Fluorescence in situ hybridization

Um, I have many patients that were Bartonella FISH positive.

Um, FISH stands for Fluorescent in situ Hybridization.

It's an RNA test that you can get in the blood, and it's a very common co-infection.

So if you're someone listening, and you're in reasonable mental health apart from stressing about the world and everything else going on, which is not easy these days, but all of a sudden you became severely depressed or anxious or developed OCD literally out of the clear blue sky, you need to start thinking about Lyme, Bartonella, mold toxicity on top of the list, because many of these things will trigger those type of psychiatric illnesses.

You've never been outside the US to have malaria." I said, "I just got back from a Lyme conference, so this sounds like babesia, this malaria-like parasite which was not supposed to be in the Hudson Valley." We sent out her blood.

Uh, it was positive by PCR, by FISH, by RNA, by antibodies.

We sent out the ticks from our area from the Institute for Ecosystem Studies.

We found babesia.

So the, the point being, you, you know from symptoms, you know this, you just said it earlier.

When you take a complete history, it's the history that tells you.

Now, that doesn't mean you don't want FISH testing, fluorescent in situ hybridization RNA testing to see if Babesia is still around or Bartonella's still around, very useful, or a VEGF, vascular endothelial growth factor.

It's an indirect marker of active Bartonella.