Lyme disease can produce psychiatric symptoms so severe that patients are diagnosed with depression, anxiety, psychosis, or conversion disorder — and never tested for infection. Some are told their symptoms are stress. Others are told they’re seeking attention. By the time the underlying cause is identified, years of misdiagnosis may have passed. Psychiatric Lyme disease […]
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Dr. Cameron feels that the best way to get to know Lyme disease is through reviewing actual cases. In this Inside Lyme Podcast episode, he will be discussing a 74-year-old woman with a triple tick attack. This case was initially described in the journal Cureus, written by Kumar and colleagues in 2019. A 74-year-old woman
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Dr. Cameron feels that the best way to get to know Lyme disease is through reviewing actual cases. In this Inside Lyme Podcast episode, he will be discussing a 6-week old boy with Lyme disease. This case was first described in the journal Pediatrics, written by Handel and colleagues in 2019. The doctors were initially
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Dr. Cameron feels that the best way to get to know Lyme disease is through reviewing actual cases. In this Inside Lyme Podcast episode, he will be discussing a 5-week-old girl with Lyme disease. This case was first described in the journal Pediatrics, written by Handel and colleagues in 2019. The doctors were concerned that
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Dr. Cameron feels that the best way to get to know Lyme disease is through reviewing actual cases. In this Inside Lyme Podcast episode, he will be discussing a 17-year-old young man who dies of Lyme Carditis. This case was first discussed in the journal Cardiovascular Pathologist written by Yoon and colleagues in 2015. The
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Guillain-Barré and Lyme disease misdiagnosis demonstrates how neurologic symptoms are dismissed as psychological when doctors can’t immediately explain them. A 62-year-old woman with progressive paralysis was labeled with conversion disorder (a mental condition) and prescribed antidepressants — until electromyography revealed Guillain-Barré syndrome triggered by neurologic Lyme disease. Her case exposes a dangerous diagnostic pattern: when
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Dr. Cameron feels that the best way to get to know Lyme disease is through reviewing actual cases. In this Inside Lyme Podcast episode, he will be discussing three premature babies who contract Babesia from blood transfusions. These cases were originally described in the Journal of the Pediatric Infectious Disease Society, written by Saetre and
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Two Children Who Contracted Babesia From Their Mothers From the Archives (2020) This article reflects clinical discussion of pediatric Babesia cases at a time when maternal–fetal transmission was rarely considered outside of published case reports. Two pediatric cases raised concern for possible maternal–fetal transmission of Babesia. These cases were originally described by Saetre and colleagues
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The people who did seem to suffer from chronic symptoms were those with neurologic problems. “Those that have confirmed neurological Lyme disease in England- a late complication present in about one in 10 cases – have a higher rate of long term subjective symptoms, such as fatigue and poor concentration,” writes Harvey. Matthew Dryden, consultant
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Babesia exchange transfusion is a life-saving procedure reserved for the most severe cases. In their article, “Repeat exchange transfusion for treatment of severe babesiosis,” Radcliffe and colleagues describe the case of a 73-year-old immunocompromised woman with 43% parasitemia who required two exchange transfusions and 12 weeks of treatment to survive this tick-borne infection. The Case:
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