Mycoplasmas as a possible reason for RA, Fibromyalgia, Lupus?

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Has anyone else ever heard about " Mycoplasmas " as a possible reason

for RA, Fibromyalgia, Lupus?

If you can wade thru reading the medical jargon in these sites you

might find this interesting.

http://www.immunesupport.com/library/showarticle.cfm?ID=3066

http://www.rain-tree.com/myco.htm

http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/eid/vol3no1/baseman.htm

http://www.rense.com/general18/mcc.htm

(If the info alone from this site is true, then I think we all have

very good reason to be angry! And might help in getting LTD.)

The following are excerpts from these sites that I've pasted into

this message just to give some insite about it:

" Mycoplasmas are now said to be contributors, or at least cofactors,

in a number of conditions, including CFS/CFIDS, fibromyalgia

syndrome (FMS), lupus, multiple sclerosis (MS), psoriasis,

scleroderma, Chrohn's diseases, solid cancers, leukemia, lymphoma,

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), pelvic inflammatory disease

(PID), asthma, atypical pneumonia, Sjogren's syndrome, interstitial

cystitis, Alzheimer's and cardiovascular diseases. Mycoplasmas have

also been associated with a variety if autoimmune diseases that can

cause definite changes in nerve conduction, demyelation (a

degenerative process that erodes away the myelin sheath that

normally protects nerve fibers) and sensitivity. "

" Mycoplasmas, unlike viruses, can grow in tissue fluids (blood,

joint, heart, chest and spinal fluids) and can grow inside any

living tissue cell without killing the cells, as most normal

bacteria and viruses will do. Mycoplasmas are frequently found in

the oral and genito-urinary tracts of normal healthy people and are

found to infect females four times more often than males, which just

happens to be the same incidence rate in rheumatoid arthritis,

fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue and other related disorders.(7)

Mycoplasmas are parasitic in nature and can attach to specific cells

without killing the cells and thus their infection process and

progress can go undetected. In some people the attachment of

mycoplasmas to the host cell acts like a living thorn; a persistent

foreign substance, causing the host's immune defense mechanism to

wage war. This allergic type of inflammation often results in

heated, swollen, and painful inflamed tissues, like those found in

rheumatoid diseases, fibromyalgia and many other autoimmune

disorders like lupus and MS, Crohn's and others. In such cases the

immune system begins attacking itself and/or seemingly healthy

cells. "

" Rheumatoid Arthritis and Other Human Arthritides

The occurrence of various Mycoplasma and Ureaplasma species in joint

tissues of patients with rheumatoid arthritis, sexually transmitted

reactive arthritis, and other human arthritides can no longer be

ignored. A clinical trial of longterm (6 to 12 months) antibiotic

(doxycycline) therapy before cartilage destruction might prove

beneficial in managing such frequent and often debilitating

infections.

- D. Mycoplasmas in rheumatoid arthritis and other

human arthritides. J Clin Pathol 1996;49:781-2. "

Let me know what you think?

Until, Kim, SingDitty