Treat lyme disease early with antibiotics or not?
I found a deer tick lodged(feeding & the size of a sesame seed) in the back of my neck yesterday. My husband was able to completely remove it. I seen my physician this morning, but I am not sure if I agree with what she said.. about doing blood work, which she did, stating that the decease would not show up even if I contacted it.. and afterwords telling me that she would not give me preventive antibiotics. Now I question that because I know someone personally that after going through the same thing with her doctor, later read that the preventive antibiotics would have definitely prevented the decease from progressing to the point where she had been. I have tonight also read this, and that there is a big controversy among doctor’s about treating after the bite. Have you ever known anyone whom has had a similar experience with this?
John, I agree with you about the antibiotics, which is why I can’t remember the last time I was on them, and the same with my other family memebers, including my two younger children, but this is the one desease that I was told the side affects of the antibiotics were way less they the later side affects of having none in the early stages of this. It is not an ear infection, it is a debilitating desease.
September 29th, 2010 at 8:36 pm
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October 21st, 2010 at 2:36 pm
Do you have any symptoms or any other reason to believe you are infected? The vast majority of bites don’t result in lyme disease. I think your doctor is making the right choice. We shouldn’t use antibiotics flippantly. Taking antibiotics when you don’t need them will disrupt your normal flora, and when doctors overprescribe antibiotics it increases the likelyhood of selecting for resistant bacteria.
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November 8th, 2010 at 4:37 pm
Get yourself to another Physician ASAP, you need two weeks antibiotics just for precaution against Lyme disease. My daughter had it, and required expensive antibiotics, later, you have been lucky to see the tick, and yes the size is of a sesame seed, and I cannot believe that a doctor would fail to give you preventive antibiotics. Do not wait for blood work and a bulls eye rash, get some preventive antibiotics now. This is a case in which truly a ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. And yes the spirochetes show up in the blood, but by that time you are going to be spending a lot of time and money, trying to get rid of it. Don’t let it get started.
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November 23rd, 2010 at 7:39 pm
Here are the guidelines from the IDSA. infectious disease specialists. The recommendations are under review but any changes must be made based on clinical evidence to support such changes.
Although routine preventive antibiotic administration is not recommended for individuals with tick bites and no symptoms of disease, one substantive change in IDSA’s treatment recommendations is that some selected, high-risk tick bites may be treated with a single dose of the antibiotic doxycycline for people who are eligible for the drug, according to Dr. Wormser. Eligibility criteria for preventive Lyme disease treatment with doxycycline include:
•the attached tick can be reliably identified as an Ixodes scapularis tick that is estimated to have been attached for 36hours or longer;
•preventive treatment can be started within 72 hours of the time the tick was removed;
•ecologic information indicates that the local rate of infection of these ticks with B. burgdorferi bacteria is 20 percent or greater.
Whether use of antibiotic prevention after a tick bite will reduce the incidence of HGA or babesiosis is not known, Dr. Wormser said.
In general, doxycycline is not recommended in pregnant women and in children under the age of eight, he said.
http://www.idsociety.org/Content.aspx?id=3744
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December 6th, 2010 at 11:37 am
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Dr Robert Beck Energetic-Medicine researcher
1925-2002
Dr Robert Beck was a physicist, who has to his name a PhD in physics from the University of Southern California. Prior to USC Dr. Beck was a Professor at the University of California. Dr. Beck is known as a renowned researcher and inventor in the field of Energy Medicine devices. Amongst his achievements he is accredited with a version of the Brain Tuner. This device has been successful in helping to alleviate anxiety, addictions, insomnia and depression. As he initially trained as a photojournalist he applied his inventive flair and curiosity toward flash photography. He was the inventor of the strobe flashlight.
He has been nominated by a Mexican hospital for the Noble Prize for his research in developing an Aids cure.
Bob Beck formed his first company specialising in the development of a powerful electroencephalograph unit. Through his company he conducted extensive research on the electrical properties of the brain. From this research was born a powerful electroencephalograph unit. After reading articles on a ‘black box’ device, developed by a British surgeon, Dr. Margaret Patterson, he became increasingly interested in the potential of electricity and the brain. Dr Patterson had developed this ‘black box’ with Dr Wong of Hong Kong an expert in electro-acupuncture. Though its inventors to help reduce symptoms of recovering drug addicts used this black box, Beck saw other potential for this device.
Bob Beck used research and technology from the black box to develop his own device. He called it the Brain Tuner. Based around the principal of frequencies it used over 200 specific frequencies to encourage the rejuvenation, healing, and rapid re-stimulation of the neuro-transmitters.
Bob Beck’s research then led on to look at the effect of electrical frequency on the lymphatic system. Working on the basis that many viral infections ay shelter in the lymph nodes, he developed a magnetic pulse generator to induce electricity in specific nodes around the body. Beck’s work in this field led him to do much work with HIV and AIDS patients. His studies also highlighted ionic/colloidal silver as a natural antibiotic, providing a potential alternative to the somewhat clumsy approach of pharmaceutical antibiotics. He went on to elaborate his research by creating devices able to make colloidal/ionic silver at home.
Bob Beck went on to lecture and give demonstrations at health trade shows around North America. It was at one such show in Seattle, in 1996 that a couple (Russ Torlage and Lesley Punt) came across Beck’s device. Lesley Punt was suffering from M.E. of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and the couple were at the Seattle show looking for possible ways to alleviate her condition. They took Beck’s device and redesigned it, making it an accessible tool for public use.
In pursuit of improving the affectivity of Beck’s device Dr. Beck introduced a protocol. Along with the both blood electrification the protocol also includes the making of ionic/colloidal silver, and the ozonation of drinking water, thus increasing the level of oxygen in the blood.
What is The Beck Protocol?
There are four parts to The Beck Protocol.
1. Microcurrent therapy for cleansing the blood
Over the years, while enjoying the fruits of a successful career as an acclaimed physicist, Robert (Bob) C. Beck, D.Sc. maintained an interest in electro-therapy for health. When he heard that viruses and other pathogens had been deactivated in a medical research study by the application of microcurrents of electricity to blood, his considerable intellect and ingenuity were aroused. While the medical research suggested the application of microcurrents similar to dialysis with the blood flowing out and then back into the body, Bob Beck developed a system to apply microcurrents to blood without invading the body. He developed a simple system for applying these microcurrents by placing electrodes over the wrist arteries.
2. Magnetic pulsing for tissue electrification
After considerable experimentation on himself, friends, acquaintances and a few individuals diagnosed with AIDS, all reaped some health benefit. Soon, however, he realized that the blood might be cleared of viruses or other pathogens but these same pathogens could be temporarily hiding in the lymph system. To create the necessary microcurrents in lymph and tissue to neutralize viruses and other pathogens, he developed a magnetic pulse generator. Pulsed magnetic fields create microcurrents in lymph and other tissue.
3. Drinking ionic/colloidal silver
Bob explains how he awoke at 4:00 a.m. one morning with a sudden insight. He knew colloidal silver had been used extensively prior to the advent of antibiotics. He awoke with an insight on how to make colloidal silver electrically—easily and inexpensively. Thus was born an industry for the manufacture of home units to make colloidal silver. Ionic/colloi
20 plus years holistic health and research
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