Getting Rid Of Lyme

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Chronic Lyme Disease

Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Lyme disease that isn’t treated long enough (or at all due to misdiagnosis) can turn into chronic Lyme, also know as Late Stage Lyme. The longer the Lyme bacteria stay around and reproduce, the more serious the complications, including immune system breakdown, additional infections, hormonal imbalance, and more. Under these circumstances, getting rid of chronic [...]

IDSA Lyme Review Panel Hearing 7/30/09

Monday, July 20, 2009

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On July 30, the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) will hold a day-long hearing in Washington DC to review its controversial 2006 Lyme disease treatment guidelines. This hearing is part of an antitrust settlement Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal negotiated to address “serious flaws” in the IDSA guidelines. Read the Attorney General’s press release [...]

Getting Rid of Lyme Disease

Thursday, February 19, 2009

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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. [...]