Undergoing multiple courses of antibiotics may cause side effects which are called the “Herxheimer reaction”. This is characterized by a detox-like reaction and can cause the patient to experience symptoms such as mild to severe diarrhea.

Another side effect of taking antibiotic treatments for a lengthy period is the overgrowth of yeast in the person’s gut.

Despite the side effects, undergoing a longer course of antibiotic treatment has provided promising results for many Lyme disease sufferers.

The Use of Natural Treatments for Lyme Disease

Many sufferers, especially those with chronic instances of Lyme disease, have found traditional MD treatments ineffectual. A range of natural treatments has been tried and many claims to have overcome their condition through these means.

The use of antimicrobial herbs for treating Lyme infections has been shown to be effective in providing relief from chronic Lyme disease. The risk of suffering from side effects is lower than from prescribed antibiotics, however most doctors will favor traditional pharmaceutical solutions.

Nutritional therapy, lifestyle counseling and natural detoxification methods have played their part in undertaking a natural treatment plan. Most of these natural treatments can also be used in conjunction with an antibiotic treatment program.

Of course, some Lyme disease patients have co-existing medical conditions which must also be addressed, regardless of which course of treatment they take. We need to take into consideration all the different aspects of the bacteria that forms the Lyme Disease.

1. Our living conditions,
2. our eating habit,
3. mindset,
4. attitude towards wellness.

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At present, a vaccination for Lyme disease is not yet available. However, you can certainly take some precautions to reduce the chance of being bitten by ticks.

Here are a few suggestions:

If you are away from home in the outdoors:

• Wear light-colored pants and tuck the bottom of your pants into your socks (to stop them crawling up your leg) and a long-sleeved shirt. This will help you to spot black-legged ticks on your clothing.
• It will also help to spray your clothes and shoes with permethrin repellent and apply insect repellant lotions directly onto your skin.
• When you arrive home or even before getting inside the car, check for any presence of ticks on your body or clothing.
• Carefully inspect your skin folds such as your armpits, waistband, groin, head, scalp, and neck to see if there are ticks hiding.
• Walk along the footpaths as much as possible and avoid walking in longer grass and brushing through shrubs.
• Check your pets’ skin and fur and make sure they do not bring ticks back home from your adventures.

If you are at home and outdoors:

• Check your pets as above.
• Do not let grass grow too long in your yard, regularly mow your lawn.
• Rake fallen leaves as soon as possible as ticks can be found in leaf litter.
• Stack wood in a dry place.

Treatment for Lyme Disease from Ticks

(This covers the AMA medical point of you where are you can poison a body back to health.  Which is an oxymoron.)

Not all Lyme disease can be treated with antibiotics, especially if it is misdiagnosed. Those who develop chronic Lyme disease may require several different types of treatment. Treating Lyme disease right away increases your chances of avoiding other serious symptoms that can develop if it is left untreated.

If you notice a tick bite episode and you are in a high-risk area, consult your doctor right away. If you start experiencing unexplained symptoms such as nerve pain, joint pain, excessive fatigue, and heart problems, or as mentioned earlier, flu-like symptoms and a rash, Lyme disease may be a suspect, so ask your doctor.

Oral Antibiotics (for early stages of Lyme disease?)

Oral antibiotics are used as a standard treatment for the early onset of Lyme disease. This has been the standard for many countries and is the only thing that doctors know to use.

These oral antibiotics include doxycycline which can be given to children above 8 years old and adults. Cefuroxime and amoxicillin are more often prescribed to pregnant women, breastfeeding mothers, and younger children.

Lyme disease patients may undergo a 10, 14 or 21-day antibiotic treatment. It is important to complete the prescribed course. However, the International Lyme and Associated Disease Society or ILADS argue that a short course of antibiotics may only be beneficial for treating acute infections and may not be sufficient to overcome chronic instances of Lyme disease. It may all depend on where the Lyme disease bacteria was stored in the body.

