News and resources for neurological Lyme disease and co-infections.
A fascinating and potentially very important study has recently come out in the journal Science.
The study reports on the discovery that 68% of patients with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) carry the XMRV virus as compared to 3.7% of those without CFS.
Antibiotics have been hailed as the super cure in their vaulted past, but over the years, as people have begun to die and suffer terrible side effects due to over-use, and still others who become sick from even a small amount of antibiotics, there is a new wave of bad publicity towards antibiotics, rightly so when taken casually.
But for those of us with chronic Lyme disease, the risks involved with taking antibiotics - for years even- are absolutely worth it. Many will admit to thinking that death is not a punishment compared to the hell we live with each day.
Dr. William Fife, a pioneer in undersea medicine first for the Air Force and now at Texas A & M University, has published extensive research demonstrating profound improvements in Lyme disease patients treated with HBOT. These improvements include pain reduction, return of clarity of the mind, and reduction of depression.
Several years ago I admitted a patient with Lyme disease (LD) to a psychiatric unit. He was paranoid and assaulted five police officers in an episode of rage. During the hospital stay, the patient went to the river behind the hospital to watch the Fourth of July fireworks display. When the fireworks began, the patient jumped into the river. It appeared the loud noise was responsible for an acoustic startle reaction.
IMMUNE SYSTEM: Daily use of honey and cinnamon powder strengthens the immune system and protects the body from bacteria and viral attacks. Scientists have found that honey has various vitamins and iron in large amounts. Constant use of honey strengthens the white blood corpuscles to fight bacteria and viral diseases.
Lyme, as we know, is transmitted by ticks. When it moves through the tick, it is coated with a tick salivary protein known as Salp15. The Yale team injected Salp15 into healthy mice and found that it significantly protected the mice from getting Lyme disease. When combined with outer surface proteins of B. burgdorferi, the protection was even greater.
Earlier this year, during an audit of the nation’s largest Level-4 Bio Safety Lab (BSL-4) at Fort Detrick in Frederick, Maryland, 9,220 vials of ebola, anthrax, botulinum, equine encephalitis virus, and other deadly germs were discovered in the proverbial dusty old storage area.
Unfortunately for those of us with chronic Lyme disease; all of our symptoms, the intense unbearable pain and the clear evidence of disease - the IDSA does not acknowledge the existence of chronic Lyme disease. The IDSA guidelines are clearly no longer appropriate for handling Lyme disease due to the mounting evidence of the morphic and antibiotic-resistant disease. Well, it took the medical community a long time to figure out Lyme’s cousin, syphilis, too.
Boulder Diagnostics, is dedicated to the development of point of care lateral flow diagnostic assays, and is currently developing products to detect elevated homocysteine levels and for the diagnosis of Lyme disease.
Most of us are so focused on our own unique Lyme; the swollen joints, the mental confusion (Lyme Fog) and every kind of pain that can be imagined. But try, if you can, to watch your child go from a happy youth who fits in where ever he or she goes, to a virtual stranger - depressed, crying all the time…I have been there and would definitely take the pain away from my child than to watch he or she suffer.
