Happy New Year!

Hi everyone,

     I want to wish all of my fellow Lyme disease sufferers, a very happy and safe New Year!. May 2012 be a year where we find solutions for much of the misery of having Lyme disease. Stay in touch, as I am testing some new nutraceuticals that have been showing some amazing results in the realm of weight loss and pain relief. I have just started their use and I will report what my personal experience is with them on a few weeks.  2012 is an election year and I know all of you are concerned about the direction of our country. Please make yourselves aware of all of the issues that will be discussed in this political season. Be a voter that is knowledgeable! This country is in terrible need of new leaders who are not afraid to put God back in America. The three branches of our government need to hear us loud and clear this election. We are tired of the childish in-fighting and quarreling. We are tired of being lied to. The current leadership in both the House and the Senate need to go. The oval office needs a god-fearing man or woman who is not afraid to speak the truth and not afraid to make the really tough decisions that so desperately need made. The health care system does not need "Obamacare"! Before you vote this year, look deep inside your heart. All of us can be "the Salt of the Earth" that the scriptures talk about. Decide in 2012, that you will stand up and be counted on the side of saving our Constitution.

Always be well,
God Bless!

Rich Bowman

A Cure to Late for many

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Be well,

Richard

Nature's Dirty Needle

Hi Everyone,

This is a great article I ran across from our friends at Lymedisease.org. 

TOUCHED BY LYME is written by Dorothy Kupcha Leland.
This is a great artricle!


Be well,
Richard

TOUCHED BY LYME: (book review) Nature's Dirty Needle

05 October, 2011

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A Lyme-literate nurse practitioner writes about chronic Lyme disease.

The image of heroin addicts sharing dirty needles is a strong one. Most people understand it’s a bad idea, an easy way to spread diseases like HIV and hepatitis.

The image of ticks as “nature’s dirty needle” is also dramatic. Ticks stick their mouth parts into mice, birds, squirrels, deer and untold other wild animals, picking up viruses, worms, protozoa and oh yes, bacterial infections like Lyme disease. By the time the tick sticks its dirty needle into you, you risk contracting a variety of different pathogens, some of them not even named yet.

In her book, “Nature’s Dirty Needle,” Lyme-literate nurse practitioner Mara Williams explores the topic of chronic Lyme disease as the end result of this toxic soup transmitted by tick saliva. The Lyme spirochete, Borrelia burgdorferi, is only part of the mix.

The complexity of chronic Lyme, with its myriad coinfections, is one reason it can be so confounding to diagnose and treat this disease. And why it’s essential for Lyme patients to find a knowledgeable practitioner. Williams describes symptoms, treatment and some of the politics surrounding Lyme and coinfections.

She interweaves personal anecdotes from individuals with Lyme, spelling out how difficult it was for them to get properly diagnosed, as well as the ups and downs of their experiences with treatment.

Ultimately, she sums up a bleak picture: “In the current health care system, there is no place for the millions who are ill with CLD (chronic Lyme disease) to get help when they are in need of more intensive support and care. No hospital exists that recognizes and treats these infections….Every person that I have spoken with who is ill with CLD has mentioned their frustration that there is nowhere for them to get help when they are relapsing or herxing.”

At the end of the book, Williams lays out her ideas for a healing center called Inanna House, which she would like to build in Sonoma County, CA.  It would be geared to the needs of chronic Lyme patients, a place to receive supportive therapies and start IV treatments in a safe environment. It would offer both in-patient and out-patient care, as well as workshops and classes. It would incorporate a range of healing modalities, both western and alternative.

I don’t know how far along her plans are, or what it would take to open and run such a facility. But as I read the last chapter, where she describes her vision for Inanna House, I could imagine Lyme patients everywhere giving the idea a standing ovation.

TOUCHED BY LYME is written by Dorothy Kupcha Leland, LymeDisease.org's VP for Education and Outreach. Contact her at dleland@lymedisease.org.

Phone Detective-

Hi everyone,

         This is a great resource tool in finding anyone's cell phone number or an unlisted number.There are many reasons why you might want to conduct a reverse phone search:

• Find out the source of a harassing ("prank") caller
• Research a number that appeared on your phone bill
• Locate an old friend from high school or college
• Research "missed calls" on your caller ID that you don't recognize
• Verify an address
• And more

Why don't you give this a try?

Be well,
Richard

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Ticks Aren't the Only Parasites

 Hello, everyone,

I ran across this letter the other day and I thought I would copy it to the blog. I can't help but feel the exact same way this author feels about the physicians of the CDC who continue to show their ignorance about Lyme Disease.  This was first published in Forbes magazine. It was written to Forbes as a letter to the editor by a pychiatrist named Virginia T. Sherr. I thank her for saying what needed to be said. I hope you all will agree.
I found this on a great website:
http://thehumansideoflyme.net/

Be well,

Richard

Re: Health: Lyme Inc. Forbes Magazine by David Whelan 03.12.07Ticks aren't the only parasites living off patients in borreliosis-prone areas. Dear Editor, Neuro-Lyme, (persistent, chronic, active Lyme disease) is a burgeoning epidemic. My psychiatric practice has been filled with the unfortunate but previously misdiagnosed victims of tick-borne diseases for at least the last 10 years. There are literally hundreds of high quality, peer-reviewed, easily obtained, scientific articles credibly attesting to the devastating persistence of this living spirochete-caused neurologic disease and its crippling effects on whole populations. However, instead of pursuing such research and presenting a balanced picture of the science, your reporter has cited only the Infectious Diseases Society of America, whose framing of the disease represents the most radically restrictive of all viewpoints in what is one of the more hotly-contested controversies in all of medicine. For decades, physicians holding to IDSA's view of Lyme disease have turned away desperately ill patients by telling them they must be mentally unbalanced to imagine that they or their children are physically ill. These patients show up at my psychiatric practice crippled and in great pain, barely able to function. Only after receiving appropriate long-term antibiotic and immunity-enhancing treatments, usually far exceeding the IDSA guidelines, are their lives restored. Alleged, inappropriate financial gain associated with some Lyme-treating physicians was alluded to in your reporter's poorly researched piece. IDSA authors, on the other hand, have documentable financial conflicts of interest that were never mentioned in your article. These include patents for a vaccine still under development in Europe and the US, financial interests in Lyme disease products such as test kits, and, most importantly, employment by the insurance companies that stand to lose money if the epidemic is acknowledged and paid for. The vested conflicts of interest of these authors are seldom revealed when they publish in their authoritative journals. While these few exploitative yet influential academicians violate everything Hippocrates ever stood for, rank and file physicians stand by confused. In their impotency, they unknowingly are allowing this epidemic of tick-borne infections to grow exponentially. Virginia T. Sherr, MD, DLFAPA

Brooke Landau- A Battle with Lyme

Hi  everyone,

       Please take the time to watch this video. There are a few mistakes in the recording, but it doesn't compromise the message. I found this vide on you tube and it exemplifies the struggle of those of us with Chronic Lyme. Please note the mention of intravenous antibiotics and the use of a Hyperbaric Oxygen Chamber. I would love to here from anyone who has had success with the Hyperbaric oxygen. have been contemplating using this therapy, if I can figure out where I can get it.



