Welcome to another Inside Lyme Podcast. I am your host Dr. Daniel Cameron. I find that the best way to get to know Lyme disease is through reviewing actual cases. In this episode, I will be discussing the case of a young woman with multiple sclerosis (MS), who had a delay in diagnosis of Lyme disease […]
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I will be discussing a 20-year-old girl with a 3 year history of multiple sclerosis treated with B cell suppressive therapy . She was prescribed two biological disease-modifying antirheumatic drug (DMARD). This article was written by Sjowall and colleagues in the journal Frontiers in Neurology. She was initially prescribed tocilizumab, marketed in the US as
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Welcome to another Inside Lyme Podcast. I am your host Dr. Daniel Cameron. In this episode, I will be discussing a topic on the what Ebola, COVID-19 and Lyme disease have in common was recently featured in Vox Magazine by author Julia Belluz.1 The article, “Long COVID isn’t as unique as we thought” reviews some commonalities
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Might Lyme disease cause chronic illness? Studies indicated that Lyme disease can lead to chronic illness including Lyme encephalopathy, [5] Lyme neuropathy, [6] chronic neurologic Lyme disease, [6] and Neuropsychiatric Lyme disease. [7] Could Lyme disease be a reversible cause of a chronic illness in some patients? Having a high index of suspicion will prevent
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In their article, Rebman and colleagues write, “we found a relationship between contrast sensitivity (CS) impairment in participants with [post-treatment Lyme disease] compared to controls that is associated with neurologic abnormalities and specific cognitive test impairments.” Contrast sensitivity is a measure of a person’s ability to distinguish the foreground from background that is not detected
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Several factors can impact the likelihood that treatment will be successful for a patient seeking a doctor to treat their Lyme disease. According to a recent study, high treatment response was most closely associated with: doctor treat lyme disease the use of antibiotics or a combination of antibiotics and alternative treatments; longer duration of treatment,
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Welcome to another Inside Lyme Podcast. I am your host Dr. Daniel Cameron. I find that the best way to get to know Lyme disease is through reviewing actual cases. In this episode, I will be reviewing two cases involving children who had both Lyme disease and mono. By Dr. Daniel Cameron Koester and colleagues
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I will be discussing two children ill with both Lyme disease and Mono. This case was described by Koester and colleagues in the journal Clinical Medicine & Research. Mono and Lyme disease are common diseases. What happens when child living in an area endemic for Lyme disease has both conditions? These are not the first
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UPDATED: April 8, 2021 Could monoclonal antibodies prevent lyme disease? The first human clinical trial of Lyme PrEP, a seasonal shot to prevent Lyme disease, has begun enrolling volunteers to evaluate the safety and pharmacology of the treatment. [1] “Lyme PrEP prevents infection by delivering a single, human anti-Lyme antibody, or blood protein, directly to
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Investigators reviewed questionnaires from 778 Lyme disease patients treated at the Geisinger Clinic, a health system in Pennsylvania. The authors determined the length of time a patient was ill before seeking medical attention, and the length of time between seeking care for Lyme disease and receiving lyme treatment. They found that the amount of time
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