Do I Need IV Antibiotics?

February 23, 2026

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Do I Need IV Antibiotics?
Dec22

Do I Need IV Antibiotics?

Posted By: Dr. Daniel Cameron

He Asked What Many Eventually Ask

He sat across from me and voiced something countless patients eventually reach: Doctor… do I need IV antibiotics?

The patient struggled with cognitive slowing, neuropathic pain, persistent headaches, sleep disruption, and mild dizziness. He was improving slowly with oral antibiotics — but anxious he was missing something.

He had seen images of patients with IV poles on social media and heard stories of recovery only after patients had been treated with IV antibiotics. He believed IV therapy represented the “real treatment.” He wasn’t alone. Many assume IV antibiotics are stronger, faster, or required.

What IV Antibiotics Can (and Can’t) Do in Recovery

IV antibiotics can help in some cases of Lyme disease, especially when there is significant neurological involvement and oral treatments haven’t brought noticeable improvement or symptoms keep getting worse.

However, IV therapy is not simply a stronger version of oral treatment. It carries catheter-related risks, varies in what it covers, and does not guarantee better outcomes. For some patients, it offers benefit; for others, progress occurs through different strategies. IV is a tool — not a universal upgrade.

Why Some Patients Don’t Improve Even After IV Therapy

Many patients aren’t aware that the most commonly used IV antibiotic for Lyme — ceftriaxone — doesn’t treat co-infections like Babesia, Bartonella, or Anaplasma.

If one of these infections is present, IV therapy alone may not help, even when it’s given correctly.

In many cases, it’s a mismatch in coverage, not a lack of effort, that explains why some people don’t get better after IV treatment.

How I Decide When IV Antibiotics Makes Sense

Many antibiotics offered in IV form — including doxycycline and azithromycin — exist orally with good tissue penetration and far fewer catheter-related risks.

Other IV antibiotics are still being studied, so I usually use them only in specific situations rather than as a first step or automatic next step.

Even when IV therapy is appropriate, drug selection matters. Ceftriaxone, for example, can affect the gallbladder, so in patients with prior concern, cefotaxime (Claforan) may be an alternative — though it requires far more frequent dosing.

The Turning Point Was Not IV — It Was Correct Treatment

Because Babesia was clinically suspected, we adjusted the patient’s oral regimen to include azithromycin (Zithromax) and Malarone.

His cognition sharpened. Neuropathy eased. Headaches settled. Sleep stabilized. Dizziness quieted.

A few weeks later he said, “I thought IV was my only shot. I didn’t realize I could get better without it.”

He never required IV treatment — he needed the right treatment, not a different route.

Sometimes progress isn’t escalation — it’s correction.

“Do I Need IV Antibiotics?”

When someone asks, “Do I need IV antibiotics?” the answer depends on symptoms, function, and treatment response.

There are situations where IV therapy is justified. But many improve when treatment is refined, not intensified.

If improvement stalls despite appropriate care — or neurological involvement is suspected — IV therapy may be considered.

But many regain ground when treatment targets co-infections and physiologic drivers.

If you have wondered whether you truly needed IV antibiotics, you are not alone. Share your experience below — someone else may feel less alone reading it.
Resources
  1. Columbia University. Lyme and Tick-Borne Diseases Research Center.
  2. CDC. Chronic Symptoms and Lyme Disease.
  3. Johns Hopkins Lyme Disease Research Center.
  4. Dr. Daniel Cameron: Lyme Science Blog. What Is the Best Treatment for Lyme Disease?
  5. Dr. Daniel Cameron: Lyme Science Blog. Lyme disease: One size does not fit all

**Comment**

I’m sure at some point every single patient asks this question. The sad truth about this complex illness is that it takes savvy, experience, and a whole lot of patience. It also typically takes more than one brain working on it and the challenge is being able to decipher what to use, when, and how much.

If ever there was an illness that is completely individualized, this is it!

