Dr. Daniel Cameron

Bilateral Facial Palsy in Children: A Rare Lyme Disease Sign Often Mistaken for Bell’s Palsy Bilateral facial palsy in children is rare but may signal serious systemic disease such as Lyme neuroborreliosis. A 10-year-old boy in southeastern Canada developed paralysis affecting both sides of his face after a summer fever and rash. Facial paralysis caused […]

Lyme Arthritis in Children: Knee Swelling Without Rash Lyme arthritis in children often appears as knee swelling weeks or months after a tick bite. Because the classic rash of early Lyme disease is frequently absent or unnoticed, diagnosis may be delayed. Guardado and Sergent describe a case illustrating a common diagnostic gap: a 10-year-old girl

Lyme Optic Neuritis: A Rare Cause of Bilateral Vision Loss Lyme optic neuritis is a rare neurologic complication of Lyme disease that can cause inflammation of the optic nerve and progressive visual loss. Unlike typical optic neuritis, which is usually unilateral and painful, Lyme-associated optic neuritis often presents with bilateral optic nerve swelling and painless

Hearing Loss and Vertigo in Lyme Disease Hearing loss in Lyme disease can occur when infection affects the inner ear or the vestibulocochlear nerve (cranial nerve VIII). Patients may also experience vertigo, tinnitus, dizziness, and balance problems—symptoms that are a recognized feature of Lyme disease symptoms when the auditory and vestibular systems become inflamed. Some

Lower socioeconomic status: a risk factor for disseminated Lyme disease Moon et al. explored the risk factors for disseminated Lyme disease using an electronic database from the Geisinger integrated health care system located in Pennsylvania. They based their data on both diagnostic and narrative text data. One out of three of their disseminated Lyme disease

Prior Trauma May Worsen Lyme Disease Symptom Severity Prior trauma may influence the severity of symptoms in Lyme disease. Research suggests that individuals with a history of traumatic life events may experience more severe cognitive, mood, and functional symptoms after Lyme infection. The authors cited earlier research by Solomon and colleagues examining the role of

Child with Lyme disease diagnosed with radiculopathy A 10-year-old boy presented with fatigue, posterior lower neck pain, and a low-grade fever of 100.8. “The soft tissues of the posterior neck and upper back were tender with allodynia,” wrote Baker and colleagues in the American Journal of Emergency Medicine.² They added, the Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)