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Are antibiotics used to treat Lyme disease effective?
As the number of individuals contracting Lyme disease grows, along with an ever increasing number of patients suffering from chronic symptoms, the question often arises as to whether antibiotics used to treat Lyme disease are actually effective?
Lyme disease forces 24-year-old army officer out of the military. An Inside Lyme Podcast.
Welcome to an Inside Lyme case study. I will be discussing a 24-year-old army officer who was forced out of the military due to Lyme disease. Weiss and colleagues first described this case in the Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Disease Society in 2017.
ALDF article fails to mention flaws in Lyme disease trials
In his article "Is It Possible to Make a Correct Diagnosis of Lyme Disease on Symptoms Alone?" published in the American Journal of Medicine, Dr. Phillip J. Baker, executive director of the American Lyme Disease Foundation (ALDF) cites five Lyme disease trials to support the organization's position that extended antibiotics are not useful in the treatment of Lyme disease. [1] Unfortunately, Dr. Baker fails to mention several flaws with those clinical trials.
Baby boy with Babesia. An Inside Lyme Podcast.
Welcome to an Inside Lyme case study. In this case study, I will be discussing a 6-week old baby boy with Babesia. This case was described in the journal Pediatrics, written by Handel and colleagues in 2019.
Is suppressing immunity harmful to Lyme disease patients?
There have only been a few published reports detailing the outcome of treatment on Lyme disease patients who are immunocompromised. Now, a study by Maraspin and colleagues¹ evaluates the impact of tumour necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-α) inhibitors, medications that suppress the immune system, on Lyme disease patients.
Symptoms of Lyme disease are not “excessive”
Lyme disease is a complex, multisystem illness, which may be misdiagnosed as having a psychological cause, writes Bransfield in his article “Differentiating Psychosomatic, Somatopsychic, Multisystem Illnesses and Medical Uncertainty.”¹ “Historically, there has been a bias in which poorly understood illnesses are often considered to have a psychiatric origin until the pathophysiology is better understood and explained on some other basis.”
Tick bite with Lyme disease, Babesia, and Anaplasmosis. An Inside Lyme Podcast.
Welcome to an Inside Lyme case study. In this case study, I will be discussing a 74-year-old woman with a triple tick attack. This case was described in the journal Cureus, written by Kumar and colleagues in 2019.
Is Lyme disease being overlooked during infectious disease consultations?
Infectious disease doctors at one center in France looked at 355 patients who were referred for consultation for presumed Lyme disease. Only 48 of those patients were diagnosed with Lyme disease using the European Union Concerted Action on Lyme Borreliosis (EUCALB) criteria. Could Lyme disease have been dismissed in any of the remaining 86% (n=307) of individuals?
Baby girl with Lyme disease. An Inside Lyme Podcast.
Welcome to an Inside Lyme case study. I will be discussing a 5-week old baby girl with Lyme disease. This case was described in the journal Pediatrics, written by Handel and colleagues in 2019.
Young man dies from Lyme carditis. An Inside Lyme Podcast.
Welcome to an Inside Lyme case study. In this case study, I will be discussing a 17-year-old young man who died of Lyme carditis. This case was discussed in the journal Cardiovascular Pathologist written by Yoon and colleagues in 2015.