Intravenous Antibiotics

If Lyme disease has progressed and has affected the central nervous system, intravenous antibiotics will then be recommended. This treatment may last for up to 28 days. May not work on all Lyme disease, we are finding issues with some people and traditional treatments.

Post-Treatment Lyme Disease Syndrome

Even after undergoing a thorough treatment plan for Lyme disease, some patients report experiencing ongoing fatigue and muscle aches and pain. Experts say these continuing symptoms occur as part of ‘Post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome’.

This is because some people tend to develop an autoimmune response that leads to the continuing occurrence of some of their Lyme disease symptoms. However, more studies are still needed to be able to shed light on the continuing occurrence of Lyme disease symptoms that follow a treatment program.

It is an unfortunate statistic that many diagnosed Lyme disease patients cannot even recall being bitten by a tick or seeing any bulls-eye rash on their skin and have no idea how or when they have been infected. That is because it may not have been a tick, but one of many other ways to encounter the bacteria.

Due then to a late diagnosis, dormant bacteria, many of them experience symptoms of chronic Lyme disease such as arthritic pain, memory loss, brain fog and chronic fatigue.

However, since these symptoms are also present in the other types of illnesses previously mentioned, many patients were never immediately checked for Lyme disease, and this now causes them continuing health problems.

Possible Signs with a tick bite: Your first three to thirty days after experiencing a bite from a tick carrying Borrelia burgdorferi will result in several symptoms which may include one or more of the following:

• Flu-Like Symptoms
Flu-like symptoms that include sweats, joint pain, fatigue, muscle aches, chills, and fever.

• The ‘Bulls-Eye’ Rash
So-called bulls eye rash which may appear on any part of the body. The term “bull’s eye” is used to describe the rash that looks like a bull’s eye on a dart board. The area which has been bitten by the tick is red and the edges look a bit swollen.
This rash feels warm when touched although reports of it being painful or itchy are rare. However, some people develop a different kind of rash, while others do not see any rash on their skin at all.

Months After the Tick Bite

A few months after the tick bite, more symptoms will often appear. They may include:

• Additional bulls eye rash on any part of the body
• Neck stiffness
• Severe headaches
• Severe pain and swelling of the joints
• Facial drooping
• Irregular heart palpitations
• Pain in the nerves, muscles, tendons, and bones
• Shortness of breath
• Dizziness
• Shooting pain in the lower and upper extremities
Some people infected with Lyme disease may also develop:
• Eye inflammation
• Fever
• Fatigue
• Liver inflammation.

However, these symptoms are not as common and rarely occur. More symptoms of this sort are common on various other insect bites that carry the bacteria. Many have no idea of their presence and they have similar symptoms of other diseases, so they are overlooked by the medical profession.

Almost every ailment that you have had at one time or another can be traced back to these bacteria, called Lyme Disease Spirochete. I will compile a list for you to look over and see if you have any of these symptoms.

For those of you who think a blood test will give you answers, it is very unpredictable on the blood test results.

Keep an open eye to the following Symptoms of Lyme Disease

• Unusual chills, fever, sweats or flushing
• Unusual weight loss or gain
• Unusual hair loss
• Tiredness, lack of stamina, fatigue
• Swollen glands
• Throat sore
• Pelvic Pain or testicle pain
• Bladder irritable or poor function
• Unusual menstrual irregularity
• Sexual – loss of libido, dysfunction
• Abdominal pains or poor digestion
• Regularity changes- diarrhea, constipation
• Sore ribs or pain in chest
• Pulse skips
• Pain or swelling in joints: Which ones?
• Breast Pain, unexplained milk production
• Joint and back stiffness
• Muscle twitching: especially in face
• Hear or feel cracking when turning neck
• Cramps or pain in muscles
• Neck pain or stiffness
• Headache
• Blurry Vision, sensitive to light
• Ear pain, sensitive to sounds
• Occasional Vertigo, poor balance
• Sudden need to lie down or sit
• Suddenly unable to spell simple works
• Short term memory poor
• Concentration difficulties
• Getting lost, hard to find car in parking lot
• Mood swings, feeling anger, depression
• Sleep disturbances – Wake early etc.
• Tremors
• Swollen tissue, rashes, oozing fluid
• More sensitive to alcoholic drinks, exaggerated, worst hangover
• Knee, hip, shoulder joint replacement
• Sleep Apnea
• Muscle twisting and pulling in late stages
• Rheumatoid arthritis, joint pain, swelling of joints

