggs, well beaten.
• 2 cups sour cream.
•1/2 teaspoon vanilla.
•1 cup of broken or chopped walnuts.
1. Add eggs, stevia, sugar, baking soda, vanilla, and sour
cream—mix well.
2. Add in cocoa and flour as you continue mixing. Beat for 3
minutes on medium speed. Pour batter into a greased and floured
9x13-inch baking pan.
3. Bake the ingredients at 350° for 35 to 40 minutes (baking
time for larger pan is 25-30 minutes), or until a wooden pick or cake
tester inserted in center comes out clean.
• Chocolate Butter Frosting (Stage II only).
• 1/2 cup melted butter.
• 3/4 cup confectioners sugar.
• ½ teaspoon stevia.
• dash salt.
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract.
• 2 squares melted unsweetened chocolate.
• 3 tablespoons heavy cream or half-and-half (more or less).
1. Melt butter and chocolate squares
2. Place vanilla, salt, stevia, and half and half into
bowl and mix
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3. Gradually add sifted confectioners' sugar. Beat
until you have a smooth spreading consistency.
• Nutty Brownies made with cocoa and walnuts (Stage II)
• ½ cup (2 sticks) butter.
• ½ cup sugar.
• 1 ½ teaspoon stevia.
• 1 teaspoon vanilla.
• 4 eggs.
• ½ cup sour cream.
• 1 cup unsweetened cocoa.
• 1 ½ cup dark rye and millet flour (half of each) ,
• 1 teaspoons salt ½ teaspoon baking powder.
• 1 ½ cup chopped walnuts.
1. Cream butter, sugar, salt, stevia, baking powder until well
blended.
2. Add vanilla, sour cream, and eggs; beat until light and
fluffy.
3. Add cocoa, and then flour mixing in well.
4. Stir in chopped walnuts.
5. Spread in a buttered 16-inch square pan.
6. Bake at 350° for about 25 minutes. Cool in pan then cut in
squares.
Makes about 30 2-inch brownies. Caution (lack of sugar
seems to contribute to an airy cake which can be easy to
choke upon.
• Cheeseless cheese cake (Stage III only).
• 4 eggs – separated.
• 1 teaspoon lemon peel.
• 1 1/2 cup unsweetened condensed milk.
• ½ teaspoon stevia.
• 1/3 cup lemon juice.
• 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg.
• 2/3 cup zweiback crumbs.
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla.
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• 2 tablespoons melted butter.
Zweiback crumbs are crumbs that are twice baked. You can
toast pumpernickel bread twice—careful not to burn it and
use a roller to break them into crumbs.
1. Beat egg yolks and combine with condensed milk and
stevia.
2. Add lemon peel, juice, vanilla and nutmeg. Blend well.
3. Fold in stiffly beaten egg whites. Set aside.
4. Combine melted butter and zweiback crumbs. Sprinkle
butter 8-inch square or 9-inch round cake pan with half the
crumbs.
5. Pour in reserved filling mixture and sprinkle with
remaining crumbs.
6. Bake at 325° F for 30 minutes.
7. Turn off heat; let cool for one hour in oven with door
closed.
Makes 8 servings.
• Banana Nut bread recipe (Stage III only)
• 1 cup sugar.
• 1/2 cup rice bran oil.
• 2 eggs.
• 2 cups spelt, millet, dark rye, or rice flour.
• 1/2 cup chopped walnuts.
• 1 teaspoon baking soda.
• 3 soft, ripe bananas, mashed.
1. Cream sugar and shortening.
2. Add eggs, flour, baking soda, bananas, and chopped nuts.
3. Pour banana bread batter into 1 greased and floured loaf
pan.
4. Bake at 325° for about 1 hour and 15 minutes, or until a
toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. This banana nut
bread recipe makes 1 loaf.
A subscriber offers
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“I stumbled across recipes for South Amerian Empanadas—are you
familiar with these? They sound great—so many different varieties!
And basically, they use the ingredients we can eat—just substitute
spelt.
Publisher (at) thehealthyplanet.com
www PeopleAndPossibilities.com
www Alive.com
www AlternativeMedicine.com
www Ahcpub.com
www aaom.org
*Call 1- 800-584-4481 Golden West Specialty Foods to order rice
bran oil.
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Chapter VI Medical Approaches
Finding a Doctor
This is the most difficult chapter to write. An article by Ginger
Saverly, NP and Mary Leitao published in Advice for Nurse
Practitioners May 05, states that the average sufferer “seeks help
from between 10 and 40 providers and reports that symptoms are
not taken seriously.” Often times thorough exams are not performed
and symptoms are passed off as delusional; and open sores are
attributed to the patient’s attempts at self mutilation.
I'd bet that by now you've already gone to your general practitioner
for help and received none. You've been probably told that you're
causing your skin problem by scratching it too much or that it's all in
your head. One dermatologist I went to told me I had folie a deux.
But I didn't stop looking. I found my plight very discouraging in
that with all the professionals I contacted, not only did they lack skill
in prescribing effective treatments but as I've previously written they
knew nothing about bathing, diet, or environmental controls.
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In this chapter the medical treatments for collembola, strongyloides
stercoralis, and Morgellons are covered as well as the complications
of Lyme disease and protozoan infection. Doctors who are known to
work with skin parasites are identified and discussed.
Medical Treatment for Collembola (Spring tails)
There are 6,000 species of collembola. They are microscopic
organisms that live on decaying matter. And most experts will tell
you that it's impossible for them to live on humans.
As I previously have written in Chapter II there is no diagnostic tests
for collembola. In Chapter II I also wrote about them being
identified in a study by the National Pediculosis Association which
is the only way we know of their existence on humans.
Early Treatment
In the first several weeks, standard treatments may be of value if one
pays attention to the tips for bathing and disinfection in Chapter III.
A double descending dose of Prednisone may be sufficient. Likewise
using Elemite may also solve the problem (again if bathing and
disinfection tips in Chapter III are used). You may consider mixing
the Elemite with a tube of 999 cream when applying.
However, after the parasites have taken residence up in the deeper
layers of your skin, these approaches won't help but for a few days.
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Chronic and Acute Parasitic Folliculitis
Initially in the mid 90’s I had been to three dermatologist and three
different general practitioners and none of them knew anything
about the parasites. Finally, I found an old timer dermatologist. The
irony is that he was my next door neighbor. He didn't treat me like
an alien from outer space. He spoke of bird mites inhabiting window
air conditioners and how those who walk in the room with the
window unit on begin itching like crazy. It made sense because
many times while standing in my living room, I'd feel a sensation
like something was jumping on my ankles and lower legs. The
biggest problem may be to get rid of the vectors that carry the
parasites and the eggs of the parasites from your environment to
keep you from getting reinfected.
My Diagnosis
Finally a diagnosis—finally some direction from the medical
establishment: I was given a diagnosis of parasitic folliculitis and a
dosage of 1 mg of ORAP taken at bedtime for up to ten weeks.
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for those confirmed having parasitic infection. For your convenience
it's copied at the end of this chapter. It recommends:
• Initial dose: One-half of a 2 mg tablet qd
• Titrate dose: Increase dose by 1 mg/week to 4-6 mg qd
He also prescribed sulfur with Vaseline as a topical ointment. The
ORAP (Pimozide) was to be taken internally. The diagnosis was
parasitic folliculitis and prescription was for 1 mg BIO ORAP
(Pimozide). It took it for about ten weeks. I never used the sulfur and
Vaseline because I controlled the symptoms of itching and biting
with my diet. ORAP just happens to be a strong anti-psychotic
medication with potentially bad side effects. In fact most doctors
will give you a long lecture as to the bad side effects of this drug and
attempt to talk you out of it. What they don't tell you is that people
who usually have to take this drug for anti psychotic reasons have to
take a much higher dosage and for the rest of their lives—not just a
few months.
I asked Dr. Bransfield, a psychiatrist discussed later on in this
chapter in detail, if he understood why ORAP and Zyprexa help and
explained that they also have antiviral value.
Back to side effects: For me I noticed slight loss of motor
coordination in the beginning that lasted no longer than a few
minutes and that was it. As I walked down stairs my feet sometimes
felt as though they were asleep--I had less control of my feet than
usual. It was a small inconvenience and worth the side effect to get
rid of the itchy biting symptoms of the parasites. By the time my ten
week treatment was finished, I was able to eat Stage II foods and
continued to do so for approximately ten years until I became reinfected
in Feb 04.
By that time my doctor had retired from practice and couldn't write
prescriptions. So I went to my GP and asked for a prescription of
ORAP. She had several problems with my request. First there were
no visible signs of any infection on my skin other than a few
unhealed lesions (no rashes or major outbreaks) so it was possible as
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far as she was concerned that it was "all in my head." Secondly,
ORAP as I stated before can have some strong side effects. Even
though I gave her a copy of my diagnosis from the old timer
physician, she wanted to speak to him and scheduled me to see her
again in a few days--seemed like forever. Fortunately for me, she
was able to contact him and he informed her that Zyprexa was the
new treatment of choice which she prescribed a month's supply (2.5
mg at bedtime).
Zyprexa is no picnic either and can likewise have lots of side effects.
Go ahead and Google Orap side effects and Zyprexa side effects.
The challenge for me was to find a doctor like her to go along with
“giving it a try” rather than one who wanted to send me to a
psychologist. I returned to see her a month later, reported substantial
improvement and she renewed my script for a six month's supply at
a dosage of one tablet of 2.5 mg Zyprexa taken at bedtime. After
four months of Zyprexa I began developing painful side effects--pain
in my knees in the morning upon awakening. I was confused as to
the source for several weeks. It seemed that as the day went along,
the pain subsided so that by the time I went to bed, it was all gone.
Then one night I forgot to take the Zyprexa, woke up around 3:30
am feeling fine where I’d normally wake up at that time to go to the
bath room feeling discomfort in the knees. I took the Zyprexa at that
time and noticed as the morning rolled around, the pain returned. I
reduced my dosage to ½ pill at night and the side effects disappeared
for about two weeks and then it returned. I also noticed that I was
more aware of my breathing and could easily create an anxiety
attack if I didn’t just “flow with it” and realized it too was a side
effect. Then I went to two days of Zyprexa, followed by a two day
break and then back to 2 days of Zyprexa (reduced dosage).
There is one other potentially complicating issue which might have
brought on the side effects from Zyprexa. And that is that I was
bitten by a spider just prior to all the side effects. It was a serious
spider bite and may have somehow reacted with the Zyprexa.
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And three years later as I look back on the knee problems, I
eventually developed a extremely swollen painful knee from the
complications of Lyme disease. So I actually had several things
going on at the same time: I had gone off the Parasite Lyme Diet,
had a bad spider bite. So whether was it the spider bite that
aggravated my responses to Zyprexa? I'll never know. Fortunately
switching to ORAP worked for dealing with the parasites and the
glutathione accelerator worked for the inflamed knee.
When I'm infected and reactive to the parasites, to be successful in
using the ORAP or Zyprexa, it’s been imperative for me to be strict
and avoid all of the offending foods listed in Chapter IV. I
experimented with them on a very selective basis. If I consumed any
offending food as I previously explained in Chapter IV it could mean
a two week backslide—backslide in that I’d have a reaction in the
form of a papule that took up to two weeks to get rid of it. Even a
small food sample at Costco of something with an offending
ingredient, or one tiny tic tac was sufficient to cause this backslide.
The backslide was limited to the creation of papules and never
encompasses itching and biting unless I blatantly went off the diet
for several days. The longest I’ve been off the diet was for six
months while taking Mepron and Bactrim when I actually began to
think I might be cured—more about that later. Other than that time
when I used Mepron, the itching and biting return within seven days
of going off the diet.
Both ORAP and Zyprexa are generally used as meds for psychosis.
ORAP often used for Turrets' Syndrome and Zyprexa for the
treatment of schizophrenia. Recent information indicates that
continued use of Zyprexa leads to hypoglycemia and or diabetes in
some patients. However, instead of using Zyprexa year in and year
out as it's generally used, I was only on it for a few months. My
doctor ordered blood tests to check my lipids to make certain it’s OK
to continue its use.
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Another sufferer reported that his doctor was familiar with the
parasitic condition and prescribed Doxepin. He said, “Doxepin
almost makes the condition unnoticeable you take 1x a day at 10mg.
To my surprise my Lyme doctor said he had an acquaintance whom
suffered from a condition similar to mine. He stated that “Doxepin
acts to inhibit the allergic response the body is having against the
pathogens.” He went on to say, “At first Doxepin made me very
tired but then my body got used to the drug. For the most part have
rare irritation. I can even eat normally (I don’t suggest you go
crazy). I do suggest following the diet in order help purge of the
parasites.”
It is widely used for a variety of maladies as stated in the website,
“Doxepin (Adapin, Sinequan, Zonalon ) can also be used for the
treatment of anxiety, chronic skin disorders, itching, panic disorders,
peptic ulcer disease, postprandial hypoglycemia, post traumatic
stress disorder ( PTSD ), sleep disorders, or to stop the cravings of
smoking, swelling, and to decrease nightly urination. Doxepin
(Adapin, Sinequan, Zonalon ) has been used to combat chronic pain
in, arthritis, diabetic disease, herpes lesions, migraines, pain in
cancer patients, tension headaches, or tic douloureux.” www
medletter.com/freedocs/parasitic.pdf is a page for recommended
medications for a variety of different parasites which costs $49.
Medications that Help
In summary, for quick relief in addition to the diet I used ORAP and
Zyprexa; others have reported similar success using Doxeprin,
Zoloft, or Risperdal. Following is a list of the drugs and dosage
where it was given.
1. ORAP: 1 mg per day for ten weeks
2. Zyprexa: 2.5 mg per day at bed time for up to six months with
blood lipids checked after four mos.
3. Doxepin: 10 mg once per day (duration unknown)
4. Zolof: 25 mg once per day (duration unknown)
5. Risperdal: 1 ½ mg to 2 mg per day (duration unknown)
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But quite frankly in the last six years since this book was initially
written I haven't heard of anyone having success with any drugs
other than ORAP or Zyprexa or Doxepin. So if you do get a script
for one of the other drugs, you'll have to make your own evaluation
as to its effectiveness.
As I previously stated in Chapter I, I'm not a doctor and I'm not
making any medical recommendations. I'm only passing along what
has worked for me and many other subscribers. But I do get a lot of
people concerned about using Zyprexa or ORAP since they are both
anti-psychotics. And I get a lot of people who don't believe in using
medications, period.
In response to these concerns I point out that both Zyprexa and
ORAP are predominately known as anti-psychotic medication, but
that they are not limited to being anti-psychotics. They both are also
anti-parasitic as well and I must also reiterate what I written earlier
in this section and that is that both drugs as anti-psychotics are used
in much higher dosages than we use them and they are used basically
forever.
The other thing I point out is that the parasites that invaded my body
didn't care about any of my beliefs about not liking medication. I'm
65 and during my entire life the only drugs I ever used on rare
occasions were antibiotics. I hate the idea of using drugs and yet, I'd
rather use these drugs than suffer with the itching and biting of these
parasites or have to stay of Stage I of the diet indeffinitely.
In summary, the medications that work best for collembola are
ORAP and Zyprexa. But they are ineffective without the King
Diet SM . The King Diet SM alone can be used to reduce the itchy and
biting symptoms. However, using the diet alone is like trying to start
an engine that difficult to start. It can be very frustrating to get it
started. Using ORAP or Zyprexa makes it easier to start the engine
so there's less frustration but still work. Adding the glutathione
accelerator is like having an electric starter. More about that later.
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Strongyloides Stercoralis
In addition to having been infected with collembola I also was
infected with strongyloides stercoralis. In Chapter II we looked at
how to test and identify it along with it's life cycle and symptoms.
For me ORAP or Zyprexa was effective at controlling them. In the
late 90's I convinced my doctor to write a script for ivermectin. It's a
one time thing and after anticipating finally finding the solution, I
was disappointed as it provided no relief. Since that time, numerous
others have shared that they use ivermectin, but no one has claimed
success with it.
According to the Medical Letter at www
medletter.com/freedocs/parasitic.pdf the drugs of choice for the
treatment of uncomplicated strongyloidiasis are ivermectin with
albendazole* as the alternative. All patients who are at risk of
disseminated strongyloidiasis should be treated.
In addition to these, it suggests thiabendazole at 50 mg/kg/d in 2
doses X 2d. which I understand is becoming the treatment of choice.
For information on how to take this drug, Google “Thiabendazole.”
The brand name in the US is Mintezol.
My Thiabendazole Experience:
I sent a tube of blood to the PDC in Georgia (details in Chapter II)
and it tested positive for strongyloidiasis. I convinced my doctor to
write a script for thiabendazole. I took four doses at two week
intervals. I noticed no significant improvement as any attempt to eat
normally resulted in return of symptoms. I didn't realize this at the
time, but my symptoms may have been from the collembola and not
the strongyloides stercoralis. I researched the drug on the internet
and found its purpose is to stop the nematodes from growing and
multiplying. I asked my doctor what kills them and she replied that
my immune system is supposed to do that.
However, three months later I noticed a spike in immune functioning
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and the ability to eat Stage III foods without any reactions. It was
five weeks after I started ORAP and attributed my improvement to
ORAP, however, it could well be a combination of having used
thiabendazole and ORAP, or entirely from the thiabendazole and the
diet. Unfortunately, doctors know how humans react to antibiotics,
but know very little about dewormers.
Even though I haven't been tested for strongyloides stercoralis since
the first time, I believe that I'm free of them. In 05 before I used the
thiabendazole I had infected my fiance—photos in Chapter III. That
infection was most likely strongyloides as later in 2010 I became
reinfected with collembola and she was immune to them.
In summary I'd say that the King Diet TM , ORAP or Zyperxa kept the
symptoms minimal and the thiabendazole did stop their reproduction
and my immune system got rid of them.
Morgellons
Morgellons is a word coined by Mary Leito in 2002. A year before,
her two year old son began to complain of bugs and developed sores
under his lip. Leitao, with a BS in Biology worked as a lab
technician before becoming a stay-at-home mom. Upon examining
the sores she found red, blue, black, and white fibers. She consulted
over a half dozen physicians. Nothing was found to explain the
symptoms. A Johns Hopkin's pediatrician suggested that she'd
benefit from psychological intervention. Another, at the same
hospital, suggested that she might be suffering from “a psychiatric
syndrome in which a parent pretends a child is sick or makes him
sick to get attention from the medical system." It's called
Munchausen's by proxy.
Over the years, her son developed more sores, and more fibers
continued to poke out of them. Her husband, an internist with South
Allegheny Internal Medicine, could not explain the symptoms either.
Upon reading a letter to a friend by Sir Thomas Browne in 1690, she
chose the name Morgellons disease from a description of an illness
wherein Browne describes several medical conditions in his
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experience, including "that endemial distemper of children in
Languedoc, called the Morgellons, wherein they critically break out
with harsh hairs on their backs." However, it is not known whether
the symptoms described by Browne are linked to what is seen today.
In 2002 Leitao started the Morgellons Research Foundation
(MRF). The MRF, has recently turned over all research activity to
Randy Wymore at Oklahoma State University. Since the inception of
MRF, they have been contacted by over 12,000 people world wide
suffering from similar symptoms. I have not seen any results from
Oklahoma State, however, you'll find some research at www
carnicominstitute.org/html/articles_by_date.html
TheM orgellons Foundation was holding a yearly April conference
in Austin Texas when they invite professionals and Morgellons
sufferers. Knowing how easily morgellons can be transferred I do
question the wisdom of inviting those who are actively suffering
from Morgellons. Go to www thecehf.org for more information. I'm
not sure if they still hold the yearly conference.
Medical Diagnostic Tests to Identify Morgellons
As previously noted in Chapter III there is no recognized tests or
diagnostic procedures available to identify Morgellons and many
doctors simply don't believe it exists. There is no known medical
treatment available.
There are several doctors who, if your follow the message boards,
you'll find that works with Morgellons' patients.
Dr. Hildegarde Stainger
Dr. Stainger's theories on Morgellons--worth a read. Google “Dr.
Hildegarde Stainger” to find the GMO (genetically modified
organism) theory.
I have over a thousand subscribers suffering from parasites and no
one has provided any feedback on success or lack of success with his
approach.
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Dr. Overman
I've spoken to several subscribers who have consulted Dr. Overman.
He uses muscle testing (applied kinesiology) which I've always been
suspicious of to prescribe various anti-parasitic compounds. He's
rather religious and although no one has complained, no one has
really gotten much better despite the expense so unless I hear
otherwise from someone else who has improved dramatically, I'd say
save your money.
Dr. Sloan
Dr. Sloan has a CD recording available in which he states he's found
that 100% of sufferers have agrobacterium--bacteria that are in
plants causing growths. He's also noticed that 100% have fungal skin
issues. He's also noted that many patients have leaky gut syndrome
and suffer from inflammation.
He subscribes to the theory that things are morphing with the DNA
and that most sufferers are infected with bartonella from insects like
mosquitoes and bed bugs which complicates dealing with Lyme
disease. Ticks, fleas, sand flies, and lice are also presumed carriers
of the bartenella.
He notes the symptoms of Morgellons are:
• fibers under the skin—different colors
• white fibers in the environment
• brain fog
• low grade fever
• lumps under skin
• lesions on the skin
• adrenals not functioning well
• black particles in the skin—pepper flakes
• core body temp 95-97 degrees
• fibers that fluoresce in UV light
• White flakes from skin
• sand like grain from scratching fibers from wound
• eyebrows, eyelids, and ears are sensitive
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He feels that the route to dealing with Morgellons is through the gut
and that Ph is important for the gut—use of bicarbonate to raise Ph.
He also recommends an anti inflammatory diet—no soy, casein
(milk products) or gluten (wheat) and guess what, the King Diet is
that and a lot more.
I had one subscriber who went to him with many expectations and
came away disappointed as the test he ran came back negative and
she clearly suffers from Morgellons. But do notice the vectors he
suggests are responsible--no mention of slime mold, but he greatly
expands the vectors mentioned in Chapter II to mosquitoes, bed
bugs, ticks, fleas, and so on.
Dr. Schwartz
Reported to be expensive and again, no one has reported success.
Google Dr. Schwartz Morgellons for more information.
Dr. Amin
Dr. Amin believes that these parasites are as a result of heavy metal
toxicity. Heavy metal sensitivity is caused by high concentrations of
metals in the body-particularly from amalgam filings in one’s teeth.
He believes that toxicity compromises the immune functioning and
makes the system venerable to parasitic infection. One solution is to
remove the amalgam filings and replace them with amalgam free
material. Once the toxic materials are removed along with a
cleansing diet and immune strengthening nutrients, the immune
functioning is restored and the parasites neutralized. To learn more
about mercury toxicity go to www holisticmed.com/dental/amalgam.
A subscriber contributed the following information, “Neuro
Cutaneous Syndrome, a dermatological and neurological disorder
(dental sealant Toxicity). Dr. Omar M. Amin PHD and
parasitologist. Go to his website. I went all the way to Arizona to
see him. His protocol has cured people. Go to web and print dental
Sealant Toxicity NCS by Omar Amin. His phone number is 480 767-
2522. They are open Monday through Thursday 9 to 4 (two hours
behind). Dr. Amin's assistant John will answer the phone. His
diagnosis is that most of the symptoms are not parasites at all, but
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neurocutaneous symptoms, metabolites from lesions attract parasites
to compound the issue, however this is not the cause, he feels. The
dental sealants (some of which came with old silver fillings and
some with new root canals, crowns, and liners in white dental
fillings, come up on a dental biocompatability blood text as toxic.
These must be removed. This makes your immune system weak and
causes symptoms which feel like parasites. He feels that these toxins
coursing through the body are attractive to parasites as a secondary
infection. He is no dummy. If it works, you will be the first to know.”
This is the only feedback I've received from anyone utilizing his
services. And you need to know that you're into thousands of dollars
to change filings and re do crowns and so on. Plus if he indeed
believes that the symptoms are totally due to toxicity and have
nothing to do with parasites, then most of the people I know of won't
gain value since the parasites are real.
From my experience, there generally is more than one way to “skin
the cat.” I would suspect that heavy metal sensitivity is a co-factor.
In other words, there are other factors at play and we’re back to the
chicken and egg question. And that is, if one strengthens one’s
immune functioning, uses anti parasitic drugs/nutrients, and some of
the techniques discussed in the following, the heavy metal sensitivity
may be minimized as for many of us, replacing offending filings
could keep a dentist in business for years and be very expensive.
For what I believe are a far better and less expensive way of dealing
with toxicity, read the next chapter.
Treating the LYME and Protozoan Infections
I did find several doctors who treat Lyme differently than with the
standard medical approach. The difference between these physicians'
protocols and general medical approach to treatment of Lyme is the
extended use of antibiotics coupled with anti fungal meds and the
testing labs that they use for diagnosis. The reason anti-fungals are
used is for two reasons:
1. Long term use of antibiotics eliminates good bacteria as well as
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the Lyme bacteria resulting in an over population of yeast (Candida).
2. The Lyme bacterium (borellia) as mentioned before seeks out
yeast and fungi and actually will take residence in the yeast or fungi
where it is not susceptible to the antibiotics.
Typical testing labs such as LabCore or Quest are not dependable for
diagnosis of chronic Lyme (borellia) or the protozoan (babesia).
The first doctor I consulted was Dr. Harvey of Texas since retired.
The transcript of my intake session in which he explains the etiology
of Lyme and the protozoa and the connection to Morgellons is
available in the Appendix. Dr. Harvey had a blood sample kit sent to
me. I took it to my GP who took the samples along with samples for
complete blood count. I FedExed the kit to Bowen (now Central
Florida) labs in Florida. They found indications that I had both Lyme
and Protozoan. They have apparently gone out of business.
This is what the laboratory found in my blood. This microscopy is of
my red blood cells. The arrow points to one cell that’s infected.
Being that Central Florida Labs can no longer be found, I did find
another service at www spirostat.com which offers testing for both
Babesia and borrelia. Their phone number is (806) 885-2929. They do
a molecular analysis:
The Lyme (Borrelia) panel is $500
Babesia Panel $100 (add on to Lyme panel) or $250 by itself
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Fungus panel for $250.00
They can all be done with one blood sample.
This microscopy is an enlargement of the cell identified on the
previous page. The arrow points to the red blood cell giving birth to
a slew of the organisms.
However, after my blood was sent there and the analysis done, I was
declared free of protozoan. I questioned Dr. Bransfield to find that of
the several types of protozoa, IGeneX only tests for about three
types. Now that baffles me and says to me that Central Florida Labs
(using microscopy instead of blood antibody tests) is more thorough.
Too little is known about protozoan infection to rule out protozoan
infection simply from three types—suppose I have a type for which
no antibody test has become available. I didn’t ask that question as
that was my last contact with him and in the future I’d vote for the
test to be done at Central Florida Labs.
My initial intake with Dr. Bransfield who is actually a psychiatrist
consisted of 45 minutes of him going over the various symptoms of
Lyme. The complete transcript of that intake is available in the
Appendix to this book. It’s worth reading as the list of physical and
mental symptoms is astounding. In addition to treating for Lyme
disease, he deals with the psychiatric effects of having Lyme disease.
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The essence of that intake was a Lyme symptom questionnaire in
which he asked me about a hundred questions about my symptoms.
In comparison to most of those whom are affected by Lyme, I
actually am relatively symptom free to which I attribute the King
Diet TM and the supplements I used to maintain relatively excellent
health over those 14 years.
The earliest you can get an appointment with these doctors is 3-4
weeks which is why I went to my attending physician for Orap or
Zyprexa. After a re-infection in late 06 I tested stage I of the diet for
about four months and then made an appointment to see my
attending physician and received a prescription for Zyprexa.
To all of these doctors, the infecting parasite that causes Morgellons
is still a mystery although Dr. Sloan's agrobacterium--bacteria
finding is probably the right direction. In general they seem to know
little about the parasites that I’ve thus far listed. In Summary, their
approach to dealing with Lyme is antibiotics coupled with anti
fungals (to prevent unhealthy yeast to develop in the gut and to
complicate the long term antibiotic treatment)-a good idea. And they
generally don’t advise any dietary recommendations. Later in this
chapter I’ll share with you another doctor’s approach which is a far
improved as it considers diet and many other variables.
My mother's physician after reading Dr. Harvey's protocol in the
extended Appendix, which also goes into the etiology of Lyme and
Protozoan infection, treated her for four months with antibiotics and
anti fungals and she still has sores in her mouth that haven't healed.
According to him, cat's claw has been found most effective against
Lyme. To learn more about cat's claw Google “Dr. Howensteins'
approach to Lyme disease.”
Most of these doctors send blood samples to Igenex Labs, at 795 San
Antonio Rd., Palo Alto, California 94303. Phone # 650-424-1191 or
800-832.3200. The doctors also get a complete blood panel with cbc
from a local lab. As I previously commented, In the Appendix,
included with this book, you’ll find instructions on how to submit a
blood sample.
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Using Your Doctor
If I had it to do over, there's enough information in the extended
Appendix that would have saved me the wait and expense of the
specialists (I now refer to them as LYME doctors). My general
practitioner conferred with the dermatologist I originally saw (since
retired from practice) who initially prescribed ORAP for parasitic
folliculitis and ten years later on suggested that Zyprexa was the new
treatment of choice. She could also read Dr. Harvey's protocol,
extended Appendix, order my blood tests from either Central Florida
Labs or Igenex and prescribe the antibiotics and anti fungals if Lyme
or the protozoan is found. She could also become acquainted with Dr
Howenstein's information and suggest that approach as well. And
she could become familiar with Dr. Klinghardt’s approach discussed
later on.
However, many doctors don’t believe in long term antibiotics and
will refuse to follow Dr. Harvey’s protocol or the complicity of Dr.
Klinghardt’s since they are nutritionally ignorant. Some claim that
the medical board would make trouble for them if they strayed from
the standard protocols in the treatment of Lyme. You need to search
for a doctor that is willing to work with you—generally one who
practices holistically and favors nutritional approaches over the
medical. I was very fortunate to find the doctor that prescribed
ORAP.
From the interview with Dr. Harvey, in the Appendix, it's my
understanding that the parasites are normally destroyed by a strong
immune system. But because of our immune systems some how was
compromised--perhaps while fighting a bacterial/viral infection or
the introduction of a form of Chlamydia-not the sexually transmitted
strain--from dust outside, these parasites take up residence resulting
in protozoan, bacillum, and fungi infections in our blood--in fact
some of them hijack white blood cells and use them to reproduce.
These contagions aggravate all kinds of serious existing health
problems that one might have. The basic goal is to clean out the
organisms and strengthen the immune system at which point the
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parasites then might take leave although this didn't happen for me. In
retrospect, though, it might have had I stayed on the diet instead of
splurging with every tasty food that I had forgone in the past ten
years. With my laboratory photos, Dr Harvey sent me a physician's
protocol which further explains the etiology of the blood contagions.
If blood tests indicate the presence of the Lyme or Protozoan, an
antiprotozoan medication (Mepron), Zithromax plus antifungal
medications should be used to guard against Candida and other
yeast. The medications I've been on are Mepron sus glax which is an
anti protozoan agent, Metronidazo, SMZ/TMP (Bactrim for 3
months--an antibiotic), later Zithromax for three months, and then
Biaxin for another two months (another antibiotic). Simultaneously I
was on Fluconazole (100 mg once/week -- anti fungal) and Flagyl
750 mg two days in a row per week. The Mepron is used for 120
days. Some, whose immune systems are highly compromised are
given a treatment involving shots of gamoglobulin to boost immune
function. Remember, that according to Dr. Harvey, Lyme can hide
inside fungi or yeast cells to escape antibiotics and that's why the
anti fungals are used by many of these doctors--it's also a great
reason to be on the stage I of the King Diet as it's anti fungal and anti
yeast producing in nature.
