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For DD, motor ticcing is a direct result of toxin build-up.

 

Bartonella endotoxins were the cause of her major motor/vocal ticcing symptoms, and treatment for her bartonella infection eventually reduced all vocal ticcing and most motor ticcing from an estimated level 7 (at that point unable to present oral assignments in class because of head jerking, eye rolling and vocals) to an estimated level 2 (some single tics which included shoulder shrugging or mouth stretching) which didn't really impact overall function but were still obvious. Other ticcing flares have been caused by exposure to mold and also by yeast overgrowth/infection.

 

Mind you there were some serious ticcing flares caused by endotoxin release from bartonella antibiotic treatment. But by decreasing abx dosage, or in the case of tindamax, going to a pulsed schedule which allowed for more detox, (and of course increasing detox protocols) we were able to reduce the negative impacts of treatment.

 

So when we weaned abx treatment for bartonella and initiated herbs she was at 80% improvement. She held this improvement on Buhner's protocol for bartonella for 8 months and we didn't realize further improvements until I started using herbs from the babesia protocol. Initially starting babesia protocols resulted in a babesia herx and then clinical diagnosis of babesiosis by our LLMD although all testing for the babesias had been negative.

 

DD was now at 95% with huge gains in cognitive/executive function, resolution of remaining bartonella pain symptoms and decline in ticcing to a level 2. There was still the odd motor tic during the day (although friends wouldn't notice) and some residual headache.

 

I had remediated our home for EMFs before this point. Wireless off unless downloading, removal of wireless phones, circuits to bedrooms off at night, cell phones off in vehicles (the metal structure acts as a Faraday cage). Which made us all more comfortable at home, but DD was still showing sensitivity to EMFs in public areas. In malls, libraries, museums, she would still react with increased ticcing, headache and bone pain symptoms. I, myself, would react with palpitations and anxiety.

 

At this point Julie McIntyre (Buhner's associate) recommended further metal detox with cilantro/zeolite. Because I wasn't comfortable with the amounts of aluminum contained in zeolite I opted to substitute diatomaceous earth (DE) in the protocol. Within 1 day of initiating the cilantro/DE protocol (3 drops organic cilantro tincture 3x daily, 1/2 tbsp. DE 2x daily), all of DD's remaining symptoms declined to zero. Within 3 weeks of initiating the protocol, all electrosensitivity in areas outside the home had resolved.

 

I don't think the cilantro/DE protocol would have cleared DD's full array of original symptoms, but it was useful for clearing the remaining ones after years of abx and then herbal treatment.

 

http://www.lef.org/protocols/health-concerns/heavy-metal-detoxification/Page-10

 

http://www.drdavidwilliams.com/cilantro-clay-for-detoxification/

 

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8914687

 

http://institutefornaturalhealing.com/2011/06/doctor-accidentally-discovers-natural-chelation-therapy-in-vietnamese-soup/

 

http://ybertaud9.wordpress.com/2012/04/07/cilantro-pesto-removes-heavy-metals-health-benefits/

 

http://www.anaturalcure.com/detox-cilantro-is-chinese-parsley/

 

http://www.klinghardtacademy.com/images/stories/neurotoxin/NeurotoxinProtocol_Jan06.pdf

 

Looking through the LEF and Klinghardt metal detox protocols I note that we are also using most of the other recommended supplements (Nac, l-glutamine, glycine (the glutathione precursors), garlic, etc), so these may be required as well for full detox effect.

 

So to recap; I feel treatment and resolution of DD's bartonella infection was a crucial part of resolving her propensity toward motor/vocal ticcing. The cilantro/DE protocol cleared remaining symptoms of ticcing/EMF sensitivity.

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