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Lyme Disease: What’s Luck Got to Do With It?
Having Lyme disease is often a life-altering experience, like no other health problem you’ve ever had or could imagine ever having. If it’s not caught and treated early, Lyme produces a wide-range of debilitating symptoms. No two Lyme sufferers have exactly the same complaints. Lyme is tricky to diagnose. It’s harder to treat, especially because [...]
Continue reading...Lyme Disease-Borreliosis Around the World
Monday, January 3, 2011
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 [...]
Continue reading...How Lyme Disease Affects the Immune System
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
Lyme disease is like no other bacterial infection. With most bacterial infections, you expect to take an antibiotic and be over the infection within a week to 10 days. Despite treatment, however, many people with Lyme disease often end up with more serious, widespread infection. Borrelia burgdorferi: An odd bacterium The Borrelia burgdorferi spirochete causes [...]
Continue reading...Personal Chronic Lyme Disease Support
Friday, January 23, 2009
Having chronic Lyme Disease is no picnic. It’s often a lonely road with nowhere safe to turn for Lyme Disease help beyond your doctor’s office. Mainly you feel lousy, sometimes for months or even years. This can have a major impact on your relationships, your job, and your pocketbook. If all this isn't enough, you’ve got added stressors that don’t come along with other, better-known chronic illnesses. Stressors like: Some people, including many doctors, don’t think Lyme is a real disease. They consider you mentally unstable if [...]
Continue reading...What is Lyme?
Friday, January 23, 2009
Lyme Disease is a bacterial infection commonly thought to be transmitted by the bite of an infected tick. When first infected, some people get a red bull’s-eye rash. Many don’t. You can feel like you have the flu with fever, headache, muscle pains, and maybe a stiff neck or swollen joints. If the disease is [...]
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Tuesday, May 17, 2011
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