It can also take YEARS to treat and this is really hard to wrap your mind around at first.  It took FIVE YEARS of highly individualized, expensive, and painful treatment for both my husband and me.  Painful due to the herxheimer reactions treatment causes and individualized because of the many coinfections that are often involved.

It’s also the reason why RCTs are futile, a waste of money, and why we desperately need N of 1 trials to be respected and accepted.

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EMR Radiation From Cell Towers, Wireless Devices Linked to Diabetes Epidemic

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/emr-radiation-cell-towers-wireless-devices-diabetes-kids/

EMR Radiation From Cell Towers, Wireless Devices Linked to Diabetes Epidemic

Electromagnetic radiation (EMR) exposure from electrical power grids, cell towers and wireless devices is likely a driver of the global increase in diabetes, according to a new report by Paul Héroux, Ph.D. Studies compiled by Héroux show that very low levels of EMR can affect how cells function, including how they handle glucose.

by Suzanne Burdick, Ph.D.
February 17, 2026

This article was originally published by The Defender — Children’s Health Defense’s News & Views Website.

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Electromagnetic radiation (EMR) is likely a driver of the global increase in diabetes, according to a new report by Paul Héroux, Ph.D.

The report — which includes over 280 citations — is a deep dive into the evidence suggesting that EMR exposure from electrical power grids and wireless radiation can dysregulate and raise blood sugar levels.

“Current EMR safety standards are inadequate for protecting long-term metabolic health,” Héroux told The Defender.

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC), which sets the U.S. safety limits for wireless radiation exposure, based its limits on the assumption that wireless radiation can only cause harm at levels high enough to heat human tissue.

But the studies Héroux compiled show that very low levels of EMR can impact how cells function, including how they handle glucose.

Diabetes occurs when a person’s blood sugar levels are too high, according to the Cleveland Clinic. As of 2023, 364,000 U.S. kids and teens were diabetic, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Although more recent figures aren’t available, the CDC in 2024 reported that the number of young people with Type 1 and/or Type 2 diabetes is on the rise.

In 2023, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) issued new clinical guidelines that endorsed weight-loss drugs and weight-loss surgeries as “safe and effective” treatments for childhood obesity.

The same year, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved two drugs to treat Type 2 diabetes for children ages 10 and up.

Meanwhile, AAP hasn’t updated its parental guidance on cellphone radiation in nearly a decade, despite numerous studies in recent years highlighting the dangers of exposure in children. A link on the group’s parenting advice webpage lists telecommunications company AT&T as one of its corporate sponsors.

“It’s almost unfathomable what the link between EMR and diabetes could mean for kids’ health if we don’t change course,” said Miriam Eckenfels, director of Children’s Health Defense’s (CHD) EMR & Wireless Program.

“It’s not like there is a simple fix, like changing your diet,” she said. “Our children are being radiated 24/7, at home, in schools, on their phones and from nearby cell towers. We should really be paying attention to this.”

Doctor: Héroux’s ‘argument is difficult to ignore’

Héroux’s report appears as a chapter in the book, “The Impact of Anthropogenic Activities on the Natural Environment and Societies during the Contemporary Period,” currently available for preorder.

Héroux is an associate professor of medicine at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, and a medical scientist in McGill University Health Center’s surgery department.

He is also vice chair of the International Commission on the Biological Effects of Electromagnetic Fields, a “consortium of scientists, doctors and researchers” who study wireless radiation and make recommendations for wireless radiation exposure “based on the best peer-reviewed research publications.”

Although the report is academic, it has “down-to-earth consequences” — especially for children, who are more susceptible to the negative health impacts of wireless radiation.

The report traces research showing that EMR can suppress mitochondrial energy production in cells, increase oxidative stress and lower pH in some body fluids.

“These changes impair insulin secretion, reduce insulin binding, elevate blood glucose and promote insulin resistance,” Héroux said.

He also tracks how diabetes rates have climbed alongside the proliferation of technologies that emit EMR.

