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Lyme disease And Addiction: Understanding The Connection

June 1, 2014

Lyme Disease- Introduction and History

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Lyme disease alert

Lyme disease, by definition, is a bacterial infection that humans contract when they are bitten by an infected deer tick. It’s caused by a spirochete whose scientific name is Borrelia burgdorferi. In Europe, the disease may also be due to another bactreia, the Borrelia afzelli. The disease has in most cases been branded the “Great Imitator” due to the fact that its symptoms often confuse with those of several other diseases. An individual with the disease may be affected in the joints, heart, skin and the nervous system. Lyme disease is not contagious from one infected individual to a non-infected person as the infection is spread through infected deer ticks.

The infection develops in two phases. The first phase often identifies as a red spot that appears to be expanding at the spot where the bite occurred. The spot is often noticeable for between three and thirty (3-30) days. In some cases, flu-like symptoms for example, headaches, tiredness, joints and muscles pain are experienced.

If the infection goes untreated after the first phase, it may develop into a more serious and chronic type, months or years later. The chronic type, every so often described as chronic Lyme disease, may trigger symptoms identical to those of chronic fatigue syndrome or fibromyalgia.

Lyme disease surfaced in 1982 from a research done in Lyme, Connecticut, where the infection was first identified in some children as rheumatoid arthritis. With time, it was revealed that deer ticks are the carriers of the Lyme bacterium that caused the disease. The ticks acts as vectors which transmit the disease whenever they bite humans. In discussing Lyme disease and addiction, we will try to identify the connection between these two conditions and see how Lyme disease has a possibility of driving one into addiction.

As you already understand that Lyme disease is a bacterial infection, its link to addiction probably comes in how the disease is treated through administration of antibiotics. It’s now evident through research that antibiotics overdose or abuse may lead into addiction. But first, let’s discuss the symptoms of Lyme disease and its treatment.

Symptoms of Lyme disease And the Connection to a Possible Addiction

Lyme disease affects different body parts as it develops. First, the bacteria enters the skin and body at the point where the tick bite occurred. This point becomes reddish with time, and as the bacteria moves away from the bite, it leaves an expanding reddish rush which resembles “flu-like” symptoms.

The disease is medically assessed and described in three identified phases:

  • Early localized disease with skin inflammation
  • Early disseminated disease with heart & nervous system involvement, and sometimes incudes palsies and meningitis
  • Late disease which features motor and sensory nerve damage, brain inflammation as well as arthritis.

Early in the first phases of the illness, say after days to weeks of the bite, a rush develops on the skin around the area of the bite. Sometimes and in a few victims, a special ring called the erythema migrans, develops and resembles a bull’s eye in a dart board. In some, the rash goes unidentified. As the skin becomes red, there may be accompanying symptoms like muscle and joint stiffness, generalized fatigue, swollen lymph nodes and a headache, all of which may be confused to a viral infection.

The redness may disappear in about a month even without any treatment and the effects of the bacteria spreads in the body, causing abnormalities in the nervous system, heart and joints.

In the later stages, severe symptoms are witnessed and may include:

  • Inflammation of the heart muscle leading to abnormal heart rhythms and heart failure
  • Nervous system develops facial muscle paralysis (Bell’s palsy)
  • Abnormal sensation due to disease of peripheral nerves (peripheral neuropathy)
  • Meningitis
  • Confusion
  • Arthritis, or inflammation in the joints

Researchers have realized that anxiety and depression are also common with people experiencing increased rate of Lyme disease. This makes this condition a possible addiction source as these two conditions are similar to those of withdrawals.

The link between Lyme disease treatment and addiction

Lyme Disease

An infected Human Hand

The treatment of Lyme disease demands the use of antibiotics to fight the bacterial infection. Also, some of the symptoms of Lyme disease sometimes include swollen glands of lymph nodes which are very painful. As such, administration of pain relievers might be necessary. With the fact that narcotic pain relievers are the best, their use will be encouraged in such situations. Most of these drugs are addictive.

