The only thing that comes to mind is Iodine, perhaps a mix with an
insect mush like fireants would make a difference.Since they don't
know what causes it it makes it hard to diagnose, but Lyme disease
seems to be a dryness problem? Sorry kind of stumped on this.other
salves like lemon or lime oil? Experiment and don't give up!-


In acupuncture@yahoogroups.com, "Mercurius Trismegistus"
<magisterium_magnum@...> wrote:
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> http://www.mysanantonio.com/global-includes/printstory.jsp?
path=/news/metro/stories/MYSA051106.morgellans.KENS.32030524.html
> Doctors puzzled over bizarre infection surfacing in South Texas
>
> Web Posted: 05/12/2006 10:51 AM CDT
> Deborah Knapp
> KENS 5 Eyewitness News
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>
>
> If diseases like AIDS and bird flu scare you, wait until you hear
what's next. Doctors are trying to find out what is causing a
bizarre and mysterious infection that's surfaced in South Texas.
>
> Morgellons disease is not yet known to kill, but if you were to
get it, you might wish you were dead, as the symptoms are horrible.
>
> "These people will have like beads of sweat but it's black, black
and tarry," said Ginger Savely, a nurse practioner in Austin who
treats a majority of these patients.
>
> Patients get lesions that never heal.
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> "Sometimes little black specks that come out of the lesions and
sometimes little fibers," said Stephanie Bailey, Morgellons patient.
>
>
>
> Patients say that's the worst symptom - strange fibers that pop
out of your skin in different colors.
>
> "He'd have attacks and fibers would come out of his hands and
fingers, white, black and sometimes red. Very, very painful," said
Lisa Wilson, whose son Travis had Morgellon's disease.
>
> While all of this is going on, it feels like bugs are crawling
under your skin. So far more than 100 cases of Morgellons disease
have been reported in South Texas.
>
> "It really has the makings of a horror movie in every way," Savely
said.
>
> While Savely sees this as a legitimate disease, there are many
doctors who simply refuse to acknowledge it exists, because of the
bizarre symptoms patients are diagnosed as delusional.
>
> "Believe me, if I just randomly saw one of these patients in my
office, I would think they were crazy too," Savely said. "But after
you've heard the story of over 100 (patients) and they're all - down
to the most minute detail - saying the exact same thing, that
becomes quite impressive."
>
> Travis Wilson developed Morgellons just over a year ago. He called
his mother in to see a fiber coming out of a lesion.
>
> "It looked like a piece of spaghetti was sticking out about a
quarter to an eighth of an inch long and it was sticking out of his
chest," Lisa Wilson said. "I tried to pull it as hard as I could out
and I could not pull it out."
>
> The Wilson's spent $14,000 after insurance last year on doctors
and medicine.
>
> "Most of them are antibiotics. He was on Tamadone for pain.
Viltricide, this was an anti-parasitic. This was to try and protect
his skin because of all the lesions and stuff," Lisa said.
>
> However, nothing worked, and 23-year-old Travis could no longer
take it.
>
> "I knew he was going to kill himself, and there was nothing I
could do to stop him," Lisa Wilson said.
>
> Just two weeks ago, Travis took his life.
>
> Stephanie Bailey developed the lesions four-and-a-half years ago.
>
> "The lesions come up, and then these fuzzy things like spores come
out," she said.
>
> She also has the crawling sensation.
>
> "You just want to get it out of you," Bailey said.
>
> She has no idea what caused the disease, and nothing has worked to
clear it up.
>
> "They (doctors) told me I was just doing this to myself, that I
was nuts. So basically I stopped going to doctors because I was
afraid they were going to lock me up," Bailey said.
>
> Harriett Bishop has battled Morgellons for 12 years. After a year
on antibiotics, her hands have nearly cleared up. On the day, we
visited her she only had one lesion and she extracted this fiber
from it.
>
> "You want to get these things out to relieve the pain, and that's
why you pull and then you can see the fibers there, and the
tentacles are there, and there are millions of them," Bishop said.
>
> So far, pathologists have failed to find any infection in the
fibers pulled from lesions.
>
> "Clearly something is physically happening here," said Dr. Randy
Wymore, a researcher at the Morgellons Research Foundation at
Oklahoma State University's Center for Health Sciences.
>
> Wymore examines the fibers, scabs and other samples from
Morgellon's patients to try and find the disease's cause.
>
> "These fibers don't look like common environmental fibers," he
said.
>
> The goal at OSU is to scientifically find out what is going on.
Until then, patients and doctors struggle with this mysterious and
bizarre infection. Thus far, the only treatment that has showed some
success is an antibiotic.
>
> "It sounds a little like a parasite, like a fungal infection, like
a bacterial infection, but it never quite fits all the criteria of
any known pathogen," Savely said
>
> No one knows how Morgellans is contracted, but it does not appear
to be contagious. The states with the highest number of cases are
Texas, California and Florida.
>
> The only connection found so far is that more than half of the
Morgellons patients are also diagnosed with Lyme disease.
>
> For more information on Morgellons, visit the research
foundation's Web site at www.morgellons.org.
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