Hemochromatosis or Babesiosis?

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Does anyone else with babesia have abnormal blood iron test results?

My % Fe saturation is high and TIBC is too low. This suggests iron

overload to my doc and he has ordered genetic testing for

hemochromatosis, a hereditary iron-overload disease. It can be fatal

and the only treatment is blood letting! With inaccessible veins,

I'm pretty disturbed at this turn of events. Also, I am wondering if

this isn't caused by babesia which I definitely have (along with

Lyme) but it has not yet been treated.

Here's the reason I think it is babesia instead of hemochromatosis.

Malaria, babesia and bartonella all infect the red blood cells and

cause hemolysis. This causes iron from the destroyed rbc's to spill

out. Malaria is known to be associated with higher iron saturation,

for this reason. But most U.S. doctors don't know anything about

malaria and not much has been published on human babesia, nothing at

all that I can find on iron levels and babesia.

s Hopkins just got $100 million donated for study of malaria, so

maybe this will help to some extent with babesia since they have

similar disease processes. And docs in this country are using anti-

malarials to treat babesia.

I would sure like to know if there's a correlation between iron

saturation and babesia. It would be interesting and not very

difficult to research it.

Lou