As Lyme disease mimics several other diseases’ symptoms, it’s commonly misdiagnosed in its chronic state for other diseases and as a result, wrong antibiotics given. The effect of this is that wrong antibiotics are introduced into the body which creates antibodies for the antibiotics. As a result, there is a possibility of resistance to antibiotics developing. Another factor in this perspective is the fact that most antibiotics are administered to treat infections that are rather viral than bacterial.

In treating Lyme disease, the administration of antibiotics depends on the level or stage of the infection. If strong antibiotics are used in the early stages where any mild antibiotic would get rid of the infections, the possibility of resistance to antibiotics increases.

Whenever there is resistance to antibiotics, there is a likelihood of overuse or abuse (excess drug intake) to treat the condition as the effect of the drug diminishes. The body begins to tolerate the effects and thus demands for more or stronger pills (which is one way in which addiction develops).

Finally….

Addiction is a serious condition that threatens life if left untreated. As such any condition that may force one into the path of addiction, irrespective of the form of addiction, is fatal and should be minimized in all ways possible. As such and with the fact that Lyme disease is likely to be confused with other diseases, there is a pressing need to consult only trained and well experienced professional doctors, like Dr. Dalal Akoury of Awaremed. With her vast experience in the medical practice, she has the right mix of skills, knowledge and experience to offer the right treatment for Lyme disease and addiction.

Be it that you’re a physician or a patient in need of a life transforming addiction treatment, Dr. Dalal Akoury provides training and treatment in all aspects of addiction- the genetics and epigenetics of addiction. She’s an expert in all addiction treatments, including NAD and NADH treatment for addiction. Get in touch for her life-changing treatments and training.

Lyme Disease- Introduction and History

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Lyme disease and Climate Change

March 11, 2014

Lyme disease and Climate Change-New Findings

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Research has found out that Lyme disease is greatly associated with climate change.

Historically, Lyme disease is heavily present in the Northeastern United States due to its moderate climate. The feeding period of these ticks in the northeast is being prolonged due to the extended summer temperatures, allowing more time for uninfected larval ticks to become a carrier of the Lyme disease-causing bacteria. Researchers at Yale University have seen clear implications that as the planet warms, more reports of Lyme disease will be expected in the upper Midwest to match the amount of cases in the upper Northeast.

Lyme disease and Climate Change-Borrelia burgdorferi

Borrelia burgdorferi is the name of the bacteria that causes Lyme disease and the nymphal deer tick is the carrier of this pathogen, contracting it from its blood meal. When a pathogen carrying tick bites, the bacteria enters the bloodstream and the victim becomes infected

Lyme disease and Climate Change-Transportation of Lyme disease

Deer ticks have an average two year life span, with three main life stages larval, nymphal and adult. They obtain one meal consisting of blood during each main life phase in order to survive. If the source of their meal is infected with the Lyme disease-causing bacteria (Borrelia burgdorferi) then it is passed onto the tick. In the tick’s nymphal stage, it passes the infection to its next meal source human or other animal. This feeding cycle is seasonal and innately influenced by climate.

Lyme disease and Climate Change-How Lyme Enters the Food Chain

At the propagation of the larval deer tick is born it is not born as a carrier of the disease. The ticks need to obtain sustenance in order to survive; this nutrition comes in the form of a blood meal which they obtain by sucking the blood of other animals. If the larval tick gets a blood meal from a deer or in a more likely case, a mouse already carrying the disease, the larval tick is then infected with B. burgdorferi.

In order to reach the next phase of the tick’s life, the tick must obtain another blood meal in its nymphal stage, and in the feeding process the tick passes the pathogen on to its meal source, which in some cases is a human. The human will, as a result, become a host for the pathogen. Deer have been the main suspect in being the carrier of the B. burgdorferi, but research shows that this may not be the case because the deer has the ability to flush the disease out of its system. The new suspect is the white-footed mouse, whose body does not entirely dispose of the bacteria.

