Lyme

Martin D. Fried MD
Pediatric Gastroenterology & Nutrition
www.HealthyDays.info
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Martin D. Fried MD
Pediatric Gastroenterology & Nutrition
www.HealthyDays.info
Produced by DrMDK.com

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Lamont Tyler, D.O., of OSF PromptCare in Bloomington, IL discusses Lyme Disease and tick bites – including how to remove a tick. You can listen to Doc Talk with Dr. Tyler on Tuesdays at 7:10 AM on Cities 92.9.

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Die Lyme-Borreliose oder Lyme-Krankheit ist eine Infektionskrankheit, die durch das Bakterium Borrelia burgdorferi aus der Gruppe der Spirochäten ausgelöst wird. Die Borrelien ziehen sich schon bald nach der Infektion aus dem Blutkreislauf in das Gewebe zurück. Es kann jedes Organ, das Nervensystem, die Gelenke und das Gewebe befallen werden. Deshalb spricht man bei dieser Erkrankung auch von einer multisystemischen Krankheit. Die Erkrankung kommt beim Menschen und allen anderen Säugetieren sowie Vögeln vor. Die Übertragung erfolgt vor allem durch den Holzbock oder eine Zeckenart.

English: People who spend time in grassy and wooded environments are at an increased risk of exposure. The chances of being bitten by a deer tick are greater during times of the year when ticks are most active. Young deer ticks, called nymphs, are active from mid-May to mid-August and are about the size of poppy seeds. Adult ticks, which are approximately the size of sesame seeds, are most active from March to mid-May and from mid-August to November. Both nymphs and adults can transmit Lyme disease. Ticks can be active any time the temperature is above freezing. The disease can be spread when an infected tick bites a person and stays attached for a period of time. In most cases, the tick must be attached for 36 hours or more before the bacteria can be transmitted. Lyme disease does not spread from one person to another.

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Early symptoms of Lyme disease, which usually occurs after a tick bite, include a rash at the site of the bite that is circular and can spread up to 30 centimeters across the body. Look for Lyme disease to come with fatigue, chills, fever, headaches and joint aches with information from a nurse and respiratory care practitioner in this free video on Lyme disease symptoms.

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This is a video I made with some friends about teens with lyme. I have had lyme since 2005 and since then it has become part of my everday life and left me in the hospital many nights.

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Update 2
Thanks to my lovely lyme disease I have had 6 brain/spine surgeries in 18 months to treat Intracranial Hypertension. I will be making a video soon to explain my condition from lyme more. It’s very rare and there are only a few reported cases of kids getting it from lyme. I got the luck of the draw! My lyme is virtually gone, and besides the IH and thyroid problems I have no other symptoms. I am off all antiobiotics. My IH is here to stay, however. I do continue to fight for the rights of both my lyme friends and IH friends (we are treated very similarly to the way lyme patients get treated. no one understands it.) I hope you are all doing well.

UPDATE:
I’ve had 2 months of IV rocephin and 2 picc lines, along with brain surgery to put a shunt from my brain to stomach to continuously drain the fluid. I’m feeling a lot better and am back to school. I’ve also tested positive for coinfections rocky mountain spotted fever and q-fever, along with cat-scratch fever, but am still awaiting a positive lyme disease test. It’s getting there. While I’m feeling better, I still have some lyme symptoms, and always will. For all those people out there with chronic lyme disease- this video is for you.

Ok, So this is unlike any video I have uploaded onto this account. This disease has been affecting me and my family for 2 years, and I need to get the word out about it. Yes, I’m sure many viewers have heard of this, and probably think it’s not very serious. Truth is, that this disease can kill. I was left undiagnosed by 10 doctors, and told by one I was making myself see double and was told to go back to school, I could concentrate because I could count back from 10. Unless you have lyme, you may not understand how hurtful that was. Lyme disease gave me a condition which causes fluid to build up in my brain, it requires spinal taps to drain the fluid, and if we had not figured out why I had pressure in my brain I may have gone blind. It’s called pseudotumor cerebri, and causes debilitating headaches. I have been on 4 different oral antibiotics and I am IV for a couple of months.

PLEASE tell people about this video. I will be posting more informative videos on lyme disease in the near future. This disease is not acknowledged by so many doctors for so many different reasons, I had a rash from lyme disease, and I had so many symptoms, yet so many doctors said “you don’t have this” and now I am at the point where I am out of school.

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There’s no medicine for someone like you.

A dramatic tale of microbes, medicine & money, this eye-opening film investigates the untold story of Lyme disease, an emerging epidemic larger than AIDS. Each year thousands go undiagnosed or misdiagnosed, told that their symptoms are “all in their head.” Following the stories of patients and physicians as they battle for their lives and livelihoods, the film brings into focus a haunting picture of our health care system and its inability to cope with a silent terror under our skin.

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Lyme disease — it has become epidemic on Long Island and much of the New
York Metropolitan Area, indeed across the United States. But as bad as the
illness has become, so has treatment for it — health insurers have
discouraged long-term treatment for what is often a long-term illness.
Suffolk County Long Island Legislator Edward Romaine recently held a
public meeting on Lyme disease.
Eva Haughie, President, Empire State Lyme Disease Association. She has
had Lyme disease for nearly 20 years. Her association is based in Manorville.
Dr. Joseph Burrascano, East Hampton, New York He is a pioneer in the
treatment of Lyme disease. And because of the push by medical insurers to
only cover short-term treatment — two, three or four weeks of antibiotics
– and Dr. Burrascano having developed a protocol for treating the many
people who are not cured in the short-term but have chronic Lyme disease,
he ended up being attacked. But he came through it and is regarded as a
major leader in the field.
Staci Grodin, Co-Founder and President, Turn the Corner Foundation. A
Lyme Diseases victim, her Turn the Corner Foundation has raised over $2
million and funded important Lyme disease research.
Sandy Berenbaum, Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Brewster, New York. She
has specialized with working with those with chronic Lyme disease. Her
accounts were most poignant, and her explanation of why health
insurers balk at providing compensation for long-term treatment most illuminating.
Diane Blanchard, President, Time for Lyme. A former resident of Westhampton, where she and members of her family contracted Lyme disease, she presently lives in Greenwich, Connectcut. Her organization, Time for Lyme, focuses on education and research.
Suffolk County Health Commissioner Dr. Humayan Chaudhry. confirms how Lyme disease has become “endemic”.
Suffolk County Legislator Edward Romaine
New York State Assemblyman Fred W. Thiele, Jr., Sag Harbor, New York who
talks about the bill he has before the New York State Assembly requiring
health insurers to provide compensation for long-term treatment of Lyme
diseases — a measure that has been bottled up in Albany.
Shelter Island Town Supervisor Alfred Kilb, Jr. Shelter Island has long
been a particular hotspot for Lyme disease and Kilb describes Shelter
Islanders he knows with chronic cases of the disease.

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A 3d animation describing how Lyme disease works inside your body. And a lecture on different Lyme disease treatments

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