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My sister had RA in her early twenties. For years no treatment was able to restore a reasonable quality of life. There were many side effects which needed treat
by shswkna 3y ago
My sister had RA in her early twenties. For years no treatment was able to restore a reasonable quality of life. There were many side effects which needed treatment as well. She went from doctor to doctor, while she lost the best parts of her life.
An unexpected path led her to a tropical diseases doctor who had positive results with RA patients by using an unconventional treatment not supported by mainstream medicine at the time: He tested the patients blood for bacteria (by cultivation in a lab) and prescribed an antibiotic course that matched the detected bacteria. This treatment (testing + prescribing antibiotic)was repeated in regular intervals over the course of a whole year.
Her RA flare-ups stopped and recurred only in ever longer intervals which were arrested by this treatment. After a year the progression of the RA had stopped.
This treatment is controversial because it is considered bad practice to prescribe antibiotics liberally, for several good reasons. Mainstream medicine did not have a theoretical foundation to justify this treatment path.
The tropical disease doctor founded his treatment on the empirical research by some research factions that the “auto-immune” theory of RA was not showing the full picture.
- toast0 3y ago> This treatment is controversial because it is considered bad practice to prescribe antibiotics liberally, for several good reasons. Mainstream medicine did not have a theoretical foundation to justify this treatment path. This doesn't seem like prescribing antibiotics liberally to me? Having symptoms, test for bacterial infection, prescribe antibiotics seems reasonable to me with no medical training. I would consider liberal prescription to be something like prescribing antibiotics based on symptoms that align with viral infection, without doing any labs to determine the type of infection and hoping for the best.
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- hbarka 3y ago> and prescribed an antibiotic course that matched the detected bacteria Interesting. Can antibiotics be matched to that level of specific targeting?
- monknomo 3y agoThere are different classes of antibiotics and the different classes work better or worse against different types of bacteria.
- newprint 3y agoWould you be able to tell me more ? My email is in my About section. Thank you !
- GuardianCaveman 3y agoIs there any more information you can provide so I can help my wife find a similar treatment?