Lime For Lyme

The Infectious Diseases Society of America's newwith Autism have been found to have Lyme and
Lyme disease guidelines review panel will hold a onewith treatment their symptoms improve.
day hearing on July 30 2009. This hearing is part ofDr Alan Macdonald a pathologist found borrelia in the
the antitrust settlement that the Connecticutumbilical chord and fetus and there is evidence to
Attorney General negotiated. On May 1st of 2008support that it can be passed like syphilis to the
the Att. General announced this review, afterunborn child even when the mother may have a sub
investigations of the previous panel members hadclinical infection.
found significant conflicts of interest financial inDr Macdonald also found DNA for borrelia in the
Insurance,Vaccine production and research. TheyHypercampus of 7 out of 10 Alzheimer's brains.
were found to have excluded members from theDr Judith Miklossy has done considerable research and
board who had a divergent point of view and hadhas also found DNA in the Hypercampus of brains.
excluded research articles that had a different viewShe has found spirochetes in blood CNS and brains of
whilst supporting their view by their own research.every single one of 14 Alzheimer's patients on
It's an unprecedented action - the first time a medicalautopsy but not one of 16 control study. She
society has been investigated and forced tobelieves that treatment by antibiotics can significantly
re-examine its guidelines.relieve symptoms of Alzheimer's in many patients.
These guidelines are considered authoritative inCDC have recently acknowledged that Lyme Disease
countries throughout Europe including of course UK,is of epidemic proportions and has been meeting with
also Canada as well as America. Although as theirmany of the Lyme Charity Representatives. The
name suggests they are GUIDELINES they haveactual figure is considered to be 10x those from
been used to refuse patients treatment and to takeconfirmed serological tests. In UK HPA figures last
disciplinary action against doctors who choose toyear were c800 so multiply that by 10 and then
treat following alternative guidelines.realise many of us suffer ten, twenty years of illness
Alternative Guidelines are those written bybefore diagnosis and successful treatment, you
International Lyme and Associated diseases. Theyquickly start to realise it is a far greater problem in
believe that Lyme is not rare, is not simple to cureUK than is acknowledged by our NHS.
for many people, ongoing symptoms can beDr Jemsek a Lyme Doctor in USA, interviewed
indicative of ongoing infection and that blood testsrecently says that out of the top twenty illnesses
are unreliable. They have a considerable body ofonly 2 have a known cause H.Pylori causing stomach
research that supports their opinions which are beingulcers ( how many people underwent unnecessary
ignored by IDSA.surgery before it was realised that it was a bacterial
Sadly the new review board was convened withinfection) and HIV. Dr Jemsek was at the forefront
members from the IDSA and excluded any doctortreating AIDS victims long before it was accepted
treating patients following ILADS guidelines so alreadyworld wide as an illness. He likens the denial of Lyme
there is a bias, including one member an ex presidentto the problems he faced in the early days of
of IDSA who has already spoken out publicly againsttreating AIDS patients. Lyme is of far greater
ILADS and in support of IDSA guidelines, beforeincidence than the case numbers of AIDS and West
even looking at the evidence.Nile virus added together according to CDC figures.
There have already been many representationsMuch of the above can be substantiated through links
made to the review board from 43 charities pluson the top right of my blog but I would be more
ILADS, Canada, a German speciality clinic and UKthan happy to find further information if required.
Lyme disease Action Charity, that I am aware of.Not only are people going undiagnosed and untreated
In America 5 States have now passed legislation tobut most importantly children are the most vulnerable.
protect their doctors, if they choose to treatSee on my blog role Lewis Jeynes sad decline into
differently than IDSA guidelines. A bill is hoping to besuch terrible debilitating ill health from a healthy two
presented at Congress this year. In the UK manyyear old toddling around. After three years of decline
politicians have been supporting the charity Lymehis family has finally had tests done in Germany that
Disease Action and asking questions in Parliament andconfirm he has Lyme Disease, now they have to
writing to Health Secretary but each time they deferstruggle to get NHS treatment and may even have
to the 'expert' at HPA who has written research withto go privately because of IDSA discredited guidelines
2006 IDSA guidelines panel members and refuses towhich are being treated as mandatory still throughout
open her mind to the research supporting ILADSthe World.
guidelines.The documentary film Under our Skin is amazing,
Willy Burgdorfer the man who discovered thewhat might to the uninitiated seem over dramatic, to
organism to be of bacteriological origin is quoted 'Thethose of us who have suffered the devastating
controversy in Lyme disease research is a shamefuleffects of Lyme and in my case overcome them, I
affair. And I say that because the whole thing iscan assure you it is an accurate portrayal. The trailer
politically tainted. Money goes to people who have,and many other clips can be seen on their website.
for the past 30 years, produced the sameThe Film is currently touring cinema's in the States
thing-nothing Serology has to be started fromand is very well worth watching, even if you never
scratch with people who don't know beforehand thehave connections to anyone with Lyme you should
results of their research.'see what is happening to your fellow citizens and
Research has found Borrelia (Lyme Disease) to be aswith your Health care system. One day I would like
complex as TB and Leprosy and therefore difficult toto see it aired on National television and cinemas in
treat in it's later stages. It is a spyrochaetal organismUK.
similar but far more complex than syphilis and so likeI have only read one Journalist's work who has in any
syphilis can affect every system and organ in theway got into this controversy Pam Weintraube, again
body, thus presenting with a multiple of symptoms,links on the right of my blog. Pam was a science
Arthritis, muscle weakness, neurological, heart block,journalist and herself husband and two boys suffered
meningitis, psychiatric the list is endless.many years of debilitating illness before being
One video link I watched from some years ago saiddiagnosed and treated. She used her skills as a
that 3 Lyme doctors in USA had between themscience journalist to interview researchers and
treated 50000 patients. That number will be multiplieddoctors as well as patients and patient advocacy
many times now. Dr Jones has treated 14000 childrengroups. Her book Cure Unknown is mind blowing, her
from every state in America and every country inarticles in Psychology today of which there are many,
Europe. I am in touch through Eurolyme with 2036need to be aired in every National newspaper and
patients struggling with their health and treatmentnot just in USA but especially in UK and also Canada.
mainly from UK but also from every country inOne doctor whose young son had been seriously ill
Europe.with Lyme Disease recently said to me 'It is a medical
At Lyme Disease Action conference last year Idisgrace', other doctors believe that it will eventually
listened to Dr Bransfield a psychiatrist who hashave significant impact on the treatment of many
treated many patients with Lyme Disease, recentlyillnesses.
he and Dr Jones have been finding that some children