Another combination of medications which helps comes from a
fellow sufferer: "A while back I went to Dr. Bransfield which is a Dr.
that you recommended. Although Dr. Bransfield doesn't know all
about this sickness, he has been the only Doctor that has given me
prescriptions. He was in contact with Ginger Savely (leader of the
Morgellon's foundation) and she informed him that she gives her
patients Sulfur and antibiotics. He prescribed Biaxin XL 500mg
tablets (take 1 in the morning and 1 at night) and also to
Sulfameth/trimethoprim 800/160 tabs (generic brand of Bactrim DS
tabs) (2 in the morning and 2 at night). I started taking these this
past summer. It seemed to help quite a bit..."
Fungus
Internal fungus and yeast complicate the treatment of Lyme. Lyme is
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described as a Trojan horse as it finds its way into a white blood cell
and then hijacks it and uses it to replicate. Lyme also uses any
fungus or yeast cells that may be available to reside. While in the
yeast or fungi, the Lyme is not affected by antibiotics. Whether or
not it has an intelligence that sends it looking for fungi and yeast
when it’s threatened by antibiotics is unknown. It probably simply
has an affinity for fungi and yeast.
Effective treatments for Lyme include not only antibiotics but also
anti fungal medications such as Flagryl or Fluconazole. Although
some doctors may make dietary recommendations, most (including
the one’s I’ve consulted) do not make any dietary recommendations
except to supplement antibiotics such as Zithromax with acidophilus
or probiotics. Unfortunately a poor diet cancels out the best of
probiotics or use of antifungals. Stage I of the diet along with
acidophilus and antifungals will give one a fighting chance and then,
according to Dr. Klinghardt (specialist in the treatment of Lyme)
more is required. More of his approach follows.
Doctors Recommended by Dr. Harvey for Lyme
Disease—some know little if anything about
Morgellons
Dr Harvey has retired from practice effective 9/6/05. Below is a list
of physicians which he recommended at that time to take his place,
first in Texas and then nationwide. As of this writing, I have not
checked to see how many are still in practice.
Texas :
1. Gamid Moayad, MD, Bedford ( Dallas ) 817-540-3388
2. Girginia Savely, FNP, Austin 512-892-7076 (may be limited in
the number of patients she’s seeing) Highly recommended is David
Martz, MD of the Rocky Mountain Chronic Illnesses Specialists,
LLC located in Colorado Springs, CO—no phone number given
(probably and oversight)
Nationwide:
3. Charles Jones, MD , New Haven CN (Pediatrics) 203-772-
1123 near Hartford airport.
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4. Robert Bransfield, MD, Red Bank, NJ (Psychiatry) 732-741-
3263 near Newark airport (only interested in working with those
who have psychological complications such as bipolar, depression...
5. Mary Parrish, FNP, Del Rio 830-774-4094
I learned of Dr. Bransfield from Dr Harvey with whom I've had my
initial consultation and blood tests. Please note that neither physician
is connected with this book in any way and neither physician has
supplied any information for this book except for my interviews and
sessions as a patient that I had with them.
Both charge $350 for the first hour (2004 pricing and no medical
insurance accepted).
3. Josepy Jemsek , MD Huntersville, NC 704-987-2111 near
Charlotte airport
4. Gregory Bach, DO, Colmar , PA (Internist) 215-997-9421
(very difficult to get an appointment)
I don't know which ones will do a telephone intake and even though
they may be more progressive than most general practitioners in
treating Lyme and Protozoan with antibiotics and anti-fungals,
neither of the two I've used as physicians impress me when it comes
to bathing protocols or environmental disinfection issues and neither
have even hinted at the value of diet--something Dr. Klinghardt—see
below--and maybe some other physicians may find very valuable. I
can only say that with any physician that I use, it’s my job to
constantly take care of environmental disinfection including bathing
protocols until I get rid of the pesky things and are itch symptom
free and the diet is of utmost importance no matter what medical or
nutritional approach I use.
Dr. Klinghardt’s Approach to Lyme
Otherwise, the key to this I believe is in a posting by Dr. Klinghardt
regarding the treatment of Lyme disease. His complete posting is in
the Appendix. It is one of the most comprehensive protocols I’ve
read and most enlightening. It’s mainly about the treatment of Lyme
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disease—makes no mention of Morgellons—however, he
extensively addresses the issue of parasite removal.
Here are some details about Dr. Klinghardt as supplied by another
subscriber. “He has a waiting list a few months out and favors
children. No insurance...have to file yourself. About $320 an
hour...need to commit to long-term care. He will also "just" consult.
He works out of the Seattle area...doesn't travel.
His number to book appointments is 425.688.9220. Another phone
number is 425-688-8818. He is on the LDA's (Lyme Disease
Association) Lyme literate Doctor list...
Throwing everything at it that one can: About Lyme disease he says,
'Today many, if not most Americans, are carriers of the infection
(referring to Lyme). Most infected people are symptomatic, but the
severity and type of the symptoms varies greatly. The microbes often
invade tissues that had been injured: your chronic neck pain or
sciatica really may be a Bb infection. The same may be true for your
chronic TMJ problem, your adrenal fatigue, your thyroid
dysfunction, your GERD and many other seemingly unrelated
symptoms.'”
Remember 95% of Morgellons sufferers have Lyme. He says, “The
list of significant co-infections is limited: roundworms, tapeworms,
threadworms, toxoplasmosis, giardia and amoebas, clostridia, the
herpes virus family, parvovirus B 19, active measles (in the small
intestine), leptospirosis, chronic strep infections and their mutations,
Babesia, Brucella, Ehrlichiosis, Bartonella, mycoplasma, Rickettsia,
Bartonella and a few others. Molds and fungi are always part of the
picture. The pattern of co-infections and the other preexisting
conditions such as mercury toxicity determine the symptom-picture
but not the severity.”
Not a pretty picture, is it? He uses a several pronged approach which
I will summarize. Overall, it’s two basic goals:
1. Build immunity
2. Make your body an unhealthy place for parasites to reside.
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His first prong is geared to improving the immune function and he
uses:
a. Pulsed electromagnetic fields (KMT-microbial inhibition
frequencies).
b. Niacin in high doses (12) herbs.
c. Minerals.
d. Bee venom
e. Antiparasitic medication
f. Antibiotics
a. KMT is relatively a new technology using a small device that
feeds small levels of current to the body at simultaneously several
specified high frequencies which create an interference pattern that
creates thousands of harmonics which are then manipulated into the
specific published microbial inhibition frequencies for destroying
bacterium, fungi, molds… It also wakes up the immune system.
Lyme is described as a Trojan horse in that it makes it way into
white blood cells, and then takes over and creates a multitude of
Lyme to invade other white blood cells and repeat the process.
The device is available for $1.350.00 (2005 pricing) plus $20
shipping by calling Nancy of Biotools at 541-488-6770. I had
actually ordered this device, but they were out of stock, and by the
time they had it in stock I had blood tests that identified
Strongyloides stercoralis which took me in a different direction.
The rife machine is a different device, discussed in Chapter VII that
uses a transmitter to produce radio frequencies to interrupt the life
cycle of foreign organisms in the body. I haven’t seen any data that
says one is more effective than the other.
b. Niacin (vitamin B-3) in high doses. Typically thiamine (vitamin
B-1) is suggested at 100 mg per day although all the B vitamins are
recommended as a B-100 supplement. The challenge here is to find a
multi B vitamin that has no offending ingredients such as something
like aloe vera. NOW at www nowfoods.com produces a capsule
with no offending ingredients except for the capsule itself.
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3. Minerals—I use ionic minerals—a product called Xooma which is
the Sango Coral Calcium marketed in a less expensive package as
Xooma. I could write pages as to the benefits of this package as it
hydrates, is an antioxidant, chelating agent, and so on. Read about it
at www DstressDoc.com/alkaline-coral-calcium.htm which is
available as Xooma. You can order it by contacting me at
knic2@verizon.net with coral calcium in the subject line.
4. Bee venom therapy. Go to www beevenom.com for the use and
application of the therapy. The bottom line is that it must be injected
and administered by a trained practitioner.
For additional details regarding Dr. Klinghardt’s approach, go to the
Appendix. Alternate approach to Lyme disease: My mother's
physician, read Dr. Harvey's protocol, had her on several antibiotics
and the anti fungals. In the beginning, even with the anti fungals, she
developed fungus and had to stop the antibiotics for a short time. He
had her take acidophilus or probiotics to build the healthy bacteria in
her gut. She had several lesions in her mouth that haven't healed. He
then had her begin treatment with cat's claw without TOA*.
Morning treatment starts at one drop in an empty glass. She is to add
4oz of water to the glass, wait a minute and then drink it on an empty
stomach. That night, the dosage goes to two drops in the same
manner. Next morning is two drops and the following evening is
three drops. Every evening an additional drop is added until she
reaches 20 drops both in the morning and evening. She was
instructed to watch for rashes--the Hertzheimer reation. If a rash
occurs, she's to stop adding drops and go back a couple drops until
the rash clears. He will take her off the antibiotics when she reaches
40 drops per day at the end of two months (including the build-up in
dosage).
She reached her 40 drops, but after a lot of up and down. It seems
that when she got to about 18 drops morning and night, her bowels
became loose. He backed her off to 10 drops twice a day and brought
her to ten drops three times per day. I did the same protocol and built
up my dosage to 13 drops three times per day.
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In Part II of the treatment I added (on an empty stomach) one drop of
Taurox sb 7x under the tongue for 30 seconds before swallowing
until the bottle is empty. I continue with Cat’s claw 13 drops three
times per day.
In Part III of the treatment I shifted from Taurox sb 7x to Taurox sb
6X one drop under the tongue for 30 seconds on an empty stomach
once per day until the bottle is finished along with the same dosage
of Cat’s claw.
Taurox sb7X is approximately $35/bottle and the Taurox sb 6X is
about $80/bottle. Cat’s claw can be with or without TOA and is
about $35/bottle. Most health food stores have the cat’s claw in
liquid form, Taurox isn’t so easy to find. You can get it from John
Svikhart at To Life Vitamins 732-671-1623 in Middletown, NJ.
*note that there is a TOA controversy. Some say that cat's claw
should be TOA free. What is TOA? TOA's are Tetracyclic oxindole
alkaloids (Rhynchophylline, Isorhynchophylline, Corynoxeine, and
Isocorynoxeine). It's been reported that the only company selling
TOA free cat's claw (which by the way is made from the bark of a
species of vine that grows in the forests of Peru and Brazil)
conducted a research study--"manipulated test-tube studies (in vitro)
and were not confirmed in animals or humans"- upon which this
recommendation has been adopted by many. Go to www raintree.com/toa-poa-article.htm
and decide for yourself. From what I
gather, TOA's actually benefit the immune building process. By the
way, the vine got the name Cat's Claw from gripping cat-like claws
that grow from the vine which allow it to grip onto the trees and
undergrowth in which it grows. I stopped using Cat's Claw years
ago. Perhaps if I had continued it with Taurox I could have
controlled my Lyme disease—I'll never know since I'm doing well
by boosting my glutathione. But if I were to use it, I'd use it with
TOA.
A book I'm told is worth reading is Healing Lyme by Stephen
Buhner through Amazon at roughly $14. He describes an herbal
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protocol with powerful herbs as a core treatment for Lyme, or as an
augment to antibiotics. It is a must read for the technical explanation
of the spirochete and to have as an arsenal if antibiotics prove to fail.
In Summary
Treatment of Lyme disease and protozoan infection is with
antibiotics, anti protozoan, and anti-fungal medications. My greatest
dietary freedom was from the use of Mepron and earlier for a decade
with the use of ORAP for ten weeks. Since I was having painful side
effects with Zyprexa, I asked my doctor for a script of ORAP or
Mepron. She tabled Mepron until she’s had time to study Dr.
Harvey’s protocol in the Appendix but did write a script for ORAP.
After about five weeks of ORAP I found myself at Christmas parties
and decided to go off Stage I of the diet and eat and drink with
reason whatever I wanted which included light beer, nachos,
commercially prepared chocolate cookies, and so on figuring I’d pay
the price in a day or so. Over the next couple days with more social
gatherings I continued more normal eating that included egg plant,
milk, chocolate candies (containing soy lecithin), and so on and there
were no reactions.
I’m not a doctor, but I believe the ORAP kicked my immune system
into high gear—and the diet for that month just made it that much
more powerful.
To me, it makes sense to experiment with ORAP, Zyprexa, Doxepin,
Risperdal, Zoloft to find the one that kicks in your immune
functioning. And hopefully, my experience will provide you some
guidance. FYI, Mepron is about $700 a bottle and I had taken four of
them over the course of my treatment in 05 and was 100% glad I had
prescription coverage which unfortunately has changed—they placed
limits on some meds like Mepron. But, Mepron is only suggested as
a one time treatment for duration of up to 120 days whereas these
other meds can be used for longer periods of time. However, I don’t
suggest relying on them or any treatment 100% as the King Diet TM
has proven time and time again to be synergistic with any and all
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treatments and necessary to get the most from any treatment.
I went through these protocols for approximately six months to the
point I was fearful that my own immune system wouldn't be able to
fight off infection by itself. After the six months I also did Cat's
Claw. Everything was fine as long as I maintained Stage II and Stage
III of the King Diet SM . Eventually I was able to go off the diet and be
symptom free of parasites as long as I took a small dose of ORAP or
Zyprexa daily.
Within a year of being off the King Diet SM , my right knee became
very painful and inflamed—symptoms of Lyme disease so I question
the value of all the antibiotics I took and the Cat's Claw which
actually seemed to be aggravating my painful knee. I almost became
as depressed about my painful swollen knee as I had been about the
parasites years before. It seemed like the parasites were going to win
and take my life in pieces.
Fortunately, as I noted before I found a glutathione accelerator to
reverse the inflammation and pain and get my life back to normal as
I'll share with you in the next chapter on Alternative Therapies.
I'm providing all the medical information in this chapter so you will
leave “no stone unturned” and have some idea as to what to expect.
I must acknowledge that over the years I've encountered many
patients of the Lyme doctors and as was with me, their symptoms are
better while in treatment and they report that results are even better
when using the King Diet SM along with the medical protocols as I
had done. But can they ever go off the antibiotics and if they do, will
their results be like mine?
Family Practice Notebook
On the next page are pages from the Family Practice Notebook
which instructs your doctor to prescribe ORAP for Delusional
Parasitosis. Before you get upset and say, “But I'm not delusional—I
really have parasites,” let me explain. Your doctor thinks you have
Delusional Parasitosis. He thinks that ORAP is only an anti-
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psychotic. We are not going to argue with him or educate him
otherwise. The irony is that ORAP, as I stated before in this chapter,
is an anti-parasitic medication and is exactly what you need. The
recommendation is on the top of the third page--#3 of Section 8.
Just copy the next two pages and take them along to your doctor and
when he tells you that you have delusions of parasites and that he
can't find any thing, then show him the reference and show him that
he's supposed to prescribe ORAP. He thinks you have delusions so
demand that he treat you accordingly. Just don't argue with him. But
if he's argumentative then ask him for a towel, wipe it over where
you feel itching and scratching and then give it to him and ask him to
wipe it over his arm. If he's certain you have nothing, then let him
prove it.
Remember ORAP has been used for collembola (spring tails) and
strongyloides stercoralis—not for Morgellons. Alternatively if you
can get him to prescribe Zyprexa or Doxepin, great—or at least one
of the other medications listed earlier in this chapter.
If all else fails, you can go to an on-line pharmacy www
easy.md/20111
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3. Home
4. About
5. Compilation
6. MyAccount
7. Index
Delusional ParasitosisAKA: DELUSIONS OF PARASITOSIS,
DELUSORY PARASITOSIS, EKBOM'S SYNDROME, DERMATOPHOBIA,
PARASITOPHOBIC NEURODERMATITIS, PARASITOPHOBIA,
ENTOMOPHOBIA
Dermatology Book
Dermatitis
1. Mental Health Chapter
1. Neurodermatitis
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2. Neurotic Excoriation
Hair Disorders
1. Trichotillomania
Parasitic Infections
• Delusional Parasitosis
• See Also
1. Neurotic Excoriation
• Epidemiology
1. More often seen in women over age 50 years
• Classification
1. Monosymptomatic Hypochondriacal Psychosis
• Symptoms
1. Patient convinced of parasite infestation
• Signs
1. Matchbox Sign
1. Patient presents container with purported
parasite
2. Focal Erosions on exposed areas of arms and legs
1. Results from attempts to pick bugs from skin
• Differential Diagnosis
1. Schizophrenia
2. Major Depression with Psychosis
3. Bipolar Disorder with manic Psychosis
4. Vitamin B12 Deficiency
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5. Multiple Sclerosis
6. Syphilis
7. Cerebrovascular Accident
8. Hallucination of insects crawling on skin
(formication)
1. Drug intoxication (e.g. Cocaine, Amphetamine)
2. Drug Withdrawal (e.g. Alcohol Withdrawal)
• Labs (consider for differential diagnosis
evaluation)
1. Complete Blood Count (CBC)
2. Serum chemistry panel
3. Thyroid Stimulating Hormone (TSH)
4. Rapid Plasma Reagin (RPR)
5. Urinalysis
6. Urine drug screen
• Management
1. Confirm diagnosis
1. Rule-out true parasitic cause of symptoms
2. Evaluate for differential diagnosis as above
2. General measures
1. Establish patient's trust
1. Listen
2. Communicate empathy and sensitivity
3. Avoid offending or further isolating patient
2. Consider psychotherapy
3. Pimozide (Orap)
1. Initial dose: One-half of a 2 mg tablet qd
2. Titrate dose: Increase dose by 1 mg/week to 4-6
mg qd
• References
1. Habif (1996) Clinical Derm, Mosby, p. 67-8
2. Stephens (1999) Am Fam Physician 60(9):2507
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3. Koo (2001) Am Fam Physician 64(11):1873
Entomophobia (C1068608)
Concepts Plant (T002)
English Entomophobia
Parent
Coelogyninae (C1075700)
Concepts
NCBI
Sources
Derived from the NIH UMLS (Unified Medical
Language System)
Concepts
Parasitophobia (C1279419)
Mental or Behavioral Dysfunction (T048)
English Parasitophobia
Spanish Fobia a los parasitos, parasitofobia
Parent
Concepts
Phobic anxiety disorder (C0349231),
Ambiguous concept (C1274012), Duplicate
concept (C1274013)
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Chapter VII--Other Approaches and Therapies
I'm starting this chapter backwards with a summary and then I'll
discuss all the different approaches and therapies that I've used or
others have shared for you to see that I've covered all the bases.
Most of everything listed in this chapter has helped at least one
person. What follows in this summary has helped dozens and
dozens.
Summary
As I've written before, the itchy skin parasites that I've been writing
about since the mid 90's are Morgellons, Collembola, and
Strongyloides Stercoralis.
Is there a cure? Not yet, but there's a lot we can do to get our lives
back to being close to normal.
First, it's important to build immune functioning for all three
parasites. There are many brands of multivitamins available but the
one that I suggest and have had personal experience with is the
Complete Nutritional System by Rain Bow Light available in most
health food stores. All other brands are a “pig in a poke.” Now if you
closely study the ingredients in this multivitamin you will find some
offending ingredients listed in Chapter IV, however, for some
unknown reason they have never been an issue.
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Secondly, vitamin C is important and it's either Solaray's powdered
vitamin C or Puritan Pride's Vitamin C (item #693).
Vitamin D3 is important for immune functioning. The trick is to find
a formulation with no offending ingredients. Puritan Pride #19970
has a formulation which may be OK. It's sugar, starch and salt free.
It does contain mannitol and a vegetable glycerine which might be a
problem—you'd have to test it but most likely it would be OK for
Stage II of the diet.
Minerals are important and even though the Complete Nutritional
System has minerals it is highly beneficial to supplement them with
the Xooma ionic minerals by Health Through Nutrition (HTN). To
order Xooma TM , just email me at knic2 (at) verizon.net to enroll in
the auto ship program. It is the real Sango coral calcium now known
as Xooma.
Gamma Globulin
If your immune functioning is severely limited, your doctor may
suggest gamma globulin therapy.
Now for the specific parasites:
The following recommendations assume that you are controlling
your environment as covered in Chapter III.
1. Morgellons
1. First is to start with Stage I of the Diet.
2. Max has a new powerful glutathione accelerator
which is estimated to be three times more powerful than any N
acety-cysteine based formulation. Max is $60/mo plus shipping on
the company's loyalty program.
3. L-glutamine. Dr. Sloan has found that Morgellons
compromises the intestinal track with leaky gut syndrome. Lglutamine
is the natural sugar for the mucosal cells to repair them.
Google L-glutatmine to find a supplier.
4. Gordon Stamp has developed enzymes in capsule
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form to deal with agrobacterium. For more information go to his
website at www BigIslandSkinCare.com or contact him at 612-644-
7717. IT'S $50/MO.
5. Probiotics are definitely important and have been
reported on several times in my updates. Google “RGarden Shop
Probiotics” for L. Salivarius. If you need a pin number use #7004.
Your Eyes:
A subscriber writes, “For eyes use rue fennel form the company herb
www morningstarhealth.com/909343,html and get a glass eye cup
for washing the eyes, add a few drops of the rue fennel into distilled
water in the eye cup and wash each eye. This is easy to use to
cleanse the eyes and works very well. My eyes went from being very
blood shot to being to looking normal.”
2. Collembola
The first thing is the King Diet TM . But sometimes (as I've written
before) the diet alone is like trying to start an engine that's been
sitting for a couple years. The battery might not be strong enough to
get it started. It will grind and grind and the battery might die before
the engine starts.
The second thing is adding Zyprexa or ORAP or Doxepin. Now I
hate drugs, I really do. But without these drugs I'd probably be dead
so I think I'd rather be alive to write this than let my hate for drugs
stand in my way of my success. Nevertheless adding ORAP or
Zyprexa or Dexepin doesn't mean that the engine will fire right up.
True, the engine will be easier to start, but not nearly as easy as it
could be if you had starter fluid. See chapter VI for dosages.
Third is the Max Glutathione accelerator. Put the three together and
it's the easiest way to start the engine to success. It can be ordered at
www.GlutathioneForHealth.com/Parasites.htm to try it out for a
month which I don't recommend. Everyone who uses it for more
than four months reports success so if you want to save a lot of
money, contact me at knic2 (at) verizon.net and you can get it for
$60 per month. After two and a half years I'm noticing continued
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improvement in getting rid of old hardened lesions I've had for
nearly twenty years.
3. Strongyloides Stercoralis
This is the only parasite that can be diagnosed via a blood serum test.
See the Chapter VI for details. Everything that is used in the
approach to collembola applies to strongyloides stercoralis plus the
use of thiabendazole or ivermectin with albendazole as the
alternative. See Chapter VI for dosages. I have lengthy personal
experience with both collembola and strongyloides stercoralis.
Please note that this is not intended to be a treatment plan for any of
these parasites. There is no recognized medical treatment known for
any of them except for strongyloides stercoralis. This is merely the
approaches that I and many subscribers have used to ease or
minimize the ravages of these parasites and get life back to close to
normal.
Other Approaches:
Lufernon: Many subscribers use Lufenuron.
I originally wrote about Lufenuron's value in destroying chitin in the
eggs of insects and since collembola is most likely an insect, it's
value was for dealing with collembola. However, it doesn't stop
there. A subscriber sent me this link www
http://LufenuronCandidaCure.owndoc.com/ which is where you can
obtain Lufenuron.
Fortunately I went to the link right away and learned that Candida
(yeast found in the body from eating too many sweets and carbs)
also is encapsulated in chetin. Chronic Candida infections are often
very very difficult and sometimes impossible to treat via standard
diet and anti-fungals. Lufenuron on the other hand is the answer. It's
available in Europe by Nevartis for humans but in this country until
recently it's only been available as a veterinarian medication through
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petmeds.com as Program which you can always fall back to if the
above source becomes unavailable.
"Lufenuron fights Candida similar to your own cells”
Human cells have a way of fighting Candida: They produce the
enzyme Chitinase. Go to wikipedia.org and search for chitinase to learn
more. Chitinase, like Lufenuron causes holes in the fungal cell wall,
by dissolving Chitin. Lufenuron prevents Chitin formation. So your
own body attacks Candida by interfering with fungal Chitin.
Lufenuron does that too." Lufenuron is compatible with ORAP.
Revolution (Selamectin)
Were Lufenuron destroys insect eggs, Selamectin destroys
nematodes (worms). The only source is from veterinarian supply
houses lime petmeds.com It should not be used with ORAP. I don't
know of any one using it with success although it would seem to be
an alternative to using thiabendazole, ivermectin, or albendazole.
Glutathione
Written about above is highly effective in getting life back to
normal.
What is the Purpose of Glutathione?
Here's the answer—this is what you'll find if you spend quite a few
hours researching glutathione:
1. There are several basic antioxidants in the body: They are
SOD (superoxide dismutase), Co-enzyme Q10, and
Glutathione. Vitamins A, C, and E along with some other
enzymes and peroxidases are also antioxidants. But of all of
them, glutathione is the master antioxidant. In fact Vitamin C
can not be reactivated after it neutralizes a peroxyl radical
unless sufficient glutathione exists. Without sufficient
glutathione oxidative stress runs rampant causing mutation of
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the DNA in the cell. Dr. Stainger believes that Morgellons is
caused by mutation of the cell's DNA.
2. There are a couple natural anti-inflammatory agents: SOD
and glutathione. In fact glutathione is recognized as the
body's major anti-inflammatory agent. Inflammation is a big
issue with both morgellons and collembola.
3. If you search for detox agents you'll find dozens of them.
Yet, the body's major detox agent is glutathione. Dr. Amin
believes most parasite problems are because of toxic metal in
the body such as mercury and so on. With sufficient
glutathione toxins are no issue.
And if you research Lyme disease, you'll find that toxic metals feed
Lyme disease.
4. There are many immune boosters. Glutathione is one of
them. Remember, Vitamin C (a powerful immune booster) is
held hostage if glutathione levels are low.
Everything you'll read about these parasites suggests
boosting immune functioning.
5. Hemoglobin's ability to carry oxygen is impaired with
insufficient glutathione. With insufficient oxygen, your cells
are starved and the fight against parasites just becomes more
difficult.
Why is glutathione an issue? The natural enemies of glutathione—
what uses it up in the body—are pollution, all forms of radiation,
physical injury, any infection (including parasites), poor sleeping
habits, poor nutrition, many drugs such as acetaminophen (Tylenol),
and so on. Today we're exposed to more pollution and radiation in an
hour than our great great grandfathers were in their entire life time.
Any drug for which your doctor needs to monitor your liver is a
glutathione destroyer.
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So why doesn't the body simply produce more glutathione? Answer:
because we don't get nearly enough L-cysteine in our diet. Lcysteine
is the limiting molecule in the creation of the tri-peptide
molecule known as glutathione. And taken as a supplement, the Lcysteine
is largely destroyed by the stomach.
What products boost glutathione? Answer: To save you the time,
I've listed all the other sources I could find on the internet.
1. Glutathione injections by your physician. The cost is about
$130/injection.
Downfall--glutathione is a large molecule and rarely passes through
the cellular membrane so its stuck in the blood stream. And you
would need the injections on a regular basis--at least monthly or
more frequently.
2. Glutathione supplements: inexpensive
Downfall: the stomach acid destroys most of the glutathione before it
can be absorbed into the intestines. Benefit, if any, is minimal.
3. NAC (N-acetylcysteine): about $8/month
Downfall: Extra Vitamin C and B vitamins are required to reduce
risks of forming kidney stones and the amount of glutathione
produced is unpredictable and varies from person to person.
4. Immunocal: a whey based drink--about $70 per month.
Downfall: only raises glutathione a few percent and it has whey
which is not allowed on Stage I of the diet.
5. OSR #1: about $200/month
Downfall: This is actually a chemical which preserves glutathione.
They only have animal studies--no clinical studies on humans. The
question I have is, “Why give your body something you're not
deficient in (a foreign chemical) when you can actually boost
glutathione (what you are really deficient in)?”
6. Skin Patches: approximately $70/month
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Down Fall: boost glutathione only in the bloodstream--see #1 above.
7. Max Accelerator: $75 per month. It is hypo-allergenic and three
time more powerful than any N acetylcysteine based formulations.
Commit to three months and pricing drops to $60/mo, with their
customer loyalty program. Max has several formulations, contact me
to order the right Max accelerator for you at 1-800-841-7246. Even
though there are no side effects with Max, it's important to obtain
guidance in how to use the glutathione accelerator to fight parasites.
9. D Ribose and L-Cysteine which are the primary ingredients of
Max. You can purchase both ingredients separately as a powder very
inexpensively and while they are very beneficial to use, they are not
bonded and do not significantly contribute to the formation of
intracellular glutathione as the L-Cysteine is largely destroyed by the
stomach.
Peroxide
I certainly thought this would have merit but the lady who had it
done found little benefit and that makes sense in that peroxide is a
free radical which would use up glutathione. I also know of a
medical doctor who tried it on him self unsuccessfully.
Honey/Cinnamon
Applied to the skin—no reports of success
Urine Therapy
This is about drinking your own urine. You can Google “urine
therapy” to learn more. I tried it and found no benefit re dealing with
the parasites. No one else has reported success using it.
Antioxidants
If you want to take an antioxidant--most of them have offending
ingredients. For years the only one I was aware of was pomegranate
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which is only recommended in capsule form (but you need to
remove the material from the capsule.
However, in late 09 I learned of the Max glutathione accelerator—
mentioned above--which is about 20,000 times more powerful than
pomegranate or acai berry or dark chocolate, and so on as an
antioxidant.
Dewormers
I learned of an herbal dewormer at from a site that is no longer
active. However, its recommended dosage of one tablespoon
morning and night for two months was insufficient. It does state that
for tape worms, as much as a bottle can be consumed within 24 hrs.
If I were to go that route again, I’d substantially increase the dosage
of two tablespoons daily to more like a bottle in a day.
Following is my experience: One tablespoon in the morning and one
in the evening for a month. I ordered two bottles (each bottle is a two
week supply) along with their kidney cleanse and have since learned
that it is also a liver cleanse as well which is one teaspoon before bed
for six weeks. From my understanding, the best way to detoxify the
liver is by fasting (which is what they also recommend) and drinking
green drinks or Xooma (Sango Coral Calcium) which is what I also
did. Boosting glutathione is also a powerful way of detoxing the
liver.
I began taking one tablespoon of the dewormer in the morning and
one at night and noticed nothing for three days. On the fourth day I
noticed crawling sensation on my body during the day (rare that this
occurs). At first I wondered if I messed up my diet, but I looked at
my notes and confirmed that nothing new was being tested. The
difference though was that the crawling only lasted a few minutes
and then stopped. On rare occasions, I felt a sharp bite for a few
seconds and then it stopped.
For the next two days and nights, much more of the same. I had
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bathed in Epson salts and treated my body with tea tree oil (terrible
smelling stuff) before retiring to bed and within three hours noticed
crawling on and off on every part of my body--no more biting. I
surmised that the larvae are located in one of the deeper layers of
skin and are brought to life with a food source that brings them to the
surface to feed on bacteria from the sugars and carbs we eat, where
they quickly grow to the point they want to re-enter the body and
gestate into the adult worm. The de-wormer apparently was
poisoning them, and they were heading to the surface for relief, but
were too weak and toxic to survive. And since there was nothing for
them to consume as I continued on stage I of the diet, they quickly
died off. I was on the herbal de-wormer for thirty days at one
tablespoon in the morning and one at night. As long as I stayed on
the diet, all symptoms were gone except for the unhealed lesions that
have been with me for over a decade.
I went off the diet for birthday cake and noticed the crawling larvae
within 36 hours plus new papules. I can report that the de-wormer at
the recommended dosage did nothing other than kill some larvae in
the beginning of treatment. I can only report that it’s a waste of
money at the dosage I used.
