Teenage Lyme Disease: When Symptoms Don’t Match Teenage Lyme disease often looks nothing like the classic case doctors are trained to recognize. A 15-year-old student came to my office after months of headaches, fatigue, and joint pain. Her pediatrician had told her family, confidently, “Your symptoms don’t match Lyme.” But her symptoms began weeks after […]
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The Chronic Lyme Disease Debate Explained For decades, patients with persistent symptoms after Lyme disease treatment have found themselves caught in the middle of the chronic Lyme disease debate. At the center of this debate is a single unresolved question: what explains ongoing illness after standard Lyme disease therapy? In clinical practice, I routinely see
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Do All Ticks Carry Lyme Disease? Patients often ask me, “Do all ticks carry Lyme disease?” The short answer is no—but the full answer is more nuanced. In simple terms, only certain ticks can spread Lyme disease, and most tick bites do not lead to Lyme. Lyme disease is caused by the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi.
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