Lyme's disease

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Hi List,

I just 'stole' this from another list, since it seemed to have a little

bit different info from this poster in Switzerland. Maybe someone here

can find some helpful ideas.

Sharon

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" Someone wrote a post here inquiring about treatment for a woman with a

tick-bite on her ear,

and a

history of often seeing ticks not attached on her body while walking

through her farm. Having

come

down with Lyme one year ago, and having explored the mysterious *world*

of Lyme, and having

been

blessed to find one of the only two Lyme-literate doctors in

Switzerland, allow me to

contribute

here.

Many people carry the Lyme antibodies, showing that they have been bit

once or several times by

infected ticks, but they do not have Lyme disease. This is paramount to

'latent Lyme'. These

person's immune systems are engaged in keeping the Lyme borrellia in

check, BUT the Lyme is

ready to

break out any time the immune system is weakened--or at a time when a

new bite overloads the

immune

system (in Lyme, each bite weakens the immune response rather than

strengthens it, perhaps

because

there are several Lyme strains and bacteria-virus mixtures).

This is why Lyme often breaks out two weeks after a person takes a

steroid such as cortisone.

Another time it breaks out is when antibiotics are used. Antibiotics

apparently make the

bacteria

more active; then the kill-off leads to a toxic build-up which

accelerates symptoms.

Lyme patients who take antibiotics usually therefore feel considerably

worse during the initial

kill-off, and this becomes cyclic, following the reproductive phases of

the bacteria (about

once per

month), when they are again killed off (if the patient is blessed to

have long-term treatment).

Latent Lyme (LL) is transferred per placenta, breastmilk, and semen. The

husband may have LL

and

pass it over to his wife who then passes it on to her children. (This is

one of the unpublished

but

highly suspected aspects of Lyme that may explain why it is found in

whole families.) Latent

Lyme

may present as chronic fatigue in the mother, and as hyperactivity or

learning problems in the

children, among others.

When LL finally breaks out, it does not follow the typical progresion of

Lyme Disease, ie,

rash,

headache, flu, arthritis, disappearing symptoms, later debilitation.

Rather, symptoms tumble

over

each other in a cascade, often presenting as neural and mental rather

than mainly physical

symptoms.

That is why these patients are often misdiagnosed, and are thought to

have mental illness or

many

other chronic degenerative diseases. They may be diagnosed with fast

onset Alzheimers, ALS, MS,

CFS,

LUPUS, major depression or schizophrenia. This is why doctors who are

versed in Lyme believe

that

psychiatric and geriatric clinics are filled with undiagnosed Lyme. Add

to this all the people

who

present with arthritis (you're just getting older).

The latent Lyme scenario may explain the reaction that some people have

had to the Lyme

vaccination--it apparently caused Lyme to break out in a very fast

manner.

What does this mean for the woman in question? She has surely been bit

many times by the first

stage

of ticks, when they are almost too small to see. She doubtless already

carries the bacteria in

her

body and is doing well with it. She should take measures to support her

immune system, such as

treating her hidden allergies, liver cleansing, candidiasis therapy,

correct supplementation.

She

should never take cortisone that enters the bloodstream. Cortisone shots

in joints also cause

those

joints to never completely heal from Lyme, when it is treated with

long-term antibiotics.

Taking

antibiotics can cause the disease to become active and break out.

A. Duke writes that mountain mint (Pycnanthemum muticum) is a

natural tick repellant, and

he

rubs the leaves on his skin before going into his garden. (The day he

forgot, he was bit by a

tick.)

Ticks also have a hard time if the skin has been rubbed with olive oil,

or any skin

moisturizer.

If you do give doxicycline, consider that Lyme literate doctors are now

giving 6 - 8 weeks of

300 mg

for a suspected bite. Less than 300 won't beat the infection, but hold

it in check. The latest

research showing that two days of doxy if given quickly will beat Lyme

may be true if it is a

first-bite, but if there is latent Lyme, this small dose will have no

effect, but may mask the

development of antibodies so that a blood test tests negative (probably

why these researchers

concluded that the persons were healed). (In the Lyme's communities,

this is considered a major

problem: inadequately dosed antibiotics may cause the disease to go into

hiding for a while,

and

will make blood tests negative, so that when the disease does break out

and blood tests for

recent

infections are negative, they receive no treatment.) "