A subscriber has used several wormers and has offered this
evaluation with them listed from the best as first.
“1. 6-week ultimate cleanse at www 7dmc.com” (site down as of
this writing) “They had four different formulas which you can
Google independently:
2Herbal Mucus Eliminator 100 Vegicaps
6 Parasine 2 100 Vegicaps
1 Super Boost Green Mix 180 Vegicaps
"Health Man" Detoxification Tea 10 oz. )
2. Nature's Secret Parastroy—just Google the name.
3. DrNatura Colonix”—just Google the name.
4. Q-based Para Cleanse Formula—Google the name.
5. Barefoot dewormer—Google the name. Due to my seriousness of
my condition, I always used twice the recommended dosage. For
Barefoot, I took one bottle within two days for eight days. They had
no effect on me at all due to my really bad condition."
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But then again, remember if this sufferer doesn’t have nematodes,
but spring tails or Morgellons, then dewormers won’t provide relief
from those parasites.
Vitamin B1
In the message boards it was claimed that 100 mg of vitamin B1 was
beneficial, but I didn't find that to be so. In fact many vitamins have
ingredients like modified cellulose gum which these parasites enjoy.
I did find a vitamin B1 by Solaray in capsule form that is free of any
ingredients that conflict with the diet. However, as I noted in
Chapter IV, it’s important to remove the vitamin from the capsule
and discard the capsule as the parasites are activated by the gelatin in
the capsule.
When I was re-infected, I had four basic considerations:
1. To facilitate immediate relief from the itchy biting symptoms.
2. Have a stool analysis or blood test performed for parasites or
identify the co-factors that contribute to parasitosis (identify the
specific parasites).
3. Deal with potential Lyme and Protozoan infection.
4. Do what I could to get rid of any new lesions.
Handling New Lesions
New lesions are not to be taken lightly. They are a serious matter as
to which I can attest. When I didn’t know how to deal with them,
they developed and many ended up staying with me to this day—
nearly twenty years. Today, with the use of diet, bathing,
disinfection protocols, as discussed in earlier chapters, and various
skin treatments, I can get rid of a new papule (beginning of a lesion)
within days by applying 999 Itch Ointment. In Chapter II, I
discussed catching an infection early as happened with my
significant other. Her lesions took much longer to heal and I attribute
that to the fact that she refused to use the diet in which case I’d use
only 999 Itch Ointment and nothing less. I’ve had some lesions as
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long as two years and gotten rid of them so there’s no need to get too
anxious.
I've used many other creams and ointments prior to finding 999
cream which is less than $5 a tube and found in oriental pharmacies
and some oriental food stores. Other creams and ointments I tried
were:
Eligiderm Cream which is about $35 for a tube. It's great for dealing
with any skin abnormality such as potential skin cancers. It causes
the cancer cells to program their own cell death—apoptosis. Contact
me to order.
Skin Zinc which is great for psoriasis and other skin abnormalities
by calling 800-507-7960 for around $150. I found the 999 cream far
more effective for a lot less money.
Neosporin Plus is good but not as good as 999 cream.
Vagisil and other similar meds had no impact.
Benadryl had little if any impact.
Capsaicin use typically for arthritis had little impact.
Amlactin prescribed by my doctor worked well but is far more
expensive then 999 cream.
Eco Vie was available from Canada helped debride the skin in a
bath, but over the years not many people gained much value from it.
Now MSM gel at www morgdebride.com and alfalfa tablets in the
bath water are the economical debriding methods.
Handling Old Lesions
Every doctor tells you to leave the old lesions alone and to avoid
picking them. The instructions with eco vie also said the same, but
no one tells you why that makes a difference. I had to figure it out on
my own for I’ve been an eternal “picker.” I figured I’d pick out the
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parasites by removing any skin I could in which they might be
residing and only ended up inflaming the lesions day after day for
nearly ten years. And then I realized that we’re dealing with the
immune system in a larger context. The immune system can, with
the help of diet and other treatments, defeat the parasites, but by
picking at the lesions, I was introducing bacteria and trauma to the
lesion. This meant that I was giving my immune system a lot more
work to do and left precious little reserve for fighting the parasites. It
makes so much sense to me now and I only wish a doctor had taken
the time to give me that simple explanation. I imagine there are other
reasons as well, but that “one” is enough for me to leave them alone.
Ionic minerals
I used them (copper, sulfur, zinc, molybdenum, silver) for two
months and developed stomach pains and found the minerals
ineffective. The protocol was to use 1/4 teaspoon of copper and 1/2
tablespoon of sulfur in the morning followed by two teaspoons of
molybdenum, 1/2 tablespoon zinc, and 1/2 tablespoon of silver in the
evening. I did this for approximately two months, never noticed any
difference the size or hardness of my lesions, and stopped using
them after I experienced stomach pains. Plus I got reinfected while
using them anyway.
They send along a CD which is very convincing. Copper toxicity is
always of concern and quite a bit of theory is given why copper
toxicity doesn’t happen with an ionic source of minerals as opposed
to in colloidal or compound form. The company is Water Oz. The
minerals can be purchased through Kormax at retail price or can be
purchased direct from Water Oz at significant savings. However, as I
recall there’s a membership fee and maybe a minimum order which
gets you a distributorship like I have. I don’t doubt the value of ionic
minerals for many health reasons; however, I don’t promote them as
a means of fighting parasites.
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It’s a device that can be set to produce a specific frequency which
destroys bacteria, fungus, virus, yeast, nematodes, and so on. There's
a different protocol for each unwanted organism. Dr Rife in the
1930’s is credited with most of the research where he found
frequencies and harmonics of frequencies to destroy bacterium,
viruses, and even cancer cells. According to a documentary video
with the advent of penicillin and the science of antibiotics, the AMA
went that direction instead of the rife technology.
The unit is hand held and sells for from $900 to $5,000+. I know of
several people using them, but no one has shouted, Cure.” And that
may be because they haven’t used the diet or because up until
recently the specific frequencies required to defeat these parasites
hasn’t been known. The frequencies for Morgellons are:
103.4-800 Hz
107.1-835 Hz
122.2-666 Hz
206.2-740 Hz
213.4-712 Hz
215.2-800 Hz
218.1-740 Hz
218.3-712 Hz
and the ones for Lyme disease are:
101.5-790 Hz
104.1-797 Hz
105.1-840 Hz
108.1-863 Hz
113.5-689 Hz
119.1-884 Hz
126.4-828 Hz
208.3-664 Hz
209.3-794 Hz
215.2-800 Hz
215.4-630 Hz
217.2-798 Hz
Strongyloides are
101.3-776 Hz
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124.4-739 Hz
214.5-721 Hz
218.4-746 Hz
Candida
106.2-827 Hz
108.1-863 Hz
126.1-910 Hz
126.2-751 Hz
126.4-828 Hz
207.1-750 Hz
213.3-582 Hz
214.3-675 Hz
214.4-775 Hz
217.1-675 Hz
There is an Energy Wave Unit available for about $1,900. Call
David at 760-277-7636. I do not suggest using the Rife machine
without using the diet. If fact don't recommend using any of these
treatments without using the diet. An MD friend of mine has one he's
used on himself. He thought that he'd cure himself of Morgellons
with rifing and oxygen therapy. He made my mistake and went off
the diet and was sorely disappointed to find symptoms worsened in
spite of rifing, oxygen therapy and topical sulfur compounds.
Herbal Cleanses
One name that comes up is Hulda Clark. The website is www
DrClarkStore.com which provides parasite cleansing products
incorporating herbs such as herbal pumpkin, walnut... My experience
with both was activation of the parasites and I haven’t had any
subscriber to my updates shout, “Cure” or that they obtained
significant benefit. Not to say, these cleanses aren’t valuable or
effective against the commonly know round and pin worms, but as
far as Morgellons and others discussed in this book, it hasn’t proven
to be effective. Of course in combination with other approaches and
the diet, it may be helpful—unfortunately insufficient information is
available to make that assessment.
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Salt and Vitamin C
To boost to maximize antibiotic treatment. The extra salt—amount
based on body weights (approx 3 teaspoons per day of sea salt in
water for my body weight of 180 lb.) raised my both my systolic and
diastolic blood pressure by ten points; and I didn't notice any
improvement after six weeks at which time I discontinued the extra
salt and continued as with the vitamin C at 3,000 mg/day. Now that I
use the glutathione accelerator to produce internal glutathione I
dropped my Vitamin C intake to 500 mg per day. Reason:
glutathione recycles vitamin C and without sufficient glutathione in
your cells, vitamin C is deactivated by the peroxide free radical and
can not be reactivated.
Mercury Detoxification
As written about in the previous chapter, some parasitologists find that
the amalgam filings in our teeth are the culprit to diminishing the
immune response and the answer it to get rid of the amalgam filings
which can cost $10,000 or so. Seems that parasites are attracted to
mercury. Some of those who have gone this route have had success,
but it is still important to get rid of the heavy metals that have
accumulated in the cells using heavy metal detoxification which is
usually done with intravenous EDTA chelation.
An excellent website is www Mercury Exposure.Org (as of this
writing it's down) and a subscriber writes, “We are getting an
abundance of Mercury in our systems trying to fight this
microorganism. Read especially about the nematode. Unbelievable,
this organism is attracted to Mercury, the new light bulbs have
Mercury in them, UV bulbs give off Mercury. But we are getting an
over exposure of Mercury. Ever wonder why we had to remove our
Mercury fillings? These organisms were attracted to those fillings,
get it? This is why we are being told to DETOX.”
Flushing Heavy Metals—Heavy Metal Detox
Following is a paraphrase of what's behind heavy metal detox.
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Mobilization and excretion are required for heavy metal
detoxification. Supplements work in conjunction with the intravenous
treatment to flush heavy metal toxins from the cells and remove them
from the body. Without the proper detoxification protocol, heavy
metals may just redistribute in the body, instead of being removed.
Some of the supplements used in heavy metal detox include:
Fundamental Sulphur II contains Molybdenum and
Methylsulfonylmethane (MSM), which are helpful for protection
against heavy metals in general and specifically useful in mercury
toxicity. Garlic has similar properties. Anti-Mutagens contain nacetylcysteine,
which enhances the body's ability to excrete mercury.
Chlorella facilitates heavy metal removal, primarily through the
stool. Alfalfa increases one's fiber intake. This reduces the uptake of
heavy metals in the intestines. Cilantro also helps mobilize heavy
metals.
The DMPS IV contains DMSO (Dimethyl sulfoxide). DMSO crosses
the blood- brain barrier, and is an excellent agent to help transport
other substances throughout the body. DMPS binds with mercury
and removes it from the body. EDTA chelation is also another means
of detoxing. Glutathione and Vitamin C are antioxidants, and also
detox your cells by binding with mercury.
The length of treatment by the parasitologist varies, depending on
the patient's level of toxicity, the frequency of treatment, as well as
how the patient responds to treatment. Mercury toxicity may be
resolved in as little as six to nine months for the first phase. This is
then followed by a phase using the Homeopathic medications. Often
patients also have problems with other heavy metals, such as
cadmium and lead. These patients may require a longer and more
intense detoxification program.
Pay attention to “glutathione and vitamin C” as that is the practical
approach. Of course until recently it wasn't practical simply because
there was just no way of effectively boosting glutathione on an intra
cellular level. This is another important reason for using the MaxOne
glutathione accelerator.
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For additional nutritional advice, Google “mercola mercury detox
protocol” for an in-depth approach. Notice the importance of diet
(the King Diet TM (Parasite Lyme Diet) fits what you read there to a
“T”) and the importance of minerals (Sango Coral (Xooma) is the
best mineral supplement available as the minerals are in ionic form.)
Bentonite Clay
Bentonite clay can be used externally and internally. A subscriber
writes. “I've been using the clay about two weeks and it has healed
all my obvious skin issues, (my lower abdomen still itches and I still
feel like I have glass under my clothes, but not rashes or lesions),
and I think it could be very helpful to others. I have been using it
topically and now I'm starting to take it as an internal cleanse, (as
its intended). I did though order the Eco Vie also!” Google “Healing
Clay & Unidentified Skin Parasites,” for more information.
I have not used this approach and can only say that more experience
is required to make an assessment. In fact no other subscribers have
reported success with bentonite clay.
Phenolated iodine
The specialist is Kevin Meehan and his phone number is 307-734
8044. The important part of the treatment is that the iodine is
phenolated, which means it will seek out and kill parasites and
mold/fungus. He says,“Phenolated iodine is an aromatic halogen
which liberates the phenol upon acidification. It does not disrupt the
thyroid, so caution is not required with thyroid diseases. Its reaction
with other bases gives it the capability of terminating negative
parasitic strains (it does not address bacteria). I use one form;
Dieters antiseptic gargle.
For Morgellons, there are water treatment protocols in which the
patient soaks that have provided excellent results with the above
combination.”
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This is a total different chemical makeup from iodine. Google
“Phenolated iodine,” for more information.
Faith
One subscriber asked to be removed from receiving updates. I
replied and asked if she found a cure and she reported that she no
longer had any evidence of parasites and attributed it to her
unwavering belief in the Lord.
Another reported to be free of parasites ten days after she had a faith
healing. She writes, “I'm pleased to inform you that 3 weeks ago, I
came across a healer, that heals over the phone. Since about 10 days
I'm itch free, I'm also off the diet, the Epsom salt baths and the Eco
Vie. I asked him, whether he would be able to help people with
Morgellons disease. He said, that he does not know much about
Morgellons disease, but he would be able to help. His name is Bill
Stratton, phone # 760-479 1678.”
Now, I don’t poo poo either of these reports. In fact, I subscribe
more to the Wayne Dyer approach to God as Source. Example, the
ocean is God—all knowing and infinite wisdom. We each are a drop
from that ocean born to this world. We each have the same capacity
for connecting with Source, but stuff (I mean STUFF like our silly
learned beliefs about our limitations or lacking of deserving)
corrodes our connection with Source. Open up that connection and
voila—you experience GOD as one with you—all knowing—all
loving—prosperity.
The infinite wisdom within you will rid self of parasites. Of course
taken to extreme, you’d ask if it would rid one of Ebola virus. At
least that’s the question I’d ask. I’m not the expert so I don’t know
the answer and besides the answer probably isn’t anything like we’d
expect it to be anyway. But knowing that some have survived Ebola
points a direction in itself. In fact the Daily Universal Science news
reports that a serum from Ebola survivors “is effective in protecting
mice from the disease, say researchers from the Centers for Disease
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Control and Prevention, Emory University and the U.S. Army
Research Institute for Infectious Diseases.” So, there you have it!
But the bigger point is that connecting to Source doesn't mean that
you just sit in a bubble and do nothing. Connecting to Source may
lead you to the right paths in this book or some other resource to
attain your goal.
Pressure Point
There are several therapies that can be used to enhance health.
Acupressure and acupuncture are two that come to mind. Both are
best used when administered by a therapist.
Jin Shin Jyutsu (3,000 year-old science) is another pressure point
therapy. It is a therapy used to balance energies in the body. It can be
administered by a therapist or self administered. Obviously, it would
be preferred to find a therapist; however, you can get started with
some basic points.
Pressure points to stimulate immune functioning—essential to fight
both parasites, Lyme, and protozoan. I first used these pressure
points to stimulate my immune functioning 20 years ago--about five
years before I was exposed to parasites. I used the pressure points to
combat sore throats and colds back then when I was quite
susceptible to them.
I was fortunate to have a therapist on my staff skilled in the art and I
witnessed what some would call medical miracles. One lady,
referred by her physician, had a swollen neck—I mean it was about
18” and her doctors had given up on her. She was referred for stress
management training. After I interviewed her, I really couldn’t see
much value in doing biofeedback, hypnosis, or counseling so I
assigned her to the jin shin therapist. Within two weeks and after
approximately eight hours of therapy, her neck was no longer
swollen—it was that powerful.
Here is how you apply the pressure points to stimulate immune
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functioning. Two points are simultaneously applied. Place the
forefinger of your right hand about and 1” or so above your left
breast. Apply pressure with your finger and move your finger about
until you locate a sensitive area—this sensitivity (sometimes painful)
indicates that the immune system is out of balance. Keeping your
right forefinger engaged, take the forefinger of your left hand and
place it on top of your right shoulder (on the clavicle) about midway
between your neck and the end of your shoulder. Again search for a
sensitive point. If you’ve positioned your fingers correctly, your
arms will be crossed over your chest.
Once found, hold both points simultaneously for several minutes.
Generally the discomfort begins to subside and if you’re sensitive to
pulses, the pulse in your left and right forefingers will synchronize as
balance occurs.
Next do the same for the other side of your body.
The next point that’s important is for your sinuses. Place your right
forefinger on the inside of your left knee near the bottom where you
feel muscles and ligaments. Again search for a sensitive area and
hold the point until you feel the discomfort subside. Then do the
same with your right knee.
Lyme Disease
Samento for Lyme Google “Dr. James Howenstein and Lyme
disease”
Herbal Remedies for Lyme: Healing Lyme by Stephen Buhner
through Amazon at roughly $14. He describes an herbal protocol
with powerful herbs as a core treatment for Lyme, or as an augment
to antibiotics. It is a must read for the technical explanation of the
spirochete and to have as an arsenal if antibiotics prove to fail. I used
Cat's Claw and the King Diet TM for years to control my Lyme
disease. But after coming off the King Diet TM the Cat's Claw was
insufficient as my right knee began swelling with excruciating pain.
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I tried massive dosages of vitamin C, powerful enzymes to no avail.
The only relief I received was from the Max Glutathione accelerator.
Yoga: Yoga--a combination of physical stretching exercises, breath
management, and meditation--can be used by the skilful practitioners
much like a scalpel to balance the charkas and hence stimulate
immune functioning. I’ve used Rodney Yee's morning yoga workout
successfully to cure a back problem which surfaced every time
I’d twist it or bend over to pick up something.
Exercise: For years I found jogging about two miles per week a
moderate and yet effective goal for me. I’ve done it or its equivalent
(exercising on a rebounder) for approximately fifteen years. I find it
a great opportunity to use affirmations. Since I've had the problem
with my knee, I've moved away from jogging or rebounding and
instead use a bicycle type of exercise to exercise my knees.
Affirmations: Using affirmations works well for attracting what you
want. Of course, how the affirmation is worded is of utmost
importance.
Here are some basic affirmations.
I am healthy.
I am grateful for all life’s experiences.
I am in perfect balance mentally and physically.
Notice, none say about getting better or being itch free or parasite
free as that would only attract vibrations of itching and parasites.
And when you repeat them go for the feeling of when you felt that
way.
Nicotine
Because nicotine is an anti-parasitic, years ago I experimented with
using nicotine patches. Although the nicotine affected me with a
disoriented feeling and was quite a shock to my system mentally and
physically it proved to be of no value in fighting collembola or
strongyloides stercoralis although one person did write to tell me that
using the nicotine gum he freed himself of the parasites.
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I must say though that it's ironic in that introducing nicotine to my
body was particularly stressful, stopping it had no impact at all. No
addictive reactions were experienced. In the UK nicotine is available
as a liquid which might be a better way of administering it and worth
experimenting with collembolla and strongyloides stercoralis.
MMS
Miracle Mineral Supplement (MMS) which is chlorine dioxide was
initially used by Jim V Humble to cure Malaria (a parasitic disease).
For him, because of medical politics, it's been a long frustrating story
which he started at age 64.
We could get excited about this mineral (it's been around for
decades) and call it the medical discovery of the 1900's. Basically it's
claim is to boost the immune system. Experience has not only
malaria sufferers benefiting from the mineral but also those suffering
from some types of arthritis, all bacterial, viral, fungal, and mold
infections, some cancers, Herpes Simplex, AIDs, and so on. A
fellow subscriber referred me to one post claiming that Morgellons
was cured with MMS which is why I became interested in it. I can
say it all makes sense and experimented with it myself.
If you go to www MiracleMineral.org you can download part I of
the e-book for free. It will give you an idea of the frustration Jim
Humble has gone through in testing and publicizing his discovery.
Part II goes into the specific applications for using MMS with
various ailments. MMS is chlorine dioxide which by itself is not
particularly effective. He found that by adding vinegar or lemon or
lime juice, or citric acid to the MMS and waiting three minutes is
required to activate it. After the three minutes, to mask the taste, it
can be diluted with pineapple or apple juice (no vitamin C) . Vitamin
C renders the MMS ineffective. Caution, if you have a case of
Candida Albicans or suspect that you might, don't use vinegar to
activate the MMS but instead use lemon or lime juice.
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It may certainly be worth a shot as it's very inexpensive. Go to ebay
and search for Miracle Mineral Supplement. A years' supply is about
$10 including postage.
I began using two drops internally as described above and advanced
to fifteen drops within four days. I never noticed any stomach
discomfort or fatigue as is reported to happen--maybe because most
of my parasites are dead. However, about the third day I did notice
what looked like a lot of blood spots behind my ankles (maybe some
dead parasites). I also used it externally on some old old lesions (my
only indication that I ever had parasites).
To use externally I placed three drops of MMS on a small saucer
along with about a half dozen drops of vinegar and waited for three
minutes. I then transferred DSMO gel on my finger tip to the liquid
mixture and mixed it all up. Using my forefinger I dabbed the
mixture on the old lesions. One was on my forehead which left a red
spot as the mixture burned my skin. The remainder of them were on
my scalp and after using the mixture for four days it did burn my
skin. When my skin healed, the lesions were still there so I can't say
there was any benefit. I continued using it internally at about 7 or 8
drops per day.
I had hoped to stay off ORAP but after a week I had to return to the
ORAP.
The above was written in the first version of this book in 2006. Five
years later I'd say that MMS has not been that important in the fight
against parasites and it has a hideous taste. I still have some in my
fridge and probably will throw it out. I do know of one young man I
Canada who suffered from a dangerous bacterial and viral infection
which did not respond to any medication. After using MMS for a
year, he reported that he was free of the infection—it basically saved
his life.
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Morgellons
Mr Common Sense
A subscriber emailed me this blog post. I've seen other templates to
overcome Morgellons, however, they are dis-confabulated and
extremely difficult to follow with tons of herbs.
I spent quite some time evaluating this fellow's approach and have
made comments on each of the supplements that he uses.
In the blog post he shares what he did to achieve freedom from
Morgellons. He doesn't mention any of his symptoms so we only
know that he thinks he had Morgellons. Nevertheless his experience
somewhat parallels what we are learning. He is not a subscriber and
did not use the King Diet SM or any dietary restrictions. The King
Diet SM is high in protein which would replace the amino acid and
protein supplementation that he used.
I can certainly say that his approach compared to the few others that
I've seen is reproducible. Google, “Morgellons poor man's protocol”
and decide for yourself. He notes the importance of glutathione
which I found important.
I would not recommend this for collembola sufferers because
collembola thrives on fatty acids and coconut oil and everything that
comes in a gelatin capsule which is probably most of the
supplements listed.
1. For Morgellons I would say that the fish oil (he used it to control
anxiety and inflammation) is handled by using a glutathione
accelerator. I would wonder about fish oil actually activating the
parasites.
2. The coconut oil for anti fungal has value, however, what I've
learned about Lufenuron says that Lufenuron is the answer to fungal
and is also a candida-killer. Lufenuron was covered earlier in this
chapter.
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3. MSM is a good source for internal sulfur and a safe bet.
4. Calcium/magnesium supplementation is important. I used coral
calcium and still use it as it not only supplements me with
magnesium and calcium but 70 different trace minerals. Email me at
knic2 (at) verizon.net to enroll in the auto ship program.
5. NAC (n-acetylcysteine) is inexpensive and a source for
glutathione, however, from what I've seen it only produces about
1/10th the amount of glutathione that you need to fight these
monsters. The MaxOne glutathione accelerator--you can order it at
www GlutathioneForHealth.com/Parasites.htm produces about
500%.
6. L-glutamine for the stomach is a great idea. Dr. Sloan feels that
the stomach is the answer to Morgellons. You can find a supplier on
the internet.
7. L-carnitine which he acknowledges he uses mainly because he
eats very little meat is probably unnecessary as the King Diet
contains lots of protein.
8. Amino acid supplementation is maybe a good idea, however,
remember that the King Diet is high in nuts and vegetables that
contain amino acids. Additionally the glutathione accelerator
contains one of the most important amino acids (L-cysteine).
9. Co-enzyme Q10 is a great antrioxidant. It's a very powerful
intracellular antioxidant and a great compliment to glutathione.
However, there may be a problem with the capsules that house the
Q10.
10. Indoral (iodine supplement) may be important--we need to learn
more.
11. B-50 supplements--if you take the Complete Nutritional System
multi-vitamin (he doesn't recommend any specific multi vitamins)
your covered. The Complete Nutritional System contains the B
vitamins and in the right proportion.
12. True Protein. Again the King Diet is high in protein.
13. Probiotics are definitely important and have been reported on
several times in my updates. Google “RGarden Shop Probiotics” for
L. Salivarius. If you need a pin number use #7004.
He also suggests using a sulfur soap (maybe T-gel) in the shower
and Dr. Bonners Peppermint soap for the laundry.
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I'm not a doctor and can not make any recommendations. I can only
pass along what has worked for others. What I would suggest is that
you make your own list from everything listed above. Thus far what
we've learned from the glutathione trials is that diet, glutathione. and
probiotics are at the top of the list. Most likely several of the
supplements listed above should be added to that list.
Fungus
A subscriber writes, "The thing that kills fungus is very elemental
and it is not pleasant but it works almost instantly! SULPHUR, take
a teaspoon--flowers of sulfur available in some pharmacies or on the
internet and put it in your mouth and let the saliva integrate with it
and once it is all liquid you can swallow it followed by water. Then
go brush your teeth. Do this 2-3 times a day. It kills the fungus and
stops the Collembola or microscopic mites (critters) from wanting
you because you are killing their food source the fungus. They are
just fungus farmers (think of the ants in the tropical rain forests that
cut leaves and take the leaves underground where the leaves grow
fungus and the ants eat this fungus, you've seen it on Nature) and
you are a perfect environment for them to cultivate esp. if you are
eating a high sugar, refined foods diet.
Another simple treatment to get rid of lesions in my scalp and back
of neck that do not want to go away is to buy some very thick hair
wax (I use D:FI) and dab a little on your finger tip and put the
fingertip into the sulfur and apply it to the affected area. It will dry
up the lesion overnight. My eyebrows were so hideous with red
lesions from those darn bugs that I went and bought some cover up
make up at the drug store... don't need to use that with the sulfur in
hair wax treatment!
One more: Clove oil mixed into shampoo and sulfur added to that
completely cleared up my scalp of the weeping lesions that would
never heal and got bigger over the years. I put about 3 tablespoons
of clove oil into about 8 ounces of shampoo and then added about 1
tablespoon of sulfur to it, shake well and then squeezed the solution
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onto my scalp and neck and forehead to the eyebrows and then rub it
all into a foamy mess and let it burn for at least an hour. I had this
scalp condition forever since I was a teenager, so about 40 years.
Boom, gone just like that. Well, there are some side effects to that
treatment. Your scalp will peel and you'll have a snow storm for 2
days but then all this stuff, granules come out of your skin and the
weird wrinkles and sagginess of your forehead will return to normal.
Your looks will improve and your feeling of knowing that you just
had a breakthrough is incredible. It was the granules that came out
of my forehead that were really amazing!"
I looked into flowers of sulfur in the mid 90's--even ordered at a
pharmacy but instead found relief in the diet. And today I would still
prefer to use the diet and the 999 cream. This person subscribed to
the diet because the sulfur and everything he was doing wasn't doing
the job he hoped. Maybe the sulfur along with some of the diet, no I
think there is no substitute for the diet. D:Fi is a thick hair wax--you
can google it--some drug chains carry it.
He was also bathing in ammonia on a regular basis which is highly
toxic to the skin. There are other options such as tea tree oil on a
regular basis or adding bleach to the bath water.
Mold
Google “moldblogger mold on skin” for more information.
Dandruff shampoos.
Athlete’s foot creams
Daily vinegar baths or apply packs soaked in vinegar water for
15 minutes.
Follicular Mites
If you go to www eyeworld.org/article.php?sid=4381
you'll find information on using tea tress oil for follicular
mites.
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Dogs and Cats.
A subscriber wrote, "Here is a tip for your subscribers. When our
dogs were heavily infested I had them on Revolution. They were so
badly infected with collombola that their eyes and ears were swollen
shut. Changed to a topical called Vectra (rx) had to apply weekly for
a month, then every two weeks and so on. They now have no signs of
infection. Turns out the main ingredients are permethrin and
dinotrifuran an IGR, They are also on Tri- Heart plus (Ivermectin).
For strongyloides I am giving them Program every two weeks to
load dose and gave them Pancur wormer for five days in a row as
prescribed by vet.”
Later she wrote,“Ear treatment:I used DermaPet TrizUltra+ Keto
ear cleaner (RX) works well for collombola in dogs ears and does
not cause irritation. When that ran out used DermaPet TrizEDTA
(Entirely Pets.com)
This is by no means a quick fix. If ears are inflamed or filled with
waxy debris, have vet clean thoroughly and treat for mites and any
secondary infection. As a dog groomer, I've seen many people make
the ears worse by improper cleaning, so have vet instruct on proper
cleaning. Keep in mind when using a miticide that some breeds
cannot tolerate ivermectin. My boxer had a severe reaction, and it
cost me $300.00 to have her ears treated. It was not a problem for
my rat terrier. After ears are cleaned, use DMV products no more
than every other day. Check ears every day."
Testimonials re Glutathione
Recently a subscriber with Morgellons wrote:
"I FINALLY GOT THE COMPLETE NUTRITIONAL SYSTEM
DAILY VITAMIN AS WELL AS SOME BARLEY GRASS
TABLETS AS I READ THAT BARLEY GRASS WAS AN ANTI-
INFLAMMATORY SUPPLEMENT. THESE SUPPLEMENTS
COUPLED WITH THE MAX GLUTATHIONE ACCELERATOR
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AND THE DIET PHASE ONE FINALLY HAS GIVEN ME THE
RESULTS I'VE BEEN HOPING FOR. I AM FINALLY
BECOMING MENTALLY FREE FROM MY ADDICTIVE
WEEKLY SUGAR BINGE, WHICH NEVER LETS MY SKIN
RECOVER FROM THE LAST BINGE. THE DIET IS REALLY
GIVING THINGS A CHANCE TO WORK. MY SKIN IS
GLOWING; IT HAS NEVER LOOKED BETTER.
I ALSO AM NOT SEEING MANY FIBERS ANYMORE.
I ALSO SAW AN INCREASE IN THE WEIGHTS I CAN LIFT AT
THE GYM.
SO, I AM FINALLY PLEASED.
YOU HAVE GIVEN ME SUCH GOOD SUGGESTIONS. I DID
NOT GET AN EMAIL ABOUT KOI PRODUCTS. I CAN'T
AFFORD TO BUY ANYTHING MORE BUT ASK YOU TO
ALWAYS SEND ME NEW INFORMATION, BECAUSE
EVERYTHING YOU'VE SUGGESTED SO FAR HAS
CONTRIBUTED TO MY SUCCESS. I AM PROFOUNDLY
GRATEFUL.
THANK YOU SO MUCH! I HOPE YOU ARE DOING WELL."
AMY
One of the initial Morgellon trial participants recently wrote,
"Thank you for your diligent research and continuous updates. I
am feeling fine and taking only 1 or 2 packets of Max a day. I'm
doing just great."
"HI RICHARD
IN JUNE WE WERE INFECTED WITH COLLOMBOLA AND
SEVERAL OTHER PARASITES FROM A BIRD MITE
INFESTATION. I GOT YOUR BOOK IN OCTOBER (BIRD
MITES WERE GONE). WE WERE A LITTLE SKEPTICAL,
BOUGHT THE GLUTATHIONE ACCELERATOR, STOPPED
TAKING IT, BUT WITH YOUR URGING GRADUALLY
STARTED TAKING YOUR SUGGESTIONS.--SERIOUSLY AND
BEGAN USING THE GLUTATHIONE ACCELERATOR AGAIN.