Lyme disease and Climate Change-What Climate Change means for Lyme disease?

Climate change will have the following effects on Lyme disease: An acceleration of the tick’s developmental cycle, a prolonged developmental cycle, increased egg production, increased population density, and a broader range of risk areas. The ideal habitat for these disease-carrying ticks is one with 85% humidity and a temperature higher than 45°F. The tick finds a suitable microclimate by using its thermo receptors.

Once the larvae have molted into the nymphal stage, the winter forces them to remain dormant until spring. An adult tick no longer needs to hibernate during the winter, so these ticks may become active on warm winter days, yielding a larger nymph population the following year. With an earlier winter thawing, nymphal-staged ticks will become active sooner. The warmer winters will also allow for a higher survival rate of the white-footed mouse, a popular host for the ticks, meaning an increased tick population in the spring and summer.

After discovering how global warming could impact on infectious disease, scientists from Yale University, in collaboration with other institutions, have determined that climate impacts the severity of Lyme disease by influencing the feeding patterns of deer ticks that carry and transmit it.

But, as the Yale team demonstrates, it’s the seasonal cycle of feeding for each stage of the tick’s life that determines the severity of infection in a given region. The researchers found that this cycle is heavily influenced by climate. In the moderate climate of the Northeastern United States, larval deer ticks feed in the late summer, long after the spring feeding of infected nymphs. This long gap between feeding times directly correlates to more cases of Lyme disease reported in the Northeast by the scientists.

When there is a longer gap, the most persistent infections are more likely to survive. These persistent bacterial strains cause more severe disease in humans, leading more people to seek medical attention and resulting in more cases.

But in the Midwest, where there are greater extremes of temperature, there is a shorter window of opportunity for tick feeding, and therefore a shorter gap between nymphal and larval feedings. Due to this, Midwestern wildlife and ticks are infected with less persistent strains, which correlates with fewer cases of Lyme disease reported in the Midwest.

The clear implication of this research is that, as the planet warms, the Upper Midwest could find itself in the same situation as the Northeast: longer gaps between nymphal and larval feeding, and therefore, stronger, more persistent strains of Lyme disease. Other diseases, like malaria, have also been projected to expand in response to climate change, but this is the first study to show how the severity of disease can also be related to climate.

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Lyme disease and Stress

March 11, 2014

Lyme disease and Stress-Negative Emotions

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Stress and Lyme disease put together brings more harm to human

All of us at some point go through some stressful moments and have high emotions. From a personal experience I want to share with you about the happenings in my work place and my life having been a victim of Lyme disease. In my work routine I interact with many clients of different types, I have always found common links/threads in the emotional patterns with the clients I attend to.

Because I had chronic Lyme disease and about half of my clients have it too, I will outline some of the common emotional denominators I see with this disease. The same is also common with other chronic physical manifestations that involve the immune system. However, they are always part of what I work with when seeing a client with chronic Lyme disease who hasn’t been making any progress in their treatment.

Lyme disease and Stress-How These Affect Us

Unresolved emotional issues and negative emotional patterns can put a huge stress on the immune system, which can allow a disease to take over. Our immune systems are our bodies’ greatest protection. Stress hormones have been found to inhibit the production of cytokines, the agents of the immune system that responds to danger. This response causes these cells to overreact and create an inflammatory response that is over the top, often creating a greater problem than the original danger.

Our systems cannot distinguish the difference between a negative emotional pattern, trauma or wound; or a real threat to our physical health. If the emotional issue or trauma does not get released, our bodies can remain in a perpetual state of stress. Clearing these emotional issues can be highly beneficial in releasing the immune system from suppression.

In my opinion, a disease always serves a purpose that is to keep us safe, to allow us justification to not be perfect, to force us to care for ourselves when we’d otherwise feel too guilty, to make us re-assess how we live, our relationships, and the list goes on.

