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Iron Depletion in Blood related to COVID?
Post-COVID Recovery & COVID-19 | Last Active: Nov 7 7:35am | Replies (1078)Comment receiving replies
"...iron deficiency anemia caused by the xpili bacteria..."
Can you please clarify this statement? 'pili' is a common term - "Fimbriae and pili are thin, protein tubes originating from the cytoplasmic membrane of many bacteria {https://bio.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Microbiology/Microbiology_(Kaiser)/Unit_1%3A_Introduction_to_Microbiology_and_Prokaryotic_Cell_Anatomy/2%3A_The_Prokaryotic_Cell_-_Bacteria/2.5%3A_Structures_Outside_the_Cell_Wall/2.5C%3A_Fimbriae_and_Pili}
I am not finding a specific 'xpili bacteria'; that would seem to indicate any bacteria that did not have pili protein projections.
As to Flagyl {metronidazole}, I took it some years ago and got rid of an ulcer; __it also got rid of a decades long painful rosacea__. I am still free of the rosacea many years later. I cannot point to any deleterious side effects to the Flagyl. It is specifically indicated in treatment of h-pylori bacteria that cause ulcers. I have since pushed Flagyl in treatment of rosacea. corsair9
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Flagyl is carcinogenic long term in animals. I suggest Tretinoin cream 0.1% rx only By PERRAGO.
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Thanks for correcting my memory for H-Pylori and the ulcer(s?) it caused. My buddy in Oxford,Ms(thaxton crossing) had this problem before 1991 when I asked how he was doing at a transmitter site in Bude,Ms. His ulcer(s?) required a blood transfusion and a long stay in the hospital.He said they got it with an antibiotic which sounded strange to me but over 30 years later I remembered our conversation when my wheat allergy cause by the iron in enriched wheat flour caused loose stool and later diarrhea and finally blood in the stool after covid in feb of 2020 and the moderna later in 2020.I also got the covid delta in 2022.My middle son and his wife refused to take the vac....