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Researchers Say Local Antibiotic Therapy Stops Lyme Disease

Hi all,

This a great article from our friends at Infectioncontrolltoday.com. This is the kind of research that is needed for us as Lyme sufferers. I am again on long term intravenous antibiotic therapy. My insurance company is trying to deny the payment of this treatment. I am appealing their decission, of course. Meanwhile, many of you know how effective intravenous antibiotic treatment can be for more than 30 days. If any of you have any experience with this treatment, I hope you would comment and let me know how you are doing. Your experience might be extremely helpful for those of us who are being treated or contemplating this kind of treatment. I started with two grams of Rocephin once a day, for 30 days. Now, I am doing one gram once a day and this has been going on for two months now. I have certainly been "herxing" and I have had some tough days,feeling really bad. However, I am feeling stronger in many ways and I feel as if I am getting a little better every day. I am being helped by my neurologist, who has had some experience with Lyme disease. I can't tell you great he has been to me. He is seriously trying to make me feel better. I have been plagued with this disease since 2001 and I have undergone many types of treatment. The only times I have really felt better is when I have intravenous antibiotic therapy. I have had a Groshong catheter inserted in my chest. It has never been a problem maintaining the catheter and keeping the area around the insertion clean. Previously, when Dr. Martz was in practice here in Colorado, he started me on the first treatment of the intravenous antibiotic protocol. I was really sick and in bed then. The therapy went on for about eight months and it got me out of bed and functioning as a human being again. I had the catheter removed and felt better for a year or so. However, that has been about six years ago and I have been struggling with flareups of the disease again. Many of you,probably, have had similar experiences, and all of us would love hearing about them. I am listening to the news right now and Colorado Springs has already received their first snow storm. It looks like winter time is on its way and we are going to skip fall. I hope not!!! I hate the cold since i have had this disease. It just makes everything hurt worse.

Be well,

Richard


Lyme disease is a dangerous disease which is transmitted by ticks. Blood-sucking ticks ingest the agents that cause the disease – bacteria of the species Borrelia burgdorferi and its relatives – during a blood meal, and subsequently transmit them to the next victim they feast on, often a person. It is estimated that, in Western Europe, up to half of all ticks carry the bacteria. Although the early symptoms of the illness are quite mild, if left untreated, it can result in serious damage to the skin, the joints, the heart and the nervous system, and effective therapy becomes very difficult.
A team of researchers led by the veterinary bacteriologist professor Reinhard Straubinger at Ludwig-Maximilians Universität (LMU) München has now shown, in an animal model, that application of a gel containing the antibiotic azithromycin to the site of the bite rapidly terminates the infection. The efficacy of this local antibiotic therapy for the treatment of borreliosis in humans is now being tested in a Phase III clinical trial. In the meantime, though, patients must still undergo antibiotic treatment for several weeks and, in many cases, the drug must be administered intravenously – which is distressing not only for children. Furthermore, treatment measures are often initiated on suspicion, because the bacteria are not detectable in the blood soon after one has been bitten by an infected tick.
"Our approach simply involves applying a transparent, self-adhesive plaster to the site of the wound," says Straubinger. "Because the plaster contains very little antibiotic, the effects are localized and side-effects are negligible."
Reference: Knauer J, et al. Evaluation of the preventive capacities of a topically applied azithromycin formulation against Lyme borreliosis in a murine model. Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy online, Sept. 15, 2011.

How About some Diversion?

Hi  My Friends,

      I thought I would be a little different and offer a diversion to those of you who like games. Sometimes it is just better to take our mind off of our problems and get some diversion. If you enjoy airplanes and flying, well I have a fun game for you. The name of this game is Proflight Simulator and it is a lot of fun. It is a blast!! So if the Lyme b"blahs" have you down, I suggest you give this a try. I have to see a couple of doctors next week for some Lyme related problems and I have been dreading it. I needed to find something to do for some enjoyment. I hope it may work for you as well.

Be well and enjoy,
Richard

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Lyme Disease Inspires Woman to Help

 Hi My friends,

I found another great article for you to read. Thanks goes to the author Richard Gwin  where it was Originally published at: http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2011/sep/11/firsthand-family-experience-lyme-disease-inspires-/. Kudos to this fine woman and all at www.kansaslymefighters.org. We wish you all of the good fortune possible for your efforts.

Be well,

Richard

Firsthand, family experience with Lyme disease inspires woman to help others suffering from tick-borne illnesses

Richard Gwin

Tammy Farmer sits with her son Logan, 10, as he plays with his pet guinea pig Stewart. Farmer unknowingly was a carrier of Lyme disease when she gave birth to Logan. Farmer and Logan were diagnosed three years ago.