The only way our body has to communicate with us is with symptoms, and it does a very good job using them to get our attention. Once you take away the body’s reason to try to get your attention, it is amazing how the symptoms can start to fall away because they have no purpose anymore. Ask yourself what is your body trying to tell you?

Lyme disease and Stress-Common Emotional Patterns Leading to Stress

Self-criticism or fear of not being perfect: This is a huge one. My Lyme disease clients are some of the ones that beat themselves up the most about everything. I can attest to having been one of the best examples of these people (and still have to work on it to this day). This process is so unconscious that many people don’t realize it until we start to break down what’s really going on. Some ways this shows up are fear and guilt. If these are themes in your life, chances are that you’re probably a highly self-critical person.

I often recall something a friend used to tell me when I was struggling with chronic health issues: “The mind leads and the body follows” If we are constantly telling ourselves, we aren’t good enough, or criticizing every little thing why do we think the body has any reason to feel deserving of health, and ever come into line with that? What messages are you giving to yourself? Once that you deserve to be healthy, or ones that allow your mind and body to justify that you’re in exactly the right place with deserving the punishment of an illness. Our bodies listen to us – make sure you’re not sending the wrong messages.

Lyme disease and Stress-Inability to trust yourself and/or the flow of life (has to be in control)
Another one I always see is inability to trust – which leads to a feeling of being unsafe in the world. This is the person who tries to control everything. This one is not only completely exhausting, but never works either. We always tend to think that our analytic selves know better than anything or anyone how to run our lives. But, it’s not always true. We over-plan, over research, kill ourselves getting every perspective from every doctor everywhere. But the sheer amount of energy this consumes, takes an unbelievable toll on the body and mind.

How would things be different if you followed the flow of where life was trying to take you? For those of you who believe in the Universe and God, how would things be different if just for a while, we considered they knew more than us? And also considered that our inner selves know what feels right for us? What if we stopped over-researching, over controlling, over analyzing everything and just followed what felt right?

I believe there is an absolute flow to life and by trying to control the path precisely using logic, you may be steering yourself away from the very place you’re meant to go.

I saw a massive shift in my health when I was finally able to just let go…stop holding myself to unrealistic treatment rules I made for myself….trust that if I was feeling something wasn’t the right road for me despite what others’ said, it would be ok. You can’t imagine the strain on your body that’s released when you get to this point of trusting and letting go.

Lyme disease and Stress-Lyme disease and Stress-Taking on too much responsibility
This one is a pattern of taking on everything! I find these clients to be highly energetically sensitive which can be a gift; but the downfall is it’s too easy to take on everyone else’s crap. Once someone has a chronic illness, this can become exacerbated as they suddenly feel like they have to save everyone from going through these themselves. It perpetuates the problem.

This can show up in a few ways: feeling responsible for other people’s feelings, feeling like you have the responsibility to make sure other’s lives are going right, thinking you know better for someone else than they do, and feeling like you have to save people from their own pain or possible mistakes.

This is dangerous as not only are you draining your own energy, but no one has a right to impede on another’s journey. We each walk on our own and you are interfering when you can’t allow someone else to fully be themselves. This attempt at ‘helping’ other people hurts both parties.

Once someone can work through their need to take responsibility, it can release so much healing energy for their own body.

Lyme disease and Stress-Do Any of These Resonate With You?

If any of these resonate with you, it is a good idea to start watching out for this pattern and even watching for how it might correlate with symptoms. Your body is a messenger and it’s trying to tell you something. How would it change your life if for a while, you tried to really, really listen?

Lyme disease and Stress-Negative Emotions

 

 

 

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Lyme disease on Marriages

March 11, 2014

Lyme disease on Marriages-Its Effects

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Lyme disease can be the cause of rift in marriages if not treated early

Many people suffering from this disease (Lyme disease) are usually not aware of how it can be the contributing factor to the short comings in their marriages or just relationships. Lyme disease can cause increasing irritability and dramatic flares of anger and because of this relationship will almost automatically be affected.

