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Lyme Disease symptoms vary from person to person. (lymes disease lyme's disease lime disease limes disease)
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Recent News
Vancouver, ON:
Canadians with Lyme disease left to fend for themselves letter 1, letter 2 ... in response to this article.
Toronto, ON: Lyme Disease: Tick Talk
Perth, ON: Dedicated athelete facing biggest challenge, Pt.1, Pt. 2
Bedford, NS: Lyme ticks spread in Bedford
Edmonton, AB: More ticks found in Alberta
Vancouver, BC:
People with Lyme disease say they can’t get treatment
Winnipeg, MB: Lyme disease found beyond South East Manitoba
Thunder Bay, ON: Lyme disease confirmed in the Thunder Bay region.
Newfoundland: Lyme disease found in Newfoundland
Edmonton, Alberta: Multiple Sclerosis patients not waiting for the slow wheels of government
Richmond, BC: Disease expert dismisses Lyme diagnosis
Manitoba: Lyme disease can do more than tick off your dog
Toronto Star: Lyme disease on the rise
New Brunswick: New Brunswick added to watch list
Victoria: Lyme and Ehrlichiosis in dogs
Windsor Star, Ontario: Lyme disease on the rise
Global TV, Calgary: Lyme disease warning for Albertans
CBC radio, The Current: Anna Maria Tremonti interview's Dr. McShane
Vancouver, BC: Listen to June 7th, 2010 Coop radio 102.7 FM, Lyme disease
Kelowna, BC: Bite from a tick can make you sick
More Lyme in the news ...
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Lyme Disease....A vector borne bacterial infection, (ticks are one known vector)
which has caused controversy in the past decades
because of its difficult diagnosis and treatment. The organism is highly fastidious, growing extremely slowly in tissue culture (not
bacteriological) media. The vast majority of body fluid or tissue samples from patients with Lyme disease
do not yield spirochetes on culture. Lyme disease is thus usually clinically diagnosed. Possible detection of serum antibodies to
burgdorferi may only augment the clinical diagnosis. However, acutely antibodies may not occur in
detectable titer, making early diagnosis difficult. Many later stage seronegative patients are very
symptomatic and treatment intervention has been shown to be very effective. The tick O.hermsii has been implicated as a possible vector and some Canadian cases are reviewed.
Lyme disease is now an epidemic in several US states.4
Estimates are now at 3 million cases of lyme disease in the US in 3 decades. Most of these
cases are from states that border Canada yet Canada reports it has only had a few hundred cases...?
See an epidemiological map of what is immediately across our border.
Canada has no such info - yet where we look we find lyme.
Lyme borreliosis is now acknowledged as the most highly prevalent arthropod-borne human disease in northern temperate regions of the world5. Canadian medicine and science, due to the lack of recognition of the clinical diagnoses, combined with lack of surveillance and research, places us at the bottom of the scale in dealing with this serious disease.
We are years behind.
Many Lyme patients were firstly diagnosed with other illnesses such as Juvenile Arthritis, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Reactive Arthritis, Psoriatic Arthritis, Infectious Arthritis, Osteoarthritis,
Fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Interstitial Cystitis, Gastro esophageal Reflux Disease, Fifth's Disease, Multiple Sclerosis, scleroderma, lupus, early ALS, early Alzheimers Disease, crohn's disease, ménières syndrome, reynaud's syndrome, Sjogren's syndrome, irritable bowel syndrome, colitis, prostatitis, psychiatric disorders (bipolar, depression, etc.), encephalitis, sleep disorders, thyroid disease and various other illnesses.
If you have received one of these diagnoses please go to our
symptoms page and see if you recognize a broader range of symptoms.
If you are a doctor please re-examine these diagnoses, incorporating Lyme in the differential diagnoses.
If you feel you may have Lyme Disease you are encouraged to contact us.
If you have a rash please photograph it (a close-up) and send it to us with as much detail about date/time, place,
any tick bite noticed. Please include your name and phone number for our records in trying to track this disease.
All information is confidential and shall never be released to anyone without your written consent.
Lyme disease is not new to Canadian health leadership but you would not know this if you have ever had the pleasure of your doctor trying to convince you that Lyme disease is rare in Canada... we magically missed the epidemic every other northern hemisphere country has.
...Here is a medical report from 1988.
Lyme Disease is not the only tick borne disease in Canada but can be
complicated by multiple tick-borne co-infections such as Ehrlichiosis, Babesiosis, and
Bartonella. Other tick borne diseases include Tularemia, Tick Paralysis and Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever.
Lyme Disease is determined by clinicians,
not labs
...no lab has a gold standard test to date, some labs are just better than others.
The only treatment available to date is antibiotic. If caught early and treatment given in
sufficient dosage over sufficient time all is well in most cases. There remains a significant
number of treatment failures usually as a result of insufficient dose/time of treatment and/or late diagnoses.
These treatment failures have proven to benefit significantly from longer term antibiotic treatment and
patients sometimes have to be very demanding to receive such treatment.
One has to be realistic...not being able to find something by available methods in science means nothing
to the sick patient who recovers after many weeks/months of appropriate treatment.
Therein lies the difficulty and undermining of appropriate treatment. The cost
of treating lyme disease with antibiotics can be expensive in the relative short term
so without a doubt business/politics
become involved. Without a definitive test the door is left open for money to rule
over health. However, the cost of not treating lyme, or treating it inadequately, is infinitely more
expensive.
The majority of research is funded/lobbied by 1. Insurers (motivated to keep treatment costs/duration
to a minimum). 2. Governments (heavily lobbied by private/public insurers as well as tourism dollars).
3. Drug manufacturers (motivated to peddle drugs).
The results of this heavily influenced research are what we educate our medical students with,
who then become our doctors with a bias.
Therefore it takes the wise front line physician to wade through the swamp and treat
the patient using good sound judgment. The better doctors learned early on that some of what
they were taught just didn't add up when they encountered their real world patients. Common sense
still applies...even in science.
Symptoms may show up fast, with a bang, or very slowly and innocuously. They may creep into ones
life over weeks, months or even years.
While antibiotic treatment carries risk, it pales in comparison to the serious danger and cost
(in productivity, income and family) of
developing late stage illness that may develop within weeks even before the first lyme
tests have returned.
Learn here what can and should be done.
Consult a qualified Lyme Disease literate doctor for medical advice if Lyme Disease is suspect.
Ref:
1. CDC MMWR Weekly
3. http://www.medtech1.com/research_center/cond20.cfm/48
4. http://www.canlyme.com/confirmedUScasesto2003.html
5.Lyme Borreliosis: Biology, Epidemiology and Control
Edited by J. S. Gray, University College Dublin, Ireland, O. Kahl, Free University of Berlin, Germany, R. S. Lane, University of California at Berkeley, USA, and G. Stanek, University of Vienna, Austria
September 2002
480 pages
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