Micki Chestnut

September 11, 2011

When Tammy Farmer gave birth to her son, Logan, her life changed dramatically, but not in the usual way.
Without knowing it, Farmer was a carrier of Lyme disease, and it wasn’t until she went through the physical stress of childbirth that she began to experience symptoms like excruciating pain and cognitive impairment. Because the tick-borne bacterium that cause Lyme disease can pass through the placenta, Logan was infected before he was born.
As Farmer left the hospital with her newborn, she began the battle of her life, not only fighting for her and her son’s health, but also for other victims of Lyme disease by volunteering for Kansas Lyme Fighters Inc.
Lyme disease can cause a wide array of health challenges that range from gastrointestinal to neurological to musculoskeletal, making it easy to misdiagnose. In fact, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that the 328,128 cases of Lyme disease that were confirmed between 1990 and 2008 represent only 10 percent of the actual cases of Lyme disease, according to the Lyme Disease Association. In fact, Farmer was misdiagnosed for seven years with baffled doctors telling her she had everything from multiple sclerosis to lupus.
At times, she was so devastated by the illness that she couldn’t function. “At my lowest moments, I was in bed, incapacitated, because it hurt so badly. It hurt just to have someone walking on the carpet outside my bedroom,” Farmer said.
Farmer and Logan were finally diagnosed three years ago and started aggressive antibiotic treatment. While she still has bad days, she’s beginning to recover. And she’s using her newfound health to help others who suffer from tick-borne illnesses through a nonprofit group she helped to found, Kansas Lyme Fighters. Her volunteer work has been so transformative in the lives of people who battle Lyme disease that the organization nominated Farmer for the United Way Roger Hill Volunteer Center’s 2010 Wallace Galluzzi Outstanding Volunteer award.
In addition to helping raise awareness of tick-borne illnesses, Farmer runs support groups and works as an advocate. But mostly, she comes alongside those who are sick and offers them support and encouragement.
“Tammy’s strength is building community,” said Peggy Blumhagen, president of Kansas Lyme Fighters. “She has opened her home to multiple people who were suffering and created an environment of acceptance, comfort and love. Tammy rarely shares how she feels except when it helps to encourage people who are about to give up on their life. When they realize how much she is suffering also, they gain courage and strength to keep trying to get well.”
Farmer shrugs off the praise. “After something so devastating has affected my family’s life, I couldn’t help but help others,” she says. “I was sick for years before it was figured out, and that’s not uncommon at all. It happens to people all the time, and their lives are as devastated as mine was. Or worse. I had family to support me, but I know a lot of people who don’t.
“When you go through something like this, you narrow down what is important in your life. People are important, and that’s what makes life go around. Making them feel better, even for just a moment.”
For information or to volunteer for Kansas Lyme Fighters, see kansaslymefighters.org.

Originally published at: http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2011/sep/11/firsthand-family-experience-lyme-disease-inspires-/

New Blood Test Available- Great News

Site Search: Physicians: Register Login Patients: Register Login View more FPInterviews information New Borrelia Culture Test - Faster & More Accurate September 5, 2011 Joe Burrascano, Jr., MD has announced a new lab test available for Lyme doctors to use in determining if Lyme is present. There is no need to wait for antibodies to form since this is a culture-based test. This should provide much faster and more accurate detection, and allow Lyme patients to receive treatment as soon as possible. Please read below for Dr. Burrascano's description of the new test: In my work as a consultant, I have been working with a private lab located near Philadelphia, Advanced Laboratories, Inc. They wanted to develop a unique and high value test, and, with my interest in Lyme, I naturally encouraged them to work on a better Lyme Disease test. As a result of some very intensive work on the part of a group of some very brilliant scientists, they have succeeded in developing a reliable and rapid blood culture for Borrelia! See the attached press release. They actually have rolled out two separate panels- a basic one and an advanced one. In the basic panel, the blood sample is cultured and the positives are identified by histology and growth characteristics, and confirmed by fluorescent immunostaining. Positive reports will include a picture of the Bb growing in that very culture. The advanced panel will do this, but will also do PCR using well characterized and published DNA primer sets, and then all positive PCRs will be confirmed by DNA sequencing. Remarkably, turn-around time can be as brief as ten days for the basic test, and seven to ten more days for the advanced panel. This test is being rolled out gradually, with no big public announcements yet. That is why I am e-mailing you, so you can be among the first to be able to order this testing, before the lab gets swamped. Apparently you have to contact the lab to have test kits sent to you. The blood must be sent out the same day it is collected, and the lab provides a prepaid return FedEx mailer. As the lab is not yet accepting specimens over weekends, please do not collect blood on Fridays. The bad news- New York being New York, this culture will not be available to NY State practitioners for several months. The States of California and Florida may have a delayed availability- I am not sure, so please contact the lab to get this info. However, all other states are OK. I have no idea on pricing or on insurance issues- again, you will have to contact them for this info. The lab plans to have a booth at the conferences at LDA and at ILADS, so hopefully their presence will allow all to field questions. The next step in their research is also equally exciting and ground breaking, but I am not at liberty to say yet what is being planned. I will be travelling over the rest of this week, so I am afraid that I may not be able to answer any calls or e-mails until I get back, so if I do not respond to any contact efforts, please be patient. As many of you recall, I learned the basics of true, clinical Lyme over 25 years ago thanks to Bb culturing that was available to me by Dr. Alan MacDonald. The new methods being used by this Pennsylvania lab go far beyond what MacDonald was able to do, so I am very excited to not only share this news with you, but I also cannot wait to see how it will change how we practice. I also predict that Bb will be found in a lot of people, from mildly to severely ill, and that will redefine the role of the immunologist in Lyme to find out why some people recover and why others do not. Strain info as provided by the DNA sequencing data will be equally fascinating to follow. So, enjoy the good news, and PLEASE, if you are going to begin culturing your patients, keep good records of your results. Data collection and tabulation has never been as important as it is now, with a quantum advance in testing technology. Best wishes, from Dr. B................................! To read the press release with contact information, Click here

 

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Antibodies linked to long-term Lyme symptoms

Thanks to Nature News and the author for this great article! This is great news for many of us suffering from Chronic Lyme Disease.

Be Well,

Richard

Amy Maxmen

Ticks spread the bacterium behind Lyme disease - but symptoms can persist even when the bug seems to have gone.Medical-on-Line/Alamy

Some patients with Lyme disease still show symptoms long after their treatment has finished. Now proteins have been discovered that set these people apart from those who are easily cured.

People who experience the symptoms of Lyme disease, which include fatigue, soreness and memory or concentration loss, after treatment for the disorder are sometimes diagnosed as having chronic Lyme disease or post-Lyme disease syndrome. But these diagnoses are difficult to make, because the individuals no longer seem to harbour the bacteria that cause Lyme disease. And the symptoms could instead be indicative of chronic fatigue syndrome or depression.

Now Armin Alaedini at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York and his colleagues have found that patients diagnosed with post-Lyme disease syndrome have antibodies that suggest they carried the infection for an unusually long time. The finding, published in Clinical Immunology¹, might help the syndrome to be better understood, diagnosed and treated.