While some Lyme patients become verbally abusive, others lose confidence and withdraw from social situations. For instance a couple who were out going may suddenly find this changing drastically where one is infected with the disease. The healthy one may wonder and ask “what has or is happening to you? We use to go out together and have good time you were so full of life, but now you’re not yourself, you have changed completely.”

This new development in marriages and relationships possess serious need to have the society educated and particularly couples to enable them cope with the new situation. Some Physicians who may not know that Lyme causes personality changes may be dismissive or sharply critical of the patient. This should not be the case instead complete awareness must be embraced.

Lyme disease on Marriages-Domestic Violence

Lyme disease often strikes an entire families and the result is a higher incidence of divorce, family dysfunction, and domestic violence. “Tempers flare and you see increasing conflict. It is like an injury of the brain where patient are less able to think things through, and tend to act impulsively. A mother may suddenly lash out at her child and a husband may lose control and abuse his wife. We must not underestimate the role of infectious disease in domestic violence in our homes.

This can be complicated further if, in addition to Lyme disease, a patient has another tick-borne infection called Babesia, several infections can be transmitted by the same tick, and when Babesia is added to Lyme, this may make the patient more aggressive. “It’s like putting a match to gasoline.” This may explain why there are many cases in court about domestic violence. If not properly managed, then we will continue to hear news of people assaulting and killing their spouses and children more often.

People with Lyme disease alone usually don’t go to these extremes. However, they may be irritable and prone to sudden rages. Young people are the most likely to act out, so many straight-A kids whose grades suddenly start to slip. Then they rebel against the family and start fighting with their peers. They can also turn their rage against themselves. “Feeling suicidal comes in waves and these reactions are very hard to predict. However, these kids generally improve after being treated with antibiotics.”

Lyme disease on Marriages-Losing Control of Life

When Lyme disease goes undiagnosed or isn’t treated long enough it can reined economy of a business enterprise or an individual hence the pronouncement of bankruptcy of businesses and destruction of whole careers.

Recently a chief executive officer (CEO) of an insurance company was diagnosed with Lyme disease and given antibiotics but he over looked the medication and didn’t take them long enough. Months later, his symptoms returned with a vengeance. He had ghoulish nightmares and woke up drenched. At work, he felt anxious and couldn’t concentrate. Eventually he forgot everything he’d learned about insurance. When he neglected to send in a disability payment on his own policy, the company denied his claim. “This man lost tens of thousands of dollars that would have helped him through his illness.” “In the end, he had to sell his building and disband his business.”

People with Lyme disease often have trouble keeping up with ordinary tasks—one Connecticut housewife walked into the library, dumped her dry cleaning on the counter, and waited with increasing irritation for an attendant to help her. Finally a friend walked up and asked, “Don’t you know where you are?”

Lyme disease can also affect the part of the brain that deals with signs and symbols—making it hard to read maps or drive from place to place. A real estate agent with Lyme disease stopped at a traffic light. When the signal turned green she didn’t move. An angry motorist yelled, “What’s the matter with you. Why can’t you go on the green?” The woman replied, “I’ve forgotten what green means.” It may sound funny but it isn’t.

Lyme produces a microedema, or swelling in the brain. This affects your ability to process information. It’s like finding out that there’s LSD in the punch, and you’re not sure what’s going to happen next or if you’re going to be in control of your own thoughts. Physicians say that these symptoms can be alleviated or reversed with antibiotics, but they again stress that Lyme disease must be diagnosed early and treated right away.

Lyme disease on Marriages-Treating Lyme disease

Most doctors prescribe three to four weeks of antibiotics for initial cases of Lyme disease. Yet according to the ILADS, this is not enough. The Lyme bacteria have a “cloaking device” that enables it to hide in the cells and body tissues. If it’s not completely eradicated, symptoms will recur and with great intensity. To avoid relapses, ILADS recommended six to eight weeks of antibiotics.

