Ignore Bartonella and Stay  Ill, Lose a Relationship or Job or Hurt an Organ
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Trivializing Bartonella attached to Red  Blood Cells is Ignoring TNT? 
 
Radically New 2008 Information about a  Flea and Tick Infection More Common 
than Lyme 
 
By Dr. James Schaller, MD. 
 
 
As you read this article, Bartonella is making microscopic fat  deposits in 
some human hearts. These will undermine the normal pacemaker  stimulation 
in their heart and cause death. Others have Bartonella inside  weakening 
blood vessel walls which might create a stroke. Still others with  Bartonella 
are struggling with an agitated depression or aggressive rage that  makes them 
prone to suicide. The psychiatric treatment of a patient with  Bartonella 
is highly specialized and most family physicians and psychiatrists do  not 
know how to treat a patient suffering from Bartonella-caused psychiatric  
disorders. Bartonella is connected to red blood cells that are entering every  
human organ. Some are leaving their red blood cell carriers and entering 
tissues  next to capillaries all over the body. 
 
 
Bartonella bacteria enter all organs and cause the following  sample 
illnesses: 
 
 
-- All Psychiatric disorders 
-- Fatigue 
-- Numbness or Loss of Sensation 
-- Dizziness 
-- Headaches, 
-- Tremors 
-- Irritability 
-- Agitation 
-- Aggression 
-- Impulsivity 
-- Oxygen Deprivation 
-- Panic Attacks 
-- Fainting 
-- Muscle Spasms and/or Weakness 
-- Joint Pain 
-- Upper and Lower G.I. Tract Disorders 
-- Kidney, Bladder, and Urogenital Disorders 
-- Sleep Disorders 
-- Memory Problems 
-- Drowsiness 
-- Lumps in the Skin 
-- Dozens of Types of Rashes 
-- Polyps in or on Major Organs 
-- Eye Disorders, e.g., Blurred Vision, Depth Perception, and  Retinal 
Damage 
-- But Some Patients Have No Clear Symptoms 
 
 
This modified list from Breitschwerdt and  others (Emerging Infectious 
Diseases June 2007; 13:938ff) which is just a very  small sample of Bartonella 
medical ills. For example, in another series of  articles, 15-20 eye ailments 
are listed and 15 heart problems. I have not found  any brilliant eye 
surgeons or cardiologists that know this emerging medicine. It  is certainly 
not 
their fault. You have to read about 1500 articles to  learn the basics of 
this infection, and even then, that is the basics.  It is one reason we are 
going to do careful work in this area for a couple  years, as a special focus 
on our list of areas to specifically research and  study and invent if 
possible some treatment solutions among the many claims as  to what might work. 
 
 
Periods of ignorance are routine in medicine. In the same  manner Lyme 
disease was initially seen as only an arthritis disease and Babesia  as a 
disease causing only fevers, fatigue and sweats. We have learned with each  
passing year that Lyme and Babesia infections have hundreds of  symptoms. 
 
 
Bartonella was initially seen as a virus and as having 2-3  species with 
American forms generally only causing a cold, a mild fever and a  passing 
increase in lymph node size or tenderness. The reality is that thousands  of 
articles show Bartonella harms many parts of the body and can cause multiple  
types of tissue injury. It is also so common that just this past season 
another  human species was found --Bartonella rochalimae. 
 
 
With the publication of my Babesia textbook, I was able to  consolidate the 
exceptional experience of top practitioners into a single book  to help 
patients and physicians to quickly learn about Babesia. 
 
 
As you can see from the new patent pending Fry blood slides in  this 
article, which show Babesia with many Bartonella images, you can see the  
discovery of a revolutionary blood smear test which shows all species of  
Bartonella 
and Babesia. The light has been turned on in the midnight kitchen,  and all 
the largest **Bartonella bugs**  can be seen crawling around in the  
kitchen with this special blood stain. It is a very useful tool among many to  
diagnose Bartonella. Currently, approximately 10 species of Bartonella and 13  
species of Babesia exist which infect humans. This specialized patent 
pending  slide has made them markedly visible-like a July 4th firework 
explosion. 
 
