person's immune system may respond. With no cell wall, Bb microorganisms can hide within body tissues, thus protecting themselves from any adverse immunological reaction to their well-being. Diagnostic tests for Ld that seek antibody responses therefore produce inaccurate readings or are outright failures. The illness is exceedingly difficult to detect, and it perseveres in its pandemic spread. Lyme disease continues to imitate, manifest, and be misdiagnosed in no less than 368 illnesses, a listing of which is available at the website of one of our Ld information assets.
Inadequate Standard Lyme Disease Treatment
A vaccine that had been manufactured for Lyme disease is now removed from the market because evidence indicated that 30 percent of Ld patients who possess a certain gene were developing autoimmune arthritic disease from it. There is no known cure for this condition; plus, previously undiagnosed Lyme disease patients frequently become reactivated with Ld symptoms when they are vaccinated. Currently lawsuits against the vaccine manufacturer are in the courts.
The present standard approach to Ld therapy includes conventional antibiotics such as the oral administration of doxycycline, minocycline, tetracycline or amoxicillin for patients diagnosed early. Parenteral therapy by intravenous (IV) administration is used for those with neurologic involvement, severe arthritis, or any life-threatening manifesation such as complete heart block. Such treatment tends to be effective for acute conditions; however, therapy for chronic Lyme disease is currently inadequate and this truism causes it to be controversial. Added to the usual antibiotics mentioned above, the Borrelia organism is additionally sensitive to clarithromycin (Biaxin®), metronidazole (Flagyl®), either of the two brandnamed products containing co-trimoxazole sulfamethoxazole/trimethoprim (Bactrim® or Septra®), and azithromycin (Zinthromycin®). Any of the cited antimicrobials must be administered for a minimum of two months. Such prolonged antibiotic usage does destroy the patient's intestinal flora which usually manifests with severe candidiasis or other opportunistic infections. The usual conventional antibiotic treatment gets prescribed for only two-to-three weeks, and it is completely inadequate. Such poor therapy invariably sees patients deteriorate with chronic symptoms of borreliosis including arthralgias, fatigue, and paresthesias. Also such insufficent treatment allows for Lyme disease relapses. Not knowing this, Lyme-illiterate physicians often join the therapy's controversy. Their figuring is that the disease does not exist or that no treatment works. The drug treatment they had employed was inadequate, and there is a failure in not seeking other natural and nontoxic alternatives.
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Alternative medicine has shown very positive results for treating Lyme Disease Kevin Pett, DOM Acupuncture and Herbology Clinic Leesburg, VA
