Pediatric Lyme

Managing Lyme Disease in Children: 12 Interventions I Use A mother brought her 10-year-old son to my office after eighteen months of declining health. He’d gone from an active, curious kid to one who couldn’t finish a school day. He struggled with headaches, fatigue, and what his teachers called “attention problems.” Three specialists had found […]

Pediatric Lyme Disease: A Parent’s Guide | Dr. Daniel Cameron A parent’s guide to recognizing and treating pediatric Lyme disease in children Pediatric Lyme disease often presents differently than Lyme disease in adults. Children may struggle to describe symptoms clearly. Behavioral or cognitive changes may precede obvious physical complaints. Subtle decline may be attributed to

Pediatric Lyme Disease: Why Standard Protocols Fall Short Your child can’t concentrate in school. They’re exhausted by 2 PM. Joint pain keeps them off the soccer field. The doctor prescribes antibiotics for Lyme disease—based entirely on studies that never included a single child. Not one child was included in the major NIH Lyme disease trials

Lyme Disease Seizures in Children: 4-Year-Old’s Story Lyme disease seizures in children are rare but serious. Lyme disease seizures in children can occur when infection affects the brain and nervous system, triggering inflammation that disrupts normal neurologic function. A 4-year-old boy developed status epilepticus requiring intubation—no warning, no fever, no obvious cause. When seizures didn’t

Pediatric Lyme Disease: Why Children Are Misdiagnosed Pediatric Lyme disease rarely looks like the textbook descriptions clinicians learn in medical school. While adults often present with fatigue and joint pain, children may develop sudden behavioral changes, academic struggles, and psychiatric symptoms that are attributed to other causes. This diagnostic blind spot means many children spend

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

Teenager Lyme Disease: When Symptoms Look Like Attitude Teenager Lyme disease refers to Lyme infection affecting adolescents, often presenting with fatigue, headaches, joint pain, and cognitive changes that may be mistaken for normal teenage behavior. Note: Patient details have been modified to protect privacy. This case represents a composite of typical presentations I have observed

Lyme Rage: When Anger and Aggression Signal Infection Lyme disease can cause sudden behavior changes in children, including irritability, aggression, anxiety, and oppositional behavior. After 37 years treating Lyme disease, I’ve treated middle and high school students whose severe oppositional behavior resolved with antibiotic treatment. These weren’t psychiatric disorders—they were neurologic symptoms of tick-borne infection

Lyme Disease Misdiagnosis in Children: One Family’s Story A young athlete went from starring on the soccer field to unable to climb stairs without his heart racing. His parents searched for answers for two years before anyone mentioned Lyme disease. With no tick bite and no rash, they didn’t recognize the early warning signs. What