News and resources for neurological Lyme disease and co-infections.
As we search for effective treatment and alternative protocols teasel can be very effective against chronic Lyme disease and other auto-immune disorders. Dr. Burrascano, Stephen Buhner and other experienced LLDs recommend teasel and Dr. Scott Taylor in the not-to-be-missed article “Lyme Disease: A Plague of Ignorance” .
For those of us who continue to suffer year after year, it is important to remember that we can’t get rid of Lyme if we are also infected with one of the many strains of Babesia, or one of the hundreds of “BLO” (Bartonella Like Organisms), or one of the other viruses, pathogens, fungus or bacterial infections that usually accompany and operate in a synergistic manner with Lyme.
The master gene that causes blood stem cells to turn into disease-fighting ‘Natural Killer’ (NK) immune cells has been identified by scientists, in a study published in Nature Immunology September, 15 of this year (2009). The discovery could one day help scientists boost the body’s production of these front-line killer cells, creating new ways to treat immune deficiencies and boost the body’s ability to fight disease.
The distinction between Lyme disease and chronic Lyme disease is completely lost amongst the uninformed, and most people believe that media outlets are the ultimate harbingers of truth. I thought when famous people started getting sick that the truth would finally break free – but no, actors, politicians, and most others who are famous keep it quiet lest it hurts their career.
The medical community will have had to change their belief about how the spirochete is passed from the tick to its host based on a recently released medical report from researchers who collaborated from the University of Connecticut Health Center in Farmington, Connecticut:
Robert Lane, PhD, uncovered a curious quirk about Lyme disease back in 1998 and the black-legged ticks that carry it there: the infection rates for young ticks, while low, was three to four times higher than the rate in adult ticks.
Early experiments ruled out the possibility that antibodies produced by the lizard’s immune system were able to neutralize the Lyme disease bacteria.
The puzzle continued to interest Lane who found later that when young nymphal ticks feed on the fence lizards, the mysterious protein not only protects the lizard from infection — it actually leaches into the tick’s gut and kills the bacteria there. Additional lab tests showed that when infected nymphs fed on the lizards, and then metamorphosed into adult ticks, they were no longer infected.
In the world of Lyme disease, there so many symptoms that may – and usually do – overlap with one or more co-infections, trying to keep you’re symptoms straight can be dizzying all on its own. With this in mind, what do you think of when you read the following symptoms?
As those of us know, there are many facets to Lyme disease, layers of physical, emotional psychological and spiritual. I hope that I am not being presumptuous by projecting my journey on the rest of Lyme sufferers, however, it seems to me that there is a cycle that we must go through with Lyme disease that is not unlike the cycle of grief when a loved one passes.