BY DEC. WE WERE DOING EVERY THING YOU ADVISED,
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AND BY MID JANUARY PARASITES WERE GONE. THIS
WAS VERY HARD WORK, AND RESULTS WERE NOT OVER
NIGHT. HAD WE DONE EVERYTHING YOU SUGGESTED
RIGHT AWAY, THINGS MIGHT HAVE HAPPENED MORE
QUICKLY.
THANKS FOR ALL YOUR HELP. IF I CAN BE OF HELP TO
YOU, LET ME KNOW."
A Y
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CHAPTER VIII—Other’s Stories
Each of these stories basically demonstrates that the medical
profession's trained focus is away from the reality that one in four
humans are infected with parasites in the form of nematodes within
their bodies. Veterinarians routinely check animal stools for
parasites, yet very few physicians do so and very few physicians are
familiar with the use of wormers. Antibiotics are prescribed by the
ton compared to de-wormers—seems like wormers would be a great
bonanza for the pharmaceutical companies, but they haven’t tapped
into it either. Strangely enough this ignorance also seems to extend
to parasitologists who are more focused on mercury toxicity as the
cause.
Account #1
I have been suffering from a parasite infection for five years. Four
primary care physicians and four infectious disease specialists later
my frustration level is off the chart. I have taken in specimens and a
full list of symptoms which repeat on a monthly cycle only to run
head long into a brick wall. I can name the exact date that my initial
invasion occurred, October 22, 2001 during my salad course at an
Olive Garden Restaurant. Of course living in Miami at the time, the
doctor’s innuendo was parasite psychosis as a result of cocaine abuse
and finally my present primary physician thru a process of
elimination determined I have Fibromyalgia. This still did not
account for many of my symptoms, most especially the itch,
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stinging, crawling, burning sensation on my skin, monthly cluster
headaches and diarrhea; and most especially the alien life forms
coming out of me clearly visible in my toilet bowl. The list goes on
and on.
Clearly the medical professionals have a blind spot when it comes to
parasites and their full impact on the human organism.|
LLB from FL|
Account #2
My biggest fear is that I can work safely, go to get hair cut or nails
done. I wear artificial nails, should I have them removed? I don't
want my manicurist to get anything. They hold your hand for 1 and
1/2 hours while doing this. I also worry about my parents, who are
in their mid 80's. I am avoiding them. I told them I would not see
them at Xmas due to what was going on. Am I going too far?
I am in a living hell. I need to know about bank customers, are they
at risk. What to I do with my two Yorkies, who have been living in
crates, poor things.
I have bought several $100s of dollars of products from Dermatech
over internet.
Baths, earth, mitactin, healing spray, mud packs, disinfectant. I will
be off for two weeks soon. Do you advise bombing the house with
Deet, and turning heat up to 85 and going to a hotel with my two
dogs? Please respond, I do not have a computer at home. I am
being bitten all the time. I wear the D earth as talcum. My whole
house is in trash bags. I don't know if I am coming or going. Should
I do something with the dogs, I am treating them with the same
harmless products I am using. My skin is like a raisin in the sun.
In February I was in Mexico, when I had an attack of bites all over
my body. It felt similar like sea lice biting, when you swim in the
ocean, a sting and an itch, which was not very strong. The day before
I spent the evening out in the country side with friends, wearing a
friend's jacket that was in a card board box for quite some time. So
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that might be the source, but it could also be from animals, that are
infested with ticks and other parasites or it could be airborne from
the dust of construction work there. The stings were very small, like
a sting from a needle tip. Most of the stings disappeared after very
short time. The itch feels more like a crawling sensation and when I
scratch it, it goes away. The most affected part is the scalp, then the
legs and arms, some on my back, ears and nose. The stomach seems
not to be affected much for some reason. I went to see 2 doctors.
One prescribed Herklin, which is used for Scabies. It didn't work.
The 2nd doctor (I could only show him 2 little spots on my skin) told
me, this is guaranteed no skin parasite and gave me some
Antihistamine and send me to check for allergies. Since then I have
done a complete health check up and got a clean bill of health and no
allergic reaction was found.
Then I saw an Ayurveda doctor who gave me Ayurveda Medicine
and Mahamarichyadi Tail oil. After about 4 weeks I got crusty hard
bumps appearing underneath the skin of my thighs and elbows that
were quite itchy. I was able to get rid of this with some Cortisone
cream. My condition got much better, and I have it somewhat under
control after disinfecting my environment, daily washing and/or
drying of bed sheets, clothing and towels. But it is still there.
Then I tried Derma TechRx products that are indicated for all kind of
skin problems like Ringworm, Eczema, Dermatitis, Dandruff,
Scabies and skin mites. After 2,5 weeks the symptoms have rather
worsened. So since about 2 months I take daily Epsom salt baths
with either Hydrogen Peroxide or vinegar, which I leave for 10 min.
in my hair. Also I take Neem Capsules, Neem Oil, Mahamarichyadi
Oil and/or Tee Tree oil for the body and/or scalp. At the same time
my doctor of Osteopathy set me on a 3 week cleansing diet and
Hydroxyzine (Antihystamine), which was very helpful and reduced
my scratching to 5-20 times a day in combination with all the other
things I do. Now since 4 days I take Zyprexa, which my doctor
prescribed upon my request for 10 days. I will start with your diet on
the weekend and hope it will help.
In 5 months I've seen around 10 doctors or health practitioners and I
haven't been able to get a clear diagnosis. Most doctors believe, that
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it is not a parasite, but rather an allergic reaction or an inflammation
of my nerve membranes. If this was some kind of mite, my husband
would be infected, which he is not, nor do I know anybody else, that
would be affected. Whatever it is, after all the treatments I tried for
parasites, allergic reactions and other causes, I seem not to be able
toget rid of it completely. If you have some time, could you please
let me know, what your opinion is.
Unfortunately my computer software is limited and I was not able to
open the emails, that you sent me from your "Richard Kuhns" email
address, but I was able to get your info from the internet.
Sorry, but there is one more thing: I have an acquaintance that has
Morgellons disease. She is retired and told me, that she had
Morgellons Disease for over 10 years. She doesn't have email or
access to the Internet. She would like to get your advice. How could
she get in touch with you?
Thank you very much,
Account #3
Last November I woke up in my own bed being bitten by
something?? To this day I don’t know what it was, or where it came
from. I did have some parrots who I naively allowed to spend time in
a cage under a rubber tree. They may have been the source, but the
vet said they only had a few lice, were treated and they acted
normally. I am not at all sure they were the source. They are living
with another caregiver now and there seems to be no problem.
.Since I had a doctor friend; we assumed it must be some common
pest; he prescribed pyrethrum---didn’t work.
Tried it 3 times---sanitized and sprayed house, hot water/sheets etc…
To make a long story short, before I was rid of the actual bugs—
whatever they were---I had made 3 applications of pyrethrum and
four applications of lindane. My immune system crashed and I broke
out with a rash that would not go away. It was very painful, itched--nothing
including building up the immune system, hydrogen
peroxide IV’s, doxycycline---God, I can’t even remember now all of
the stuff I did—nothing worked. I thought I had a parasite. I never
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did have blood tests, as they weren’t recommended, but fecal tests
showed inflammation, but no candida or parasites. I had no relief at
all until I bumped into a woman who had a QXCI (have you heard of
this—energy medicine). She put me on the machine and told me she
thought I had a virus, and not a parasite.
With nothing to loose, I went home and decided to load my system
up with lysine. To my amazement the rash started to improve, and
has remained improved, but not gone. Meanwhile, I have been
getting herbs from a local ND which have helped some. His name is
Robert Morse out of Port Charlotte (942) 255-1979. He believes in
eating raw which I have not entirely succeeded in doing. His herbs
have helped, but again. There is still something in my system, I still
have local outbreaks. When I take the lysine it seems to activate it at
times. I also now have some pains in my joints, which are
intermittent, but I think, related. I’m keeping it at bay with Dr.
Morse’s Parasite M herbs, and lysine. I can’t eat sugar or red meat. I
only have free range chicken. I seem to need some meat as I am an O
positive blood type. I can eat raw nuts, vegetables, and drink only
pure water or green tea. I also take organic yogurt and acidophilus. I
have been using Xylitol as a sugar substitute. I don’t seem to have
anything contagious. The original biting things were contagious, and
my boyfriend at the time caught the bugs---he never came down with
what I have, but then he wasn’t bitten as severely, nor did he use so
much poison. Anyhow, it is a blessing that people can visit, come to
my house and that part is fine. I look more normal now, no obvious
outbreaks of rash all the time. I gained the 15 pounds back that I had
lost. My life force is not ebbing in the same way---but, something
has invaded my system and it has not gone away. I am really hoping
that your new discovery might help. I will follow up. That is all I can
tell you at the moment. How are you doing with your treatment?
Blessings
Account #4
Let’s start by explaining the beginning of my scourge.
I had moved into an apartment and for 6 months life was fine no
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medical issues. After the New Year, one night I woke up with bed
bugs biting me, I do not know if this is how I contacted the mites.
Everything that I have read on bed bugs state they do not carry any
disease. I took my apartment maintenance 3 times to ride my unit of
bed bugs. I had my bed mattress infested and I Started sleeping on
old couch given to me my sister the couch had been in storage for a
several years however i never notices itching or biting. I also slept
on lazy-boy arm chair; I developed neck and back pain from
sleeping on the couch. I am young and didn't have the money to buy
a new mattress. I bought an air mattress from Wal-Mart. I then made
the bad mistake of sleeping on the air mattress on the floor of my
apartment. The next day at work my head began itching, and I
notices black specks and round white matter coming out of my hair,
I scrubbed and showered and they seemed to have gone away, the
next day I wanted to by sure they were gone I used RID and I felt
bugs crawling out of my hair. I only saw tiny black specks. In the
weeks that followed my scalp itched and I notices black speck and I
noticed fuzz balls falling out of my hair, I used again rid, The white
fuzz balls seem to have disappeared and only the black speck
continued and the itch. I went to my first dermatologist and was told
I only had dray scalp he even looked at one of the black specs under
a microscope and said it was not a insect. He prescribed me with
dandruff shampoo and a skin lotion. My condition remained
however didn't really change for about a month. I itched under my
clothe however I though it was just dry skin due the winter since my
scalp condition hand changed in march i went to anther
dermatologist this time was prepared I brought speck that i found in
white medical tape. The doctor said "he didn't see any legs" he
prescribed anti-fungal shampoo, Carmel anti bacterial lotion and
pyrethrum cream, I used the shampoo and lotion the helped but the
condition never went away the pyrethrum cream seemed to burn my
skin and caused flaking and irritation. I then decided to try dog flea
shampoo and bleach on my hair. Both seemed to help but the
condition never went away. I asked my last dermatologist what it
could possible be and he answered he didn't know suggested I go to
dermatology lab with microscopes and could perform skin biopsies. I
scheduled an appointment however it was a month wait.
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I enjoy going to the gym and running. I am in good health and eat
healthy. Aside from my skin condition I have not had a cold or the
flu in 3 years. I started noticing irritation and skin itching when I ran.
I would develop small pimple like dots often very small. And I used
regular anti acne medication and it seemed to go away, however the
next I ran I would develop more. I would use Clearasil and they
would seem to go away they were never very large. I didn't start
getting bites until a month later. My back and neck are the most
effected. I often feel the bite in the evenings at work some times its
minor and sometimes it’s intense some times I go hours with out bits
and some times the come like a hive of bees. Sometimes there is a
red pulp with the bites, sometimes there's not. When I visited the
derm lab, the doctor who is supposed to be an expect told my that he
didn't see anything unusual, said again just dry scalp, he said the red
marks were probably just acne and were to be expected anywhere
there were hair follicles. He even said he had treated bird mites in
the past and this did not look like mite infestation. He said he did not
know anything about the black specks. I said he had seen unusual
skin diseases and infections and I didn't have one.
I felt a little relieved after that appointment. However my condition
didn't improve the biting continued I though for the long time, that it
was something in my clothes I used borax, bleach, every type of
detergent nothing seemed to get them out. I then came across your
article. I started putting the pieces together. I immediately started
using garlic tablets, and garlic oil and that seemed to help
tremendously. I soak my clothes in ammonia water over night then
wash them, I also sleep on trash bags and that keeps them from have
itchy nights. I ordered skin zinc and with anti acne medication seem
to compact the pulps well, I never have developed the skin
lesions, and aside from 2 large pulps on the back of my head are all
but gone all of them have been fairly small. I have a dark skin
complexion that helps hide the redness and the pulps when they
occur. You have to be close to see them. I think that I may have a
follicle mite and/or with biting mite. I have noticed with I have
pulled out hair in or near the pulp or by acne they seem have with
white puss or matter on the hair root. I am hoping the doctor can
make a determination. When I visited the derm lab again I brought
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my mother and evidence with me. The doctor again said nothing
unusual about my condition and suggested it was mental, prescribed
anti depressant. My mother verified the things she had seen and my
history of skin issues for the last 6 months. When I pressed the
doctor for an explanation for the black specs he said he really didn't
know. Then he corrected himself and said possibly just the hair
sloughing. When I researched hair sloughing it does not look like
black specks and it is usually associated with hair loss. My hair is
still intact and I have no patches of missing hair.
Despite my issues from what I have read on the internet and your
article my condition seems tame. Possibly I am catching it in the
early stages. I have already started throwing away clothes and
personal items that I can live without and focus on cleaning a
minimal environment. To my knowledge no one in my family and
work has been affected. I would like to ask if any lab can
screen blood for the mites and fungus? I have good insurance and it
would be helpful to utilize local labs since I see this fight might be
rather expensive.
Thanks for your help.
Account #5 I just read your article and ordered without hesitation-I
feel SO relieved I thought I was going crazy!!! How do I eliminate
this from my car, house, dog etc.? Have I infested all of my
relatives? Has anyone who has ridden in my car been infested? Do
bug bombs work for furniture/households? Should I just move
apartments? I want relief now, now, now I feel like I've been
fighting terets for over a year!!!
Account #6Thank you for you help regarding this matter. I am sure
that I have some kind of fungus/parasite on my shoulders, yet I am
unable to get numerous doctors to test or even take blood for this
situation. They all attribute it to psychosis. I just got a z-pack for five
days - yet I don't think it is helping. I am trying to get a blood test
and proper diagnosis for my problem. Thanks again for your help –
Shelly
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Account #7
I think my condition started about 3 years ago when I developed an
itch in my abdominal area while taking a swimming class in college.
The itch would bother me every once in a while, but was not that
bad. The itch would flare up for a couple days, and then disappear
for a few weeks. I really didn't do anything for it except for putting
aloe on it, and that didn't work.
Earlier this year (around January, 2005), I started to experience some
abdominal pain and discomfort, a frequently upset stomach, nausea,
light headedness, insomnia, and that abdominal itch was still
bothering me and I was starting to itch in other places as well. I was
getting some pimples and red areas on my skin. I made several trips
to the doctor, but nothing I was prescribed seemed to work. I was
diagnosed with acid reflux, but none of the medications (Nexium,
Aciphex) seemed to help my abdominal pain. I was prescribed
hydrocortisone cream, and also tried lotrimin and tea tree oil for the
itching, but none of those worked. I was prescribed Ambien for the
insomnia, but that didn't work.
Finally, I did some research on my own and thought that all the
symptoms could be traced back to the itch I originally contracted
from the swimming class. I thought it might be a fungus, so I started
taking some herbal supplements called FungRx, which I ordered off
the internet. They lessened my symptoms, and I brought that to the
attention of my doctor. He prescribed some anti-fungal medication
(ketoconazole), which seemed to help further. My doctor had also
prescribed some anti-histamines (Allegra and Zyrtec) for me,
because he said my body had a strong "histamine response" (my skin
turned red and stayed red for a while when I itched or rubbed it). The
anti-histamines only worked when I was taking the anti-fungal
medication. The Ambien also works better when I am on the antifungal
medication.
Right now, I'm am taking ketoconazole (200mg/day), the FungRx
herbal supplement (1500mg/day), Allegra (180mg/day), and Ambien
(as needed). If I have any of the skin mites that you talk about in
your report, it's not nearly as extreme as some of the cases
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mentioned. I think my main problem is fungus. Though the
medications I am taking have helped, I think stage I of the diet
would be appropriate to completely get rid of the fungus. I often
experience that "full" or "heavy" stomach that you mentioned you
suffered from when you had candida.
I may have questions about the diet as I start, so you may be hearing
from me again. Thanks again for your report. And sorry this wasn't
as "brief" as I thought it was going to be.
Scott
Account #8
Just to let you know, my wife and I both have this affliction. I work
here in Sacramento and she works in Las Vegas. Like you, we have
both been to many doctors and have had been prescribed many of the
typical scabies medications, with no lasting relief. To then be told by
the doctors, our symptoms were imagined or not real. As you know,
waking up constantly in the middle of the night with crawlers and
itching is real enough.
Thanks, Lyndall
Account #9
I have been infested with collembola for at least a year now. My
latest theory on the vectors are that I may have contracted S.
Maltophilia bacteria from the visit of some friends who have two
children with Cystic Fibrosis. This bacteria as you may know, is
found in hospital respiratory and lung equipment used by CF
patients, and for extra fun is directly associated with collembola
infestations. (This is why antibiotic treatment is needed, right?) Add
a moldy old house, a scabies infection and voila: severe collembola.
There's a movement lately to call this "Collembolosis". I have not
ever experienced or seen fibers in my lesions but I have had many
hundreds of collembola lesions.
I believe many sufferers of Morgellons fibers also have collembola; I
also agree there is probably a connection between the two. Still I can
testify it is possible to have collembola only.
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I have been told that these "Superbugs" are attracted to the bacteria
and see my body as something that needs to be decomposed. The
affliction is also directly connected to Candida Albicans, and it's
many forms. Your diet is almost identical to the strict yeast control
diets I've seen. I was prescribed a fabulous yeast purge protocol that
has been a saviour for me.
My now ex-boyfriend last night declared "these bugs don't exist, you
have DoP" and so I dumped him. He thinks I've created the lesions
my self - hundreds mind you. He thinks that because doctors don't
acknowledge this, it's therefore not real. Talk about adding insult to
injury. This whole thing is just unbelievable!
Your materials inspire me to put even more energy time and
attention into dealing with my surroundings and my health. Again,
thanks for your efforts. I would love to dialog about theories and
connections...it's all about connecting the dots, don't you think?
Account #10
I was diagnosed by Q-Based Solutions help desk out of Louisiana
last June, but have not been scraped or cultured by a physician for
collembola specifically. I was originally diagnosed (by a clueless
urgent care doc) with scabies, but realize now I had both springtails
and scabies at the time. I was, of course, prescribed Pyrethrum, but it
only made ME sicker.
I'm absolutely positive I have springtails, they jump and are Vshaped.
I can readily see them develop in my skin and my
symptoms, lesions, behaviors, treatments all track with collembola
traits and behaviors. The photos on websites of collembola lesions
look identical to mine. When I take Epsom Salt baths I can see the
little V-like monsters floating and regularly pull them out of my
skin, it's beyond gross, as I'm sure you know....
Still my disease has not been contagious in any problematic way.
The yeast treatment I was prescribed by a naturopath is a four part
treatment of caprylic acid in olive oil + physillium seed powder +
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bentonite + probiotics. Since reading about parasites I have begun
adding food grade diatomaceous earth. Along with a yeast control
diet the mixture is essentially a colon cleansing regimen. It can be
tricky to follow but yields accelerated results.
Here's a theory: Morgellons is related if not caused by a virulent
form of Candida Albicans which takes the form of fibers...have you
seen this thread?
So I have to tell you I read some of your materials which prompted
me to take some heavy doses of garlic. I think it's already helping.
So collembola are Quorum Sensing, right? I know the fibers have
been proven to be quorum sensing. And garlic inhibits quorum
sensing in organisms, so that's why it's so powerful? But then didn't
you say the effectiveness wore off for you? Why, I wonder...
Thanks for the conversation. You don't believe I'm just imagining
this, do you? ;-)
Cynthia
Account #11
If this works - you will be at the top of my list as a saint - I have
suffered and have also had many people - doctors included tell me
that it is post traumatic stress etc...
I am attaching a photo of me with my 7 year old son - 2 years ago -
when I used to enjoy the park and playing outside with him - I can't
wait to get my life back and will keep in touch to let you know of my
progress and if I have any questions.
Warm Wishes, D'Anne
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Account #12
I have just been to 2 medical doctors who can't find anything wrong
with me, my blood work was completely normal. I feel like things
are crawling on my skin but leave no bite marks. Could you just
provide me with some suggestions of what to do to rid me of this
possible problem? You get very detailed in the report and through
your personal story you've said some of your acquaintances rid
themselves of this problem completely but for you it was harder.
Basically what should I do?
What is weird is I felt this in the past winter and thought it was my
comforter on my bed. I threw that out and the feeling never came
back. It is the same crawling feeling now and I just don't know why
it's there. I grow mushrooms in dirt in my apartment could that be
affecting this?
I don't want to get all into changing my diet, I don't think I have it
that bad, its just an annoyance at this part. I dread giving this
possibly to my family.
Can you please help me with a quick "punch list" of things to do? Do
you think I have a good chance of eliminating this at this stage? It's
been 10 days since this has happened.
Sincerely, Steven S
Account #13
I HAVE NOT BEEN DIAGNOSED OF HAVING SPRING TAILS.
I HAVE ONLY BEEN DIAGNOSED WITH LICE. THEN
EVERYONE THINKS I AM CRAZY. I HAVE BLACK SPECS
THAT ALWAYS FALL EVERYWHERE AND ON ME. I TREAT
MYSELF SO MUCH BECAUSE THEN SOMETIME I DO HAVE
SOME SORT OF BUG. IT IS NOT A LICE BUG. I TOOK IT TO
THE DOCTOR AND HE DID NOT KNOW WHAT IT WAS. NO
ONE WILL HELP ME.
I HAVE BEEN TREATED FOR FUNGUS. I DID HAVE IT VERY
BAD AND STILL DO. THIS HAS BEEN GOING ON FOR A
YEAR NOW.
I DO NOT SMOKE. I HAVE BEEN TAKING ZOLOFT FOR ONE
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YEAR.
I ALSO HAVE A THYROID CONDITION SINCE 1979. DL
“PLEASE SEND INFO ABOUT DIET. I HAVE TRIED
EVERYTHING FOR TWO YEARS AND NOTHING WILL GET
RID OF WHATEVER THE HELL IT IS. MY LIFE IS A NIGHT
MARE. I AM 70 YEARS OLD AND HAVE NEVER SEEN
ANYTHING LIKE IT. I HAVE SPENT THOUSANDS OF
DOLLARS AND THIS WILL BE THE LAST THING I TRY. I
HOPE IT WORKS. “ THANK YOU.
Account #14
I'm not sure if you will receive this email, but I hope you do. I have
read a lot about your symptoms and read your newsletter for a while.
My symptoms are different than yours, but I'm quite sure I have
some kind of parasite or bacterial infection that I have battled for the
past four years. Whatever it is, it is eating up my skin all over my
body, but is especially prevalent in my face. I have seen numerous
doctors and have spent hundreds, if not thousands of dollars, trying
to get the proper diagnosis so that I can get cured. I will tell you my
symptoms and if you've ever heard of anything similar or know what
it may be, please let me know. I have prayed all of this time that I
will be able to get cured!!!
About four years ago, while living in Las Vegas, for the first time
my children got lice. It went away, but it seemed to me that after that
like there was something in my ear. I kept going to the doctors, but
they said there was nothing there. In my wildest dreams, it never
occurred to me that something could be INSIDE MY EAR.
After a while, my glands underneath my chin swelled up and the
skin on my face started to wrinkle with the tiniest wrinkles all over. I
went to doctors and dermatologists and they said time and time again
there was nothing wrong with me. Then whatever it is, spread to the
rest of my body. My ankles and knees swelled up and I could tell
immediately that it had spread. I started to feel tingling in my face
and feet and eventually all over my body. I know almost exactly
when the changes occurred.
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Now my face looks worse than ever. There are blotchy spots that
look like my skin is being eaten off my face especially in my cheek
area. My eyes are always swollen and my glands underneath my chin
hurt so bad and feel like they could burst! My face always hurts and
I get horrendous headaches constantly. I know there is something
very wrong but none of the doctors seem to think it is anything
serious and have not bothered to find a cure.
I don't have open lesions and my skin doesn't itch. I don't see black
specs on my body. However, I have scraped some stuff off my body
which the doctors said looks like lint. I wish I could send the
samples somewhere to be diagnosed but don't know where to send it
to. I sent a sample to a parasitologist in Arizona and his diagnosis
was that it was something caused from an allergic reaction to the
fillings in my teeth. So I had all of the teeth pulled with fillings in
and there was no change at all. In fact, it seems that it has gotten
much worse.
I have done into the emergency room about four times. I have spent
so much money on herbalist doctors and cures, it isn't funny! I have
suffered so bad for so long. The worst part of it is, NO ONE SEEMS
TO KNOW WHAT IS CAUSING THIS!!!! AND WORSE YET,
THAT THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH ME, WHEN ANY
ONE CAN PLAINLY SEE THERE IS!!! BEFORE MY SKIN GOT
SO BAD, I HAD A DERMATOLOGIST TELL ME I WAS
CRAZY ABOUT THE CRAWLING SENSATION IN MY BODY.
SOMETIMES IT'S SO BAD, I CAN'T SLEEP!
But I know you must be all too familiar with bogus diagnoses. I am
wondering if these symptoms sound familiar to you and if there is
somewhere I could send a sample to that wouldn't cost me my first
child where I could get a proper diagnosis. If you could respond, I
would greatly appreciate it!!!! I also wonder if this could affect or be
spread to other family members.
LL
THE SYMPTOMS GOING ON FOR ALMOST A YEAR. I HAVE
ALMOST LOST MY JOB. I AM ON DISABILITY RIGHT NOW.
I HAVE TO GO BACK TO WORK AND I CAN NOT GET RID
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OF WHAT EVER I HAVE. I LIVE OUT IN THE OIL FIELDS
AND I BELIEVE I HAVE OIL IN MY WATER AND OTHER
THINGS. I FEEL LIKE I HAVE BUGS AND MAYBE A SMALL
WORM OF SOMETHING. I HAVE FUNGUS AND IT IS ON MY
HEAD AND DOWN MY BACK AND LEGS AND I HAVE
DIFFERENT COLOR SKIN BLOTCHES. HELP ME. I HAVE
INSURANCE AND I DO NOT KNOW WHAT TO DO. I HAD 10
TUMORS TAKEN OUT OF MY UTERUS AND I HAVE BEEN
TREATED FOR LICE OVER A THOUSAND TIMES. I HAVE
BATHED IN CHLORINE, TOBACCO YOU NAME IT. AFTER I
TAKE A BATH I RUB MY SKIN WITH A COTTON BALL AND
IT IS ALL BLACK AND GRAY. I FEEL TINGLY ALL OVER
AND MISERABLE. MY MOM IS WATCHING MY KIDS AND I
AM ALMOST READY TO LOSE MY MIND. HELP ME. WHAT
CAN I DO? I LIVE IN HANKAMER, TEXAS.
Account #16
Dear Richard,
I would like to upgrade my package to receive updated emails and
have more direct contact, unlimited emails. I’ve been on Stage I of
the program, but not improving. My dogs are dead and I am realizing
my husband, who has been on antidepressants all along—has been
practically immune.
Thanks for all your help. SA
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Chapter IX--Depression and Connecting with
Source
One subscriber wrote to ask me about how to deal with depression.
I’m surprised many others haven’t brought up the subject. I find it
hard to believe that anyone could have these parasites, have little or
no support from the medical establishment, and not get depressed.
Before I discovered the connection with the diet and freedom of
symptoms for me in the mid 90’s I thought that these parasites would
take me to an early grave—not that they still won’t, but it won’t be
as early as I feared.
Emotions can contribute to a poor connection with Source. So
generally the goal is to get rid of emotions that detract from your
potential. But here is the rub. If you try to deny the emotions, they
undermine you and can literally interfere with your health. If you try
to get rid of them, they persist and show up as symptoms of disease.
If you pretend they don’t bother you, then the truth shows up in
illness. This chapter is about embracing them, moving through them,
learning from them, clearing them, and getting back to Source.
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Flow With It
Professionally I operated a stress management center for nearly
twenty years and what I preached in the seminars and workshops I
did was to “flow with life” rather than try to control it. When you try
to control something, you give power to it. So rather than try to
control depression or those thoughts of doom I allowed them in my
space. Sure it’s nice when you can blame someone else, but “an
article of clothing,” or “enzyme therapy”? It was easy for me to get
upset and angry with myself for having missed disinfecting that
article or trying the new enzyme therapy and I did so. Again, I
allowed that anger into my space without resisting it remembering
the example I use all the time—crying over spilt milk (no benefit).
End result—what’s done is done and I can wallow in it or look for
creative options for there’s no future in being pessimistic.
So this is what I said to myself as I was driving home from my
office, “I’m depressed, I hate this feeling and I’d like to flow with it,
see this from another point of view, learn from it somehow” (sounds
stupid since I was itching from head to toe and desperate for a hot
shower).
I always like to look for options (I said that before—can’t say it
enough):
1. end my life.
2. Wallow in depression.
3. Discover more about the diet.
I choose the latter, took a hot shower, decontaminated everything
with ammonia spray, and made an appointment with my doctor to
obtain a prescription for ORAP.
What You Resist—Persists!
Never fight depression. Instead, flow with it and look for options.
Aim your brain for creative options to learn, benefit others, to get
beyond it and your creative self will come through for you. It’s like
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trying to remember someone’s name—the more you effort at it and
fight not knowing, the more elusive the person’s name is, shortly
after you say, “heck with it,” the name comes to you. When you
experience the emotion—whatever it is, it disappears—it’s history.
Not that it might not return, in which case you go through it and let it
go again.
I’m sure you might be thinking that, “OK, maybe he did it, but I
don’t’ think I can! How do I do it?” And that’s in large because of a
basic law in psychology is “what you resist—persists.”
Unfortunately, a lot of what we’re taught is to resist feelings like
depression. And how about anger, confusion, fear? Aren’t we taught
to avoid or resist most of these feelings? Yes, we’re taught to resist
feeling or having anything to do with these feelings? But, few have
taken the time to realize that to any force like resisting a feeling,
there is an opposite and equal force meaning that if you resist a
feeling, it only persists.
Persistence of Emotion
The persistence of emotion doesn’t always mean that you feel more
anger or more depressed—it could. It often gets translated into
something else which could be your health. Yes, you might not be
feeling the depression, anger, confusion, rejection… but you could
be feeling the effects of the ulcer, suffering the affects of
hypertension, anguishing over the migraine or tension headache…
And it might not end there. Studies time and time again have shown
that depression can affect your immune functioning. Often times a
spouse will die within two years of losing his/her long term
significant other. That’s how powerful these emotions can be. They
get twisted, knarled, intertwined in our psychophysiology and can
literally mean a death sentence--all because we resist!
Why We Persist
Do you like to feel happy, glad, loved, excited? Do you like to feel
upset, angry, rejected, lonely, depressed?
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If you answered “yes” to the first question and “no” to the second,
you just voted. In fact it doesn’t matter which question has the “yes”
or “no” response. A “yes” or “no” to either question is a vote and
means you have attitudes or beliefs about these emotions which say
it’s OK or not OK to feel certain emotions. And it’s these attitudes or
beliefs (arbitrary) that keeps you from feeling certain emotions.
Most people believe that happy, glad, loved, excited, joy and so on
are positive emotions and unhappiness, anger, boredom, upset,
depression, and so on are negative or bad emotions. Actually, none
of these emotions are either good or bad; it's our learned perceptions
of them that make them good or bad. Emotions are nothing more
than different energy levels which can actually be measured by an
EEG as was actually done by Dr. Barbara Brown back in the 1960’s.