 
While treating patients from all over the world with this new  tool to 
direct me, this stain also allows me to see what really kills both of  these 
infections -- what I suggest and what patients use to self-treat. I have  sent 
the same slide to the largest labs in the USA. Not one patient has been  
diagnosed on a manual smear by leading large medical labs! Their stains are  
junk, and their ability to see these two infections is worthless. 
 
 
The year 2007 will mark the death of the expression  **co-infection,**  
because increasingly patients have awareness that  Babesia and Bartonella are 
not little addendums to Lyme disease, but are often  far more serious than 
Lyme disease. Any physician who is not well-versed in  these two killing 
infections perhaps should not be considered competent enough  to treat patients 
with flea and tick infections. These infections do not circle  around planet 
**Lyme**  like small moons, instead, they are their own huge  planets that 
cause massive consequences to the human body. 
 
 
In a year I hope to be publishing The Diagnosis and Treatment  of 
Bartonella. Despite millions of books in print, no book currently exists on  
the 
up-to-date issues of the diagnosis and treatment of Bartonella. This  stunning 
lack of information about a profoundly common human infection has added  to 
the danger of this infection. In Asian stories, the Ninja is felt to be a  
dangerous assassin because he has mastered invisibility techniques. This 
article  is meant to be a summary article to shine a bright lamp on the 
infectious  Ninja-Bartonella. 
 
 
Bartonella is Everywhere 
 
 
Bartonella is so common that 40% of California cats have lab  findings 
showing contact with the illness. Since 1/3 of all USA homes have a  cat, this 
means many of the 70 million cats in the USA can playfully bite, lick  or 
scratch a human and infect them. But one thing wrong with this 40% number is  
the assumption that the test used is reliable and catches every  Bartonella 
positive cat. I have sent positive human samples to many labs and  they were 
routinely missed. So I believe DNA or PCR tests and various antibody  tests 
(IgG/IgM) can support a diagnosis if they are positive, but remember they  
typically miss infected animals and humans. 
 
 
In contrast to Lyme disease, Bartonella is virtually  everywhere except 
countries near the cold northern and southern poles. The  reason Bartonella is 
so common is that it is found in many vectors or insect  carriers. Here are 
some sample vectors and ways a Bartonella infection can be  passed. 
 
 
-- Four Bartonella species have been found in dust mites 
-- Flea bites 
-- Flea feces-- Bartonella live at least nine days in this  substance. If 
it touches a human mouth, nose, or eye, Bartonella can infect a  person 
-- Cats and dogs can carry this infection in their paws and  saliva, and 
scratch, lick or bite you. 
-- Lice-- such as forms found in schools or dirty areas. 
-- Ticks-- in some tick research areas, in which Lyme disease  exists in 
high concentrations, surprisingly, Bartonella is sometimes even more  common 
then Lyme disease. 
-- Flies-- some carry this infection and pass it on to  mammals. I suspect 
as laboratory science improves, we will find this infection  in more flies 
in coming years. A recent article found it in some SW USA flies. 
-- Birth infection-- examination of fetal pregnancy tissue  shows that 
Bartonella clearly infects the placenta, and infected baby mice are  born 
smaller; further, Bartonella decreases successful pregnancies. 
 
 
Bartonella is carried in a number of vectors and animals, but  articles 
that report strict limits on the location of each Bartonella species  are 
probably in error. For example, WA-1 is a species of Babesia found in a  small 
number of patients in Washington State. Most infectious disease physicians  
never tested for it, and the Sonoma health department set an extremely high 
bar  for a positive-- 1:640, which means the Babesia is detectable after 640  
dilutions. Imagine a dark blue pool diluted with clear water 640 xs. I 
wonder  how often any residual blue would be seen. Once the WA-1 test was 
initiated,  despite the absurd 1:640 cut off, I began to find some patients who 
were  positive for this aggressive Babesia species on the entire East coast and 
 throughout the southern states. 
 
 
In the same way, I feel when good tests begin to be used more  often we 
will find both new human Bartonella species and current Bartonella in  more 
regions of the world. 
 