Alaedini's team looked at antibodies made in response to a protein called VlsE, which is found on the surface of Borrelia burgdorferi, the tick-borne bacterium that causes Lyme disease.

The antibodies recognize a snippet of the protein called an epitope, and recruit the immune system to attack the bacterium. The researchers found that post-Lyme sufferers have a greater variety of antibodies to this epitope than patients whose infection cleared up quickly.

This finding suggests that patients with chronic symptoms have experienced a prolonged infection, caused by microbes that have evaded the immune system by varying the epitopes they carry. As a result of these variations, the body makes new antibodies targeting the modified protein. The longer the microbe manages to keep changing, the more diverse its host's antibodies become.

Some post-Lyme sufferers had varied antibodies against VlsE epitopes despite being diagnosed and treated early, says Alaedini. "That could mean they naturally have a different antibody response to the infection than most people; it could mean they weren't treated properly; or it's possible they were reinfected and the second infection was never treated," he says.

Inflammatory role

"This is the first study I've seen that shows some immunologic difference between someone who resolves their Lyme and someone who develops post-Lyme disease syndrome," says Linda Bockenstedt, a rheumatologist and immunologist at Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, Connecticut.

The presence of varied antibodies hints that the chronic symptoms could be caused by an ongoing inflammatory response caused by antibodies mistakenly reacting to the body's own proteins, Bockenstedt suggests.

"The big question to me is whether this can lead to an autoimmune phenomenon," says Bockenstedt. "But if that were the case, I'd expect the disease to worsen without immune-modulating treatment, and it doesn't."

Alaedini suggests that higher levels of antibodies could increase the body's levels of cytokines, immune-system proteins that can trigger the symptoms experienced by patients with post-Lyme disease syndrome. "Various cytokine profiles have been associated with fatigue, anxiety and depression," he explains.

If these antibodies are unique to people with chronic Lyme disease, it could lead to a test and treatments for the disorder, Alaedini says. It could also guide treatment of the disease itself. "If patients with an acute infection develop antibodies to these epitopes, perhaps they require a more aggressive course of therapy," he adds.

But a predictive marker won't be useful without new therapies for the persistent symptoms, says Henry Feder Jr, a physician specializing in infectious diseases at the University of Connecticut Health Center in Farmington. If an immune response problem leads to the syndrome, antibiotics won't help. "I guarantee you that if you tell a patient they won't feel better after antibiotics, they won't," Feder says. "We need to know what's going on."

• References

  1. Chandra A. et al. Clin. Immunol. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.clim.2011.06.005 (2011).

Lyme Disease in Illinois

Hi friends,

Here is another fine article about the reach of Lyme disease in new habitats. This is the link if you prefer: http://news.illinois.edu/news/11/0621lyme_J_Rydzewski_NohraMateus-Pinilla.html. Thanks be to Illinois University and Diana Yates for her fine artricle.

Be well,

Richard





6/21/2011 | Diana Yates, Life Sciences Editor | 217-333-5802; diya@illinois.edu

CHAMPAIGN, lll. — A new study offers a detailed look at the status of Lyme disease in Central Illinois and suggests that deer ticks and the Lyme disease bacteria they host are more adaptable to new habitats than previously appreciated.

A new study found a potential new reservoir of Lyme disease: the prairie vole (Microtus ochrogaster). | Photo by Michael Jeffords, Illinois Natural History Survey

Led by researchers at the University of Illinois, the study gives an up-close view of one region affected by the steady march of deer ticks across the upper Midwest. Their advance began in Wisconsin and Minnesota and is moving at a pace of up to two counties a year in Illinois and Indiana.

Today the deer tick is established in 26 Illinois counties, up from just eight in 1998, said Illinois Department of Public Health entomologist Linn Haramis. Reports of human Lyme disease cases in the state have more than tripled in the same period, he said.

“We’ve had several years in a row where we’ve had over 100 cases, up from about 30 per year more than 10 years ago,” Haramis said. “It’s not a huge increase, but it’s been steady and there’s an upward trend.”

Deer ticks are known to do best in forested areas, where they can readily move from small mammals (which provide their first meal) to moist leaf litter on the forest floor, and then to deer, on which they mate. Deer ticks do not pick up the Lyme infection from deer, said Jennifer Rydzewski, who completed her master’s degree with the study in the department of natural resources and environmental sciences at the University of Illinois.

“The deer tick will feed on a variety of mammals, birds and even reptiles,” she said. “But Borrelia burgdorferi, the bacterium that causes Lyme disease, replicates really well within white-footed mice, so white-footed mice are the main reservoir that passes that bacterium on to the immature ticks that are feeding on it.”

White-footed mice also are forest dwellers. Prior to the new study, little was known about whether, or how, Lyme disease persists in other habitat types.

To determine if Lyme disease had gained a foothold in the patchwork of forests, farms and prairies of Central Illinois, researchers trapped small mammals in Allerton Park, a 1,500-acre (600-hectare) natural area in Piatt County. They focused on four habitat types: young forest, mature forest, a flood plain and a 30-acre (12-hectare) patch of prairie surrounded by woods and agricultural fields.

The researchers removed deer ticks from the mammals they trapped and tested the ticks for Lyme disease.

They found that the immature forest and the prairie hosted the highest percentage of deer-tick-infested mammals, the highest number of ticks per mammal trapped and the highest rates of ticks infected with Lyme disease of the four habitat types evaluated.

“The highest prevalence of B. burgdorferi infection was found (in deer tick larvae) from the prairie (27 percent) followed by the young forest (15 percent), the mature forest (6 percent) and the flood plain (6 percent),” the researchers wrote.

“Interestingly, all of the positive ticks from the prairie were from prairie voles, not the typical white-footed mouse,” Rydzewski said. There also were many more ticks per animal on the prairie voles than on the white-footed mice of the forest, she said.

This is the first study to report evidence that the prairie vole may potentially serve as a competent reservoir host for the Lyme disease bacterium, B. burgdorferi, said Nohra Mateus-Pinilla, a wildlife veterinary epidemiologist at the Illinois Natural History Survey who led the study with Rydzewski and natural resources and environmental sciences emeritus professor Richard Warner. (The Survey is a unit of the Prairie Research Institute at Illinois.)