Learned Means of Handling Emotions
To learn about emotions, let's look at how emotions are handled. For
example, what do you do when you are frustrated? Some people grin
and bear it; others get angry; others eat, smoke, or drink; others go
for a walk, call friends, or get a nervous stomach, headaches, or high
blood pressure; others may feel badly about themselves for not
handling the situation correctly and have their self esteem suffer.
What do you do when you’re happy? Some laugh; others share the
happiness with friends and family; some smoke, eat, or drink; some
get nervous or anxious; some feel good about themselves and
experience a higher level of self esteem.
What do you do when you're angry? Some people holler and throw
things, or curse, or get sharp-tongued, or slam doors; others get redfaced
and hold the anger in, upset stomachs, or hypertension. Some
over eat, drink or smoke, call a friend, take medication, and some
actually use stress management techniques. Then there are some who
say that anger is beneath their dignity and claim that they never get
angry.
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The same question can be asked for every emotion - boredom,
confusion, excitement, upset, joyfulness, depression, and so on.
There is only one answer to the question, “What do you do when
you're angry, happy, frustrated, excited, lonely?” The one answer
that encompasses all emotions is that you generally “do something
about them.” Of course you might say, “Well, I do nothing.” Doing
nothing in many cases is actually doing something. Unfortunately,
the something that you do may ultimately result in lowered self
esteem or a pseudo inflated higher self esteem. Let me ask, knowing
that every day there will be things that work out the way you want
and things that do not work out the way you want, what can you do
about it? In response to this question there's usually an abundance of
advice. Some say:
• "Don't expect anything.”
• “Try not to get emotional."
• “Try not to overreact."
• "You do what you have to do."
• “Just accept it.”
• “Hope for the best and expect the worst.”|
• “Take it in stride.”
It's true; everyone has a different way of looking at what to do when
these emotions arise. Tony Robbins has a 10-step analysis of any
particular emotion. Yes, looking at emotions can be like looking at
the purpose of mankind - it can be awesome, or it can just be! The
emotion process resembles dominos knocking over other dominos.
Something does or doesn’t work as expected and bang - there is an
emotion, and bang - there is what we do about the emotion.
Along the way, we often want to be more or less expressive of
emotions, control or handle them. The interesting thing is that there’s
no choice in this model. Our behavior is simply a product of our
learned perceptions.
Personally, I like the theme of one of the Beatles hit songs, "Let It
Be," in the form of a question and that is, "Can I Let It Be if I have a
particular emotion?" The answer is either, “Yes I can let it be,” or
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“No, I can't let it be.”
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The Sealers
It’s amazing, many people have opinions about emotions that keep
them from feeling them and it's these opinions or beliefs that are like
polyurethane sealers. It's because we are sealed from feeling
emotions, that results in a plethora of stress-related illnesses
including, but not limited to, anxiety, overuse of tranquilizers,
insomnia, anorexia, head and neck and back pain, hypertension,
unhealthy habits such as over eating, smoking, drugs, to name a few.
Let's look at depression and the attitudes or beliefs that people often
have that keeps them from feeling depressed. For instance, why
should you not depressed?
Because:
• “You’ll be no fun to be around.”
• “You are still young and have a whole life ahead of you.”
• “You have two legs, two arms, two eyes, and so on and are so
much better off than so many unfortunate souls.”
• “It’s a waste of time.”
• “You’re the rotten apple in the barrel.”
Each belief or opinion that says we shouldn't feel the emotion seals
the emotion from being felt.
But guess what, depression doesn't care. It doesn't care whether you
like it or whether you dislike it, or whether you have a belief about it
-- it just doesn't care! And if you cannot let it be that you are
depresed, because you have some belief about it that you shouldn't
feel it, it can affect your behavior, your health and your emotional
well-being. The good news, though, is that when reach the end of
this sentence -- the nanosecond that you see the period -- you know
that the sentence is over – finished, experienced. Emotions are like
that. The moment the emotion is experienced, it’s over, period.
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And depression doesn’t care whether it takes you a few seconds or
decades to experience it. Let me repeat that. Depression doesn’t care
whether it takes you a few seconds or decades to experience it.
Unfortunately, people who do not let themselves feel depressed end
up having a long, drawn-out, run-on sentence with many commas,
dashes, semicolons, etc., that never seems to end, year after year, and
decade after decade--certainly not what we’d call short term
suffering.
So, since we’re emotional beings, let's get good at feeling
depression.
Reality
What's all this got to do with you? It’s simple. You live in a very
irresponsible and angry world that also has parasites (human and
microscopic ones). This irresponsible and angry world with all its
stressors can be a significant contributor to many of your
disappointments and if you haven’t been dealing with them
effectively; your self esteem is always at risk.
The Solution
You say to yourself, “I prefer to feel and experience the depression”
(knowing that when you experience an emotion it disappears), “and
you my creative intelligence figures out a way to:” (and I’m going to
list 8 different commands – any one of which you can give your
brain):
• “Somehow profit from this experience;
• Somehow deal with this disappointment;
• Learn from this disappointment;
• Use this disappointment to:
• inspire me;
• prosper me;
• benefit me;
help others;
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• motivate me;
• feel gratitude for the good in my life;
• See the disappointment from a different point of view;
• Be relaxed and calm handling the disappointment;
• Leave my body out of it” (no need for headaches and
hypertension);
• Attract what is health and good for me;
as I align with Source”—more about Source later.
Commit them to memory.
Surrendering and Hating it is OK
• “OK, so I have these parasites residing within my body about
which doctors know nothing and I feel helpless and depressed”--
that's surrendering.
When you surrender it is not about giving up. It’s simply about
owning where you are -- observing and being free of any judgment
about where you are. Now it's OK to dislike where you are; and it's
OK to hate where you are, and it's OK to be unhappy with where you
are. The important thing is for you to simply to acknowledge where
you are and make it OK to be there.
OWING
Owning it is probably the most difficult thing to do. It means letting
go of the, “poor me syndrome.” And that is to let go of all of the
whining -- "Why did I get these parasites?"
Acceptance is also a big part of owning something. Owning
something is to go beyond denial. Denial is very easy. “No, this isn't
happening to me!”
Denial and whining are very much the same.
Accepting your situation doesn't mean that you don't do anything
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about it. Accepting your situation simply means that you are
acknowledging where it is that you are and you are certainly entitled
to have feelings about where you are. “OK, I have these parasites
and am at a loss as to how to get rid of them.”
Individuals who experience a terrible accident that renders them
crippled physically often find it very difficult to own up to the
situation much less accept it. Yet, the inability to do this will leave
them crippled mentally. When they can accept their situation and
own it, then they can once again find meaning in life and begin
healing physically and mentally.
OBSERVE IT
Let's define observation. Observation means to observe without
being critical or coming to any conclusions about one’s own
behavior. Observing behavior is to be free of any subjective opinion.
We don't call the behavior good or bad, right or wrong. And we’re
free of calling ourselves stupid, dumb, idiotic, great, excellent, and
so on. We simply observe whether we like our behavior or whether
we dislike our behavior. In other words whether we are happy or
unhappy about how we are handling a situation and at the same time
knowing that our behavior could be different -- could be altered.
CHANGE
Of course this is the step everyone wants. We must hurry up to get
there. It’s like wheels that are spinning so fast that when we set them
on a surface we can’t get any traction or any movement. It's
important to learn how to slow our wheels for our engine has plenty
of power and if we take time to own and observe, we can accomplish
anything we desire. So let's take our foot off the accelerator. Once
you own and observe, to accomplish change there are a couple basic
approaches. Both involve creativity. If you’re spiritual or religious,
it’s, “let go and let God.”
It’s like going to the message boards—so many wheels spinning. I
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really believe that we already have discovered how to get free of
parasites and it’s been published in those message boards, but
putting all the threads together is a huge challenge as most of what’s
shared are only parcels and leave a lot of info missing. And then a
lot of what’s shared simply feeds feeling depressed.
The key is to stop trying to control situations, let go, and let the
creative self take over. It's very much like if you ever tried to
remember somebody's name, it's on the tip of your tongue, and the
harder you try to remember it the more elusive the name is. When
you finally stop trying to remember the name and say “heck with it,”
-- it's amazing how quickly the name comes to mind. Likewise, as
you are reading this book, your creative mind will be directed to
doing what's important, otherwise, you wheels will spin and six
months from now when you look through the book again, you'll say,
“But I missed that—I didn't see it.” And it will be what makes all the
difference in your success in this war against parasites.
Let’s Go to Source--Attracting What You Want and
Don’t Want
I’ve been reading the Attractor Factor by Joe Vitale, Ask and it’s
Given by Esther and Jerry Hicks, and The Law of Attraction by
Michael Losier as research for revising a CD program on Prosperity
that I created 20 years ago. The essence of achieving prosperity is
still the same; however, the path is far better defined and understood.
The biggest deterrents to achieving what we want is:
• Being stuck in emotional levels of anger, frustration, depression…
• Conflicting beliefs about having what we want.
• Complaining, bitching, and moaning.
• When we say we can’t do something or focus on what we don’t
want.
Basically, everyone and everything has vibrations. If we vibrate in
sync with the “Source,” we are open to receiving everything
available from the Source—our connection is not rusty. The book by
Esther and Jerry Hicks gives an example of a radio tuner. If 101.9
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FM is the station you want and your tuner is set to AM, or even
101.8 FM, your signal at best will be distorted. The goal is to vibrate
with Source and there are several habits we’ve acquired along with
some beliefs that can stand in the way—throw off our tuner.
First, it’s important to realize that where ever we are in life, we
attracted it—even the bad. How did I attract parasites? Well, I was
the one that shook them loose from the tree and I was the one who
had no idea how to deal with them. Knowing what I now know, I
could have avoided the entire mess.
Example, you’ve never driven a car before. You get in, start the
engine, put it in drive and begin moving the car. About the time, you
get comfortable with the steering wheel, judging distance, the
brakes; someone pulls out in front of you. Without any defensive
driving skills, you may be hard pressed to avoid an accident—you
participated—you attracted an accident.
Now the goal is to attract health. Summarized, the goals are to:
1. Stop thinking about the how bad things are and what you don’t
want—that only vibrates bad things. For instance, if you say you
want to get rid of excess weight, or you want to get healthy, or you
want to get rid of cancer, you’re vibrating excess weight, lack of
health, and cancer—the very things you want to get away from.
2. Be grateful for everything you have—that attracts more good
stuff. Be grateful if even for being alive another hour. Look for every
little thing you take for granted and be grateful for it. Avoid
comparing yourself with others or measuring your gains. Ego
measures—kill your ego and be prosperous and healthy.
3. Get away from complaining and victim thinking—that vibrates
victim. Complaining focuses on what’s wrong and has no
appreciation for what’s right. Complaining kills creativity, and
makes you a victim.
4. Avoid thinking you can’t do something for when you do, you are
arguing for your limitations and you own them. I believe Richard
Bach wrote that in Illusions.
Those are the basic mistakes made every day that keeps one from
tuning his/her tuner. Next let’s look at beliefs. We pick up limiting
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beliefs from others—family, friends, teachers—and we make come
to them ourselves. Often they have a lot to do with whether we
deserve, or there being a limited supply, or we believe what our
doctor says as fact. Fact and truth are often totally different.
Morris Goodman, know as the miracle man, crashed his airplane and
the facts were that his abdomen was crushed to the point doctors told
him he’d never breathe on his own and his spinal chord crushed such
that the same doctors told him he’d never be able to do more than
blink his eyes. Those were the facts! Morris told himself that he
would breathe again and walk out of the hospital on his own. The
reality was that he did both. That’s the difference between fact and
reality and one man’s experience in connecting with Source.
Joe Vitale sums up the Attractor Factor with these ingredients:
Achieve all five and you have infinite success.
1. Know what you don’t want.
2. Select what you do want.
3. Clear all negative or limiting beliefs.
4. Feel what it would be like to have, do, or be what you want.
5. Let go as you act on your intuitive impulses, and allow the results
to manifest.
Number five represents the “art of allowing,” which is all that is left
to do—allow the good to come into your life.
From Esther and Jerry Hicks book, Ask and its Given, it’s
emphasized that any thoughts you entertain regarding your present
health being less than perfect simply attracts more of less than
perfect. They recommend the following affirmations:
• It is natural for my body to be well.
• Even if I don’t know what to do to get well, my body does.
• I have trillions of cells with individual consciousness, and they
know how to achieve their individual balance.
• When this condition began, I didn’t know what I know now.
• If I knew then what I know now, this condition couldn’t have
gotten started.
• There is no need to know the cause of this illness
• I have to only gently release this illness
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• It doesn’t matter that it got started because it’s reversing its
course right now.
• It’s natural that it would take some time for my body to begin to
align to my improved thoughts of Well-Being.
• There’s no hurry about any of this.
• My body knows what to do.
• Well-Being is natural to me.
• My inner being is intricately aware of my physical body.
• My cells are asking for what they need in order to thrive, and
Source Energy is answering those requests.
• I’m in very good hands.
• I will relax now, to allow communication between my body and
my Source.
• My only work is to relax and breathe
• I can do that I can do that easily.
Essentially everyone who writes or talks about connecting with
Source focuses on being grateful for what you have. Rather than
thinking, “When I get rid of these parasites, make a million dollars,
find the love of my life…, I’ll be happy; the goal is to be happy with
what you have. Being happy with what you have brings you more of
what you want. One of the reasons why many are often resistant to
feeling grateful is that they are stuck with emotional baggage. So
simply saying, “be grateful” may be impractical until the emotional
baggage is dealt with—the primary subject of this chapter.
As you move through the emotional baggage, begin looking for
things ever so simple for which you can be grateful. One of the
mentors in the movie, The Secret, uses a grateful stone. When he
puts it in his pocket in the morning, it reminds him to take a moment
to think of the things for which he’s grateful. When he takes it out of
his pocket at night, it’s the same. Reverend Beckworth, one of the
mentors, says, “Incurable means curable from within”. Our
physiology creates disease to give us feedback—let us know we
have an imbalanced perspective.
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The goal is to move beyond emotions:
• Embrace them and stop making yourself wrong for having them.
• Move through them for when you experience them they
disappear.
• Learn from your experience of having them.
• Choose health, wealth, and prosperity (move to Source):
• Be grateful for what you have.
• Clear out discrepancies in your beliefs (use the script)
• Make complaining history.
• Stop thinking about what you don’t want or can’t do.
• Use Affirmations.
• Start thinking about what you want in terms of feeling it as
you already have it.
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Limited Edition
Soothing the Itch Within and the Diet to Control It
Table of Contents for Appendix
Appendix A
Instructions on How to Send a Blood Sample
Appendix B
Interview with Dr. Harvey of Texas
Appendix C
Intake with Dr. Bransfield
Appendix D
Protocol for Treatment of LYME/
Protozoa by Dr. Harvey
Appendix E
Testimonials
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Appendix A
Instructions for Submitting Blood Sample via UPS or Fed EX
I was due to have my blood drawn by my regular physician so I informed her of
my needs to have extra blood drawn and she didn't object. You will receive two
vials in the kit from. By the way, when you ship the vials by Fed Ex to the
laboratory, things don't seem to be sized quite right and can be a bit frustrating.
Fed ex requires that the blood samples (which will be on an ice pack) be in a
sealed bag inside a box and that everything be wrapped in absorbent material
like paper towels in case of breakage and that everything again be in a sealed
bag inside the shipping bag fed ex supplies you.
Your blood kit will include:
2 vials inside a Styrofoam container inside a box
1 zip lock bag with a space for your name on it.
Paper towel
The problem is that the two vials come in a Styrofoam container which along with
the ice is supposed to go inside zip lock bag which in turn is supposed to go
inside the box which in turn is to go inside a larger zip lock bag.
The problem is that the zip lock bag supplied is too small to fit both halves of the
Styrofoam container inside. Plus all of this would not all fit inside the box.
How I did it for myself and later on my mother is that I only used half of the
Styrofoam form, wrapped the ice in one towel and laid it on top of the blood
samples which were in the Styrofoam form. This goes into the zip lock bag
supplied with the kit--however, it seemed too small so you might want to take a
quart size zip lock with you. Then this bag with the samples inside goes into the
box that came with the tubes and can be wrapped with paper towels and it goes
into a large zip lock bag which goes inside the Fed Ex bag. Of course, you could
simply find a slightly larger box, use both halves of the Styrofoam, rubber band
them together and along with a slightly larger zip lock bag everything should fit-just
make sure everything will be secure from bouncing around in the box you
choose. As I understand it, the ice needs to be next to the blood and not outside
of the Styrofoam.
Also, not all Fed ex facilities can accept blood samples, you must call and find
which ones have agents certified to handle blood samples.
And in case there's a question, the kit comes with a white bag with liquid in it, put
it in your freezer to freeze and take it with you when you get your blood drawn.
Wrap the ice pack in a paper towel, and then pack the blood in the ice inside the
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Styrofoam container--it won't close completely because of the ice. Wrap the
whole container in paper towels and use a rubber band to keep it from separating.
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Appendix B
Phone conversation with Dr. Harvey of Texas 4/05
Following is part of my phone conversation with Dr. Harvey which may be of use to you
in understanding the curse.
He spent the first portion of the call on my history regarding when first symptoms were
experienced from the day of the dust cloud. I had within two days of the dust cloud
feelings of itching and being eaten alive. I told him of the tremendous biting feelings,
described the insect I found wiggling on my finger thinner than a hair only about 1/16” in
length, the black specs, the rashes around the bites, the plug samples, the different meds,
my early control with garlic and diet—the papules that turned into hardened masses like
scabs that never came off. He asked if I had any red spots like strawberries, and I
confirmed their presence.
He then wanted to know in-depth my symptoms which he was by in large surprised I
have very few compared to most who have suffered this long. I summarized my diet and
how it has helped keep symptoms at bay and later on in the discussion, he mentions that
the diet may have significantly reduced my symptoms when I asked him about the flu and
that I noticed my symptoms seemed worse during the flu.
After he took the information, he began to explain the origin of these infectious agents
and I happened to remember to turn on my recording device about one minute after he
began as he’s sharing the source of the pathogens. Some of the medical terms may be
misspelled.
Dr Harvey: Unbelievable, we’ve cultured tobacco mold, cultured bacteria blowing across
the ocean from North Africa blowing across the Atlantic Ocean through the currents that
flow from the south that bring particles from North Africa Riding on those currents are
bacteria. We’ve found almost anything you want to name in people we’ve been treating.
A bunch of symptoms like the kinds that you’ve been talking about.
Me: Sorry to interrupt, I just remembered back in the early stages when I was severely
infected before I used the diet and the garlic, I would have these bites and huge rashes
about an inch in diameter.
Dr Harvey. Ok, that’s what I see more commonly than anything.
Me: and I understand that rashes are caused by bacteria
Dr Harvey: Well, some maybe, some not. Some we don’t even know what they are. At
some point, we know how to make it go away.
Me: That’s good news.
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Dr Harvey: We don’t know what the specific agents are--they can be almost anything. In
normal people, they aren’t a problem. If something happens to the immune system of the
skin, then you’re going to get almost anything that comes along that were never meant for
humans, but what was meant for plants and other animals. The world has millions of
these things.
Me: That makes sense, they usually say that humans can’t get these things—they live on
plants not on humans.
Dr Harvey: Why are you different and why are these other folks different? It took us a
while to start to understand
I guess I was one of the first persons in the country who by accident tested one of these
people for Borreliia and she was positive and I treated her for Borrelia and lo and behold,
her skin lesions went away.
Me: now Borrelia is exactly Lymes’ disease?
Dr Harvey: No, Not exactly, the human variant. Borrelia does cause lymes disease if it’s
a variant that comes out of the white footed mouse through a tick. When it’s human to
human it’s slightly different Borrelia—it’s got the ability to move human to human.
Like Saars was an animal disease until it jumped form pigs to humans or was it chickens
in China last year?
We think that Borrelia mutated into this new form probably a thousand years ago and has
been in humans and moving at a level one can’t see and never tested for before.
Me: May I ask you what the connection is between morgellan’s and protozoan?
Dr Harvey: Yeah, borrelia is not a protozoa, but protozoa enter into this also. Ok, the
protozoa we found--we thought that Lymes—we have the models that show how
Borreliia can in the way that it keeps being extruded by red cells—it never leaves—just
keep replenishing itself reproducing because red cell break open—they die every 120
days. Everyday a few pop open, dump borrelia into the blood stream. The immune
system sees them, sends these organelles--they’re actually white cell types—T cells—
fagocites—they’re fagocites and monocites that crawl along the blood ingest these pieces
of bacteria and the monocites are actually the main trigger in the immune system that
identifies the agent and starts sending out chemicals—psydocans chemicals sent through
the blood that start the process of getting rid of a blood infection. There are a bunch of
psydocans that are sent out--different types—one of the types is TnF alfa which makes
chronic inflammation and so the entire body becomes inflamed at a very low grade and it
starts to have a non good effect and also because the macrophage has taken up these
things, it appeared as though they were being hampered in how they worked by the
Borrelia got inside of them—we see in a microscope go in to be eaten by the macrophage
and we go in a day or two later and look at the living blood still alive in the laboratory
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kept under a cover slip with oxygen and out of the borillia would come 50 of these things
which meant they were taking over the macrophage, manufacturing their own babies, and
usurping the energy. The macrophage was hampered in their activity and ability to
function which meant immune deficiency.
Me: I had the flu about a month ago, I noticed my diet was much more sensitive I had
problems.
Dr Harvey: That certainly happens your immune system takes a hit from the flu And the
Psydocan levels—you have it pretty much under control, for someone else the flu
symptoms would kick up faster and be more severe.
The main bacteria that get into the body first that shouldn’t be there are the organisms-primarily
we’ve been looking at animal organisms—the protozoa and Babesia. Well, how
would I know that it’s there? Because of the red dots on your skin is from Babesiz and it
means that organism is sitting in your red blood cells. You’re infected. You would not be
infected if you didn’t have Borrelia already. we thought it was Borrelia, but Borrelia also
turns out to be a pathogen that one would not have gotten if it weren’t for a knock out of
the macrophage.
Vandervilt University probably discovered last week what happened to the
macrophage—that is maybe the essence of all chronic human illness-- of which one
variant is what you have That is an organism called Chlamydia. It’s ubiquitous in the
world, on animals, trees, soil, plants, and one gets it by droplet spread or dust spread. It
gets into the body and then it starts to multiply and take over the macrophages and it
hampers their function.
That’s sexually transmitted!
Well no, there are three species of Chlamydia We’re not talking about that species.
Chlamydia pneumonia is the one doing the problem. Psychotica is one and Chlamydia
trichcomotis causes eye and sexual problems. They have a property about themselves, but
they are more easily dealt with and they don’t have the ability to knock out the
macrophages.
Me: I tried some enzyme therapy with serapeptase and it made my condition worse.
Dr Harvey: Be careful about stuff like that because we know what to do to get you out of
the problem. But first we need to know if Borrelia and Babesia are in there. And right
now we don’t have good sensitive testing because we’re just getting started for
Chlamydia so we’ll have to defer that..
Question is would you consider getting testing for Borrelia and Babesia through
Igenix ASAP and that would allow us to treat you with what works at a level the
insurance people wouldn’t fuss about it.
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Other standard blood tests required are the CBC (the expanded version) and the CMP-14
blood test tells us about the liver, gall bladder
He discussed a couple different labs and suggested Bowen Research Lab in Florida that’s
100% and costs $250. Also discussed getting blood tests for my mother since she had
been infected.
There are still some unknowns and that is how to treat Morgellons (the mites). From what
I gather at this point in time, many humans suffer from the effects of Borrelia and
Babesia. Some of us unfortunates got them from parasites which are a hell in themselves
and others contracted these pathogens via ticks, mosquitoes or whatever.
Further discussion indicated that our weakened immune systems then causes us to be
very easily affected by things like molds and other parasites that normally our immune
systems would simply knock out.
Appendix D has the report his office sent me which outlines the etiology and treatements
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Appendix C
Dr. Bransfield Initial Intake Session
Interview conducted at Dr. Bransfield Office Sept 05. In the first part of the interview is a
listing of all the complications from which Lyme patients suffer. He then speaks some of
disease theory and provides a few expert references in the field. He also discusses testing
labs and makes specific recommendations.
I began by telling him that I had been on Mepron and then asked permission to tape the
interview and he agreed.
B. (Bransfield) R. (me—Richard)
His next question was:
B So you had the 120 days of Mepron?
R. Yes
B What makes you think Morgellons?
R. Simply for the symptoms--the itchiness, I never got the 10 power microscope to see
B Any filaments?
R. Never observed any filaments. Whatever it was, it delivered to me the babesia and the
borellia. R I still have some of the sites that have been with me for 13 years.
B. So the original infection was 92? Had you been diagnosed with Lyme?
R. No, no one ever suggested testing for it.
B. Treatment began when?
R Early May of this year.
B History of tick bites?
B Bull’s eye rashes?
R. No, but I had plenty of rashes
B. Not a Bull’s eye?
R. They were associated with the bites I had all over my body.
B So you did have mites
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R. Several types. I would imagine several species of mites.
B. Flu like illness when it began?
R. NO, just an incredible itching and biting.
B. Recurrent bulls eye rash?
R. Lab findings?
R Yes,
B. Just the Bowen lab tests, right
R. I had several plug samples and basic blood tests done and nothing. One dermatologist
examined some skin samples I gave him and he couldn’t find anything. He thought I had
delusions of parasitosis. Dr. Harvey also asked me if I had any of those strawberry blood
spots.
B. Can you show me? At which point I showed him a few.
B. Prior psychiatric illness before 92?
B. Prior medical problems before 92?
B I am going to ask a million questions and am using 1992 as the baseline. AS I go
through the symptoms I’ll assume you had none of these symptoms before 92 unless you
tell me and I want to know if these are present or if since have improved.
B Do you have trouble with attention span
B. Easily distracted with frustration
B. Very sensitive to sound? Yes, but have always been so.
B. Sensitive to Light
B. Touch or smell
B. Forget what you went to next room to get
B. Spatial memory i.e. where your car is parked. No more than the next person.
B. Short term memory;
B. Long term memory
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B. Trouble entering things in the memory correctly
B. Word finding problems
B. Trouble recalling numbers
B. Phone numbers, names?
R. Faces? I don’t know if it’s more now so, but I can meet someone one month and not
recognize them the next month.
B. OK with tying shoes, riding a bike
B. Geographic locations, getting lost
B. Letter reversal when you write
B. spelling errors
B. Word substitution errors
B. Number reversal
B. Reading Comprehension difficulties
B. Auditory comprehension--understanding what someone says
B. Problem localizing a sound?
B. Spatial or depth perception problems, depth perception
B. do you bump into door ways?
B. Left/Right Confusion
B. Problems with arithmetic/math
B. Speech, words flow OK
B. Stuttering
B. If you’re writing a letter or essay, can you put your thought into writing OK
B. Hand writing OK?
R. Trouble with my hand shaking as I write lately, started after my divorce about
10 months ago.
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B. Depersonalization--you feel like you’re there, but not there? I’ve always experienced it
to some degree, but it hasn’t changed and is very infrequent
B. De-realization where things around you don’t seem real?
B. Can you picture a map in your head OK
B. Do you get intrusive images that come into your mind that are aggressive, sexual or
otherwise?
B. Do you dream even when you’re awake?
B. Have any nightmares?
B. Illusions where there’s something you hear or see in the corner of your eye?
B. Hallucinations where you hear music that isn’t there or see things that aren’t there?
B. Smell things that aren’t there
B. Unfocused concentration--hard to concentrate on task
B. Brain fog?
R. Two days I had trouble--one where I couldn’t get up. Don’t know if it’s hypo tension!
R. Sleep paralysis--I’ll get back to that. Brain fog is like you’re taking Benadryl and
you’re out of it.
R. That may have happened to me a week or so ago but I thought it was from having a
high sugar (lots of fruit) for breakfast.
B That can do it. Trouble prioritizing? Multiple tasks?
B. Trouble doing more than one thing at a time?
B. Racing thoughts
B. Obsessive Repetitive thoughts
B. Apathy where it’s hard to take an initiative to do things? Yes, since my divorce about
a year ago--that’s been a stressor
B. Trouble with abstract reasoning
B. So far it doesn’t look like Lyme, a lot of people with the Morgellons really kinda have
a pattern with this, but the itching drives them crazy
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B. Sudden abrupt mood swings
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B. Hyper vigilance -- Constantly being on guard?
B. Paranoid extreme suspicion of people
B. Disinhibition or poor impulse control?
B. Excessively startled
B. Explosive anger
B. Suicidal
B. Homicidal
B. Accident Prone
B. Decrease social function
B. Decreased Job performance
B. Marital or family problems? Got divorced
B. Substance abuse alcohol drugs
B. Legal problems--arrested for anything
B. Dissociative episodes
B. Tendency to double check triple to make up for memory problems
B. Tendency to drop things from your hands?
B. Crying Spells?
B. Depression? Yes, I’ve been more depressed since the divorce.
B. Bipolar illness?
B. Panic attacks ?
B. Obsessive Compulsive disorder
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B. Generalized Anxiety
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B. Post traumatic stress disorder --shell shock
B. Not well rested in the morning?
B. Trouble falling asleep?
B. Waking up in the middle of the night?
B. Early morning wakening?
B. Excess drowsiness during the day?
B. Erratic sleep cycles where you’re awake, sleep at odd hours during the day?
B. Loss of appetite?
B. Weight loss?
B. Overeating
B. Excessive weight gain?
B. Decreased libido --loss of sex drive
B. Decreased libido capacity for arousal or orgasms
B. Decreased ability to enjoy yourself
B. Difficult to relate to pleasure
B. Body temperature fluctuations
B. Skin flushing
B. Intolerance to heat
B. Intolerance to cold
B. Low body temperatures
B. Low grade fever
B. Night sweets
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B. Headaches much?
B. Loss of smell or taste
B. Blurred vision?
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B. Sensitivity to flickering or florescent lights
B. Floaters ------ like flash bulbs
B. Blurred visions
B. Conjunctivitis
B. Eye Pain
B. Night blindness
B. Shadows in field of vision
B. Neuritis
B. Aritis
B. Double vision
B. Lid drop where one lid drops
B. Loss of sensation on the side of face
B. Bells Palsy
B. Ringing of the Ear
B. Hearing loss
B. Dizziness
B. Vertigo room spins
B. Motion sickness
B. Loud noises make you nauseous of dizzy
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B. Episodic loss of speech, choking on food or trouble swallowing
B. Weakness in neck muscle in front or back
B. Look straight toward me and put your tongue out.
B. Seizures
B. Numbness, tingling
B. Loss of sensation in any part of your body
B. Burning like skin is on fire
B. Static electricity sensation on your body
B. Skin crawling sensations like something crawling under the skin
B. Stabbing sensations like being stabbed with something
B. Muscle weakness
B. Tremor?
B. Twitching?
B. Muscle tightness where muscles go in a knot?
B. Wrestless leg where your leg has to keep moving?
B. Myocronic jerks?
B. Torticollis?
B. Turrets?
B. Parkinson?
B. Fainting spells?
B. Herniated discs?
Then he asked me to stand with my feet together like I’m standing at attention with my
arms out in front of me and asked me to close my eyes to check for swaying
B. Joint pain
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B. Joint swelling
B. Tightness creaky joints
B. Fractures of bones
B. Shin splints--pain in shin
B. Ribs, breast bone, collar bone, hip
B. Elbows tender?
B. Bottom of feet sore
B. Chronic fatigue syndrome
B. Fibromyalgia?
B. Muscles tender?
B. Cartilage and nerves tender
B. Ear? Tinnitus?
B. Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
B. Chest pain
B. Mitral valve prolapse?
B. Racing pulse?
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B. Episodes where you heart goes real slow and then real fast?
