This discussion highlights ethical failures that occur when patients are dismissed in the face of diagnostic uncertainty. When Policy Replaces Judgment: Justice and Diagnostic Uncertainty in Lyme Disease Modern medical policy is designed to protect patients. Guidelines aim to standardize care, reduce harm, and prevent overtreatment. But when policies are applied rigidly in conditions marked […]
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Lyme Disease Treatment Options: What Patients Need to Know Lyme disease treatment is often described as straightforward: identify the infection, prescribe antibiotics, and expect recovery. For many patients, that approach works well. For others, treatment is far more complex. In clinical practice, patients present at different stages of illness, with varying symptoms, co-infections, immune responses,
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Caring for Someone With Chronic Lyme Disease: A Caregiver Resource Families caring for a loved one with chronic Lyme disease often ask, “What should we expect next?”It’s a question that rarely has a clear or linear answer. Chronic Lyme disease can unfold in waves—uneven, unpredictable, and deeply individual. Symptoms may flare, ease, then return in
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Is Lyme Disease Contagious? Is Lyme disease contagious? That is one of the most common—and important—questions I hear from patients and families, especially from those worried about exposing loved ones. The short answer is no: Lyme disease is not considered contagious in the traditional sense. But as with much in Lyme disease, the full answer
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Lyme Disease Seizures in Children: A Rare but Serious Sign A mother watched her 4-year-old convulse and lose consciousness. No warning. No fever. No explanation. When the seizures didn’t stop with medication, he was intubated. Doctors scrambled for answers—but the real cause wouldn’t be discovered for days. His diagnosis? Lyme disease. Lyme disease seizures in
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Pediatric Lyme Disease: Why Children Are Frequently Misdiagnosed Pediatric Lyme disease rarely looks like the textbook descriptions clinicians learn in medical school. While adults typically present with fatigue and joint pain, children often develop sudden behavioral changes, academic struggles, and psychiatric symptoms that get attributed to everything except infection. This diagnostic blind spot means many
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Early Lyme Diagnosis Can Prevent Years of Suffering Early Lyme diagnosis can prevent months or years of suffering—yet it fails to happen in thousands of cases each year. When Lyme disease is not recognized in the first weeks after infection, patients often develop complex, debilitating symptoms that are harder to treat and slower to resolve.
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Babesia autonomic dysfunction causes some of the most severe and frightening symptoms in tick-borne illness. Air hunger, crushing fatigue, night sweats, and a terrifying sense of impending collapse stem from disruption of the autonomic nervous system—the body’s automatic control system for breathing, heart rate, and temperature regulation. Understanding why Babesia autonomic dysfunction produces such severe
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Lyme Treatment for Kids: Why Children Are Missing From Clinical Research Lyme treatment for kids is guided largely by studies that never included children. While clinical trials shape the guidelines doctors follow, the pivotal research on Lyme disease has focused almost exclusively on adults—leaving families and clinicians to extrapolate from data that may not apply
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Teenager Lyme Disease: When Symptoms Look Like Attitude Note: Patient details have been modified to protect privacy. This case represents a composite of typical presentations I have observed in clinical practice. Teenager Lyme disease strikes during some of the most pivotal years of a young person’s life. While younger children rely on parents to notice
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