What Happens When a Pregnant Woman Contracts Lyme Disease that has been through a tick bite?

If a pregnant woman is bitten by a tick and contracts Lyme disease, it can result in an infection of the placenta. Her unborn child then faces the risk of contracting the disease. There are cases of stillbirth caused by Lyme disease, but such cases are uncommon. Be aware of your body and consult your physician with questions.

No cases have been reported regarding adverse effects to the fetus when the mother receives proper antibiotic treatment immediately. Plus, no cases have been reported thus far, regarding transfer of the disease through breast feeding.

Keep an open eye to the following

Symptoms of Lyme Disease

• Unusual chills, fever, sweats or flushing
• Unusual weight loss or gain
• Unusual hair loss
• Tiredness, lack of stamina, fatigue
• Swollen glands
• Throat sore
• Pelvic Pain or testicle pain
• Bladder irritable or poor function
• Unusual menstrual irregularity
• Sexual – loss of libido, dysfunction
• Abdominal pains or poor digestion
• Regularity changes- diarrhea, constipation
• Sore ribs or pain in chest
• Pulse skips
• Pain or swelling in joints: Which ones?
• Breast Pain, unexplained milk production
• Joint and back stiffness
• Muscle twitching: especially in face
• Hear or feel cracking when turning neck
• Cramps or pain in muscles
• Neck pain or stiffness
• Headache
• Blurry Vision, sensitive to light
• Ear pain, sensitive to sounds
• Occasional Vertigo, poor balance
• Sudden need to lie down or sit
• Suddenly unable to spell simple works
• Short term memory poor
• Concentration difficulties
• Getting lost, hard to find car in parking lot
• Mood swings, feeling anger, depression
• Sleep disturbances – Wake early etc.
• Tremors
• Swollen tissue, rashes, oozing fluid
• More sensitive to alcoholic drinks, exaggerated, worst hangover
• Knee, hip, shoulder joint replacement
• Sleep Apnea
• Muscle twisting and pulling in late stages
• Rheumatoid arthritis, joint pain, swelling of joints

Who Is Most at Risk of Being Bitten by Infectious Ticks?

People who are fond of going to woodlands in North America, UK and some parts of Europe are at a higher risk of being bitten by ticks and suffering from Lyme disease.

Most cases of tick bites have been reported during late spring, autumn or early summer. These are the times of the year when people love to partake in outdoor activities. It is also the times when tick activity is highest.

While the risk may be lower, do not assume there is zero risk of contracting Lyme disease if you do not spend time outdoors. Experts report that the ticks which are carriers of Lyme disease can also be found on birds, chipmunks, and mice.

This means that even if you spend most of your time at your home you cannot be guaranteed that you will not get bitten by a tick and risk contracting Lyme disease.

An individual can never have a confirmed diagnosis of Lyme disease through a blood test, although symptoms may be an indication. However, if a blood test is carried out in the early stages of the infection, the bacteria that causes Lyme disease may not be apparent yet, or it has taken on another colony in your body leaving it undetected. Lyme disease wears many hats, as will be discussed. It is not a blood disease.

It is very possible that if you have a tick bite and a blood test is taken immediately, results will be negative, but may be positive at a later testing. This makes diagnosing Lyme disease difficult and worrying, as some people will return negative test results even though they may have contracted Lyme disease.