B. Pericarditis?
B. Cardiopathy?
B. Murmur?
B. High Blood Pressure
B. Shortness of breadth
B. Cough
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B. Sore Throat?
B. Swollen glands
B. Asthma
B. Upper GI Distress
B. Heart Burn?
B. Irritable Bowel
B. Abdominal Bloating
B. No other GI symptoms
B. Testicular Pain
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B. Irritable Bladder--have to urinate all of a sudden
B. Urinary incontinence--loss of control of urine.
B. Recurring urinary track infections
B. Intolerance to alcohol
B. Hair loss
B. Thyroid problems
B. Wilson syndrome?
R. What’s that?
B. If you don’t know, it’s ok.
B. Adrenal insufficiency?
B. Blood Sugar?
B. Vasculitis?
B. Ankle swelling?
B. Tooth pain?
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B. Periodontal disease?
B. Nose Bleeds
B. Sensitivity to a lot of chemicals
B. Lots of Allergies
B. Enlarged spleen
B. Tendency to bruise easily
B. Chronic pain
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B. Did you ever get a worsening even after you went on antibiotics?
R. No except for the time I couldn’t wake up and the dizziness.
B. You probably had an ear thing!
Have antibiotics ever helped you at all?
R. Yes, I’m on the Zithromax and before I was on the antibiotics I had to watch my diet
very carefully, since I’m on the Mepron and the antibiotics within six weeks, I can eat
normally and have a few papules form, but nothing like it used to be and the sites I’ve
had for over ten years are beginning to diminish in size.
B. What diet works?
R. It’s a low sugar and high fat diet with sensitivities to soy and additives like glycene,
carrageen, fruit... It’s quite and involved diet that I discovered works for me. Without that
diet I think I’d have lots of symptoms on your list. In my researching I’ve come across
things like Dercum’s syndrome and Blastomycosis --it’s a fungal infection. Are these all
kind of related?
B. Yeah, what happens, people call it the common disease theory. There may be multiple
entry points, whether it’s Mercury poisoning or Lyme or viral, that once these insults
occur, many of these conditions look very much the same. They may have different entry
points, but similar disease processes at a later stage. OK? Which makes it hard to tell
them apart symptomatically although sometimes that may be a way, for instance the
bull’s eye rash which is more unique to Lyme versus let’s say chronic fatigue. So, it’s
that early manifestation that may be a give away when you end up with a chronic fatigue
symptom, which one is it?
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B. Liver enzymes
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B. Psyche treatments--you had Orap? Did that work?
R. Absolutely
B. What did it help?
R. It helped get rid of the itchy mites whatever they were, Morgellons or whatever, then I
was only left with the papules that form on my skin.
B. OK, and now you’re on zyprexa?
R. No, I’ve been off zyprexa for about 6 months. I was on it back in Feb-March when I
got recontaminated. Whatever this thing is, the eggs can reside in clothing or upholstery
for years and although it may not affect you, it will bring it out full blown in me within
hours.
B. Right. So you’re on Zithromax now right?
R. I’m on fungazole once per week and Flagryl two times per week.
So you’re on fungazole once/week, Flagryl two times per week and 600 mg Zithromax
once a day. Anything else?
R. I was on Mepron for a while. What’s the SMZ/TMP?
B. That’s Bactrim
R. I was on that for about three months and then he switched me to Zithromax
B. Did the Bactrim help?
R. It helped, but then I ran out of the Bactrim at the time he had surgery and I was off it
for two weeks and the papules and itchy symptoms were returning. He started me on the
zithromax at that point and things cleared up within days.
B. Anything else as far as back ground? Do you have the papules now? Could I see them?
R. “Sure, they’re on my neck,” as I pointed to the spot.
This is a new one,
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R. It’s been there for 13 years and is the best it’s ever been. Now as I understand in
talking with Dr. Harvey that the immune system, once you get rid of the Borrellia and the
babesia from your system, your normal immune system is supposed to take care of this.
B. Yeah, here’s the theory. Now you don’t have the symptoms that most Lyme patients
have. Most Lyme patients would say yes to two thirds of those questions.
R. It might be because of my diet?
B. Yes, It might be because you had a Borellia infection that just sat there a symptomatic
until you added this other piece to it. The theory is that both Lyme and babesia suppress
your immune system so that if they are less active, then your immune system is more
robust.
R. This might sound strange, but my nose has always had a lot of puss--not pimples. All I
had to do was squeeze the skin and lots of puss would pop out. Since I’ve been on the
antibiotics, I’ve have little if any puss at all. Was that the dead white cells in that puss?
B. Actually that’s Dr. Richard Shumaker’s theory in Pocomoke MD. Chronic staff
infections, strep can, lay the ground work for all these problems. It’s hard to say whether
it’s toxicity, deficiency, or chronic low grade infections and sometimes one can
contribute to the other. But those are the different competiting theory with these chronic
low grade diseases. But when I look at people who have the Morgellons and history
similar to what you described where they don’t have a lot of the symptoms, the itching is
a big thing and it’s hard to say that it’s delusional parasitosis. But basically that’s what
people call it when they can not find an explanation for it. And you don’t seem to be
delusional about anything else. Why would it just be that one thing?
R. Yeah, why would the person I lived with contract it? Why would my mother contract
it? They say delusions are Folie à deux. or Folie a trois?
B. The higher the numbers go the less probable it is. Well that happened with the Gulf
War Syndrome. My guess is that it is some kind of infectious thing that we don’t
understand yet. Now with the people who have the Morgellons, the main treatment is
biaxin which is related to the Zithromax and the other is Bactrim. Somehow they seem to
help. From a symptomatic stand point, sometimes I give Periactin which is an
antihistamine to help the itching.
R. Itching for me isn’t an issue unless I stop the meds and screw up my diet
B. You’ve been on Zithromax how long?
R. Six weeks and I have another refill.
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B. The question is what to do then? How long do you treat it. Morgellons--recently the
FDA or someone came out with that it’s an imaginary illness. Now if you look at it, so
many of these cases, they are so much a like it’s hard to picture that there isn’t something
there.
R. They all suffer from the same thing.
B. I think there’s something to it. Generally a lot of the people who have it test positive
for Lyme, although they don’t have the classic presentation, and treating it as Lyme
might help it
R. What does this show you (looking at the Bowen labs)
B. See this inclusion, it does look like babesia or some sort of mechanism--similar to
malaria--there shouldn’t be something inside your red cell. You can see those occlusions
there. It’s hard to know. The person who originally developed this is Lida Mattman in
Michigan who has been a microbiologist for 50 some years. Dr. Mattman was once
nominated for the Nobel Prize. This is a spin off of that work.
Although what started this is a lot of people test positive for this. So it’s hard to
standardize this and know what it means. Infected and infectious are two different things.
Many people may be infected with something and not show any symptoms.
R. Carriers?
B. Yes, we have ten times as many bacteria in our bodies than we have cells and that’s ok
in a state of health. So and we may do better with them there and we depend on some of
them. So having microbes in our body is not necessarily a bad thing. It’s a matter of
which ones and what they do and how well our body tolerates what’s there.
And some of these disease theories may be an unusual body reaction to a common
microbe that someone else might not be bothered by.
So this photo does show something that should not be there, but is there a cause/effect
relationship. Whatever this is, I don’t know if we really can explain exactly what it is.
But even if you can’t explain it, if you know the treatment, I’d settle for that. I’d rather
have a treatment than an explanation. And this treatment seems to work. Now one person
who does a lot of it--Ginger Saverly--in Texas near Dr. Harvey. She and doctor Stricker
have been paying attention to this and how to treat it. I’ve had a few Morgellons cases
and have seen that that protocol does seem to work.
R. Normally with Morgellons, the normal immune system does take care of it? The
question is that after the antibiotics, then what? If I still have these papules, then what?
B. My understanding is that it isn’t a constant treatment although I’ve only had a few
cases. NJ isn’t as much of a hot spot as some other places like Florida, Texas, and
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California. But to some degrees, maybe there’s just awareness there. If they are aware of
it, they pick up the diagnosis, if they aren’t aware they overlook it. I’m just annoyed how
so many call this delusional--like some of those meds like Orap or zyprexa can work-some
have antiviral activity and they may work that way rather than their anti delusional
effects.
R. Have you heard of ORAP working for this?
B. Yeah, Orap
R.I know it’s used for turrets syndrome
B. That’s what it was originally used for and it’s in that whole category and they never
went for other indications. It’s kinda like thorsine and haldor. They don’t use Orap so
much these days. I had one person who was on it about a year ago. Zyprexa we use that a
lot in general psychiatry but for the Morgellons, I use Periactin. It’s an antihistamine like
Benadryl, but mainly for the itching. But I’m more inclined to use Biaxin and Bactrim
R. Would you suggest I switch to one of them?
B. Have you hit a plateau?
R. No, I’m improving and I’m not just depending on the medication. I’m also using a
product called skin zinc--you might have heard it advertised--and it seems to help. I’m
also using ionic minerals.
B. There’s a lot of things we don’t understand. In psychiatry I see a lot of people that are
diagnostic problems. And when something’s poorly understood--like years ago
tuberculosis was considered psychosomatic.
R.Right, because they didn’t understand it.
B. Once it’s understood and people make sense out of it, then we lose it in psychiatry and
internists take it from there. But when something is on the fringe and not well defined
those cases are sent to us often with the question, “Is it psychosomatic, is it delusional, or
is this an illness that’s just not understood. Now there may be a psych component with a
lot of these things or the emotional distress of having a chronic illness so that may
compound it. But in your situation, it doesn’t sound that way to me.
R.I operated a biofeedback center locally for year. My practice was basically people who
went to a doctor and didn’t get better-stress
B. Well stress will make anything worse.
R. Yes, it will exacerbate any problem.
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B. If this is working and you’re tolerating it? 600mg of zithromax is a healthy dose and
some would frown at that much for that long. Have you have any trouble with health
insurance?
R. No, not at all.
B. Have you had any other testing for Lyme?
R.No
B. There’s no sense to do it now because the antibiotics would throw it off and after
being on a course of meds this long, I doubt that it would show anything.
R. According to some of Dr. Harvey’s information, is says that in the presence of
antibiotics, borella often goes into a cyst form.
B. Yes,
R.Does that mean they won’t be affected by the antibiotic, then?
B. Yes, depending on which antibiotic. Like your normal antibiotic only kills when the
organism is in a dividing state. So in that cystic form, it’s not going to be so effective.
R. So zithromax would be effective against the cyst form?
B. No, that’s I think sound of the logic for the Flagryl. One theory, and this is Lida
Mattman, is that borellia live inside yeast cells so if you take too much in the way of
antibiotics, you can get a yeast over growth.
R. Candida?
B. Right, and the borrelia living in the yeast cell may be more an issue, so you may be
working against yourself sometimes with a lot of antibiotics. You can unwittingly create
an environment that’s conducive to the growth of almusise. ??
R. Would that be the main difference as to how you and Dr. Harvey treat Lyme as
opposed to the general medical community?
B. He and I both recognize that chronic Lyme makes sense. Not everybody does. It’s
hard for other people to think that infections can just sit there in the body. It’s more a
perception like you get it, we give you an antibiotic and now it’s totally gone. And so
many days should totally eliminate it--period. And if you have other symptoms, it’s a
totally different problem. Although when we look at people in that are in that category--
Chronic Lyme--they are all the same with similar symptoms and it just doesn’t make
sense. And they take the antibiotics and get better to varying degrees.
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R. Once the antibiotics stop and are no longer present, does it migrate back from the cyst
form to the bacteria form?
B. It could, but if you have a good immune system for keeping it in check that might not
happen although we don’t know what we’re talking about--a virus can do that too. Think
of a fever blister, it comes out when you’re stressed and when you’re feeling better it just
disappears.
It doesn’t mean that it’s gone?
No, like I have one here on my lip and if I go skiing, the altitude, the jet lag, being
exposed to the outdoors, brings it out. But being at the beach in the summer doesn’t bring
it out, it’s there and can go in an inactive state.
R. It’s the effect of the different stressors.
B. Maybe that’s how these things work, but because a lot of people don’t believe it’s real.
There’s a tendency to ignore it and it’s hard to get money to do research on it.
R. Cause they think they already know as much as they should know about it?
B. Well, people that do research like to do things that are objective and factual. Doctors
have to deal with here and now ways that people present things in their office. It’s an
issue for doctors who treat it, but it may be something hard for researchers to know what
to do with. So there isn’t a lot of research to explain the whys and wherefores and how
this works. If it was, then it might be seen as more real and other people might jump
aboard. Think of where AIDS was in 1977 where it was seen as a curiosity that a couple
people were complaining about and it was hard to make sense of it.
R. Well that was even true for Lyme disease--they thought people were just crazy.
B. Well, it’s true of anything before people can make sense out of it.
R. Dr Harvey had me getting blood tests every two week.
B. Usually I’d be working with someone who handles the medical part and I’d be doing
the psych part. It sounds like it’s more of a general medical issue. Your problem is that
there’s no one around that understands Morgellons. I think Dr. Eiris has treated a couple
cases. He’s in Jackson. And a nurse practitioner in Texas, if fact she came out with an
article about it recently.
R. I’m a bit confused and have a problem. I know you’re a psychiatrist, but when I spoke
to your gal on the phone about Morgellons and Lyme, she indicated that you would
handle the general medical aspect in the absence of any psychiatric issues. I’ve probably
sent your name and number to over a hundred and fifty people who are in search
of physicians specializing in Morgellons.
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B. I’ve kind of done it because there are few people who deal with it.
R. Dr Harvey sent a letter with a list of physicians--your name being one of them that
he’d recommend.
B. So you’ve been getting the CBC every two weeks? So we can monitor it. You’re Ok
with the refills at this time so the big question is what to do when you are getting near the
end of the treatment
R. Do I get another test from Bowen or do I assume it’s gone?
B. Well, the Bowen is more looking at babesia. We don’t know why--it’s kind of like the
idea of AIDS when AIDS first came out and they found these other infections. Eventually
they found what the issue was and even now there’s still a debate. How it manifests and
what the cause is can be two different things, but if this works and it seems to, then it’s
worth doing. And your case isn’t as bad as other’s I’ve seen -- people are just jumping
out of their skin.
R. I’m lucky; garlic, zyperxa, and the diet have kept me sane.
B. Whatever it is, do it. If there’s a toxic component, Richard Schomaker is the person
who knows a lot about this and he’s in Pocomoke MD. On the Eastern shore. He’s a
biochemist who went to med school and has a lot of ideas about how these things fit
together. Do you have any other records that might be relevant?
R. No.
B. You have six weeks left, then if I see you after you get your blood work. You’re only
on zithromax. Part of logic is that zithromax can treat Morgellons--whatever Morgellons
is. But the other part is that since you have babesia, it’s better to use that rather than
biaxin. I’d probably start backing you off of it, staying on it too long can create other
problems--yeast and so on. But let’s stay on it for now. I’ll go with his protocol. Stick
with what you’re doing. So the lesions are less that what they were?
R. Yes, substantially
B. That’s the bottom line.
R. Generally Bowen tests for Lyme?
B. Yeah, although a lot of the tests were coming back positive. So people were thinking
there were too many positives.
So maybe everybody’s infected, but not everybody has the disease--that was Lydus
theory which might make sense, but when it’s too high although they just had some FDA
approval which is good. But the lab core and quest are poor blood testing for it. But since
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you’ve been on the antibiotics it probably won’t show. You don’t have the clinical
symptoms that go with Lyme although you might have the infection. 95% of the people
who have Morgellons test positive for Lyme. But you may not test that way now.
R. If someone were to come to you and you would suspect Lyme, what lab would you
send them to?
B. Igenex in Palato Ca. Second would be MDL or Stoneybrook. Igenex is the best lab
there is for that and Quest would be the worse. But that where most people send because
they have the managed care contracts. So a lot of time people have no indications (bands)
from Quest and many indications (bands) from Igenex. But that’s where I go from the
clinical symptoms because I get tired of waiting for all that with the lab work.
End of Interview.
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Appendix D
PHYSICIAN PROTOCOL
BORRELIA-ASSOCIATED ILLNESSES CURRENT
DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT
9-20-04
W.T. Harvey, MD, MPH
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Table of Contents
I. Introduction Page 197
II. Background/Illness Model Page 197
III. Potentially Infected Groups Page 204
IV. Diagnosis Page 204
V. Treatment Page 209
VI. Valuable Medical Contacts Page 212
VII. Information Sources Page 212
VIII Appendix Forms Page 213
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I INTRODUCTION
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This manual is intended for medical professionals. Its contents have been derived from an
extensive review of peer-reviewed medical articles, select books, and the author's clinical
experience.
As of now, this guideline is outside presently accepted concepts, and "Standard Medical
Care". Nevertheless, its conceptual framework has evolved into unexpectedly successful
treatment outcomes in many chronic illnesses, heretofore treated with only minimal or no
success. Simply considering this viewpoint in patients with complex, poorly understood
illnesses may provide insights where none presently exists.
II BACKGROUND/ILLNESS MODEL
Overview
Numerous "Syndromes" presently exist with a similar, multi-systemic presentation but
without clear etiology. For the most part, these are associated with singular, but dissimilar
viewpoints. They have been derived within differing assumed frameworks, and may or
may not have a single proposed etiology. We believe that most of these Syndromes, all
with different names, are variants or distinct but separate parts, of a single illness.
We came to this perspective as we systematically evaluated representative patients from
most of these syndromes over a four-year period. As the numbers examined increased, it
became clear that all had fundamentally similar physical findings, similar but intermittent
laboratory abnormalities, and eventually, common etiologic agent(s). Treatment derived
from this "unifying" concept became more successful as it evolved, until presently most
patients improve significantly if not fully, and treatment time and complexity has
diminished.
We began with the assumption that a controversial illness, labeled "Chronic Lyme
Disease" was the possible common thread among all these syndromes. As testing for the
known etiologic agent for "Lyme disease" (a limited, tightly-defined zoonosis), Borrelia
burgdorferi sensu stricto, proceeded, results were at first disappointing. Dissection of the
test criteria (NTH Dearborn Criteria, 1994) provided insights that led to increased
numbers of test positives, until present percentages are now between 80 and 90%. As the
numbers of positives rose and treatments directed at Borrelia became more successful,
our certainty of a Borrelia etiology for all syndromes we evaluated became the
foundation of our diagnosis and treatment.
Interwoven into the progression of our understanding were the findings of credible
explanations of symptoms, signs, laboratory abnormalities, and treatments. As these
findings became more numerous, we began constructing a "working model" of the larger
disease that connected these Syndromes. To our surprise, it later began to explain
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illnesses far outside the Syndromes, providing improvement or recovery in patients that
earlier had no effective treatments available.
A synopsis of the evolutionary steps in our conceptual model of these illnesses follows:
1. Barrel'ia bvrgdorferi was first considered the singular etiology.
2. Treatment evolved from oral antibiotics that took one to several years for
effective outcomes, to IM Ceftriaxone (8 months), to higher-dose IV Ceftriaxone that in
many cases resolved symptoms in 12 weeks.
3. As the faster, more effective treatments were used, a follow-on illness "flare" or
recrudescence emerged that had strong CNS characteristics.
4. Babesia microti began to be found in increasing numbers in these patients for reasons
similar to the difficulty of finding Borrelia initially. Repeated testing revealed even
higher percentages of Babesia co-infection.
5. Use of the anti-Babesial combination Atovaquone and Azithromycin produced
dramatic resolution of about 75% of the many symptoms (CNS related) in both the
Babesia positive and the Babesia negative groups with Borreliosis.
6. Our model now shifted to the assumption that these illnesses had a common etiology
consisting of TWO interdependent agents, Borrelia and Babesia. Treatment became yet
more effective and shorter.
7. Comprehensive literature search of NLM strongly suggested Toxoplasmosis as a
candidate etiological agent, as did treatment outcomes (Both Toxoplasmosis and Babesia
are treated effectively with Atovaquone and Azithromycin). Standard testing (IgG/TgM
and PCR) for Toxoplasmosis gondii rarely revealed this agent, however. Test methods
and sensitivity remain questionable, as specialty labs have not yet developed sensitive
procedures for finding this agent.
8. We thus find ourselves at the paradoxical position of having two possible
fundamental co-agents, one moderately supported by laboratory identification and the
other strongly supported by credible theory but no test "proof. Fortunately, treatment for
both is the same.
9. Insight into this/these illnesses continues to evolve...
In summary, virtually all our patients fall outside the rigid definition of Lyme disease.
Many, however, fall within one or more overlapping "Syndromes". Unexpectedly, many
others within the current mainstream medical model fit our model with varied additional
symptoms or signs. All appear to encompass a broad range of illnesses that have in
common chronicity, persistent inflammation, and unknown primary cause.
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How symptoms are caused: a hypothetical conceptualization in progress Borrelia
bwgdorferi enters the body either by trans-ovarial passage before birth or from sexual
contact. Globally (outside all highly endemic areas such as Texas), its' entry is thus
unlikely from tick bite, particularly when the organism is present as a part of the body
during its initial development in the womb (Vertical transfer). This may allow some
tolerance, or the opportunity for more effective cloaking. Horizontal transfer is assumed
to be sexually via mucous membranes or as a blood-borne pathogen. In any case, effects
may appear immediately (fetal damage or miscarriage), slowly (frequent infections,
fatigue) or rapidly (sudden onset of multi-symptom disability). Reasons for the
differences are unknown.
The spirochete's mechanisms of pathology are simple but essential: (1) to create immune
deficiency, and (2) to cause chronic, low grade inflammation. Until recently, we
conceptualized these Syndromes as involving only Borrelia burgdorferi. Lately, the
realization that most patients are infected with an enormous range of unexpected,
activated agents has led us to believe that some or many illness symptoms come from a
pan-immune deficiency state. Particularly, a co-infection that may have initially entered
humanity via arthropods is being found in large numbers in these patients (Babesia).
Additionally, activation of common, usually dormant human pathogens such as the
Herpes group and Toxoplasmosis are also symptom-generation candidates. Recent highly
successful experience treating with the drugAtovaquone leads us to speculate that either
Babesia or Toxoplasmosis may be the primary generator of pathology. If so, these
syndromes may be unique in nature as dual agent diseases.
Complicating the Syndromes is a characteristic of most bacteria: pleomorphisra (multiple
forms). Borrelia, for example, is thought of only as a moving, coiled bacterium. However,
use of time-lapse microscopy shows it or one of the co-agents appears to exist within red
cells in a form without walls, and within serum as buds and strings (L-forms). More
developed forms can be seen multiplying within human phagocytes.
Borrelia also changes into a "cyst" form when in the presence of either an activated
immune system or antibiotics... then back again when no threat exists. These multiple
forms and phagocyte neutralization can credibly explain many of the syndromes'
disbelieved characteristics: persistence with and without symptoms, detection
impediment, and treatment difficulties. The existence of Borrelia cyst forms gives
plausibility to an often-seen scenario: (1) acquiring the disease at birth, (2) having
minimal symptoms for years or decades, then (3) erupting when significant physiologic
stress (such as participating in the Gulf War) drops immune competence, permitting the
pathogens to emerge or activate.
The hypothetical etiologic agents
Agent one; Borrelia: We postulate that Borrelia is one of two essential pathogens
responsible for most unexplained chronic human illness. It operates in these two ways:
• Chronic inflammation of the body via an initial pan-vasculitis
• Immune damage, encompassing the anti-viral, anti-bacterial, anti-parasitic and antifungal
systems
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Inflammation: Borrelia appears to stimulate parts of the immune system considerably.
Certain T-cells, mainly macrophages and monocytes, contact the spirochete and after
identifying it as foreign, send out cytokines to shorten the expected short infection. The
process is not appropriate for continuous, unremitting infection. The primary cytokines
responsible for many inflammation symptoms are IL-lb, IL-6, and TNF-alpha (Tumor
Necrosis Factor-alpha), although others may also contribute. TNF-alpha predominates.
Other cytokines counter the inflammatory effect but in chronic illness are actually downregulated.
SimplisticaHy, pathogenic agent attracts T-cell; T-cell releases high levels of
TNF-alpha; TNF-alpha circulates throughout the entire circulatory system inciting
inflammation in any susceptible tissues. Unless the spirochete is gone or dormant, the
tendency to inflame is ceaseless.
What becomes inflamed seems to depend on several factors, some obvious, some
unexplainable as yet. Clearly, tissues under mechanical stress from overuse, continuous
use, or overloading are susceptible. Other tissues that become slightly inflamed from
various causes such as the friction of bile passage can cascade into full inflammation. Yet
others may simply be random events. Some tissues or organs may swell simply in the
presence of these cytokines.
The one process in patients caused mainly by excess TNF-alpha that is not attributable to
inflammation is insulin resistance. TNF-alpha blocks insulin receptors, denying entry of
blood glucose into most or all cells. Insulin receptor blockade then causes blood glucose
to rise (hyperglycemia), insulin production and response to increase (Hyperinsulinemia),
and lowered functional capacity of all affected cells. This effect likely contributes to
fatigue as well as diminished function of most organ systems.
Immune damage: These Syndromes appear to have in common diminished immune
competence. The effect spans immunity against bacteria, protozoa, viruses, fungi, and
small symbiotic biological entities seldom seen on humans from animals and plants.
Rarely do most resulting infections become severe. More likely, they are numerous and
disconcerting. Activation of the agents causing central nervous system effects (such as
Babesia or Toxoplasmosis) seems to be the most serious consequence of Borrelia's effect
on immunity. We now believe most symptoms and signs of these Syndromes are caused
by one or both of these agents.
Agent two (Candidate 1): Babesia Our most recent observation concerns awareness of the
high prevalence of Babesia microti in our 56-infected patients. It seems to be associated
only with central nervous system symptoms and signs where pain, motor function, and
behavioral effects predominate. We repeatedly verify this association by seeing the
disappearance or diminution of global CNS complaints when treating with the anti-
Babesial drugs atovaquone and azithromycin. Patients where chronic, severe pain
predominates are virtually all in this category.
Agent two (Candidate 2); Toxoplasmosis This agent remains a serious candidate for CNS
activation in these patients for many indirect reasons. First 30-50% of humans are
infected with the latent cyst form. Second, copious data exist on the CNS effects of
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activation from the HTV literature. Except for degree, most effects are the same. Third,
identifying activated Toxoplasmosis remains extremely difficult for pathologists,
blinding our attempts to see if this agent is present in all these syndromes. Supporting its'
presence is the remarkable response to the medications also effective against it:
atovaquone and azithromycin.
Central Nervous System effects: The full extent of CNS effects continues to be evealed.
The control center for the entire body is the brain, composed mainly of neurons and
neurochemicals. Documented effects include changing set points (breathing rate),
disrupting control loops (such as most if not all hormones), and altering behavior,
emotion, equilibrium, sensory mapping, memory, sleep architecture, etc. How these
neuronal effects occur is not yet understood.
This introduction does not (nor can it presently) address every symptom found associated
with persistent Borreliosis. It is intended to provide a plausible way to understand the
disease and its symptoms. We call this toll an Illness Model. It remains theoretical and is
built from patient diagnosis and treatment experience, credible published data, and
rationally based imagination. Continued observation of new patient information and
treatment outcomes is iterated into the model to continue its evolution toward accurate
explanation. Eventually, extensive research must validate all aspects of the model. Only
then does "proof exist.
III POTENTIALLY INFECTED GROUPS
• CHRONIC PAIN SYNDROMES
• CHRONIC FATIGUE STATES
• AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES
• CHRONIC NEUROLOGICAL DISEASES
• DEGENERATIVE MOTOR NEURON DISEASES
• PSYCHIATRIC DISEASES THAT RESPOND TO PHARMACOTHERAPY
AND HAVE NO PROVEN CAUSE
• ORGANIC BRAIN SYNDROMES
• ATYPICAL OR UNEXPLAINED DERMATOLOGICAL CONDITIONS
IV. DIAGNOSIS
The follow ing focus specifically on these Syndromes. It is not intended as part of a
"differential diagnosis". That said, vigilance for many other illnesses with some
symptoms in common is imperative, as serious states such as cancer and coronary heart
disease must not be overlooked. Following a singular mindset or viewpoint is, in fact, the
cause of most error in medical diagnosis.
Below are the specific data points we find most useful and most common among patients
with these Syndromes. They lend themselves, in fact, to use as a checklist to simplify
initial and repeat evaluations.
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Demographics/General
• Birth state/country
• Residence locations and length
• Travel destinations and activities relative to animal, vector and human endemicity
for Borreliosis (incompletely determined globally, however)
• Age
• Gender
• Mate gender preference
Family History
Characterize illnesses in the following family members. Focus on symptoms and signs of
these Syndromes listed further down. Include onset dates. If possible have patient
construct a family tree with known diagnoses, age, age at death, and cause of death.
• Grandparents
• Parents
• Siblings
• Children
• Grandchildren
Medical History-inclusive
Patients found to be infected with Borrelia burgdorferi typically give several patterns of
illness presentation:
1. In true "Lyme disease", illness symptoms begin (days to weeks) shortly after
inoculation by a tick or other vector arthropod or insect.
2. In congenital transfer cases, symptoms appear sporadically throughout early life until
(or if) full activation occurs (at any age, but most commonly, it appears beyond age 40).
Most common arerecurrent headaches, seldom-recognized activity limits, and frequent
viral-like illnesses. Most children (There are many pediatric cases) have some degree of
ADD or ADHD. Many babies are born with some physical defect, often palate or digit
aberrancies. "Full" Activation" later is common.
3. Fully Active Borreliosis cases are usually quite ill, many are not able to hold jobs,
most are home-bound if not bed-ridden, and the breadth among body systems of
symptoms often astonishing. By the time most find effective medical care, they have
experienced the following repeatedly: Outright rapid rejection by physicians as being ill
(with minimal or no exam or tests), diagnosed as a psychiatric case (usually depressed),
or have had numerous surgeries related to various chronic pains. Most slowly deteriorate,
and review of their family histories suggests shortened lifespan of parents and siblings
from cardiovascular causes or cancer (death in mid-50s is typical).
4. Asymptomatic Borreliosis is common. An average of several epidemiological surveys
of large populations finds that about 50% who test positive for the organism show "no
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symptoms". More of these are male than female, and are often spouses of infected mates.
Examination of Borrelia-infected patients since CY 2000 reveals, however, that even in
the most "symptom" free and active Bb-positive person, some signs and lab abnormalities
typical of the disease can be found.
History of present illness
The following points, embellished as time permits, are present in most, if not all Borreliainfected
patients. The degree may vary extensively, however.
• When did the illness begin?
• Were ANY "typical" symptoms (see below) present before significant symptoms
began?
• What was the FIRST symptom noticed?
• What were the subsequent symptoms/signs, how fast did they progress, and what was
the course of their intensity?
Review of Systems
Review by organ system or anatomic region.
1. HEENT:
a. Sores?
b. Hair/Eyebrow loss?
c. Flushing episodes?
d. Recurrent acne?
e. Chronic/recurring "sinus" or "allergy" problems?
f. Sensitivity to light or sound? Intermittent blurring of vision?
g. Recurrent eye pain or vision loss?
h. Constant bilateral tinnitus?
i. Tender lymph nodes or salivary glands?
j. Recurrent mouth sores?
k. Recurrent ear infections?
1. Throat frequently sore or excessive mucus?
m. Recurrent laryngitis?
n. History of Bell's Palsy?
o. Neck sore, chronically hurts to move?
p. Recurrent nose or gingival bleeding?
2- NECK:
a. Thyroid problems?
b. Neck discomfort?
c. Recurrent node tenderness?
3. BACK:
a. Chronic pain in any part of back or shoulders?
b. Any prior disc problems diagnosed or surgery performed?
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4. PULMONARY:
a. Asthma?
b. Any frequent wheezing?
c. Ever have pneumonia?
d. Smoker?
e. Episodic dyspnea when inactive (frequent sighing, yawning)?
f. Current dyspnea with exertion?
g. Able to jog or walk long distances?
h. Chronic dry or productive cough?
