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Disclaimer: I am not a medical doctor.
Please
consult a medical doctor who is familiar with Lyme disease treatment.
The International Lyme And Associated Diseases
Society maintains a list of doctors familiar with treating Lyme disease (ILADS). www.ilads.org/ How is Lyme disease transmitted?
The
common belief that it’s only the deer tick bite is proving to be wrong. Here is an excerpt
under Types of Ticks that Carry Disease from BioMed Publishing Group website info.lymebook.com/matthewgoss.html : “There are lots of web sites on the internet perpetuating the myth that only deer ticks carry
Lyme, but if you do enough searching you will also find evidence that many other types of ticks have been proven to carry
Lyme and other diseases. I was infected by dermacentor variabilis (American dog tick, sometimes called the wood tick), which
most people will tell you does not carry or transmit Lyme. The ticks that bit me were never attached for more than 2 hours,
and they were not deeply embedded. Many people will tell you that a tick has to be attached for 24 to 48 hours to transmit
Lyme. I know differently.” Matthew GossControlling deer ticks is of course essential. Dandux Outdoors
in Maryland has developed a 4-Poster Deer Treatment System. Their contact info: (800-933-2638) TickControl@Dandux.com
Now, you need to know that not all testing labs are equal when it comes
to testing for Lyme disease.
Please visit The Canadian Lyme Disease Foundation
website http://www.canlyme.com/labtests.html to read the full report about Laboratory Tests.
Here is an excerpt
under Western Blot
“In 1994, the Association of State and Territorial Public Health
Laboratory Directors decided that there should be consistency between labs reporting Lyme disease Western Blots, and that
a specific reporting-criteria should be established. As a result of that meeting, the Center for Disease Control (CDC) surveillance
criteria was adopted.”
“The results of a study designed to test the recently proposed changes to Western
Blot interpretation showed that using the new criteria, only 20 out of 66 symptomatic patients who tested positive for Lyme
disease under the old Western Blot interpretation were considered positive under the new criteria. The new adopted criteria
missed 70% of the cases that have been identified with the old criteria.”
“Out of possible 25 bands,
10 specific bands were selected as being reportable, and the IgG Western Blot must have five or more of theses bands:18, 21,
28, 30, 39, 41, 45, 58, 66 and 93 kDa. An IgM Western Blot must have two or more the following three bands: 23, 39, 41”.
“Conspicuously absent are the most important bands, 22, 23, 25, 31 and 34 which include OSP-A, OSP-B and OSP-C
family of antigens – the three most widely accepted and recognized Bb antigens.”
“In the early
1970's, a mysterious ailment was discovered among children living around the town of Lyme, CT. What was first diagnosed as
isolated cases of juvenile arthritis, eventually became known as Lyme disease…”
“Today, many
of those untreated will suffer chronic debilitating illness. Some unknowingly will pass the disease on to their unborn children.
Many will lose their livelihoods, and still others, their lives….”
“Difficult to test accurately,
tens of thousands of people go undiagnosed—or misdiagnosed …”
The International
Lyme And Associated Diseases Society maintains a list of certified labs (ILADS).
This is my first go at creating this website. Hopefully
I will be able to improve it with time.
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