Stomach pain can be a symptom of Lyme disease
“Although abdominal pain is generally not considered a sign of LD [Lyme disease], in this case report we describe a patient with unexplained severe abdominal pain that eventually turned out to be LD due to radiculopathy,” explains Stolk from the Haga Teaching Hospital in the Netherlands. [1]
What repels ticks naturally?
Ticks patiently hold on to blades of grass and shrubs in a position known as “questing” as they await their next meal or host. “Almost blind, ticks rely on chemosensation to identify and locate hosts for a successful blood meal,” write the authors of “Behavioral responses of Ixodes scapularis tick to natural products: development of novel repellents.”¹
Lyme disease symptoms in toddler attributed to child abuse
Welcome to another Inside Lyme Podcast. I am your host Dr. Daniel Cameron. In this episode, I will be discussing a case involving a toddler with Lyme disease whose symptoms were mistakenly attributed to child abuse.
Lyme disease protein tricks immune system, ignites arthritis
Researchers from Virginia Tech believe they have discovered another piece of the Lyme disease puzzle – How does the Borrelia burgdorferi bacterium cause inflammation and Lyme arthritis?
Lyme disease skin rash puzzles doctors, leads to misdiagnoses
Lyme disease can cause an atypical skin rash that may be mistakenly attributed to another illness, as this case report demonstrates. In their article, Suzuki and colleagues describe a 43-year-old woman who developed a rash which puzzled doctors and led to several misdiagnoses before Lyme disease was correctly identified.
Babesia microti in a multiple sclerosis patient
Welcome to another Inside Lyme Podcast. I am your host Dr. Daniel Cameron. In this episode, I will be discussing the case of a 54-year-old male with a 12-year history of multiple sclerosis who was diagnosed with Babesia microti.
Patient with facial palsy from Lyme disease fails treatment
Facial palsy, sometimes referred to as Bell’s palsy, is considered an early sign of Lyme disease. When the infection is diagnosed in the early stage it is typically easier to treat. However, this case report features an elderly patient with facial palsy from Lyme disease who remained ill following treatment.
Long covid Q&A sponsored by Project Lyme
Project Lyme hosts Lyme disease expert Dr. Daniel Cameron, M.D., MPH, and integrative health innovator Dr. Bill Rawls, Medical Director of Vital Plan. They discuss the challenges that face the Lyme community as we continue to face the pandemic, including the similarities between the long-haul patients and how to stay healthy in these uncertain times. The event also features Jennifer Hoffmann, Program Associate at Project Lyme and Senior Director of the Generation Lyme initiative. Jennifer is a Lyme patient who was diagnosed with COVID-19 in March of 2020. Noah Johnston, ...
What does a Lyme disease rash look like?
Welcome to another Inside Lyme Podcast. I am your host Dr. Daniel Cameron. In this episode, I will be discussing findings from a study which examined 271 Lyme disease patients with erythema migrans rashes.
Lyme disease and sudden onset hearing loss
An article by Sowula and colleagues, published in the Journal of Clinical Medicine, describes nine patients with Lyme disease who had sudden sensorineural hearing loss (SSNHL), also referred to as sudden deafness.[1]