When Lyme disease moves into a chronic stage, it’s more likely to lead to neurological or psychiatric conditions. Chronic Lyme patients are harder to cure and may need to take antibiotics—orally or intravenously—for months as a time. In this case, ILADS recommends continuing treatment for at least six to eight weeks after all symptoms are resolved.

Lyme disease is often misdiagnosed and it’s costing our healthcare system untold millions of dollars. “No one is spared, neither young nor old and each individual can display a puzzling array of symptoms. This illness can have a wide-ranging effect on marriages, families and jobs.” We must therefore take all the necessary precautions to ensure safety when affected, but better still is to take preventive measures. At least this way we will be safe and well.

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Natural Treatments for Lyme disease

March 5, 2014

Natural Treatments for Lyme disease-An alternative

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Don’t be stressed up with Lyme disease, try the natural ways of treatment

When a patient exhibits a certain combination of these presenting symptoms, we automatically assume we’re dealing with Lyme and treat it as such: Persistent swollen glands, sore throat, fevers, chills, sore soles, especially in the morning, joint pain and/or swelling in fingers, toes, ankles, wrists, knees, elbows, hips, shoulders, numbness in the arms and/or legs, unexplained back pain, stiffness of the joints and back, muscle pain and cramps, obvious muscle weakness, twitching of the face or other muscles, confusion, difficulty thinking, difficulty with concentration, focus and reading, problem absorbing new information, searching for words and names, forgetfulness, poor short term memory, poor attention, disorientation: getting lost, going to wrong places, speech errors, such as wrong words or misspeaking, mood swings, irritability, depression, anxiety, panic attacks, psychosis (hallucinations, delusions), paranoia, bipolar, tremor, seizures, headaches, light and sound sensitivity, double, or blurry vision with floaters, ear pain, hearing problems, such as buzzing, ringing or decreased hearing, increased motion sickness, vertigo, spinning, off balance, “tippy” feeling, lightheadedness, wooziness, unavoidable need to sit or lie, fainting, flu-like feeling, tingling, numbness, burning or stabbing sensations, shooting pains, skin hypersensitivity, facial paralysis-Bell’s Palsy, dental pain, TMJ, neck creaks and cracks, stiffness, neck pain, fatigue, tiredness, poor stamina, insomnia, fractionated sleep, early awakening, excessive night time sleep, napping during the day, unexplained weight gain or loss, unexplained hair loss, pain in genital area, unexplained menstrual irregularity or milk production, breast pain, irritable bladder, erectile dysfunction, loss of libido, queasy stomach, nausea, heartburn, stomach pain, constipation, diarrhea, constipation alternating with diarrhea, low abdominal pain, cramps, heart murmur or valve prolapse, heart palpitations or skips, “Heart block” on EKG, chest wall pain or sore ribs, head congestion, breathlessness, “air hunger,” unexplained chronic cough, night sweats, exaggerated symptoms or worse hangover from alcohol, skin rashes, conjunctivitis (pinkeye), herpes, Zoster/Shingles the list is endless.

It is therefore confusing because a Lyme sufferer may not display the telltale rash (erythema migrans), a painless“ bull’s eye” shaped blotch on the skin the size of a silver dollar, or the more diverse larger rash, or any at all. When the rash is present, there is no doubt that a person has Lyme. However, the rash is only present in about 50% of the cases and may take up to 1 month to even appear. To add insult to injury, many Lyme patients don’t even remember getting bitten as the nymph is very small (about the size of a poppy seed) and can easily go unnoticed.

There are mixed opinions about treatments and simply because someone is listed as a Lyme Literate doctor, it doesn’t necessarily mean that they do anything different than the conventional Doctors when it comes to treatment usually it is antibiotics… although, Lyme Literate Doctors may recognize the importance of recommending some of the tests and symptoms involved in the process.