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5. SKIN: Note and describe all unusual skin abnormalities, particularly:
a. Pigmentation patterns
b. Raised but discrete growths?
c. Excessive epidermal sloughing?
d. Erythema-either confluent or blotchy?
e. Sores?
f. Thick skin on feet (esp. heels)?
g. Any eczema-like patches?
h. Thickened and dark areas on ankles or lower arms?
i. Roughness (like sand) on outer arms between shoulders and elbows?
j. Hair loss on toes, lower legs, scalp, eyebrows, eye lids?
k. Toe fungus?
6. CARDIAC:
a. Recurrent pain?
b. Recurrent arrythmias?
c. Dyspnea with effort? When resting (Sighing, "breath-catching")?
d History of murmurs or other Cardiological diagnoses?
e. On medicine for hypertension?
f. Has Mitral Valve Prolapse been diagnosed?
g. Chronic high resting heart rate (>75 bpm)?
7. GASTROINTESTINAL:
a. GERD?
b. IBS (Recurrent, alternating diarrhea and constipation)?
c. HX gallstones, cholecystitis? cholecystectomy?
d. Hx pancreatitis?
e. Appendicitis?
f. Hx intestinal parasites?
g. Hx swollen liver or spleen?
h. Hx hepatitis?
i. Liver cysts?
j. Intestinal polyps?
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k. Swallowing problems?
1. Esophageal procedures?
m. Hiatal hernia?
8. URINARY:
a. Chronic/recurrent bladder pain?
b. Kidney stones?
c. Kidney cysts?
d. Neurogenic bladder?
e. Frequent urination, day or night?
f. Difficulty starting stream?
g. Incontinence?
h. Hx enuresis in childhood?
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9. GENITAL?
a. (Females) Irregular periods?
b. PMS?
c. Dyspareunia?
d. Polycystic ovaries?
e. Uterine fibroids?
f. Endometriosis?
g. Miscarriages?
h. Abnormal newborns?
i. Low libido?
j. Chronic pelvic pain?
k. (Males) Chronic/recurrent prostatitis?
1. Recurrent epididymitis?
m. Early low libido?
10. GENERAL:
a. Sleep quality?
b. Sleep apnea DX?
c. Unstable weight?
d. Significant, progressive weight gain?
e. Habitual smoker?
f. Alcohol intake excessive?
g. Chronic tiredness?
h. Exercise level, type and frequency?
11. EMOTIONAL
a. Bipolar?
b. ADD?
c. OCD?
d Chronically anxious?
e. Rage attacks?
f. Panic attacks?
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g. Dysnomia?
h. Delusional/psychotic episodes?
i. Night terrors?
j. Memory considered worsening?
k. Recurrent depression?
1. Agoraphobia (does not want to leave the house; asocial)?
m. Unreasonably fearful?
Physical Examination
Examine by organ system or anatomic region.
1. HEENT:
• Sores in scalp?
• Hair loss? Eyebrow loss?
• Red, flushed face or ears?
• Excessive acne for age?
• Lymphocytomas on edge of pinna (small, firm white growths on edge of
earlobe)?
• Sluggish or contrary pupillary response to penlight?
• Anisocoria (pupil diameter difference)?
• Enlarged or tender lymph nodes (any location) or salivary glands?
• Check tongue for white matting, sores along edge.
• Lips: Dry? Cold sores? 7th nerve outlet: tender (just below ear lobes)?
• Check ear canals for cheesy/inflamed external otitis.
• Pharyngeal lymphoid patches inflamed?
• Voice strong?
• Facial asymmetry (even small droop to one side)?
• Check all 18 Fibromyalgia tender points (Atch.).
2. NECK:
• Thyroid: check for size, shape, and tenderness.
• Check neck for full movement in all axes.
3. BACK:
• Continue Fibromyalgia tender point check around scapulae.
• Check shoulder joints for full ROM in all axes without pain.
• Check shoulder bursae for tenderness.
• Have patient point out any other areas of back that are tender or painful.
• Any CVA tenderness?
• SI joints tender?
• Lungs clear to auscultation from back, w/o wheezing?
• Check skin for microangioma (many vs. few vs. none).
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4. CHEST:
• Heart: Listen for murmurs.
• Determine rhythm and rate over 15-30 seconds.
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• Check skin for microangioma.
• Check abdomen for RUQ, LUQ tenderness or swelling.
• Palpate abdomen for masses.
• Palpate pelvis for tenderness.
• Can patient sit up without assistance? Does it hurt to do so?
5. SKIN:
• Describe any lesion in terms of size, location, texture, color, and any
discharge.
• Livido reticularis on forearms, upper legs, palms?
• Capillary refill time on palm (Grade as 0, Yz, 1,2, or 3 seconds)
• Microangioma number and relative size (1 mm = small; 3-5 mm large)
• Hyperpigmentation of outer ankles?
• Multiple superficial bruises?
• Thick, dark (elephant) skin areas?
• Toenail fungus?
• Tinea cruris?
• Small or large (> 1 cm) skin ulcers?
• Multiple healed "bluish" ulcer scars?
• Eczema,
• Psoriasis?
• Recurrent itching (visible excoriation) of "normal" skin?
• Erythema of face, forearms, palms, upper chest?
• Purple feet if hung from examining table over one minute,
• Toe, foot, or lower leg hair loss? Describe extent.
6. MUSCULOSKELETAL: JOINTS:
• Decreased shoulder, neck ROM
• Tender wrists, fingers, L-T spine, sacroiliac joints.
• Swelling, erythema, heat in any joint MUSCLES/TENDONS:
• Any tenderness or atrophy?
• Look for snuff-box and forearm dip of both arms.
• Check grip strength, standing from a squat, and ability to raise arms.
• Can patient fully extend all fingers and toes?
• Are shins tender?
NEUROLOGICAL:
Are all limb movements purposeful and coordinated?
Check all Cranial nerves.
Look at tongue for fasciculations.
Are fasciculations obvious anywhere?
Is voice strong ? Speech slurred?
Facial asymmetry pronounced?
Look for abnormal pupillary response to light.
Check Babinski (usually normal)
Romberg (always abnormal)
Check reflexes (Kneejerk usually abnormally increased) and for reflex
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symmetry.
Test toes and fingertips for vibratory sensory loss with a 120 Hz tuning fork
(virtually always present).
Laboratory relevant testing
1. Initial testing includes the following that are to exclude similar illnesses
and where abnormalities are usually found (Common results from these
patients follow in parentheses):
• CBC (LOW: WBC, RBC, Hct: HIGH: RBC size and color, Eos,
Monocytes; EITHER: RBC indices)
• CMP (LOW: K+, CO2; HIGH: Ca++, SGOT, SGPT, Glu, BUN)
• RPR (Normal)
• HIV (Normal)
• Sedimentation rate (Sometimes slightly high, rarely very high)
• ANA (usually slightly elevated)
• TSH (Normal)
• IgG subclasses (Often S-C 1 and 3 are low. Occasionally Total IgG is
low)
• EBV panel (IgGs always elevated)
• C-reactive protein (Often high or high-normal)
• Test for possible infectious etiological agents. (See below.)
2. Follow up testing, done at all routine subsequent office visits:
• CBC
• CMP
Testing for Borrelia-associated agents
WHERE these tests are done is crucial. Borrelia and its associated agents can be
difficult to find even with the most recent, carefully crafted tests. Rationale is brief
here but stems from the initial test criteria being set 10 years ago, where inclusion
criteria of specimens were for recently-infected individuals with high antibody levels,
where test positivity depended strictly on antibodies (then state-of-the-art), and where
two of five crucial Outer Surface proteins (P31, P34) were removed for vaccine
research. Detection methods now available are for antigenic material, and are more
sensitive and specific, such as PCR and DFA.
The following specialized laboratories are recommended because they have given us
the highest correlation with successful treatment, and greatly minimized the number
of tests presently needed to find these agents at "standard" commercial clinical
laboratories. See relevant attachments.
• Igenex Laboratories
• Bowen Research Foundation (We use only the testing arm of that
organization)
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• Borrelia burgdorferi (We presently believe this single agent is ultimately
responsible for all patient illness, but may carry out its symptom creation via
other organisms allowed guest status because of the immune deficiency it
creates.)
• Babesia microti
• Taxoplasmosis Gondii
• We acknowledge the occurrence of possibly high levels of other co-infections
in endemic regions (11 states) such as Bartonella and Erlichia. We seldom
find these in our patients from any region, and when we treat these organisms
see little effect on the overall illness. Our patients differ, of course, from the
typical "Lyme disease" patient by time. Ours have been symptomatic for
years to decades, almost guaranteeing that the acute effects of co-infections
(sometimes serious) have passed.
Igenex tests using several methods and is CLIA approved. Their amplified and expanded
Western Blot for Borrelia is very sensitive now. Use Western Blotting when Insurance is
causing problems. Igenex has the most sensitive Babesia test panel we find available, but
does not yet test for Toxoplasmosis. Igenex tests are recoverable from insurance but must
include a check on submission. Their tests are at no cost to Medicare recipients.
Bowen Research is not a clinical lab but a research lab. Their IFA test for Borrelia
appears to be the most sensitive available. Their test also crudely scales the bacterial load
(0-8) that can be quite helpful in assessing recovery status. Their Babesia testing is visual
only, but is a part of the standard Borrelia test (Qribb). Pictures follow that are interesting.
The cost of the full Bowen Qribb is $250, and is not recoverable from medical insurance
but IS partially recoverable as a research foundation tax deduction.
V. TREATMENT
a. PHILOSOPHY
Given the plethora of symptoms, signs, illness levels, disease expressions, and
unexpected response to medical agents of any kind, all treatment is necessarily
empirical, thus highly individualized. Presently, treatment is directed at TWO
distinct organisms with distinctly different symptoms and signs. These are
Borrelia, and Babesia/ Toxoplasmosis. This new paradigm and its ease and
enhanced treatment effectiveness now drives us to a single FIRST approach in
most patients:
Treat with oral Azithromycin and Atovaquone (see B or C below)
1. Atovaquone, 750 mg/ 5ml, 210 ml bottle or packs. Take one teaspoon (5 ml)
twice daily with food. Refill X 2.
2. Azithromycin, 250 mg, #60. Take one tablet twice daily with food. Refill X 5.
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3. Diflucan, 100 mg, #10. Take one tablet weekly and as needed for yeast
overgrowth. Refill X 5.
4. Metronidazole ER, 750 mg, # 5. Take one weekly. Refill X 5.
In variants of the illness with serious neurological or psychiatric presentation, we
presently begin by substituting the 12-week Ceftriaxone protocol for the
Azithromycin, but combine with the Atovaquone.
b. ANTIBIOTICS
A. Antibiotics effective against BORRELIA:
1. Orals Best choices in our experience to date are
(considering efficacy, low flare effects, and compliance. If cost is a
consideration, the level is shown below as H, M or L):
• Azithromycin, 600 mg QD (H)
• Clarithromycin XL, 500 mg QD (H)
• Cefuroxime, 500 mg BID (M)
• Minocycline, 100 mg BID (L/M)
• Cephalexin, 500 mg BID (L)
• Amoxicillin, 1,000 mg TDD (L)
• Metronidazole ER, 750 mg QD (M), or 250 mg TK>
—"Cyst form" only (H)
2. Intramuscular (IM) [Most of our parenteral experience is with this
single drug. It is several times more effective than any oral, and has
minimal flare effect.]
• Ceftriaxone, one gram IM daily.
3. Intravenous (IV) (As above, one drug, high efficacy, low flare effect.)
• Ceftriaxone, 2 grams BID for 12 weeks. Repeat cycle only once
if required.
B. Antibiotics effective the protozoans BABESIA and
TOXOPLASMOSIS:
1. The only recommended safe and effective treatment of these two
organisms are the following two drugs:
• Azithromycin, 250 mg twice a day with meals (breakfast
and dinner)
• Atovaquone (Mepron), 5 ml (one teaspoonful) also twice a day
with the same meals.
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C. Antibiotics effective against both Borrelia and a presumed protozoan: The
same as B.
1. All oral antibiotics are PDA approved, and purchased through local or US Mail-
Order pharmacies, typically through medical insurance co-pay. Long-term highcost
antibiotics such as azithromycin are sometimes not approved, or at least
often require "Prior Approval" paperwork. Biaxin may be substituted.
Diagnostic codes should include Babesia (088.82) if it is found or part of
treatment rationale.
2. IM ceftriaxone (Presently only sold as Rocephin until December 2004, when it
becomes available as a generic.) One-gram vials seem to be readily gotten
through local or Mail-Order pharmacies via prescription. Concurrent
prescriptions are required for the following required equipment:
• Lidocaine. 1%, 100 cc/month (two 50 cc bottles preferred). Mix 2. Ice
with each one-gram vial of ceftriaxone until clear yellow.
• Syringes, disposable, 30cc, 30 per month. Use one daily.
• Needles, 25 gauge, 1 Vz inches, 30 per month. Use only for the actual
injection.
• Needles, 18-20 gauge, 1 inch, 30 per month. Use only for fluid transfer
between bottles (that can cause tip bending).
3. IV Ceftriaxone should be given by professionals trained to do so, such as Home
Health agencies. Insurance often will not cover this method because of
exorbitant cost. Orders (describing details) for the only effective protocol we
now consider useful are attached.
4. Patients whose insurance will not cover IV ceftriaxone, but who have extremely
debilitating or progressive courses can find alternative, less expensive drug sources.
Safety, however, is paramount, and there must be assurance of quality line placement
and care, and medication mixing and infusion. See attached information.
E. TREATMENT LENGTH
1. Azithromycin: Continue from the first day without a break until
symptoms have disappeared or plateaued for more than 3 months.
2. Atovaquone: Give one course (bottle or box... typically for 21 days).
Stop a week, then give the second course. Most patients will not
require more than three courses, although CNS recovery will continue
for another 3-4 months to resolution.
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F. CONTROLLING SYMPTOMS
The technique is straightforward, and involves only in cutting the dose back...
or even stopping the antibiotic briefly... until bacterial load drops sufficiently
that severe flare effects are no longer a big problem. Patient and physician have
to "feel" their way through treatment startup in some patients. Most can begin
and continue at full dosing, however.
c. ADJUNCTIVE TREATMENT
A. ANTIBIOTIC-RELATED
1. Yeast control: Give one 100 mg Diflucan or one 200 mg Ketoconazole
weekly as prophylaxis. Supplement for breakthroughs.
2. Borrelia cyst removal: Give one Metronidazole ER, 750 mg, once each
week during antibiotic therapy.
3. Bile sludging: Give Ursodiol, 300 mg twice a day when on
Ceftriaxone only. This is the only effective prophylaxis against
gallbladder failure on this drug.
B. SUPPORTIVE MEDICATIONS
1. Sleep/Pain: Give Gabatril, 2 mg qhs. Move up in two week increments
to a max of 12 mg.
2. Attention, alertness, memory/Sleep: Give Provigil, 100-200 mg twice a
day (On awakening and 6-8 hours later).
3. Avoid; Antidepressants, narcotics, and benzodiazepines.
VI VALUABLE SPECIALTY MEDICAL CONTACTS
VII INFORMATION SOURCES
• PEDIATRICS-Charles Ray Jones, M.D. New
Haven, CN 203-772-1123
• PSYCHIATRY-Robert Bransfield, M.D. Red
Bank, NJ 732-741-3263
• OB-GYN-Bvron Holt, M.D. Houston,
TX
• Pub Med: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih. gov/entrez/query. fcgi
• Lots of Links on Lyme Disease:
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• ILADS: http://www.ilads.org
• References below
• Igenex test instructions form
• IM Ceftriaxone (patient-administered) instructions
• IV Ceftriaxone (patient-administered) instructions
• Ceftriaxone foreign source information
• Liability release form for self-administered parenteral medication
• Home Health Orders for IV Rocephin (Cichon protocol)
• Patient Informational Manual template
• Physical Therapy Orders for Borreliosis patient rehab
• Bowen Research Labs Test information for patients
• Fibromyalgia tender-point map
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Appendix E
Testimonials
Here are just a few of the many testimonials regarding the report, the
diet, and my contribution to their lives:
Just thought I would tell you, I also tried that other guy’s Protocoland all those
different herbal products he has made me throw up all the time, so I gave up on
that. My friend who took all the antibiotics and dewormers prescribed by Dr.
Schultz in New Mexico is now having other problems in her body, I believe due to
a now weakened immune system due to all the antibiotics.
Your diet is what kept me sane in the beginning before I found all the different
products to help, which I mentioned in the earlier E mail.
MF
Thank you for being so frank, Richard. I truly appreciate
your honesty. Like you, I'd be very surprised if those of
us who suffer from full-blown Morgellons
symptoms didn't also deal with episodic or chronic
depression.
Stay well and happy, Richard, and thank you for all the
information you so diligently gather for us. God bless.
JP
There are many things I'm grateful for, one of them is that I was fighting this
even before I knew what it was, another is for your willingness to share your
information from your experience. Thank you for that... Karen
Thank you very much for your skin report and the pioneer work you have
done in the field of skin parasites and Morgellons disease... Bridgette,
.. One last thing, Richard I really appreciate all your efforts to help so many
people. And I especially appreciate the degree of professionalism you have
used in approaching this... that is to say, you refrain from name calling and
accusatory remarks and have always remained very positive. On the more
difficult days in dealing with this, I have thought about the many others who
are dealing with this who have had it for much longer and continue to remain
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positive while searching for answers... that gives me hope. I find strength and
comfort in knowing God has a purpose and plan in all this even if I can't
understand it. Perhaps in finding a cure for myself I will be able to help others
who may be suffering with this within the remote people group with whom we
work.
Sorry this got a little long... Amy
Richard,
I've had the parasites for over 17 years. They burrowed into the deep layer of
my skin and my body, especially my digestion system and rectal area.
I started King's Diet on February 9, 2006. It's been fantastic and works very
well. I felt the itchy less and less, and then it all stopped. However, last week I
ate cheated and ate Chinese beef jerkey which contained soy sauce. The itchy
returned almost immediately in the very deep layer of the scalp and the lower
legs. I threw away what was left of the beef jerkey three days ago and it's
getting better now.
Esther,
"Richard,
First of all, and mostly I want to thank you for your compassion towards
us/me. I have been in contact and have been tested positive for the
disease. If it wasn't for you where would I be today? I'm getting ready to
start treatment and finally (thanks to u) thinking about having children in
a year or two and being free of these parasites and the disease.
I am excited and nervous about starting my treatment. I was lucky because
my mom is an RN and can give me the shots rather than the normal way to go.
I am hopeful that things will work out from here. I will keep in touch with
you to let you know how things progress.
Thanks again.
Sofia"
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Hello Richard.
I agree with the diet. I've just completed the detox program which involved the dieting. I've noticed the
differences between when I was following the diet and I wasn't,
Kim.
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"This morning in my meditation I thought of you. You provided a big key for me
in your information...
Thank you for your tremendous work and help for others. I honor and respect
your journey. As my own collection of healers like to say---as far down as you
can go in life---so, as far up you can ascend.
All good and all the best to you.
JJ"
This same lady wrote me initially telling me that she was first very suspicious of
my intentions and since she had subscribed to the report and received the
updated emails she knows my intentions to be honorable.
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"Richard, I don't know you but I thank you so much for all your hard work and e-mail
and info. You are a wonderful person. Truly.
Thank you thank you... Alexandra
.Hello Richard,
Your report is very worth the money spent.
I have been infected for about six weeks, the area is limited to my groin and
was really bad for a while.
I caught an infection of scabies then moved into a new house with a leak into
the basement breeding collombolla springtails, subsequently got this.
Right now I am running the heater on high and deflecting the heat totally to the
basement to make it hot and dry, eliminating their breeding ground for now.
I have been 99% lesion free, and 99% itch free for about one week. I have
also bought some of the Earth you spoke of. Put this on your Mattress?
What type of antibiotic treatment would you advise, for what period considering
my story.
Any other suggestions.
By the way just as you said, as soon as I went on the diet--instant relief.
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Richard,
Just want to thank you for your updates. Very much appreciated and
helpful. You continue to give us Morgellons sufferers hope. Bob
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Hi Richard:
You are still a blessing to me! I want to try the B1 or B100 self-therapy
treatment. Which one is it - B1 or B100? You list both in your email. Please
advise. Eva
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Richard,
Thanks for all the updates and all your hard work...I'm sure it's been a long road and very
overwhelming. Talk to you soon. Be Healthy too!
Linda
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Hello Richard,
Your report is very worth the money spent.
Richard
(no, I didn't write a letter to myself--gotta keep your sense of humor)
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Richard,
I would like to speak with you more if you have the time, but for sure would like to give
you my new e-mail for future updates. You are a blessing.
Bye for now,
T
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...Keep in touch, ok? And thanks for your help and suggestions.
JuneP
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Hello. For the past couple of years I've been following your web site and your information. I have ordered
reports from you, and I just can't tell you how much hope you've given me. You were the very first person I
found on the internet that was going through the same thing that I was (itching, and parasites). The
difference between you and I is that...
I also have used your diet as much as possible, which really seems to help as well. Really all I eat is what
you have on the diet... Thank you so much for all your information over these years. You are helping so
many people and I just want to make sure I share information with you the same way you do with others.
Krista
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Richard,
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I reread all of your update today, Richard--right after my Food Grade Diatomaceous Earth
arrived. Great article. Instructions and suggestions are exceptionally clear and to the point.
June
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Richard,
Today I followed the diet and already I have had success the crawling feeling has reduced and I rarely
have any itching. I baraly have any black specs and papules have reduced already.
Regards
Gil
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"Comment: I truly wish you would consider changing the name of this from morgellon's
to something else. Having a nomenclature indicates that everyone has the same
thing...and that may not be so..denigrates professionalism. Also, there are many
doctors out there that frown upon hearing "morgellons" which pre-disposes them
negatively from the start - I think (don't actually know) that they think of those
calling it that as part of a group of crazies...rather than intelligent, scientific, logical
folk. The name holds with it a bad reputation,also, as there is a site about it and it
is a seeming disreputable...when YOU ARE NOT.
TOD
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"Bless you for these updates. I'm always open for new information. Thanks again. Bob"
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Richard,
Thanks a lot again for your nice advice!
In fact, after trying your diet I have been losing weight for 8 pounds. I am very happy with the diet,
no carbohydrate and sugar. I feel much lighter, happier and younger everyday.
Thanks again in advance!
Sincerely,
Esther
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and later she wrote in another email:
Dear Richard,
It's very nice of you patiently consulting patient case by case. I corrected all my mistakes every time when
you advised me. My condition really improved a lot.
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Richard,
Thanks for all your help thus far also. We really need more people like you in this world!
Linda
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Hello Richard,
You are so admired by me. You give me hope - something that I often loose sight of.
Dot
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Hi Richard,
I appreciated your update just now.
It was reassuring to see Tam's theory questioned- There are so many scary theories existing on the net, and
I'd like to be able to not believe some of the stuff I read!
The diet is keeping the symptoms in control. Wanting time to pass quickly!
Thanks again,
Kathryn
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Richard,
Thanks a lot again for your nice advice!
In fact, after trying your diet I have been losing weight for 8 pounds. I am very happy with the diet, no
carbohydrate and sugar. I feel much lighter, happier and younger everyday.
Thanks again in advance!
Sincerely,
Esther
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Hi Richard
Thanks for being so honest. I'll cancel the order for now and try the methods you suggested. If I change my
mind i'll let you know. Does anything ever get rid of the red strawberry pin prick marks?
Karine
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Richard
There is no doubt in my mind the diet is of benefit to me...
Richard
Richard,
I have been feeling much better now. Same as your experience, whenever I ate something not supposed to
take, then the itchy came back. I experienced with soy source and sunflower seeds, etc...
Esther
Richard,
Thanks for your reports, I always look forward to each and every.
Henry
Again, thank you so much for your dedication to helping others cure this disease. Cynthia
Richard,
Be blessed Richard! You give us not only information but real hope for
a cure to this madness. Without your needed information, most of us
would have been driven mad by now. I thank God for you and your
diligence. Keep pressing on. Love, Eva
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info. You are a wonderful person. Truly. Thank you thank you... Alex
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Appendix F
Dr. Klinghardt’s Approach
Lyme disease: A Look Beyond Antibiotics
Dietrich K.Klinghardt, MD, PhD 1/7/05 Bellevue WA aant@neuraltherapy.com 425-822
2509
In the last decade the majority of outcome-oriented physicians observed a major shift: we
realized that it was neither the lack of vitamins or growth hormone that made our patients
ill. We discovered that toxicity and chronic infections were most often at the core of the
client’s suffering. We watched the discussion, which infection may be the primary one:
mycoplasma, stealth viruses, HHV-6, trichomonas, Chlamydia pneumoniae, leptospirosis,
mutated strep, or what else?
The new kid on the block is Borrelia Burgdorferi (Bb) and some of us have looked at it
for a long time as possibly the bug that opens the door for all the other infections to enter
the system.
Lyme disease has become a buzzword in the alternative medical field. Since none of the
recommended treatments are specific to either one of the microbes, we can never assume
that we really know what we treated once a patient has recovered.
Microbiologist Gitte Jensen, PhD had shown, that the older we get, the more foreign
DNA is attached to our own DNA. Somewhere along the line pathogenic microbes
invade the host’s DNA and become a permanent part of it. Since we use only 2% of our
DNA, it may not be a problem. In fact, it may make us who we finally become. It may
also cause a number of symptoms and chronic illness.
Genius Guenther Enderlein’s discoveries take us off the hook: if one microbe can change
into another given the right environment, why bother to find out, who we are infected
with? The book Lab 257 suggests that Bb is an escaped man- made US military biowarfare
organism (just like myoplasma incognitus and HHV 6).
Other authors suggest that different subtypes of Borrelia which cause illness in humans,
such as B. afzelii and B.garinii have probably existed longer then B.burgdorferi and occur
naturally (1, 2) and have been with us for a long time, maybe centuries or more.
Neurologist Prof. J.Faust MD, PhD of the Albert-Ludwig University in Freiburg,
Germany (3) related many neurological and psychiatric illnesses to spirochete infections
as early as the 1960s. He was so skilled in his clinical knowledge that he could – only
based on clinical neurological symptoms - accurately predict which valley in the Black
Forest the infected patient was from! This clearly was a time before Bb - showing that
non-syphilis spirochete infections were around earlier then the famous Bb outbreak in
Connecticut in the mid seventies. It also makes a strong statement to the fact how easily
these creatures may mutate and adapt to local conditions. It may however validate the
findings published in “Lab 257”: Tuebingen, the place where German/US warfare
spirochete expert Traub was continuing his spirochete experiments in the early 50s, is
situated in the Black Forest also.
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Were these spirochetes genuine or have they escaped from a university laboratory?
Making the diagnosis
It appears that many patients with MS, ALS, Parkinson’s disease, autism, joint arthritis,
chronic fatigue, sarcoidosis and even cancer are infected with Borrelia burgdorferi. But is
the infection causing the illness or is it an opportunistic infection simply occurring in
people weakened by other illnesses?
My experience is based on
a) Using direct microscopic proof of the presence of Borrelia burgdorferi (Bb) and other
spirochetes (4, 5)
b) Information many affected clients have brought to me
c) My clinical training and experience ( 30 years in Medical practice, 15 years Bb
cognizant)
d) ART (autonomic response testing), the most advanced and scientifically validated
method of muscle testing (6)
e) Lab parameters affected by Lyme:
∑ Abnormal lipid profile (moderate cholesterol elevation with significant LDL elevation)
∑ insulin resistance
∑ borderline low WBC, normal SED rate and CRP
∑ normal thyroid hormone tests but positive Barnes test and excellent response to giving
T3
∑ type 2 (high cortisol, low DHEA) or type 3 adrenal failure (low cortisol and DHEA)
∑ low testosterone and DHEA
∑ decreased urine concentration (low specific gravity)
Bb tends to infect the B-lymphocytes and other components of the immune system which
are responsible for creating the antibodies, which are then measured by an ELISA test or
Western Blot test. Since antibody production is greatly compromised in infected
individuals, it makes no sense to use these tests as the gold standard or benchmark for the
presence of Bb (7).
We also are aware that in endemic areas in the US up to 22% of stinging flies and
mosquitoes (2, 8, 9,10) are carriers of Bb and co-infections. In South East Germany and
Eastern Europe 12 % of mosquitoes have been shown to be infected. Also many spiders,
flees, lice and other stinging insects carry spirochetes and co-infections. Making the
history of a tick bite a condition for a physician to be willing to even consider the
possibility of a Bb infection seems cynical and cruel.
To use conventional diagnostic tests such as the Western Blot, one has to think in
paradoxes: the patient has to be treated with an effective treatment modality first before
the patient recovers enough to produce the antibodies, which then are looked for in the
test. A positive Western Blot proves that the treatment given worked to some degree. A
negative Western Blot does not and cannot prove the absence of the infection.
Having taken another route altogether, we have recognized the following:
Today many, if not most Americans, are carriers of the infection. Most infected people
are symptomatic, but the severity and type of the symptoms varies greatly. The microbes
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often invade tissues that had been injured: your chronic neck pain or sciatica really may
be a Bb infection. The same may be true for your chronic TMJ problem, your adrenal
fatigue, your thyroid dysfunction, your GERD and many other seemingly unrelated
symptoms.
In most places the diagnosis of an active Bb infection is made only, if the symptoms are
severe, persistent, obvious, and many non-specific and fruitless avenues of treatment
have been exhausted. Acute new “typical” cases of Bb infection are rare in my practice.
Symptoms tend to get stranger and more obscure every year.
Frequently, if the patient is fortunate enough to see a practitioner who is “Lyme
cognizant”, the diagnosis of a supposedly fresh case of symptomatic Lyme disease is
made when a significant tissue toxin level has been reached (threshold phenomenon) or
when a new co-infection has occurred recently. The symptoms can mimic any other
existing medical, psychological or psychiatric condition.
The list of significant co-infections is limited: roundworms, tapeworms, threadworms,
toxoplasmosis, giardia and amoebas, clostridia, the herpes virus family, parvovirus B 19,
active measles (in the small intestine), leptospirosis, chronic strep infections and their
mutations, Babesia, Brucella, Ehrlichiosis, Bartonella, mycoplasma, Rickettsia,
Bartonella and a few others. Molds and fungi are always part of the picture. The pattern
of co-infections and the other preexisting conditions such as mercury toxicity determine
the symptom-picture but not the severity.
The severity of symptoms correlates most closely with the overall summation or body
burden of coexisting conditions and with the genetically determined ability to excrete
neurotoxins. The genes coding for the glutathione S-transferase and for the different
alleles of apolipoprotein E (E2, E3 and E4) play a mojor role. E2 can carry twice as much
sulfhydryl-affinitive toxins (such as mercury and lead) out of the cell as the E3 subtype,
E4 carries out none. Troubles in the methylation, acetylation and sulfation pathways are
also common. Other factors, such as diet and food allergies, past toxic and
electromagnetic exposures, emotional factors and unhealed ancestral trauma, scar
interference fields and occlusal jaw and bite problems are also important (6).
Taken all of the above into account, we do not distinguish between people who have the
Bb infection and those who don’t. We distinguish between people who have Lyme
disease and those who don’t.
a) patients who are infected with any type of Borrelia and are symptomatic have
“Lyme”disease
b) healthy people who are not symptomatic often already have a spirochete infection as
well. They may or may not be disasters waiting to happen. But they do not (yet) have
Lyme “disease”. Most often several of the “co-infections” are already present prior to the
infection with Bb or other spirochetes.
In treatment we focus on exploring the difference between symptomatic and
asymptomatic carriers. We treat what the symptomatic person is missing (such as enough
magnesium in the diet) or has extra (such as mercury) compared to the asymptomatic one.