Yet the general public and “average medical audience” don’t realize EMR’s impact on metabolism, including a person’s diabetes risk, said Dr. Sharon Goldberg, an integrative and functional medicine doctor who has years of experience treating patients sickened by EMR exposure.

“His argument is difficult to ignore for anyone who takes the time to actually read what he has written,” she said.

EMR also linked to weight gain, hypertension

Beatrice Alexandra Golomb, M.D, Ph.D., a professor of medicine at the University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine, said she has “long recognized” that EMR can play a role in “not only in diabetes but in all of the metabolic syndrome factors, including weight gain and hypertension.”

However, medical training generally overlooks the impact of environmental toxins like EMR. Golomb explained:

“Much of medical education revolves around organ-based physiology and conditions for which drugs and procedures are often a prioritized approach. There is not much attention to the impact of environmental toxins or, more generally, to conditions tied to exposure-induced mitochondrial or cell energy impairment.”

Golomb leads a research group that studies conditions related to oxidative stress and cell energy impairments, including electrosensitivity — renamed EMR Syndrome in 2025.

In 2011, she posted a research paper in Nature Proceedings. The paper documented “extensive evidence” that some factors that cause oxidative stress and cell energy impairment — including EMR exposure — are driving the diabetic and metabolic syndrome epidemics.

She has since spoken with people who told her they experience serious weight gain linked to EMR exposure.

One person who had been overweight told Golomb that 80 pounds “melted away” when the person was able to relocate to a low-EMR environment, Golomb said.

News outlets are unlikely to report on such stories because the wireless industry is a big source of their advertising revenue, according to EMR researcher Camilla Rees.

Just because researchers like Héroux and Golomb publish reports doesn’t mean doctors will take the time to read them. Many doctors don’t read all the published science on EMR, Rees said.

“There is also the corporate influence on universities — and on medical associations — so the truth about environmental factors impacting people’s health can often be little known and long suppressed,” she said.

Higher EMR frequencies like 5G can still disrupt glucose levels

Some may doubt that 5G could increase a person’s diabetes risk. That’s because the pancreas — which produces insulin — is deep in the body, and 5G doesn’t penetrate beyond the skin, according to Dr. Robert Brown.

Brown is a diagnostic radiologist and the vice president of Scientific Research and Clinical Affairs for the Environmental Health Trust.

Héroux said 5G could still disturb a person’s glucose metabolism, because all body tissues — including those at the skin level — use insulin.

Also, lower frequencies of wireless radiation can directly affect the pancreas, he added.

This article was originally published by The Defender — Children’s Health Defense’s News & Views Website under Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. Please consider subscribing to The Defender or donating to Children’s Health Defense.

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White Clot Science

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Dr. John Campbell

2/21/26

Breaking Research Decodes the Mystery of “The Rubbery White Clots”

