STUPID QUESTION TIME: Do Any Of You Have Cats?

[qwanlee]

So, this lady having lyme disease develops floaters and hair loss at the same time.

http://www.healingwell.com/community/default.aspx?f=30&m=2350415

Since, my previous post said T. gondii can be a factor in floaters developing, I see that ticks can carry the lyme disease bacteria and maybe T. gondii

http://www.lymeneteurope.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2185

A poster in another forum along time ago said the Mayo Clinic said minocycline can stop mpb about sixty percent of the time. Would the drug combination used in lyme disease bring that number up?

[qwanlee]

Search floaters and hair loss. Some of the other hair website members are asking about floaters too. Why are they on a hair loss site asking about floaters? People get floaters without T.gondii but it does seem odd....

[qwanlee]

Have we caught our culprit? Ticks can spread T.gondii and lyme disease at the same time:

http://www.nczonline.net/blog/2014/04/02/i-have-lyme-disease/

"I started getting bizarre skin rashes that doctors couldn’t identify. I started losing my hair in my early 20s despite a favorable family history regarding male pattern baldness holding out until middle age."

[qwanlee]

http://www.hairlossfight.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=1899#p1899

Activity of minocycline against Toxoplasma gondii infection in mice.
Chang HR1, Comte R, Piguet PF, Pechère JC.
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Abstract
The chemotherapeutic activity of minocycline, a semi-synthetic tetracycline analogue, was evaluated in a murine model of toxoplasmosis. A lethal acute toxoplasmosis was produced by injecting 10(5) tachyzoites of the RH strain of Toxoplasma gondii into the peritoneal cavities of Swiss-Webster mice.

When infected mice were treated once daily for 12 days, starting 2 h after challenge, the survival and cure rates were 100% and 40% respectively after minocycline alone (100 mg/kg per day)

, 0% and 0% after pyrimethamine alone (8.5 mg/kg per day), and 100% and 50% after combination of the two drugs at the same dosages.

Absolute survival and cure with minocycline were observed when mice were treated with two daily doses of 100 mg/kg for 12 days.

Mice chronically infected with a low virulent strain of T. gondii (Me49) showed a significant reduction in the number of brain cysts after three weeks of treatment with 50 mg/kg per day of minocycline. Minocycline serum levels after a single oral administration of 50 mg/kg or 100 mg/kg to normal mice, peaked at 1.8 mg/l and 10 mg/l after 1 h, respectively, and showed an extended half-life.

[qwanlee]

Here's some symptoms of T. gondii: (I underlined the ones applying to me.)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/3347248/Forever-sick-thanks-to-a-cat.html

A 1996 survey by the Toxoplasmosis Trust, which is run by the baby charity Tommy's, cites the most frequent symptoms as: __exhaustion___, swollen neck glands, headaches, fever, painful joints, sore throat, night sweats, dizziness, mood swings, photophobia (discomfort in bright light), loss of appetite and weight, skin disorders, and… ____excessive thirst___. Bingo! The trust's literature goes on: "… diagnosis is often delayed or difficult" – by eight months in my case, but at least I finally have a diagnosis. Now, how about some treatment?


This is extremely vague and subjective but when I used to run track in high school, I remember actually yawning when completing a race. Who does that? I even remember that as being extremely unusual because I was an athlete my whole life and never experienced that before. That was around the time I started balding before my senior year.

[qwanlee]

It sounds like a guarantee they are found in large cats. So, I suppose the rule that infestation chance increases with age(in human studies) is also true for cats.

http://jeb.biologists.org/content/216/1/127.full

"This is rather surprising because __large cats__ are __definitive hosts__ of Toxoplasma, and monkeys and apes are a regular component of their prey. It may be that the difference in the effects of the smell of cat and tiger urine on human behaviour is due to the fact that the important pheromone felinine is present in the urine of small cats (Felinae subfamily) but absent in the urine of large cats (Pantherinae subfamily) (Hendriks et al., 1995)."

[Eric5]

I have a cat and I'm thinning on top... I'm gonna go ahead and take Mr. Jingles out back and shoot him now!!!

[jamesst11]

Eric5, hahaha! Whatever cures your hair loss!