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IDSA Review Panel Upholds Lyme Treatment Guidelines
Looks like the battle for long-term Lyme treatment continues! Press Release April 22, 2010 SPECIAL REVIEW PANEL UNANIMOUSLY UPHOLDS LYME DISEASE TREATMENT GUIDELINES Short-term Antibiotics Proven to be Best Treatment for Patients Infectious Disease Society of America News Release Arlington, Virginia – A special Review Panel has unanimously agreed that no changes need be made [...]
Continue reading...Getting Rid of Lyme
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Early Stage Lyme If Lyme Disease is diagnosed within the first few weeks after infection and treated with antibiotics for long enough, it can frequently be cured. Unfortunately, there’s no general agreement on what “long enough” means. Most doctors prescribe an antibiotic for two to three weeks, four weeks tops. Often this is not enough. [...]
Continue reading...Lyme Disease Symptoms
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
The first symptom of Lyme disease (also called Lyme’s disease) for about 50% of people is a small, red bull’s-eye rash, called erythema migrans, at the site of an infected tick bite. The rash usually appears a week or two after a painless bite, but can appear within 3 to 30 days. It typically spreads [...]
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Thursday, April 22, 2010
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