Because of this, even if the result is negative, antibiotic treatment is often given immediately, especially when a rash is evident. Patients who show a negative result will normally undergo another blood test after a few weeks to make sure the Borrelia burgdorferi infection is still not present. Ticks are not the only carrier of the bacteria.

Is It Lyme Disease or Something Else?

A great complication of accurately diagnosing Lyme disease is that Lyme disease is ‘the great imitator’ of other types of diseases. But can all these others be related to Lyme Disease, that is the question. Do they have the same bacteria in other diseases call by different names?

Many Lyme disease patients have been misdiagnosed as having either chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), lupus, multiple sclerosis, fibromyalgia, Parkinson’s disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease), or rheumatoid arthritis.

Treatments for an incorrect diagnosis may give some short-term relief from some symptoms but does not fix the underlying problem. Also, is it being likely that unnecessary drugs will be prescribed. These drugs will do nothing for the bacteria in the body. May seem like it is giving some promise of recovery, yet most people at the same time will be changing their diets, lifestyle, and environment to accommodate their symptoms. Diet, lifestyle, and environment can give a false hope of recovery in some cases.

List of some of the common misdiagnosed illnesses that seem to be caused by the Lyme Disease Spirochete:

• Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
• Colitis
• Early ALS
• Early Alzheimer disease
• Encephalitis
• Fibromyalgia
• Fifth’s Disease
• Gastro esophageal Reflux disease
• Infectious Cystitis
• Irritable Bowel Syndrome
• Juvenile Arthritis
• Joint Disease/ Joint Replacement
• Lupus
• Meniere’s Syndrome
• Multiple Sclerosis
• Neuro-cognitive difficulties
• New-onset fatigue
• Osteoarthritis
• Prostatitis
• Prostatitis
• Psychiatric disorders (bipolar, depression, etc.)
• Reynaud’s Syndrome
• Reactive Arthritis
• Rheumatoid Arthritis
• Scleroderma
• Sjogren’s
• Sleep Disorders
• Thyroid Disease
• Widespread pain for no reason
• Various other diseases with confusing symptoms.

Source: http://canlyme.com/just-diagnosed/testing/common-misdiagnoses/

The question is:  Are all of these diseases caused by the Lyme Disease bacteria?

It is an illness caused by or an infectious microbe that can be transmitted to people by biting insects. Arthropod (insects) arachnids (spiders or others with 8 legs) are those which most commonly serve as vectors as listed below:

1. Blood sucking insects such as, fleas, lice, biting flies, mosquitoes, and bugs, and
2. arachnids such as ticks, mites, and spiders.

The term “vector” refers to any arthropod that transmits a disease through insect feeding activity. Lyme is not a only vector-borne disease but can be easily passed person to person, pets, and others by contact.

All diseases have different symptoms, some mimic others. Unless we can eliminate different factors and get to the source of the problem, we are just treating the symptoms. The symptoms may very well not be the cause or what created the illness. In reality, several people can have the same issue that caused the illness but affect them in different ways.

The main reason for so many symptoms is that these bacteria’s set up their colonies (breeding homes) in the weakest points or parts in each body they invade.

Blood test are usually run for people with not knowing the real cause of the illness, just mimicking the symptoms.

Reasons for not knowing what has created your symptoms is that there are three forms of Borrelia burgdorferi, the spirochete that creates and causes the Lyme Disease.

The Spirochete can hide in your body for many years without being noticed and suddenly causes trouble after some stressful event, or unexpected exposure to some chemicals causing an imbalance in your body chemistry. This can stimulate their movement and invading other territory. This creates different symptoms.

It can change back and forth between 3 different forms, making it difficult to diagnosis because it looks like three dissimilar organisms. It wears different hats and has many disguises.

The three forms of spirochetes are:

• Spiral Shape – like a corkscrew or tiny snake
• Cell Wall Deficient– means it does not have a cell wall in this stage. It is Jelly-like.
• Encysted or encapsulated in a shell – it can form a cover around itself impervious to antibiotics.