https://nzdsos.com/2026/02/04/breakin…
First time, comprehensively characterized the anomalous intravascular casts (AICs), commonly reported by embalmers worldwide as strange, rubbery white clots.
Research, significantly funded by New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science (NZDSOS), provides definitive analysis that these structures are a previously unrecognized and abnormal form of intravascular clotting.
Since 2021, global reports, from embalmers and some clinicians have described the retrieval of long, elastic, white fibrous structures from blood vessels, distinct from ordinary post-mortem clots. New three-part study, using international labs on three continents, describes their structure, elemental composition and protein makeup. Concluding they represent a novel and persistent pathological entity.
Key Findings of the Trilogy:
Paper 1: Morphology & Histology https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/… Established that AICs are not ordinary clots. They are elastic, lumen-conforming, branched structures that form under active blood flow (shown by partial “Lines of Zahn”), yet are strikingly devoid of intact red blood cells and platelets. Their rubber-like consistency and cohesive strength are incompatible with known pre- and post-mortem changes. Lines of Zahn characteristic of thrombus formed at the site of rapid arterial blood flow, with laminations produced by successive deposition of platelets and fibrin (pale layers), alternating with red blood cells (dark layers).
Paper 2: Elemental Analysis https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/… Revealed the clots have a bizarre chemical fingerprint. They are depleted in sulphur (a key marker of protein) and enriched in phosphorus, a composition impossible for a normal, protein-dominant fibrin clot. This indicates a hybrid organic-inorganic matrix, not a simple blood clot.
Paper 3: Proteomic Analysis https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/… Solved the protein puzzle. While the clots do contain fibrinogen, the building block of normal clots, the fibrin chains are in a very abnormal ratio (~1:7:3 for α:β:γ chains vs. the normal 1:1:1). Critically, they are almost completely lacking in plasminogen (the enzyme required to break down clots), explaining their stubborn persistence. The protein profile also shows signs of inflammatory and immune system involvement as well as red cell destruction.
Senior Researcher Dr Bruce Rapley:
“This is not just a big blood clot. This is a fundamentally different architecture. The profound deficiency in plasminogen is like building a structure impervious to future demolition – it’s designed to persist. The elemental data confirms it’s not just protein; it’s a hybrid material our bodies are forced to make but not equipped to clear.”
This holds a significant health implication. The researchers note that the formation of such persistent, obstructing material in blood vessels, particularly if in the microvasculature, will lead to chronic oxygen lack, organ damage, pain, exhaustion, and cascades of inflammatory pathology.
The study concludes that AICs anomalous intravascular casts:
“provide a mechanistically coherent explanation for persistent vascular obstruction, impaired tissue perfusion, inflammation, and a broad spectrum of acute and chronic organ dysfunction.”
A Call for Urgent Investigation: The paper highlights the covid injections as a crucial research direction:
“If spike protein were demonstrated to provoke anomalous intravascular casts, this would raise serious implications not only for covid pathophysiology but also for genetic platforms that induce sustained host manufacture of spike protein, making it imperative that this potential association be rigorously investigated.”
Dr Shelton:
“This analysis puts substance to the observations our organization has been highlighting for 4 years now.  These are not ‘normal’ clots.  This work adds to the scientific basis for the persistent symptoms and deaths since the rollouts, and strengthens our many calls to halt the covid injections pending further investigation. We thank supporters for enabling this work and urge the global medical community to take these findings seriously. Already these results are enabling rapid strides in showing how these harmful structures were predictable from first principles.”
The scientific papers are available on the preprint server and at www.nzdsos.com for review.
**Comment**
Sadly, all the accumulating science doesn’t appear to be making a difference as ‘vaccine’ disciples continue to push these unsafe and ineffective products that are maiming and killing people.
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Despite Public Cry for Proof of Safety and Efficacy, ‘Vaccine’ Apostles Create Bill to Deploy Tax-Payer Funded ‘Mobile Vaccination Units’ With No Spending Cap

In an unbelievably insane and illogical move after:

  • the CDC shrinks the childhood ‘vaccine’ schedule
  • 5 vaccines test positive for glyphosate
  • multiple independent labs reveal that the highly purified mRNA that was tested in clinical trials was not what was injected into billions of people (untested Process 2 grown in E. coli bacteria — loaded with plasmid DNA contamination, including the cancer-linked SV40 promoter)
  • the Henry Ford study showed dramatically higher rates of chronic illness in the vaccinated
  • attorney Todd Callender exposes a 1100% increase in military deaths throughout 2021 compared to 2020 & those that got 3 shots have no immune system left whatsoever
  • Medicare & Medicaid withdraw doctor payment for giving vaccines
  • a bill has been introduced to end liability for ‘vaccine’ manufacturers
Disciples of the ‘vaccine’ religion are not even stopping to pause and think, but are doubling down in what only can be from cognitive dissonance.

Instead of reflection they have created a frightening bill (see article below) that would apply to the entire population authorizing open-ended federal spending, and opening the door for a mobile vaccine system to become a permanent fixture in the U.S.  

Reminiscent of a shark feeding frenzy, the federal government is expanding investment ($5.5 BILLION) in influenza pandemic preparedness, vaxx distribution, and public health delivery systems.

