Dr. Daniel Cameron

Homicide, two assaults, and suicide in Lyme disease patient The article entitled “A Fatal Case of Late Stage Lyme Borreliosis and Substance Abuse,”1 describes a patient exhibiting aggressiveness, violence, and homicidality. Like many Lyme disease patients, the man experienced a delay in diagnosis and treatment. (One study reports that subjects enrolling in a trial of […]

Chronic Lyme patient treated successfully with low dose Flagyl A 55-year-old man developed numbness and burning in his legs, numbness in his hands, tinnitus, extreme weakness, intense pain, cramps at night and at rest, palpitations, paresthesias (pins and needles sensation), headaches, shortness of breath and orthostatic hypotension. In addition, “Fatigue was intense and incapacitating, accompanied

Facial paralysis due to Lyme disease initially attributed to a virus The patient was admitted to the emergency department for acute back pain that had been progressively worsening over an 8-week period. The pain began 5 weeks after a minor surfing accident. Repeated X-rays and additional tests were normal. “The intensity of the pain is

Lyme disease associated with kidney problems Case #1 A 57-year-old woman presented to the hospital with shortness of breath. Two weeks earlier, she experienced nausea, fatigue, headache and myalgias, before developing dyspnea on moderate exertion, the authors state. She also reportedly had a rash on her shoulder. She was diagnosed with Lyme disease and initially

Lyme endocarditis diagnosed by PCR testing When Stroke Symptoms Lead to Unexpected Diagnosis A 40-year-old man presented to the emergency department with a headache that had been ongoing for 5 days and intermittent numbness in his left arm. CT scan and MRI of the brain revealed acute subarachnoid hemorrhage and the patient was admitted to

Can ticks fly with the help of static electricity? Scientists from the University of Bristol studied the naturally occurring electrostatic charges in animals. They reported their findings in a study entitled “Static electricity passively attracts ticks onto hosts.”¹ “Mammals, birds, and reptiles are known to carry appreciable net electrostatic charges, equivalent to surface potentials on

Cardiac problems after a 10-day course of treatment for Lyme disease The 49-year old man had been diagnosed one month earlier with Lyme disease after testing positive and treated with a 10-day course of doxycycline. He was an avid hiker who had frequented trails in Pennsylvania, wrote Palmer and colleagues in their article “Atrial Flutter

Neck pain in a child with Lyme disease due to radiculoneuritis The boy presented with fatigue, posterior lower neck pain, and a low-grade temperature of 100.8 for one day. There was no history of a tick bite, erythema migrans rash, or Bell’s palsy suggestive of Lyme disease. There was pain in the soft tissues of

Treatment for Relapsing Babesiosis? As this case report demonstrates, immunocompromised patients with Babesia may not respond to standard antimicrobial treatment, resulting in relapsing babesiosis. But investigators suggest that a combination of medications including Malarone shows promise for treatment-resistant patients. In their article “Atovaquone-Proguanil: A Promising Therapy for Persistent Relapsing Babesiosis,” Shahid and colleagues describe a