“The fact that we found tick larvae feeding so prominently on prairie voles and those ticks were infected and hadn’t had a chance to feed on anything else is a very strong indicator that we are dealing with a different reservoir of Lyme disease that deserves more attention,” Mateus-Pinilla said.

The researchers hypothesize that when newly hatched ticks find themselves on the prairie, they latch on to the first small mammal that comes along, which in most cases is a prairie vole (white-footed mice prefer the forest). The abundance of prairie voles in the prairie is much lower than that of the white-footed mice in the forest, so more tick larvae and nymphs end up on the same few prairie voles. Since the number of ticks per animal is higher on the prairie, the likelihood of infection is higher there as well.

“The landscape of Illinois, especially the northern and central area, is very fragmented with agricultural and other development, so there aren’t really big continuous areas that are forested,” Rydzewski said. “And so maybe these ticks are finding new habitats to establish themselves in because of the lack of previous habitats.”

“What’s exciting about the new findings is that we are dealing with potentially new mechanisms of disease transmission that we just have not explored and perhaps we do not understand,” Mateus-Pinilla said. “We need to think outside of what we already know about Lyme disease transmission.”

The new study appears in the journal Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases.

Researchers from the U. of I. department of pathobiology and Michigan State University also contributed to this study.

Editor's note: To contact Nohra Mateus-Pinilla, call 217-333-6856; email nohram@illinois.edu. The paper, “Ixodes scapularis and Borrelia burgdorferi Among Diverse Habitats Within a Natural Area in East-Central Illinois,” in the journal Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases, is available from the U. of I. News Bureau.

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A Deadly New Reason to Avoid Deer Ticks - Healthy Living Center - Everyday Health

Hi my friends,

It has been awhile since I have posted on my blog. I have been battling a flareup in my Lyme disease. I am back on Rocephin treatments again. This time I have a Groshong catheterin my chest and we are using a push syringe to deliver the medicine. I am hoping that a few months of this treatment will go along ways in making me feel better. Below is a great article about Babesiosis from our friends at Healthday news.

Be well,

Richard


HealthDay News

A Deadly New Reason to Avoid Deer Ticks

A little-known illness they're spreading can be fatal, especially to people with a weak immune system.

By Maureen Salamon, HealthDay News

WEDNESDAY, July 6 (HealthDay News) — Move over, Lyme disease: Another tick-borne illness is on the rise in various parts of the country, and this one can kill.

Known as babesiosis, the disease is caused by a microscopic parasite that attacks blood cells, causing flu-like symptoms that can make it difficult to accurately diagnose. Like Lyme disease, which is caused by bacteria, babesia microti parasites are carried by deer ticks.

First documented in Massachusetts in 1969, the once-obscure babesiosis has surfaced as a significant public health threat in parts of the Northeast and Upper Midwest over the last several years. A recent study in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases, published by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, revealed that between 2001 and 2008 cases climbed from six to 119 in New York's Lower Hudson Valley -- a 20-fold regional increase.

And many cases may be escaping detection, experts say.

"I think it's underreported. One of the reasons we're seeing more about it is because people are becoming more aware," said Dr. Peter Krause, a babesiosis researcher and senior research scientist at the Yale University School of Public Health. "The theory is that it's spreading from east to west, as if you were dropping a pebble in a pond and it spread outward geographically."

About 1,000 cases are reported annually in affected locales, Krause said, but many people with babesiosis have no symptoms and never know they're harboring the parasite. For others, symptoms can include high fever, severe headache, fatigue, chills, and muscle aches and pains. It is treated with antimicrobial drugs, such as antibiotics.

People with compromised immune systems -- including the elderly and those with cancer, HIV or no spleens -- are especially at risk of potentially deadly complications such as organ failure. Between 10 percent and 20 percent of patients in those populations die as a result, Krause said.

The more prolific Lyme disease causes similar symptoms in early stage cases but is easier to diagnose by its telltale bullseye rash, said Dr. Barbara Herwaldt, a medical epidemiologist at the CDC who specializes in parasitic conditions.

Deer are pivotal to the life cycle of ticks carrying the babesia microti parasite by serving as a blood meal, shelter and a place to mate, Krause said. Ticks also feed on birds, who serve as carriers for Lyme disease, which affects the entire continental United States. Fortunately for humans, birds don't carry babesia microti.

Krause noted that ticks need a moist climate to thrive, so dry states such as Arizona are not likely to see babesiosis cases caused by tick bites. But the disease can potentially spread to all states in an even sneakier way -- through the blood supply.

Although a blood screening test is in trials, Krause said, donors are currently only asked if they have had babesiosis, and those who harbored it but never showed symptoms can pass it through their donated blood. And because most blood recipients are already physically compromised, babesiosis has about a 30 percent mortality rate in that group, he said.

"Getting babesiosis through the blood supply is a rare event and people shouldn't panic," he said. "I don't think it will reach a crisis level, but it's still a concern."

To help prevent babesiosis, the CDC advises people with compromised immune systems or other vulnerabilities to avoid tick-infested wooded areas, particularly during warm months. The agency also recommends that everyone walk in the middle of trails and avoid bushy areas with lots of leaves or tall grasses and to use the repellent DEET and pre-treat clothes with an insect repellent containing permethrin before going outdoors.

The CDC also recommends doing full-body checks and showering within a few hours of being in the woods, as well as tossing used clothes in the dryer to kill any ticks that might be hiding there.

The authors of the study also advised clinicians to consider babesiosis in patients who have been exposed to ticks or received blood products and who show up for treatment with a fever and anemia resulting from the destruction of red blood cells.

American Red Cross and the Blood Supply

Hi everyone,

A new video informs us that the blood supply is being checked for Lyme disease and Babesia. The direct link to this video is http://www.kare11.com/video/default.aspx?bctid=969796885001.

This is an interesting video and certainly is proof positive that Lyme disease and associated diseases are getting more attention. Thanks to KARE 11 television station in Minneapolis-St. Paul for this great piece.

Be well,

Richard

Great Article a must read!

Hi everyone,

Please check out this great article from Hagerstown Magazine. The direct link is http://www.hagerstownmagazine.com/articleDetail.aspx?id=1737.



