Are food supplements helpful during treatment?

On the whole, as long as you have a balanced diet, you should not need any supplements. They are cleverly marketed, but usually best avoided, particularly if you are taking any prescription medicines as things like magnesium might interact with doxycycline or other antibiotics. Vitamin D in the winter, or throughout the year for those […]

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What a clinic can do

This balanced report from the USA Lifespan Lyme Disease Clinic (LDC) has a description of difficulties faced by Lyme disease patients that many in the UK will recognise. The authors have looked back at records of patients who attended the clinic during 2018. It is fairly clear that most of the patients studied had come […]

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Facial palsy in children in endemic areas

High frequency of paediatric facial nerve palsy due to Lyme disease in a geographically endemic region. Munro A et al. International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology 132 (2020) This paper looks back at records of children presenting with a facial palsy at Southampton Hospital’s emergency department or paediatric assessment unit in the years 2010 – 2017. […]

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Coding Lyme disease on GP systems

Ever wondered what GPs type on the computer when they diagnose Lyme disease? GP Coding behaviour for non-specific clinical presentations: a pilot study. Tulloch J et al BJGP Open 2020; 4 (3) 2020 When a GP sees a patient, they record their consultation on their computer system, capturing symptoms, diagnoses and therapies. These can be […]

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Babesiosis in the UK

On July 31st 2020 Public Health England (PHE) confirmed what they say is the “first case of a babesiosis in England”. Babesiosis is a well known, important animal disease, but this is the first officially reported case in England, though not the first in the UK. What is Babesia? Babesia is a protozoan parasite, like […]

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MyRideLondon

This is free to enter and you don’t have to be a serious cyclist. In fact, you don’t have to be a cyclist at all – you can use any self propelled wheels that you want! Visit myridelondon.co.uk to register and choose your distance: Free cycle – any distance you choose 19 miles 46 miles […]

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LDA Newsletter

For those who are not on our mailing list, our May newsletter is available on the website. We discuss – what we are doing; what’s happening in the UK; what’s happening elsewhere. It won’t surprise anyone that Covid-19 is having an effect on all Lyme disease related activity; except the ticks, that is, which are […]

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Covid-19

We do not know whether having Lyme disease increases the risk of more serious Covid-19. Several chronic diseases and chronic neurological conditions are thought to put people more at risk but there is no information on Lyme disease, or other relatively rare conditions. If you have Lyme disease or think you may still have Lyme […]

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NorthTick project newsletter

The following is the first newsletter from the NorthTick project, sent to the supporting patient organisations, of which LDA is one. NorthTick Newsletter First and foremost a big thanks to all the organizations that have supported the NorthTick project by signing the Letter of Support. NorthTick is a project co-funded by the European Union through […]

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Research workshop summary

As we reported back in November the Health Protection Research Unit in Emerging and Zoonotic Infections (HPRU EZI) and Public Health England (PHE) held a research workshop on November 21/22 2019. You can read the official report summarising what was discussed. Day 1. This was solely for researchers and health professionals; patients were not invited. […]

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