Call your legislators and let them know you are not in favor of runaway spending that toys with human health. 

In case you are unaware:

  • no placebo controlled long-term vaccine trial has ever been done
  • most vaccines are a literal stew of ingredients which contain pieces of cellular and DNA debris from aborted fetal cells, aluminum, other forms of human DNA, green monkey cells, neomycin, polysorbate, sodium chloride, contaminants, tumorigenic cells (cancer causing), retroviruses, graphene, and a whole host of dangerous substances in them  Source
  • many doctors have been warning us for decades that vaccines are  unsafe and ineffective and often cause the very diseases they are supposed to protect us from
  • Dr. Paul Thomas states the following unseen and unacknowledged costs of vaccination:
    • A 400% greater chance of your child suffering a chronic condition before the age of 18, and is ten times more likely to suffer a chronic condition as an adult
    • A 48% chance of getting heart disease
    • 208 times greater chance of suffering from chronic sinusitis
    • 45 times greater chance of suffering digestive disorders
    • 20 times greater chance of developing ADHD
    • 17 times greater chance of suffering from epilepsy
    • 12 times greater chance of developing autism
    • 11 times greater chance of developing learning disabilities
    • 10.5 times greater chance of getting asthma
    • 9.6 times greater chance of developing speech disorders
    • 7 times greater chance of getting eczema
    • 6 times greater chance of developing a food allergy
    • 5.6 times greater chance of having developmental disabilities
    • A 16.67% chance of getting arthritis in later life
    • A 10% chance of getting diabetes

https://jonfleetwood.substack.com/p/bill-to-deploy-federally-funded-mobile?

Bill to Deploy Federally Funded ‘Mobile Vaccination Units’ With No Spending Cap Introduced by Rep. Gottheimer—Again Centered on Influenza

Legislation authorizes federal purchase of vaccine vehicles, equipment, and doses to expand nationwide delivery infrastructure.
Jon Fleetwood
Feb 20, 2026

Congress has introduced legislation authorizing the federal government to finance and deploy mobile vaccination units across the United States, creating a taxpayer-funded system designed to deliver vaccines directly into communities nationwide.

The bill, H.R. 7465, titled the “Federal Investment in Grants for Health Transportation and Flu-vaccination Local Units Act of 2026,” was introduced February 10, 2026 by Representatives Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ) and Jennifer Kiggans (R-VA).  (See link for article)

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**Comment**

Remember, some will become rich off of this but the vaccine injured will continue to be gas-lit.

You can see who funds Rep. Gottheimer here and who funds Rep. Kiggans here.

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‘Grey’s Anatomy’ Star Dead From ALS (Did He Have Mycoplasma or Lyme Disease?)

February 20, 2026

https://apnews.com/article/eric-dane-dead

Eric Dane, ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ star and ALS awareness advocate, dies at 53

Eric Dane, the actor known for “Grey’s Anatomy” and “Euphoria,” has died at 53 from ALS. He’d become an advocate for awareness of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, known also as Lou Gehrig’s disease, after announcing his diagnosis in April 2025. (Feb 19)

By  MARIA SHERMAN
Updated 10:12 PM CST, February 19, 2026

Eric Dane, the celebrated actor best known for his roles on “Grey’s Anatomy” and “Euphoria” and who later in life became an advocate for ALS awareness, died Thursday. He was 53.

His representatives said Dane died from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, known also as Lou Gehrig’s disease, less than a year after he announced his diagnosis.

“He spent his final days surrounded by dear friends, his devoted wife, and his two beautiful daughters, Billie and Georgia, who were the center of his world,” said a statement that requested privacy for his family. “Throughout his journey with ALS, Eric became a passionate advocate for awareness and research, determined to make a difference for others facing the same fight. He will be deeply missed, and lovingly remembered always. Eric adored his fans and is forever grateful for the outpouring of love and support he’s received.”

(See link for article)

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**Comment**

Many are unaware of the link between ALS, Lyme disease, and Mycoplasma  For more:

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