Once Bitten: Lyme Disease
For Lyme Disease Sufferers, Severe Symptoms Don’t Always Lead to a Clear Diagnosis.

by Rachel Pappas + photos by Jamie Turner

• • •

For 15 years, Hagerstown’s Sagittarius Salon & Spa Owner Marsha Knicley-Masood suffered brain fog, chronic fatigue and trouble breathing. The dozen endocrinologists, cardiologists and neurologists she met couldn’t offer a clear diagnosis, and doctors at Johns Hopkins Infectious Diseases Department assumed she had an infection, though they knew not what it was. Marsha, now 63, who once played 18 holes of golf, cut back to two holes, then to one, then couldn’t even sit up. “I’d come home from my shop Saturdays and get into bed until Wednesday when I had to go back in,” she recalls. “I felt so sick that even the sheets hurt.”

Lyme titer and Western blot tests, which identify antibodies the immune system produces to fight bacteria, found the culprit — Lyme disease. Maryland has the sixth highest prevalence of the disease in the country, and it is near epidemic proportions in Frederick and Washington counties — with the Washington County Health Department tallying 50 possible cases over a two-month period in the spring of 2010. Even so, the disease, caused by the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi and contracted through deer ticks, is underreported in the region, say local practitioners. “Most medical doctors are not educated to recognize it, and there is no campaign to educate the public,” says Marianne Rothschild, M.D., a family practitioner in Mount Airy, Md., who also is certified in holistic medicine. Dr. Rothschild says it’s hard to recognize if you don’t get the bull’s-eye rash, a common indicator of Lyme, but one that 20–40 percent of sufferers neither get nor notice.

Marsha did not get the bull’s-eye rash and was shocked after learning of her diagnosis. “I had been tested at Johns Hopkins several times, and all tests were negative.” The disease is said to lay dormant for years in some sufferers, and Marsha’s symptoms didn’t begin until shortly after she caught spinal meningitis at 48 years old. Marsha and her doctors assume she contracted Lyme from a tick bite during one of her many childhood summers along the Potomac River, but the meningitis may have triggered an onset of symptoms more recently.

‘Under Our Skin’
While most sufferers are symptom free after a month on antibiotics, for some patients the disease is hard to treat. Even after her diagnosis and antibiotic treatment, Marsha still experienced vomiting, diarrhea, fatigue and chills. Recently, much of her pain was alleviated through three months of at-home, long-term IV therapy, in combination with herbs, probiotics and an infrared sauna. Most herbs are trial and error, but Marsha says she benefited from resveratrol, maca and others. Supplements such as vitamins B-12 and D3, alpha lipoic acid, glutathione and artemisinin have helped as well.

At her small practice, Dr. Rothschild sees two to three cases of Lyme weekly during tick season (spring and fall). She refers the toughest cases to Greg Lee, an acupuncturist, herbalist and co-founder/owner of Two Frogs Healing Center in Frederick. Greg says the biggest challenge with diagnosing Lyme is that it often looks like other diseases, such as arthritis, flu, lupus and fibromyalgia. “Another problem is that the medical community is going on old guidelines,” he says. “To this day, medical textbooks say treat Lyme with short rounds of antibiotics.” They say the blood must contain five of 10 antibodies for a Lyme diagnosis; however, more recent research suggests a patient can produce three or four and still be positive. “Some patients will go on for five years before producing more antibodies,” Greg says. “By then, the infection gets stuck in the body.”

Frank Boddicker is a classic case of Lyme caught late — eight years after he began seeing doctors who misdiagnosed him with everything from depression and flu, to sinusitis and hypochondria. The 58-year-old contracted the disease 30 years ago, before the medical community knew of Lyme. He believes he was infected after a tick bit him during a trip to Summit Point Raceway near Summit Point, W.Va., leaving the classic bull’s-eye rash days later. Frank was a fitness addict, lifting weights three times a day, running every morning, hiking and biking. Then, he was stricken with flu-like symptoms, debilitating fatigue and later Bells Palsy, also associated with Lyme.

Today, Frank lives in a trailer in the woods outside of Knoxville and is on disability because, even now, his fatigue won’t subside. “I finally found a doctor that put me on long-term antibiotics. It put me back to where I’d been for three years. I was able to go back to work.” Frank says rest and supplements have helped, as well as avoiding gluten, dairy and shellfish. “But having the infection for so long and my age have caught up with me, and I have slipped.”

For years Frank has reached out to other Lyme sufferers. He started support groups in Frederick and Hagerstown but shut them both down when members became too sick to attend. Frank still fields calls from patients throughout the Washington, D.C., Baltimore and West Virginia areas, offering advice on supplements and probiotics, and encouraging callers to find a “Lyme-literate doctor.” Marsha, too, is a strong advocate of Lyme disease awareness. At Sagittarius, she sells a film called “Under Our Skin,” an Academy Award-nominated documentary that educates viewers on diagnosis, treatment and how to find a Lyme specialist. “People I don’t even know call me every week,” she says. “I tell them to see ‘Under Our Skin’ and read ‘Cure Unknown.’ They’re excellent sources for learning how to get good care. And, when you read about others who’ve experienced it, you don’t feel so crazy.”

The Sooner, The Better
Jon Weaver is one of the lucky guys; his Lyme disease was caught fairly early. The 35-year-old Frederick resident contracted Lyme in 2007. “My symptoms began in winter, which is an odd time to get Lyme because we aren’t outside a lot and ticks aren’t active,” he says. Jon’s initial symptom was a constant tightness in his right knee, which continued to get worse. “It filled with fluid, and later my left elbow got a large, swollen puss ball on it.”

Jon thought his ailment was a soccer injury. “Being a typical guy, I figured it would go away and waited two months to see a doctor.” He then endured three grueling months of doctors’ visits and misdiagnoses, even after blood work and an MRI. Jon was scheduled for knee surgery, until the orthopedic surgeon he was referred to discovered the problem was actually Lyme disease and began treatment. “About three months after I started antibiotics I was able to hike, then jog and finally got back on the bike,” Jon says. “Getting to normal speed and strength took four months.” He’s been symptom free for several years and was told he is cured.

Doctors say more accurate tests for diagnosing the disease are in the works, including those that screen for newly identified mutations found in people with Lyme, but they are years from FDA approval. In the meantime, it is important to remember to be your own strongest health advocate. Dr. Rothschild urges anyone bitten to take the tick to Clongen Labs in Germantown, Md. “Patients can download information on Clongen’s site on what to do. I urge them to take the situation in their own hands.” Jon advises anyone with flu-like symptoms and persistent fatigue to do their homework, and consider Lyme disease as a possible ailment. “Don’t let [doctors] shrug it off,” he says. “Get a test, and get a second opinion on the results.”

