Good morning,

Just talked to Dr. Dupont from UZ Leuven. He is such a respectable person! Very decent, very honest and respect his patients. He spent 30 mins thoroughly discussed phage therapy, answered all my questions and possible treatment methods. He is a real doctor.

The whole process is 1) provide the medical information to the hospital, 2) Give the sputum culture to laboratory and they test whether there is phage to your bacteria, if yes, 3) Return to Belgium to receive the treatment for 6 weeks. Every week, there is new medication ( phage). It is hard to ship the phage so it is better to receive the treatment in person.

As I am an international patient, there may be an option to send the sputum culture from USA to Belgium instead of going there in person. I will discuss with my doctor to see whether he can do this for me.

Phage is still in experimental stage and they have only two MAC patients and no successful cases yet. And these two patients are both using phage as a salvage. That means, they have tried all other therapies and none of them work. But a good thing is that phage therapy has no side effects from all of his patients (including patients of other illnesses).

So I am hesitating whether I should move forward. Anyone interested in seeking therapy in Belgium based on above? The total cost should be around $2000- $4000. It is kind of appealing to me as I really hesitate to go thorough antibiotics.