Beckie99

The link for Institute of Molecular Medicine I mentioned above is the first step toward identifying treatment for several factors involved in Gulf War Illness.

On the IMMED home page, a button on the bottom right-hand corner, called Treatment Considerations opens up a page of publications and reports.

Click on the html.doc next to the publication entitled: Considerations when Undergoing Treatment for Gulf War Illness/CFS/FMS/Rheumatoid Arthritis Reprinted from the Intern. J. Medicine 1998; 1:123-128. Plus Supplemental Suggestions:Prof. Nicolson 1/14/02

It gives step-by-step instructions on treating infectious microbes like Mycoplasma Fermentans. It identifies antivirals that may help alleviate secondary illnesses while treating infections. It addresses secondary ailments including fungal infections in the gut and the nasopharygeal (nose, throat and ear) tract. It also addresses hard-to-detect parasites found in Gulf War veterans, spouses and children.

Dr. Nicolson, (a researcher not an M.D.) offers supplementation advice and home remedies, such as the whole lemon/olive concoction that relieves bacterial overgrowth while taking antibiotics. He will not refer doctors, but he will field questions from your treating physician when he is in the country.

Nicolson accepts and answers e-mail free of charge. His publications are updated with new findings from patients who have tested positive for one or more of the illnesses associated with Gulf War Illness. His C.V. is incredible.

The most comforting concept about this particular website is the fact that Nicolson and his wife contracted the illness from their Army Crew Chief daughter who served in the Gulf. The Nicolson's daughter ended her Army career to start her medical one. Nicolson's pets also acquired an infectious part of the illness.

Many veterans may find that their pets exhibit similar symptoms, such as malaise, boiling hot head with a sub-normal temperature, whites of the eyes jaundiced, dehydration, and twitches or convulsions. I personally found that my veterinarian was the first who was willing to treat my pet's infection aggressively with alternating courses of Doxycyclene and then Clavamox, the canine equivalent of Augmentin.

My Internal Medicine specialist mimicked her treatment with my husband, who can tolerate penicillen. He then followed Nicolson's recommended course of treatment for patients who cannot tolerate penicillen for me, the veteran.

I printed out the updated "Considerations" publication each time I visited my doctor. We successfully treated me for Mycoplasma, systemic fungus, parasites or bacterial overgrowth in the gut. I also used the "Considerations" when I approached an Infectious Diseases specialist with my positive lab tests for Mycoplasma and cytomegalovirus.

The button at the top right, Signs/Symptoms Questions, identifies the ailments and the frequency found in Nicolson's initial research in 1992, 1993 and 1994, before Gulf War Syndrome had a name.

The vaccine website I mentioned in my previous posting is critical in that it details how vaccines are made, and the toxins within them. It is critical to note that metals used in making vaccines is a known cause of cancer and other morbid illnesses.

While some argue that the Mycoplasma microbe is derived from vaccines or dirty lab equipment, the Senate Banking Committee report on Gulf War Illness identifies it as a pathogen shipped to the Iraqis from the U.S. I hope to get that particular website posted on this healthboard soon.

Viruses such as cytomegalovirus and other infectious diseases are not so easily tracked, and have been linked theoretically to 1.)too many vaccines given at one time, 2.)experimental vaccines that had not been approved for public use by the CDC before the Gulf War, 3.)tainted vaccines, 4.)outdated vaccines, 5.) vaccines sequences given too closely together, and 6.) an end-result of overvaccinating, and then subjecting troops to a toxic wasteland with fallout from bombed laboratories, and biological and chemical weapons from previous Gulf wars being blasted into the air once again.

I hope these websites will be of some help to you. I have submitted three more sites for Moderator approval. I'll post them and explain their significance as I can. An upcoming feature I have compiled and hope to have published by year's end is a glossary of the pathogens sold to the Iraqis by a U.S. Laboratory. The glossary contains a layman's terms definition, signs and symptoms, plan of treatment (with specific types of antibiotics and I.V. therapy). It will also include alternative drugs for children and for adults who cannot tolerate penicillen.