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well - I know that this is no surprise to many of my friends, but I have been battling Chronic Lyme Disease for years, and some people just do not realize how it affects our lives. Once Lyme has been undiagnosed and travels into your body over a long period of time, it is a very difficult battle to get your life back. Here is a short overview of what Lyme does. Hope you all can learn something from this. **** Babesia primarily is a parasite that infects the red blood cells (just as bartonella is bacteria that infects the red blood cells). When you contract either of these bugs - overall, the red blood cells have a diminished capacity to uptake oxygen.... this in turn translates to less oxygen getting to the muscles, organs, and the brain. So having either of these bugs, you are essentially slowly suffocating yourself from the inside-out. :/ So all the main symptoms that go along with babesia & bartonella are: - shortness of breath - increased overall stress levels - anxiety (chronic & acute) - heart palpitations - seizures - white matter lesions appearing on MRI images of the brain - the list goes on and on..... All seem to be strongly tied, not so much with having those bugs per see - but more because they are indirectly causing oxygen deprivation (which are necessary by all organs to function properly, most of all the brain!!!). So yes, some bartonella & babesia are able to get into the brain - but their favorite spot to hang out is in the blood. While the favorite spots of lyme and a few others, is to get as far away from the blood as fast as possible. Red blood cells are by default designed to carry oxygen, but too much oxygen kills lyme (and all other anaerobic bacteria). Accordingly, this is while lyme like do drill into places like cartilage, soft tissue, and especially the brain (theres limited oxygen in these places). But by also having bartonella and/or babesia as co-infections, they make the problem even worse - because they directly limit the amount of oxygen that ones body is capable of absorbing through the lungs into the bloodstream.... (in extreme cases, knocking the absorption down by 50%!)
Posted on: Sun, 30 Nov 2014 22:01:03 +0000

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