 
Bartonella and Psychiatric  Symptoms 
 
 
First, this emerging infection is found in cities,  suburbs and rural 
locations. Presently routine national labs offer  testing of questionable 
quality 
for only two species, but at least  nine have been discovered as human 
infections within the last  15 years. Some authors discuss Bartonella cases 
having atypical presentations,  with serious problems considered 
uncharacteristic of more routine Bartonella  infections. Some *atypical* 
findings include: 
distortion of vision, abdominal  pain, severe liver and spleen tissue 
abnormalities, bone infection, arthritis,  abscesses, skin sores, and heart 
tissue 
and heart valve problems. While some  articles discuss Bartonella as a 
cause of neurological illnesses, psychiatric  illnesses have received virtually 
no attention. This is amazing, because many of  my Bartonella patients have 
some character, mood or cognitive alterations. This  is a complete blind 
spot in Psychiatry and Neurology circles. Further, their  dosing of psychiatric 
medications is radically different. Some can only tolerate  1/8th of the 
smallest Lexapro and others need 70 mgs per day to have a stable  mood. 
 
 
The presence of Bartonella-induced psychiatric symptoms should  not be 
surprising for a number of reasons. First, psychiatric disorders are  brain 
disorders and Bartonella is documented as causing many diverse  neurological 
brain disorders. Bartonella infections are associated with red  blood cells 
(RBC), which allow small Bartonella bacteria, a fraction of the RBC  cell size 
to enter the brain's vascular system. These Bartonella-infected cells  
penetrate brain tissue. Finally, with 9-10 species or subspecies that can 
infect  
humans, it is possible this larger number of species can produce a wider 
range  of signs and symptoms-some of which might be psychiatric in nature. 
Below, I  offer a medical case with psychiatric symptoms that emerged during a 
Bartonella  infection. 
 
 
A Sample Case 
 
A 41 year-old male minister from Wisconsin was reported by his  wife, best 
friends and children to have a personality change after a camping  trip in 
North Carolina. After the trip, the patient described a small  right-sided 
"aching" armpit lymph node and as having a **slight fever feeling.**  He 
reported removing three Ixodes deer ticks that resembled **large dust  
particles 
glued to his leg and shoulder.** Five weeks later, he reported an  
**enlarged and very annoying**  right-sided armpit lymph node, feelings of  
excessive 
warmth, irritability, severe insomnia and new-onset eccentric rage. He  
also reported a new sensitivity to otherwise only slightly annoying smells and  
sounds. His afternoon temperatures were 98.7-99.9 ¡F, which he recorded 
every 3  days on the advice of a relative who was a Physician Assistant. 
 
 
His internist found the patient to be negative for Lyme  disease using the 
CDC two-tier surveillance testing procedure performed at Quest  diagnostics 
and IGeneX's PCR and Western Blot test. It was felt that the patient  might 
have Bartonella based on his unilateral lymph node symptom and Ixodes  
attachment. This physician felt that since the duration of the lymph node ache  
was at least five weeks, that **atypical**  Bartonella should be considered  
in the differential. **Atypical**  means that the man had more than a  
simple cold, passing sore throat and transient low-grade fever. 
 
 
The patient was ordered a Bartonella henselae IgG and IgM  along with other 
lab testing which was negative, including a PCR test for  Bartonella. 
However, the Fry Blood Smear Test came back as positive. During the  next two 
weeks, the patient developed serious agitation, panic attacks and major  
depression. He was so restless that he threw objects such as kitchen glasses, a 
 
baseball, and a chair into his home*s drywall, leaving significant 
indentations.  He was previously unknown to use insults or to curse at people, 
and now 
he did  both almost daily, particularly to his spouse. Minor interpersonal 
infractions  that would not usually produce a comment from the patient now 
resulted in  screaming and the use of obscenities, yet he slept 8-9 hours per 
day and had  normal speech speed and enunciation patterns. He was referred 
to an adult  psychiatrist and diagnosed with Bipolar disorder, despite 
having no genetic  history or any previous history of depression or mania. The 
patient gained 15  pounds in weeks on 1250 mg per day of valproic acid 
(Depakote), and requested  another treatment. He was then prescribed lithium 
carbonate, 300 mg at  breakfast, lunch and dinner, with 600 mg once in the 
evening 
(blood level 1.1  mEq/L). These medications had no clear clinical effect on 
the patient*s  agitation, mood extremes or severe boredom with 
hopelessness. They were stopped  after at least three-week trials. It was 
unclear to the 
patient, his family, and  his psychiatrist whether either medication 
offered more than a slight benefit to  limiting his reactivity and eccentric 
anger. 
 