It is a smart bug and has the capability to hide for years, it acts like it has a consciousness, forming colonies and knowing to disguise itself to avoid the being killed by medications.

Borrelia is a genus of bacteria of the spirochete family. Borrelia has a good transportation system, both forward and backwards, where they can quickly travel all over the body. They are more able to settle in different areas with colonies, where other bacteria are non-motile.

People having new joints put in their knees or hips probably have Lyme disease. Kill the bacteria and the body can rebuild the Cartlidge and the damage caused by the bacteria.

Lyme Disease Is or is Not Contagious?

If you believe that Lyme disease is not contagious you are not alone in thinking that, but you could be wrong and here is why!

There has been no evidence until now to prove that Lyme disease can be transmitted through human to human contact. Currently it is a blood-borne disease reliant on third-party vectors for transmission. WRONG

Therefore, it is not considered to be contagious via direct contact. This means that Lyme disease cannot be transferred through kissing, touching or sexual intercourse. WRONG

The truth is there is evidence that what you are taught to believe is wrong. Lyme disease can and is transferred to humans through pets, any biting insect and close contact to any person, including anyone’s body fluid from a person who has it. Commonly known ticks can infect a person or animal, which in turn can then infect another animal or human through body fluids.

If you sneeze, cough, kiss, have sexual contact, hold an infected cat, dog or animal that is infected, you may have a chance of contacting the disease.

Every person, or animal can show different symptoms, because no two hosts are the same. You may have had the disease for most of your life passing it on to others without your knowledge.

Ticks as Disease Carriers

The greatest impact on human health from ticks is not from the ticks themselves but the blood-borne diseases they carry and transmit. Some tick species are known vectors or carriers of diseases such as tick typhus and Lyme disease.

If a tick bites a person who is already infected with some type of blood-borne disease, then the disease can be easily transferred to the next host the tick attaches to.

Lyme Disease – Increasing Disagreement

Lyme disease is gaining increasing awareness as medical authorities make growing connections between symptoms and incidences of tick bite. There is also increasing contention about which ticks can transmit Lyme disease, and in which countries it can occur. The US made it as a biological warfare weapon in a laboratory. They flew over Cuba and dumped infected ticks.  Who knows what other countries that they dumped the ticks on.

It was previously understood that only one or two species of tick in North America, and possibly one in Europe could transmit the disease. This is still the official viewpoint of many health authorities; however, many claims are being made that many more species are capable of being vectors, and that the disease is evident in countries that are not in Europe or North America.

This has led to an unsatisfactory situation (especially for sufferers) where some patients suffering Lyme disease symptoms have been diagnosed “Lyme-like”, as the disease is not officially considered to exist in that country.

Most medical authorities consider that Lyme disease is transferred in North America by Blacklegged ticks, also known as deer ticks or bear ticks. Their botanical name is Ixodes scapularis.

The specific pathogen that is responsible for Lyme disease that is transferred by the tick is called Borrelia burgdorferi plus co-infections.

Many people who see a rash on their skin understandably assume that it is simply an insect bite that will heal in a short time. However, if it is the result of a tick bite and you live in a high-risk area, there is a possibility that it may develop into Lyme disease, and warrants immediate professional medical attention.

The Lyme Equation

Spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato complex is the official name of the spiral shaped bacteria causing Lyme disease. Lyme is the principal and most numerous disease of the total vector-borne disease-causing illnesses found in the Northern hemisphere of the world.

Children Face a Higher Risk of Contracting Lyme Disease

Since children play outdoors in grassy areas more than most adults, their chances of being infected with Lyme disease by a tick is higher.

Children are more likely to suffer from central nervous system infections too, and if the tick is not immediately removed properly, the danger of suffering from more infections becomes imminent.

It is believed that pathogen transfer is not instantaneous and that the longer the tick is attached the greater the risk.

Under spring-like conditions tick numbers can explode. In known times of high tick activity, it is prudent to do a body check on children after playing outdoors.