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A Closer Look
Knowledge is Power When It Comes to Recognizing and Treating the Symptoms of Lyme Disease.

Symptoms
• Often a red rash that looks like a bull’s-eye
• Ongoing fatigue
• Shortness of breath
• Intermittent aches and pains
• Confusion and forgetfulness
• Trouble with balance, digestion and sometimes heart problems (in severe cases that have gone unchecked)

To diagnose
• Patients should get a full panel of blood work, including the Lyme titer and Western blot test
• Take infected tick to Clongen Lab in Germantown for further testing. Visit www.clongen.com.

Treatments
• Antibiotics for 30 days if caught early, longer if the infection persists
• Vitamins
• Probiotics
• Lymphatic drainage
• Detox techniques such as infrared sauna and brushing. Brushing is circular motions with a hand-held brush starting at the feet, working up toward the heart, followed by brushing the arms, again working toward the heart.
• A diet that is low in or free of dairy and gluten, free of shellfish, and includes meats without hormones and preservatives

For more information on the symptoms, diagnosis procedures and treatments for Lyme disease, visit www.cdc.gov.

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Ticked Off
Guard Against Ticks and Bites With These Helpful Tips.

Ticks prefer to live in wooded areas, low-growing grasslands, seashores and yards. Lyme disease is a year-round problem, although April through October is considered tick season, with ticks being very active in the spring and early summer. Limiting possible exposure to ticks reduces the likelihood of infection to tick-borne diseases, and a careful inspection and prompt removal of crawling or attached ticks is crucial. The Washington County Health Department recommends these precautions in areas where ticks are present:

• Wear light-colored clothing, which allows you to see ticks that are crawling on your clothing. Tuck your pants legs into your socks so that ticks cannot crawl up the inside of your pants legs.
• Apply repellents to discourage tick attachment. Repellents containing permethrin can be sprayed on boots and clothing, and will last for several days. Repellents containing DEET (N,N-diethyl-meta-toluamide) can be applied to the skin, but will last only a few hours before reapplication is necessary. Follow instructions carefully, and use DEET with caution on children.
• Conduct a body check upon return from potentially tick-infested areas by searching your entire body for ticks. Use a hand-held or full-length mirror to view all parts of your body — including under your arms, in your belly button, and in and around your ears. Remove any tick you find on your body.
• Check children for ticks, especially in the hair, when returning from potentially tick-infested areas. Ticks may also be carried into the household on clothing and pets and only attach later, so both should be examined carefully to exclude ticks.

Visit www.cdc.gov/Features/StopTicks for additional tips and information on reducing ticks in your yard.

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Loss, Pain, and Frustration

Here is another article that we read all too often. It was authored by By Victoria Ross, Springfield Connection, Connection
Newspapers, Alexandria, Virginia.


Lyme Disease: Epidemic ‘Largely Ignored’
Governor’s Task Force on Lyme disease hears stories of loss, pain and frustration.

By Victoria Ross Thursday, March 31, 2011

Tricia Platas, a Springfield mother of four, sat in front of Gov. Bob McDonnell’s Lyme Disease Task Force on Tuesday, March 24, clenched her hands together, and testified about losing her 9-year-old daughter, Amber Marie, to Lyme disease.

“It was a few months after her ninth birthday when we really knew something was wrong,” Platas said. “She woke up one morning in so much pain that she could not walk to the bathroom. This was a little girl who loved to laugh, loved to sing and dance, Amber was the light of our lives.”
Platas cried when she told the panel and 120 attendees how desperate she was to make the many doctors she saw with Amber to take her daughter’s “mysterious” illness seriously. In her frantic search for a cure, she took Amber to a doctor who strapped the little girl to a bed, and waved foul-smelling oils in her face. “Amber was screaming. I just can’t believe anyone would do that,” she said.

“I wanted them to treat my little girl right, so I wouldn’t always ask the right questions, or demand answers. I feel terrible about that,” she said. “You have to push for answers.”

Amber Marie Platas died on April 22, 2002, at Children’s National Medical Center.

Platas was one of 25 area patients and caregivers who testified about their experiences with Lyme disease at Immanuel Bible Church in Springfield. They shared stories of pain, fear and fatigue with the eight-member panel of health department officials and legislators’ representatives. It was the fifth public testimony hearing about the spread of Lyme disease in the Commonwealth.

Led by Michael Farris, chancellor of Patrick Henry College in Purcellville, the task force will propose recommendations to the governor after its final hearing April 25. Farris’ wife and seven of his 10 children have been diagnosed with Lyme disease. The task force is comprised of physicians, wildlife officials, veterinarians and other experts.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 900 new cases of Lyme disease were reported in Virginia in 2009, a number the CDC acknowledges could be ten times higher due to under-reporting and inaccurate diagnostic tests. In Fairfax County, 250 cases were reported last year, according to the Fairfax County Health Department.

A deer tick takes about 36 hours to transmit Lyme disease, according to the CDC. The longer the disease goes undiagnosed and untreated, the greater the chances are for brain, heart and joint problems.

“We’re here tonight to listen to people’s stories, hear their recommendations and advocate for more public awareness and education,” Farris said.

A well-known constitutional lawyer, Farris is the founder of the Home School Legal Defense Association (HSDLA) and Patrick Henry College, a Christian liberal arts college that is aimed at home-schooled students.

“Lyme disease is dramatically misdiagnosed, and there is too much denial by doctors that chronic Lyme does not exist,” Farris said.

Mikey Pedersen, a 14-year-old Vienna resident, told the panel that his case of Lyme disease went undiagnosed for a year despite seven doctor visits. He said doctors attributed his symptoms to growing pains. The delayed diagnosis allowed Lyme and co-infections to spread throughout his body causing rashes, severe joint pain, and fatigue.

Kristina Sheridan, a Vienna mother of a teenage daughter with Lyme disease, told the panel her family spent four years seeing 30 doctors, visiting seven hospitals and receiving more than 15 diagnoses before they found a team of doctors determined to get her daughter well.