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The groups suffering most are newborn babies and young children, who rarely are
diagnosed correctly and therefore are not treated appropriately. They often carry the
labels ADHD, autistic spectrum disorder, seizure disorder and others. Detoxifying these
kids with transdermal DMPS and treating the chronic infections is often curative.
The 3 Components of Lyme disease
Lyme disease has 3 components, which should be recognized and addressed with
treatment:
Component #1: The presence of spirochete infection and co-infections
The co-infections are bacterial, viral, fungal and parasitic. Since the spirochetes paralyze
multiple aspects of the immune system, the organism is without defenses against many
microbes. Many - if not most - of the co-infections are really a consequence of the
spirochete infection and not truly a simultaneously occurring “co-infection”.
For this aspect of treatment we use pulsed electromagnetic fields (KMT-microbial
inhibition frequencies), niacin in high doses (12)herbs, minerals, bee venom (6) and -
sometimes - antiparasitic medication and antibiotics.
The KMT microcurrent technology is new and revolutionary(17). The instruments are
FDA approved for pain control. Designed by Japanese engineers they use 4 different - but
simultaneously applied - high frequency superimposed biological waveforms. The
interference pattern is creating thousands of harmonics which are then manipulated into
the specific published microbial inhibition frequencies ( against Bb, mycoplasma etc.).
This stealthy microcurrent travels freely through the body reaching every tissue. The
instrument measures the skin conductance over a 100 times/second adjusting the
amperage constantly (so that the body never creates habituation/resistance against it). The
microbes are inhibited in their metabolic and sexual activity and gradually die out or
disappear from the body. The instrument looks not much different then a TENS unit and
is applied via 4 electrodes to the skin or used by translating the electric field into a vector
force field using signal enhancer technology. The KMT frequencies are designed to not
only interfere with the reproductive mechanism of the microbes and parasites, but also to
awaken the immune system, entrain the white cells to recognize the invaders and at the
same time help to absorb and shuttle the effective medication to the body compartment,
where the infection actually is. Otherwise, most treatment substances given never reach
the target in sufficient concentration.
Component #2: The illness producing effect of microbial exo- and endotoxins
Most of these are neurotoxins, some appear to be carcinogenic as well, others block the
T3 receptor on the cell wall, etc. Decreased hormonal output of the gonads and adrenals
is a commonly observed neurotoxin mediated problem in Lyme patients. Central
inhibition of the pineal gland, hypothalamus and pituitary gland is almost always an issue
that has to be resolved somewhat independently from treating the infection. Furthermore,
biotoxins from the infectious agents have a synergistic effect with heavy metals,
xenobiotics and thioethers from cavitations and NICO lesions in the jaw and from root
filled teeth. My published neurotoxin elimination protocol can be downloaded for free (6).
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We use toxin binding agents such as fiber rich ground up raw vegetables, chlorella,
cholestyramine ( 13 ), beta-Sitosterol, propolis powder, apple pectin and mucuna bean
powder ( 14 ). A solid heavy metal detoxification program should be used simultaneously
with the first phases of the Lyme treatment. Safe toxic metal elimination is an art unto
itself. However, the information is widely available now( 15 ).
The more difficult objective is to choose agents and methods to trigger the release of
neurotoxins from their respective binding sites. Only then can they be transported to the
liver, processed and enter the small intestine from where they can be carried out by the
binding agents. The toxins occupying the T3 receptor are competitively displaced by oral
T3 - cycled with the Wilson protocol (available at most compounding pharmacies). The
toxins blocking the cortisol receptor are mobilized with the herb forskolin. CGF chlorella
- a sophisticated mix of chlorella and chlorella growth factor (14) - and cilantro given
together with a non-irradiated mucuna bean powder mobilize most everything else. I also
use alternate day dosing of an energetically enhanced phospholipid/EDTA/Alpha-Lipoic
acid mix (“Phospholipid Exchange”) which is currently the most tolerated and effective
form of phospholipids for the Lyme patient (14).
The KMT microcurrent frequencies dramatically increase the speed of toxin mobilization
and access body compartments the biochemical compounds cannot (17).
Psychotherapeutic intervention (15) to uncover and treat old trauma is most profoundly
effective in triggering a neurotoxin release when none of the other methods appear to
work anymore. After each APN session we pre-medicate the patient with CGF-chlorella.
Sometimes the extraction of a devitalized tooth or the injection of one of the
facial/cervical ganglia with glutathione or another detox agent can trigger a major
neurotoxin release (16). Lymph drainage in combination with colon hydrotherapy
accesses toxins stored in the lymphatic body-compartment.
Component #3:
The immune reactions provoked by the presence of both toxins and microbes (there are 3
sub-possibilities, which have to be recognized and addressed)
The immune reactions are largely depending on host factors, such as genetics, prior
illnesses, mental-emotional baggage, early childhood traumatization, current exposure to
electromagnetic fields (sleeping location, use of cell phones, poor wiring in car or home,
etc), food allergies and diet, socio-economic background, marital stress etc.
1: Anergy - the absence of reaction due to the successful evasion of the host-defenses .
One of the more known mechanisms the microbes use to create anergy is
hypercoagulation. The microbes tend to live in the endothelium, where the food is most
abundant. They trigger the host’s coagulation mechanism to lay down a layer of fibrin on
top of them to evade recognition by the immune system. etc.
For this aspect we use 3 techniques:
a) the KMT-microcurrent technology and homeopathics to wake up and entrain the
immune system
b) Rechtsregulat (“right rotatory fluid”) which is an enzyme rich extract of fermented
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fruits and vegetables (14). It has outperformed the s.c. injection of heparin in our own
trials. Lumbrokinase is far more effective then Nattokinase. Both appear weak when
compared to Rechtsregulat.
We also work on recognizing and eliminating those factors that block the client’s system
(geopathic stress, EM stress, food allergies, emotional factors, interference fields such as
scars and disturbed ganglia and we substitute vitamins and minerals based on ART
testing).
c) Enderlein remedies (especially the haptens) from Pleomorphic-Sanum
2: Allergy - appropriate or exaggerated immune reactions (both cellular TH1-reaction and
TH2-cytokine activation). In Lyme disease often (not always) the TH2 (humoral portion
of the immune system) is overly active, TH1 is asleep (the cellular immune system).
Nothing works better then the APN-desensitization procedure (15): while the patient is
exposed to the allergen ( we use a glass-carrier fixated culture of the offending microbes)
the ANS is kept in a state of equilibrium, using tapping of acupuncture-points,
hypnotherapeutic trauma-recall and intervention techniques and our proprietary
psychokinesiology (muscle-biofeedback psychotherapy).
A very effective and yet simple technique to turn TH1 back on is auto-urine therapy. The
patient’s urine concentrates the antigens (disposed cell walls and cell fragments of
offending microbes which the immune system has successfully eliminated). By passing
the client’s urine through a micropore filter and injecting it i.m, the lymphocytes on
patrol in the connective tissue are brought in contact with the antigen and quickly mount
a specific and appropriate immune response. We use 2 ml of filtered urine once weekly
for 12 weeks.
All other similar approaches (autohemotherapy, homeopathic autonosodes, manipulating
the immune system with supplements) are far less effective.
3: Autoimmunity – the toxins and microbes often act as haptens – marking the cell,
cellwall or tissue in which they are hiding as foreign and therefore for destruction . This
happens especially against a back drop of pre existing heavy metal toxicity, which has to
be addressed aggressively and prior to treating the microbes themselves. We use the
MELISA test (memory lymphocyte immune-stimulation assay) to establish which metals
the patient is reactive to. The same lab in Bremen, Germany also offers the most sensitive
Bb test.
The KMT microcurrent technology is very effective in recognition entrainment, helping
the immune cells to mount a specific and targeted attack on the invaders, sparing the
body’s own tissues. It breaks through one of the prime mechanisms the offending germs
are using: molecular mimicry (the pathogens present antigens on their surface that are
indistinguishable from a normal body tissue). The technique also breaks another trick the
spirochetes have developed: the molecular interaction that occurs between a specific
Lyme virulence factor (OspE) and a host protein fH (factor H).
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lasting improvement when course after course of antibiotics was given. Because of the
defense mechanisms inherent in the Bb and co-infections, current wisdom suggests that
18 months of antibiotics would be curative in many cases (25). We have observed severe,
lasting and unacceptable side effects from this approach (such as tinnitus, kidney failure,
intractable immune system breakdown and others).
By using the synergistic effect between treatment-modalities which simultaneously
address the 3 issues outlined above, lasting improvements are the norm rather than the
exception. By using the synergy principle and abandoning the arrogant idea of being able
to eradicate all of the microbes in the system “for good”, chronic Lyme patients can often
live a normal healthy life again.
The Mineral Issue
To feed, fuel and perk up the cells of the immune system (especially NK cells and
macrophages) numerous interventions have been tried, mostly based on orthomolecular
and herbal medicine principles. We found that amongst those approaches, abundant
mineral substitution based on the red cell mineral analysis is most rewarding. Rarely
medical drugs should be used.
Amazingly, the most depleted minerals in our Lyme patients are often copper,
magnesium, manganese ( in Lyme) and iron (in Babesiosis). Bb and Bartonella need
magnesium to duplicate and deplete the host’s body rapidly. Copper and iron have all but
disappeared from most of our supplements based on faulty interpretation of hair analysis.
The immune system uses those 2 metals in the process of phagocytosis. They are the
main constituent of the enzymes (or “bullets”) the immune cells use in the battle against
the invaders. Oxidized used-up iron and copper get displaced into the extracellular
compartment and body fluids and appears in the hair and skin, as the body’s most
efficient way of excreting toxins without hurting the kidneys.
This has led to the dangerous and in its consequence catastrophic assumption, that these
metals are the enemy and need to be restricted. It is true, that oxidized metals pose a
danger and have to be reduced (=substitution of electrons) or eliminated. However, when
copper and iron are needed and substituted appropriately, major improvements have been
observed. Appropriate antioxidant treatment can reduce these metals. Homeopathic
copper and iron will lead to beneficial redistribution of these metals and makes them bioavailable
again.
Lithium-orotate or aspartate in low doses (15 mg/day) has been shown to protect CNS
structures from neurotoxin damage. Patients almost always benefit clinically from
frequent treatment with parenteral magnesium. It is most meaningfully given in a
modified Meyer’s cocktail, where we use a 5:2 ratio of folic acid (not folinic) and
hydroxycobolamine (not methyl- or cyano-). Hydroxycobolamine is given I.M at the
same time as the IV injection of the cocktail.
Many Lyme patients suffer from Pyrroluria, a metabolic illness where abnormal
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porphyrins carry out significant amounts of needed zinc and vitamin B6. Diagnosis is
made with the appropriate test at the Pfeiffer institute in Chicago. Even though it is
assumed that this illness is hereditary I have my doubts, since most Lyme sufferers have a
degree of it. I suspect that the appearance of kryptopyrroles in the urine is induced by the
illness. However, I am careful with excessive substitution of zinc. Zinc has a synergistic
effect with mercury in the brain and also promotes the growth of the herpes viruses.
If clients show abnormal high losses of sex steroid hormones in the urine, the patient may
be cobalt deficient. The urine hormone test and cobalt drops are available at the Tahoma
clinic Renton, Wa. For a while selenium should be given in high doses to suppress viral
replication and render bioavailable mercury non-reactive.
The element most critical in the Lyme patient is iodine. A 2 inch square of Lugol’s iodine
is painted on the patient’s skin and should remain visible for 24 hours. The sooner it is
absorbed the more deficient the patient. An oral form of Lugol’s is available under the
name Iodoral (Optimox, Torrance, Ca).
Filling up the body’s mineral reserves has always been the most essential part of our
heavy metal detox program. It is also the most essential part of our Lyme treatment.
Sequencing
There is an inherent order in which the microbes should be treated. If the order is correct,
gentle methods work. Treatment should always combine electromagnetic interventions,
using specific microbial inhibition frequencies (KMT technology) with the appropriate
herb, antibiotic or other antimicrobial strategy. It should also always be combined with a
toxin elimination program, good psychotherapy and general life style hygiene (all the
stuff, that alternative Medicine stands for).
The Lyme ABCs
A. We start with deworming our clients. We often use a simple yet agressive seasalt/Vit
C protocol (19) which has an independent effect aginst the spirochetes also. The high salt
conmcentration kills large parasites by osmotically induced dehydration (osmotic shock).
High salt levels also increase the enzyme elastase which has a strong antimicrobial/antispirochete
effect (4)
Protocol: 1.5 grams of seasalt per 20 lbs of body weight in 4 divided doses per day for 3
weeks. With each dose also give 1-4 gms of Vit C (dose has to be just below bowel
tolerance). Three 3-6-week cycles with a 2 week break in-between. The BP should be
monitored and not elevate outside acceptable levels. 5 % of the population are salt
sensitive and react with a significantly increased blood pressure. In the off weeks we give
_ tsp of sea salt first thing am in a glass of water. Sometimes we enhance the program by
using the “Arise-and-Shine” herbal program
Often I will add in a course of Albendazole or Biltricide.
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We developed antiparasitic CDs for entrainment of the immune system. The frequencies
were obtained by German physicists by taping the sounds of microbes in their respective
live activity in an underground lab which was soundproof and electromagnetically
completely shielded (6).
B. The next step is the treatment of giardia, entamoeba histolytica and trichomonas,
which most often are overlooked. Lab detection of large parasites in most US labs is
hopeless. Amoeba and giardia trophozoites can only be detected in a fresh stool for about
20 minutes. None of the labs available to us comply with this necessity.
The detection rate is so substandard that only ART testing, a therapeutic trial or
abdominal palpation by an experienced practitioner are capable of establishing the
diagnosis. Protocol: organic freeze dried garlic ( 14 ) treats all of the above astoundingly
successfully. Sometimes we add Tinidazole 500 mg bid for 10 days always followed by
long term garlic therapy (3 caps tid after meals).
C. Next we attend to the chronic strep infections, which often coexist with the herpes
viruses. No other treatment has been as successful as Pleo Not (penicillum notatum) from
Pleomorphic-Sanum followed by a 6 month course of Pleo Sancom (antidotes for
aspergillus niger and mucor racemosus). We always look at the tonsils: if they are scarred
with crypts, or lymph tissue has regrown since the tonsillectomy (“tonsillar tags”),
surgical intervention is needed. Otherwise these patients (which are most of them) never
get well.
We recommend a procedure developed by Dr. Sergej Dorochov, MD, PhD called
“regenerative cryotherapy” (20). It involves freezing the surfaces of all lymphatic tissue
of the head/neck region which creates a barrage of growth factor and cytokine responses,
that often lead to dramatic improvements in our Lyme patients. Lymph drainage using the
KMT technology has been superb in speeding the healing of the sinus/head/neck/region.
D. The next step is the treatment of Babesia . There are now at least 17 subtypes of this
intracellular Malaria-like organism. Eye, brain and dental symptoms are most often
caused by this mean microbe.
Protocol: Frequency #2 in the KMT 22 TENS unit inhibits the metabolic activity of
Babesia and is used 3 times weekly.
I also use Artemisinin, 2 cap 2times/day. 3 weeks on, 1 week off. Always with _ glass of
grapefruit juice. 3 cycles. Watch iron levels! Artemisinin provokes the intestinal wall to
secrete an enzyme which destroys the medication before it can be absorbed. This process
builds up over 3 weeks. After a one week pause the enzyme has disappeared and takes
another 3 weeks to reemerge. Grapefruit juice prevents formation of this enzyme.
Alternatives are the Swiss Malaria drug Riamet (1 course) which is very well tolerated
and Mepron, which is forbiddingly expensive.
Taurox 6X, a sophisticated designer compound marketed as a homeopathic remedy, is
very effective in treating the associated fatigue, eye symptoms and erratic emotional
behaviour. It has an independent immune system regulating effect.
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E. The next step is to start the client on a systemic antiviral treatment. I use the ayurvedic
herb cocktail - Indian Gooseberry, Chebulic and Beleric myrobalan ( 14 ) , which has
given the most profound and lasting effect on the viruses of the herpes family, which
flourish in the immune suppressed Lyme patient. The Japanese mushroom extracts have
also been helpful. . I also like the North American product “Pro Boost” (thymus extract)
to help awaken the cellular immune system.
Olive leaf, virox and other chaparral- derivatives have been disappointing.
The insomnia of Lyme disease is often herpes viral in nature (EBV, VZ or HSV 1, HSV
II). As a diagnostic trial I often use 1000 mg of the medical antiviral drug Valtrex at
bedtime. If there is a dramatic improvement, herbal antiviral treatment has to be
considered for a long time. We have designed an antiviral program for the KMT
instruments (frequency #4) and an anti viral CD, which s played through a walk man or
regular sound system at low volume 3 times/week. This has been extremely effective.
Zinc fosters the growth of HSV I and II, copper and selenium inhibit it.
F. Simultaneously I address the fungal/yeast component which is most often present,
especially if clients had prior antibiotic treatment. Fungi and viruses seem to support each
other in yet unknown ways. I use both the antifungal CD and the KMT TENSfrequencies
in program #4 which contains all known anti-yeast and anti-mold frequencies
( 6 ). With ART technology we could show that the most successful and well tolerated
antifungal is either the drug amphotericin B (250 mg bid) or the combination of organic
freeze dried garlic and oil of oregano. Substitution with effective microbes is important.
We use “Matrix Flora” ( 14 ) which contains over 80 lesser known beneficial microbes.
Every patient is also on a more traditional acidophilus/bifidus/FOS product. Eating a low
carb diet is often a must. We monitor the fasting insulin level. If it is low, we are ok. If it
is high, we restrict the carbs. Do not restrict the carbs if it is not necessary. We have seen
dangerous mistakes in this field. Metabolic typing is a safeguard, but time consuming to
do at home, especially if you are very ill. I use the “diet therapy software” (21) for a rapid
and profound diet evaluation and recommendation. Most successful is the ART food
sensitivity test for every single item in the client’s diet (6). It may take 15 minutes, is
more sensitive then the ELISA, MELISA and other lab tests - and it does not incur lab
fees (6). The rotation diet by Sally Rockwell prevents relapses.
G. Mycoplasma responds well to enzymes, when it is treated in sequence with the other
microbes as outlined here. The most effective strategy is the German product
Rechtsregulat (14). This simple drink has been extremely effective in eradicating
mycoplasma and other cell wall deficient microbes. It also has a heparin like anti-fibrin
effect that surpasses injected heparin by far. It has just like heparin, a strong biological
effect against Babesia as well. Dosage: 1 tbs/2 times per day. The KMT program #4 is
designed for treatment of mycoplasma (6).
H. The spirochetes and their close relatives (Bartonella, Rickettsia, Ehrlichiosis, Brucella
abortis) are best treated last - with antimicrobial herbs or antibiotics., 1 tsp bid. We use an
alternating course of teasel root tincture (15 drops 3 times per day) for 6 weeks and then
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TOS free cat’s claw tincture (10 drops tid). We also use Echinacea root tincture , 2
dropper full 3 times/day. Organic freeze dried garlic sometimes has a profound effect on
the spirochetes. Many other herbs have enormous potential in the treatment of chronic
Lyme disease.
Frequency #1 in the KMT TENS unit inhibits the microbial growth of spirochetes and
Bartonella, simultaneously activates specific immune responses and aids the uptake of
antimicrobial herbs.
Injected bee venom has long been my favorite during this phase of the treatment (22, 23).
The peptide mellitin has strong antibiotic activity against all spirochetes (24). Bee venom
also contains nerve growth factor, the very substance needed for healing, when
everything else has been attended to.
For the psychiatric presentations of Lyme disease I use large doses of Niacin.
Niacinamide and no-flush Niacin do not work. 3-6 gms in 3-4 divided doses often show
amazing results. It appears that Niacin has tremendous antibiotic potential against all
types of Borrelia (12). I suspect that our mentor and genius in orthomolecular psychiatry,
Abraham Hoffer, MD discovered a treatment for Bb long before Lyme-disease was
known.
The current antibiotic protocols are discussed and listed elsewhere (10). My favorites
include Zithromax and Minocycline (both work symbiotically by binding to separate
regions of the bacterial 50s ribosomal nucleic acid and both inhibit the microbes from
taking part in protein transcription). I also use Rifampin.
Often patients develop sarcoidosis, which is rarely recognized (11). The Lyme infected
lymph nodes produce abnormal amounts of 1.25 di-hydroxy vitamin D. The client often
develops marked osteoporosis (most often in the spine) along with other more typical
Lyme symptoms. The blood test (1.25 di-OH vit D) will usually reveal the pathology
(levels over 45), necessitating therapy with the Trevor Marshall protocol (1 . It uses
antibiotics together with the angiotensin II receptor blocker olmesartan –medoxomil. By
adding the KMT lymphdrainage technology twice/week results are often rapid and
miraculous. We hope to find alternatives to the antibiotic regimen in the near future.
When the sequence outlined here is observed, few people have severe Herxheimer
reactions, which are the rule in other approaches.
Outlook
Most clients will need some support for several years, before they have found and
adapted to a new life style in which the symptoms are absent. Lyme disease is marked by
cyclic rhythms and unexpected returns of the symptom from time to time. Once a patient
has figured out what works for him or her best, most of my patients learn how to manage
the illness with very little help - on their own, living normal healthy lives worth living. In
the course of conquering the illness there has been a lot of personal growth and a lot of
learning.
Many treatment modalities have been surprisingly ineffective: ozone, hyperbaric oxygen,
ICHT (intracellular hyperthermia) and many others. Some treatments have been
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unexpectedly effective: dental splints, colortherapy, Tomatis therapy and neurosensory
stimulation, elevating the body temperature with T3 supplementation, regular bee venom
injections, tonsillectomies and cryotherapy and many others. After 15 years of dealing
consciously with this illness, Lyme disease is still a mystery to me. Currently its impact
outweighs other important issues like heavy metal toxicity, unresolved psychological
issues and nutritional deficiencies.
There has been much speculation, why Lyme disease seems to be increasingly common.
The book Lab 257 is an investigative report on the issues involved. The insects which are
the vectors for these microbes thrive in warmer climates. I have no doubt, that to a large
degree the greenhouse effect is responsible and will be confronting us with the onslaught
of more and more aggressive microbes. The partial pressure of oxygen on the earth at sea
level has decreased from 30% 150 years ago to 19% today. The oxygen producing algae
in the oceans are dying.
The response of the public health system so far has been denial and anger towards those
who try to uncover the puzzle and help the afflicted patients. This will certainly change in
the near future. I expect that by the time the institutions discover Lyme disease as a far
more important factor in chronic illness then currently acknowledged, we will be
confronted with new, far more dangerous microbes.
Antibiotics have disappointed in the treatment of Lyme disease as a single modality.
Antibiotics alone will not help us to cope with the coming plagues.
All of us “alternative” practitioners have to start looking beyond antibiotics for help and
for hope. The microbes have always been with us. They are not the enemy. It is us who
have altered the environment so severely and in a way which facilitates the growth of
lower evolved species like cell wall deficient microbes and viruses - and ends the life for
many more evolved species. Extinction may be forever.
Lyme disease is a messenger. If we don’t change, someday not too far from now we may
be on the endangered species list.
Helpful References
1. Borrelia burgdorferi group: in-vitro antibiotic sensitivity: Orv Hetil, 2002 May 26;
143(21): 1195-8 (article in Hungarian), JP Henneberg, U Neubert –department of
dermatology, Ludwig-Maximillian University, Munich, Germany
2. Erythema chronicum migrans (Afzelii) associated with mosquito bite: acta Derm
Venereol (Stockholm) 46, 473-476
3. Personal experience while doing a residency rotation in neurology at the Albert
Ludwig-
University, Freiburg, Germany under Prof.Faust (1976)
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5. www.Bowen.org
6. www.neuraltherapy.com
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7. www.vcu.edu/ Journal of Immunology Dec 2004
8. The etiologic agent of Lyme disease in deer flies, horse flies and mosquitoes; J Infect
Dis 154 (1986), 355-358, LA Magnarelli, JF Anderson, AG Barbour
9. Klinik der Lyme-Borreliose: Hans Huber Verlag, Bern, CH (2002).
39-40, Norbert Satz
10. www.Lymenet.org
11. Borrelia Burgdorferi infection may be the cause of sarcoidosis
Hua B, Li QD: Chin Med J (Engl) 1992 Jul; 105(7): 560-3
12. www.vorsoft.com/medical/niacin/index.htm
13. www.chronicneurotoxins.com
14. www.biopureUS.com also: biopure@aol.com
15. www.neuraltherapy.com applied neurobiology (APN) manual/video
16. www.neuraltherapy.com neuraltherapy papers
17.www.neuraltherapy.com Klinghardt Matrix Therapy (KMT) manual/video
18. marshallprotocoll@yahoogroups.com
19. www.lymephotos.com
20. www.kryopraxis.com
21. nurse@andreannavaughan.com
22. Bee Venom Therapy for Chronic Pain: D Klinghardt, J. of Neurol and Orthop. Med
and Surg., Vol. 11, Issue 9, Oct 1990, pp. 195-197
23. www.mercola.com : The Treatment of Lyme Disease with Bee Venom: D Klinghardt,
M.D., Ph.D., 1999
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24. Bee Stings as Lyme Inhibitor: L. L. Lubke and C. F. Garon, J. Clin. Infect. Diseases,
July 1997, 25 Suppl. 1, pp. 48-
25. Lyme disease, potential plague of the 21st century: R Bradford and H Allen,
Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients, Jan 2005, 70-79
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terms (no psychological jargon). And then I’d tell
her how to empower me to build self esteem that
would not be dependent on my success or lack
thereof.

Quick Tips on How to Build and
Improve Self Esteem
The first book of the Self Esteem
Series.
Never before has there been a book that actually
exposes the myth of self esteem. Yes, our society
is a self esteem crisis promulgated by the way we
were taught by well meaning parents and role
models to build self esteem. We were taught to
make something of ourselves to feel better about
us—get a well paying job or career, graduate high
school or a prestigious college, get married and have a fine looking family, buy
a beautiful home, be charitable, have a lot of friends, and so on. While there is
absolutely nothing wrong with any of these aspirations (the heart of the
American dream), accomplishing them with the intent of feeling better about
ourselves, sets us up for a disastrous life crisis that may not stop at only one
crisis but go on and on to a resultant end of life.
This book is about how to build true self esteem from self. How to rekindle that
level of self esteem to that which each of us was born. We innately felt good
about ourselves without the need for success. Exploring each new day was
sufficient for maintaining our self esteem. When we were babies there were no
“bad hair days” on our mind. This book unravels the mystery of how to feel
good about yourself in the midst of disaster.
Quick Tips on How to Be More
Confident and Assertive Today--Build
Self Confidence for Assertive
Communication
The second book of the Self Esteem Series.
This book puts a bounce in your step. As you read
this book, you will actually think that Richard is
in the room coaching you in overcoming the
“dead-give-aways” of self confidence
(unconscious habits like the Gallow's laugh, to
name one of the many, that announces to the
world that you have little if any confidence), developing assertiveness, and
establishing a self image that's built on solid foundations!

Quick Tips on How to Over Come A
Life Crisis Today
The Middle Life Crisis Book
The third book in the Self Esteem Series.
A mid life crisis or for that matter any life crisis
will have you question the fabric of your being. A
life crisis can start at any time. It could be simply
from waking up one day and realizing that your
life has been wasting away. Or life crisis can
happen after break up of a relationship, loss of a
job, collapse of the stock market, death of a loved
one, or loss of a physical skill, debilitating
accident, signs of aging, change in social status, and so on. Why me? Why now?
Your days and night are consumed with anguishing thoughts and even wondering
why you should go on. With this book you can put your life back together and
discover new purpose in life.
Quick Tips on How to Love Yourself
Before All Others
The Loving Self Acceptance Hand
Book
The third book of the Self Esteem Series.
This book is about getting to know the real you
and to love yourself unconditionally. No, it
doesn't mean that you're egotistical if you love
yourself. Without self love we might end up
liking the physical result and hating how
emotionally deficient we are. Or, we have it
together emotionally but have the body of a
walrus (as we judge it) and are unhappy about our
physical being. For most of us, this occupies our entire life-time with therapy,
counseling, diets, plastic surgery... and we never even consider the spiritual side.
The end results--we never live up to our own expectations, we always judge
ourselves, and, we often hate a large part of ourselves.

Quick Tips on How to Reclaim Your
Sexual Self Esteem
The Sexual Confidence Hand Book
Is length and width necessary for a satisfying
sexual relationship? Should I feel less about my
self because I masturbate? Can I have a high level
of self esteem if I’m homosexual? How can a
person who cheats feel good about him/her self?
I have trouble getting an erection, how can I keep
that from affecting my attitude about myself?
Answers to these questions showing you how you
can have a high level of self esteem plus other issues such as premarital sex,
impotence, and so on that can question one's self esteem are handled.
How To Cure Anxiety and Panic
Attacks Naturally
Special Edition Featuring The
Treatment for Agoraphobia
“Learn to relax” is not great advice, but
unfortunately it’s the advice you’ll often get. In
fact I find many panic suffers go into a panic state
when they attempt deep breathing exercises or try
to relax. Strangely enough, panic anxiety attack,
and agoraphobia are all diseases of ignorance.
Your personality traits and diet often determines
that you react with anxiety to stress—including
free floating anxiety. With the easy to understand approach using an external
focus as opposed to internal focus (as in relaxation techniques) you make a minor
shift in your behaviors—those that make your personality—such that you’ll
discover that you can reprogram you subconscious to leave out the flight reaction
and soon be in a position to remember that anxiety used to be a problem but
forget what it felt like.

How To Stop, End, and Cure
Compulsive, Emotional, and Binge
Eating
Part I for conquering habitual eating, Part II for
handling Emotional Eating, and Part III for
mastery of self defeating eating. All three parts
available in soft cover printed as The Scale
Conspiracy.
How to Deal With a Bad Break Up—
The Get on With Your life
Handbook Special Edition
“Why me, why now? I thought every thing was
going well,” are typical thoughts running through
your mind. Rejection from a break up can leave
you feeling like there's a bottomless pit in your
stomach. It seems like you'll never be happy
again. Life is fraught with self doubts and second
guessing yourself—maybe it you would have so
and so. Maybe you could get a second chance.
Everything you need to know about how to put a floor where that bottomless pit
was, get on with your life, and be happy again.

How and Where to Meet Someone
New and Special Now
The Meet a Mate Handbook.
Being single has always been a challenge. Today
even more so. Just think not too long ago cell
phones were a thing of the future. Today everyone
has one. Keeping up with technology is fun for
some and a frustrating challenge for others. But it
all boils down to finding someone with whom
you have chemistry. Yet, there are 365 days a year
and how many of them are you alone? Too many?
Where do you meet someone with whom to share
your life?
How about we just start with finding someone with whom you can share a few
dates or an enjoyable afternoon in the park?
For those who like to meet someone in person, you'll find the tips of where and
when to meet that person and how to get their attention. For those who want to
stop wasting time on the internet sites, you'll find down to earth tips on how to
master internet dating:
First how to ditch psychological baggage that can “shoot your own foot” in a
relationship.
How to stop wasting time and write a profile that gets results.
The value of photos and how to post one that draws the opposite sex to you.
Typical traps you can fall into which cost you time and aggravation.
And then when you connect, tips on writing intriguing emails.
Intriguing dating ideas for your first dates.
A method to identify potentially defensive personalities that you want to avoid.
Questions about intimacy and your options.
An intimate option to expensive restaurants with even better food.

How to Be Happy With Yourself Today
The Make Yourself Happy Handbook.
Each of us are like a coin—there are two sides.
On one side is “happiness” and on the other side
is “depression.” In spite of our best attempts to
be happy, life provides many disappointments
which shift us to the depression side of our coin.
The secret to being happy is to be able to take
charge of our own lives and shift ourselves at will
to the happy side of our coin.