American television has a top ten list, a top ten list of just about everything
This is my top 10 list of the top ten myths about Lyme Disease:
(and just substitute whatever country you are from for California)
10. There is no Lyme Disease in California
9. Only deer ticks carry Borrelia the cause of Lyme Disease
8. All patients with Lyme Disease have a skin rash
7. Arthritis is the only symptom of Lyme Disease
6. A negative ELISA test rules out LD
5. Men and women react the same on Lyme Western Blots
4. All laboratories do a good job with Lyme Disease testing
3. Two weeks of antibiotic therapy cures all Lyme Disease
2. The neurological treatment of Lyme Disease are easy to treat
1. There is no such thing as Chronic Lyme Disease (the number 1 myth)
Now, unfortunately, I have heard these sentences, every single one of these sentences, from a physician in the United States at one time or another so, unfortunately, we have a long way to go to convince the medical community that Lyme Disease is a serious problem. So I am going to talk a little bit about generally the diagnosis and treatment of Lyme Disease with perhaps a little bit different a perspective and also talk about where we can go with diagnosing and treating this infection.
1. DEFINITION AND PATHOGENESIS
2. SYMPTOMS
3. TESTING
4. TREATMENT
5. HERXHEIMER and CO-INFECTIONS
6. CONCLUSION
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