She gave the panel a list of specific recommendations for the panel to consider, including spraying the edges of school fields and soccer fields with Permethrin, an insect repellant, to kill ticks as well as West Nile Virus.

"I've no doubt both my kids got bitten by ticks on soccer fields,” she said. Sheridan also said parents of children diagnosed with Lyme need to understand the process for Special Education Certification for “other health issues.”

“This certification provides families and the school with the flexibility needed to handle the waxing and waning symptoms, the additional days of absence,” Sheridan said.
Sarah Beasley, a 29-year-old Fairfax woman, told the panel that she is living proof chronic Lyme exists. In 2000, she was a senior at James Madison University and participated in Army ROTC for fun. But then she started having serious muscle and joint pains.

“As soon as each day was done, I’d limp to my apartment and crash into bed,” she said. “My whole life, I had been a six-hours-kind-of-sleep-girl. Suddenly, I would sleep for 13 hours and wake up feeling like I had been hit by a Mac truck.” After 10 years and more than 10 different doctors, Beasley, the director of a local education association, said she is on the path to wellness.

At the end of her testimony, she dumped out a large bag of medications, herbs, supplements and vitamins. “Please understand that it takes all of these to keep me going in the way that I need to function,” she said. “Without them, I will be that girl that is confined again to the downstairs couch.” She added that she wants the panel to encourage research and protect doctors who actually understand “this spreading, debilitating disease.”

Marjorie Veiga, a Lyme disease patient consultant and mother of a teen daughter diagnosed with Lyme disease, said the biggest myth about Lyme disease is that it is easily diagnosed and treated.

“It is difficult to diagnose due to the unreliable screening tests and due to the migrating and remitting symptoms,” she said. “Also, ticks can carry multiple pathogens. If these are not diagnosed and treated, the patient may continue to be unresponsive to multiple therapies.”

“These heartrending cases of misdiagnosis, financial ruin, and social isolation are difficult to hear as we travel throughout Virginia,” Farris said. “But it is important to gather first-hand testimonies about the personal impact of long-term illness. One of our most important goals is to allow people to be heard.”

The final Task Force hearing on the educational needs in Lyme and tick-borne disease will be Monday, April 25, at 1 p.m. in Fairfax. The location of the meeting has not been announced.

“I was so moved by all the stories given at the meeting that night,” Platas said in an interview after the three-hour hearing. “It saddens me to see how many people are still being made sick by this horrible little bug.

Supervisor Pat Herrity (R-Springfield) attended the hearing, and has listed Lyme Disease Awareness as one of his priorities.

In 2009, Herrity, along with Supervisor Michael Frey (R-Sully), conducted a town hall symposium on Lyme disease at Centreville High School. He said he became concerned about the prevalence of the disease after hearing from many of his constituents afflicted with the disease.

“We have an epidemic that we’re largely ignoring,” he said, adding that he hopes the panel considers that one of their recommendations should be to pass legislation similar to that enacted in Connecticut, where doctors are allowed to prescribe extended doses of antibiotics without fear of malpractice lawsuits.

According to “The Connecticut Post,” passage of the bill in May 2009, which allows physicians to diagnose chronic Lyme disease, and treat it with long-term antibiotics was one of the “cornerstone moments of Lyme disease politics over the last decade.”

Similar bills have been introduced in Rhode Island Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, New York and Maryland that would compel insurance companies to pay for antibiotic treatment for chronic Lyme disease CLD.

“For Swine Flu, we went on full red-alert, but more people are afflicted with Lyme disease, and it’s time we take it seriously,” Herrity said.

Those who did not attend the hearings, but want to share how they’ve been affected by the disease may e-mail Farris at lyme@phc.edu.

Over the Edge

Hi Friends,

I need to inform you of a great new book written by a woman who has struggled with Lyme disease. Her name is Brandilyn Collins and the book is titled Over the Edge. It is a suspense novel in which the main character struggles with Lyme disease. Here is a link to see for your self, http://www.lymedisease.org/news/touchedbylyme/overtheedge.html

This book is a great read so don't hesitate to get your own copy. You can draw your own conclusions about whether you think she had done a good job capturing the struggles of having Lyme disease.

Be well,

Richard

Lyme Disease

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Lyme disease cookbook

New Lyme Disease Cookbook Provides Delicious Recipes and
Encouraging Inspiration for Doctor's Healing Diet

December 1, 2010, Sunapee, New Hampshire -- The new book
Recipes for Repair: A Lyme Disease Cookbook, is now
available from Peconic Publishing, LLC.

The book includes 151 recipes plus practical tips designed
to help anyone feel better through healthier eating. It is
especially helpful for people with Lyme disease and other
ailments, as it supports the anti-inflammation diet
developed by Kenneth B. Singleton, MD, MPH, in his 2008 book
The Lyme Disease Solution.

Co-author and photographer Laura Piazza became familiar with
Dr. Singleton’s Lyme Inflammation Diet® when researching her
own chronic Lyme disease.
Laura asked her mother, Gail Piazza, to develop additional
recipes for the diet. (Gail has an MA from NYU in Food and
Nutrition and specializes in recipe development.) The
extremely satisfying results inspired the pair to propose a
companion cookbook to Dr. Singleton. Recipes for Repair: A
Lyme Disease Cookbook is the result.

"Gail and Laura have created a book that is not only
healthful, but also beautiful and easy to put into
practice," writes Dr. Singleton in his foreword. "Food-based
healing is possible, and Recipes for Repair: A Lyme Disease
Cookbook is a wonderful resource to help you accomplish your
healing goals in a way that’s highly satisfying to all of
your senses."

The authors worked with Dr. Singleton to update the diet
based on his experience using it with patients. The cookbook
includes fifty food modifications, a revamped description of
principles and practices, and new guidelines addressing
specific health issues.

The new recipes support the Lyme diet while being delicious
and appealing enough for everyone to enjoy. Clear, simple
directions, basic definitions and cooking tips, and
practical, money-saving suggestions help cooks with any
degree of experience. Dietary preferences are accommodated
by the inclusion of many vegetarian, low-sugar, and gluten-,
dairy-, or egg-free recipes, all highlighted and
cross-referenced. Beautiful color photos and a clear and
attractive layout help provide inspiration and encouragement.

Sample recipes and more information can be found on the
book's website:
http://www.recipesforrepair.com

Source:
http://www.recipesforrepair.com/news/press-release-120110.html

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