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Chinese man with a negative Lyme disease test. An inside Lyme Podcast.
I will be discussing a 75-year-old Chinese man with a negative Lyme disease test. How often have doctors dismissed Lyme disease if the screening tests are negative?
Risks for Lyme disease patients during a COVID-19 pandemic. A perspective.
Hundreds of thousands of people contract Lyme disease every year. Some of them remain chronically ill. What are the risks for Lyme disease patients during a COVID-19 pandemic?
A boy with severe cardiac Lyme disease. An Inside Lyme Podcast.
I will be discussing a 15-year-old boy with severe cardiac Lyme disease in this Inside Lyme podcast.
What is “chronic Lyme disease”?
“Chronic Lyme disease has been a poorly defined term and often dismissed as a fictitious entity,” write the authors of “Chronic Lyme Disease: An Evidence-Based Definition by the ILADS Working Group.” Therefore, after conducting an extensive review of published cases, the authors have developed an evidence-based definition of chronic Lyme disease. ¹
4 children infected with Lyme disease in the south from one camp
Some doctors have questioned the existence of Lyme disease in the south, but in their “Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report,” published January 2020, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) describe 4 cases of Lyme disease in young children who attended a wilderness day camp in North Carolina. [1]
Woman with Lyme disease and vision problems. An Inside Lyme Podcast
I will be discussing a 46-year-old woman with Lyme disease and vision problems asociated with optic neuritis in the Inside Lyme podcast.
Hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin for COVID-19 may be effective after all. An Inside Lyme Podcast.
Most COVID-19 patients treated with hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin improved and lowered their viral load in early studies.
34 residents of a single skilled nursing facility died from COVID-19. An Inside Lyme Podcast.
A cluster of 167 cases of COVID-19 in a long-term-care facility. Over half of the infected residents were hospitalized. A third died. Prevention discussed.
Causes of long term Lyme disease symptoms
Multiple studies have shown that as many as 34% to 62% of patients have Lyme disease symptoms that persist long term despite treatment. [1,2] These patients can suffer for years with debilitating symptoms.
Breast cancer and Lyme disease: one woman’s message
Rarely, do we read about patients with cancer also suffering from Lyme disease. But many do. A courageous 46-year-old woman shares her heartbreaking story of battling terminal breast cancer. In the article, published by Glamour magazine, she describes her frustration with medicine and how her experiences as a Lyme disease patient affected her decisions in seeking medical help.