Naturally, there are splits in the orthodox medical community as well as the alternative community, which have led to divergent diagnoses and treatment of Lyme disease, with the real loser being the patient showing Lyme-like symptoms. These patients are often trapped between opposing medical opinions. Indeed, the severity and treatment of Lyme disease is often complicated due to late diagnoses, failure of antibiotic treatment, and immune suppression in the patient (sometimes resulting from inappropriate treatment with steroids

Taking antibiotics alone isn’t a good idea when knocking out this elusive ailment. Many expert healers say Lyme disease treatment should also include botanicals and exercise. Nevertheless Lyme disease is a complicated infection, tough to diagnose and even harder to treat if doctors miss an early diagnosis, which is all too often the case. Lyme disease treatment is tricky because the most popular blood tests used in most doctors’ offices to detect the disease miss about 55 percent of Lyme cases. If and when a patient finally is diagnosed, it’s sometimes by a clinical evaluation of the symptoms, ones that often mimic other ailments like fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, irritable bowel syndrome, rheumatoid arthritis, and even Alzheimer’s disease.

Complicating matters even further, the hodge-podge collection of symptoms often waxes and wanes and moves from one bodily system to another, making it even harder for doctors to effectively diagnose and treat. Headaches, migrating pain, bowel problems, uncharacteristic mood swings, panic attacks, and sleep disorders are just a few of the symptoms commonly reported in Lyme patients.

Natural Treatments for Lyme disease-Antibiotics Aren’t Always the Only Answer

While antibiotics and other prescription medicines are certainly helpful in treating the disease and the all-to-common tick-borne co-infections that often hitchhike into your body through a tick bite, experts in natural medicine say there’s also a place for holistic remedies in the treatment and management of Lyme disease, particularly in Lyme patients battling a chronic infection and its side effects. Antibiotics alone may not suffice because Lyme disease is caused by an intracellular spirochete bacterium called Borrelia burgdorferi. ”

Intracellular here means that the spirochete gets into the cell and therefore is not always available to the antibiotics. “The cell membrane inadvertently protects the bacteria and shields it from the antibiotics. The bacteria can also hide dormant in the nervous system, among other places, where antibiotic drugs can’t reach them.” The bottom line is that many natural treatments can help heal the body by knocking out the infection and reducing inflammation while also getting an injured immune system back on track. Some of the natural way may include the following.

Natural Treatments for Lyme disease-Natural Ways to Deal with Lyme

Acupuncture: While researchers admit more research is warranted, acupuncture appears to be a promising way to help reduce or eliminate pain brought on by Lyme disease.

Lyme-killing plants: According to the report, herbs like samento, banderol, andrographis, Japanese knotweed/resveratrol, smilax, cat’s claw, and Stephania all target Lyme and related tick-borne infections. Be sure to talk to a doctor knowledgeable in integrative medicine for more info on taking these herbs.

Have tea time: Green tea compounds, along with curcumin, a component of the spice turmeric, are known to reduce oxidative stress and help aid in traditional antibiotic treatment.

Be tested for deficiencies: Zinc, B, and D vitamin deficiencies could slow down Lyme recovery, so be sure to ask your doctor to test for these, and improve your diet or supplement accordingly to bring your numbers up to healthy levels.

Probiotics: Foods may help replenish beneficial bacteria in the gut that are wiped out by antibiotic Lyme disease treatment. Organic yogurt, kefir, and even fermented vegetables are good sources of probiotics.

Exercise: Even small concentrations of oxygen can help destroy Lyme bacteria in the body. Although Lyme typically zaps people’s energy, intense exercise during and after treatment can help keep the disease at bay.

Inflammation annihilators: Natural compounds that ease inflammation, such as curcumin, modified citrus pectin, and Tibetan Herbal Formula. First and foremost, a low-glycemic-index diet is a must because carbohydrates, including sugar, fuel the Lyme germs. This means ditching most processed foods and avoiding any added sugar. “Understanding the person, and actively supporting the person’s general health with emphasis on their immune system, circulation, reduced inflammation, and detoxification can be very helpful

Natural Treatments for Lyme disease-An alternative

 

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