 
A trial of quetiapine (Seroquel) at 12.5 mg in the morning,  afternoon and 
50 mg at bedtime helped significantly for 3 weeks, but then it  stopped 
controlling his agitation and other dysfunctional behaviors. So he was  tried 
on 
a higher dose of 25 mg in the morning, 25 mg in the afternoon and 100  mg 
at bed. The patient surprisingly reported that he felt *good* and *content*  
on this anti-psychotic medication. 
 
 
At this point, the patient was diagnosed with Bartonella and  treated with 
azithromycin 500 mg (Zithromax) at dinner and rifabutin 300 mg  (Mycobutin) 
per day. [I currently do not feel this is always the ideal treatment  based 
on my new research]. During the first 2 weeks of treatment on these  
medications, the patient*s anxiety increased and he experienced five panic  
attacks. He was highly reactive, emotionally volatile and markedly irritable.  
His 
quetiapine was increased to 50 mg at breakfast and lunch, and 200 mg once in 
 the evening, with good control of his increased psychiatric morbidity. 
 
 
After five weeks on this dual-antibiotic treatment, the  patient began to 
exhibit sleepiness. His quetiapine dose was reduced to 25 mg at  breakfast 
and 75 mg at bedtime, with no return of agitation or mood lability.  The 
internist*s reading left him uncertain of the ideal dose of antibiotics and  
duration of treatment for this suspected Bartonella infection. But when the  
patient*s lymph node complaints ended abruptly in 48 hours, following 8 weeks 
of  antibiotics, the medications were stopped. 
 
 
The patient has significantly improved in his psychiatric  symptoms and he 
now remains only on escitalopram (Celexa) 5 mg and quetiapine  12.5 mg in 
the morning, and 37.5 mg once in the evening. His baseline  personality is 
felt to be 90% according to his spouse and closest friend. We  suggest this 
man*s psychiatric problems support a Bartonella presentation. Our  reasons are 
due to the sudden appearance of these symptoms following clear  Ixodes 
attachments, the presence of an acute, unilateral and uncomfortable  armpit 
lymph 
node, a *slight fever* feeling, a low-positive Bartonella serology  result, 
and a positive response to two antibiotics which are felt to be  effective 
against Bartonella. Further, his emotional improvement occurred nearly  
simultaneous to his enlarged lymph node normalization. 
 
 
This pastor wants his story told because he feels he *lost  himself* and he 
now believes that many people who do reckless things like start  fights, 
drink or do drugs impulsively, abuse family and friends, do impulsive  sexual 
acts, drive with **road rage** and do other angry, impulsive, reactive  
behavior may be behaving this way due to a brain Bartonella infection. He does  
not know how many but as he meets more and more individuals with these 
troubles  he reports discerning a medical fog. **I cannot explain it, but I can 
just feel  someone has what I had, but unfortunately, most do not listen to 
me and consider  testing**. I have tested a few of those he diagnosed and 
they all had at least  two tick or flea infections with labs that showed 
systemic abnormal  inflammation. The pastor feels *blessed* that he had an 
abnormal lymph node to  help with diagnosis since he has personally found 
patients 
with Bartonella and  most had no lymph node abnormalities and no rashes. 
 
 
Treatment 
 
 
Since there is much debate about optimal treatment, and  because I am 
involved in a number of treatment studies using a wide range of  treatments for 
Bartonella, I will not address Bartonella treatment in this  article. I will 
however mention that this is a complex area. Medications felt to  work may 
only work with some Bartonella from certain regions, and that dosing  often 
has to be higher than normal. Further, we generally find better results  with 
multiple treatments at the same time. 
 
 
Finally, it is possible that Bartonella, like many other  Gram-negative 
bacteria, have external biotoxins. We already are certain that  Bartonella 
surface chemicals turn off the immune system and the inflammation  system in 
some parts, which allows it to hide---even with large numbers in the  
bloodstream. It is one reason at least on surface chemical is being looked at 
as  a 
possible autoimmune disease treatment. Bartonella might also be able to make  
biofilms to protect itself from antibiotics. More study is needed to prove 
the  latter.
 
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