Lyme Disease Blog

Chlamydia pneumoniae (now called Chlamydophila pneumoniae) is one of three Chlamydia species that can cause pneumonia in humans. They are Gram-negative cocci bacteria present throughout nature. Untreated, these infections can become chronic. The more familiar Chlamydia trachomatis (what most people think of when they hear the word Chlamydia) is associated with sexually transmitted diseases trachoma, [...]

Mycoplasma infections are commonly found in people with Lyme Disease. But most doctors don’t know to test for them. Mycoplasmas are the smallest organisms that can live independently. Of the over 100 known species, more than a dozen are found in humans. Many of them cause disease. Mycoplasmas don’t have a cell wall or cell [...]

Alix from SpiroChicks wrote a biting article for Technorati Women comparing the stonewalling and politics around Lyme Disease diagnosis and treatment to the Tuskegee Syphilis experiment of the mid 1900′s. In it she says: . . . If you had syphilis and your symptoms came back after standard treatment, or if you knew you’d contracted [...]

Here’s everything you need to know about PICC line IV infusions in a free 58-page ebook. Southern California sister Lymie Linda Slocum posted the book online as a gift to the Lyme Community. You’ll learn steps and tricks that will make using a PICC line much easier than having to learn how to do it [...]

Actress Mila Kunis, star of Oscar hopeful Black Swan, has revealed that she had eye surgery in late 2010 to correct blindness in one eye. According to Kunis, she suffered from an inflammation of the iris (known as chronis iritis) and needed to have her eye’s lens replaced in order to restore her sight. Lyme [...]

Lyme disease gets its name from Lyme, Connecticut, where a group of teens suffered from a mysterious arthritic condition in the mid 1970s. By the late 1970s, U.S. scientists had determined that infected blacklegged (Ixodes) ticks transmitted the disease. In 1981, Swiss-American researcher Willy Burgdorfer identified the spirochete bacterium, which was named Borrelia burgdorferi after [...]