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Guest Post: Top Ten Tips to Prevent Chronic Lyme Disease
Everyone, everywhere should read these tips from experts at the International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society (ILADS), reproduced here from the ILADS website with permission. Chronic Lyme...
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Garden of Evil?
Photo: LifeLoveLyme After months of being severely limited by lyme – worn out by an hour or two of daily activities and resigned to holding court on my red sofa for most of my waking hours – I am...
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When Lyme Disease Goes to the Heart
Carolyn with her pooch Betty and, from left to right, the friends who have banded together to help Carolyn get treatment: Mark Gordon, Jim Pettengill, Teresa Gordon, Bruce Hoppenworth, Marianne...
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Video: “What Makes Ticks Stick”
Be ready and click here — this is a horrific, close-up view of how a tick attaches to skin. These images may just stick in your mind and spur you to check for ticks daily. I hope so. You can’t protect...
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Babesiosis: Multiple Strains Complicate Diagnosis
Babesia Life Cycle.From the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC). When I finally arrived at the door of a Lyme Literate Doctor (LLMD), I was surprised to learn that in addition to Lyme, I have an...
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Do Ticks Survive Winter? Researchers Weigh In
I know, ugly photo. But it shows the flowerbed in my backyard where I got a tick embedded in my hip one summer. And a bull’s-eye rash soon after. And pretty soon was very, very ill. As you can see, my...
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10 Things I Wish I’d Known About Lyme Disease
That’s the little portable pump for my IV drugs. Then there were the pills. More pills. Harsh meds that made me sicker so I could get better. I can’t believe I made it through all that. When it could...
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Guest Post: What to Do if You Find a Tick
Ticks. Calvert County, Maryland.LifeLoveLyme by Kathy Meyer Virginia Governor’s Task Force on Lyme Disease 2010-13 and Co-leader, Parents of Children with Lyme Support Network, DC Metro Area...
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Video: “Lyme Is Hell”
This powerful public service ad comes from the Netherlands. This English version was just released for World Lyme Day 2016. (View the Dutch version here.)It’s going viral. The last bit may surprise...
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Beware Infection and Re-infection with Lyme
My friend Mickey gave me this magnifying glass cleverly disguised as a necklace. Note the thin tweezers for grasping the tick close to the skin, and the sesame seed next to the largish-sized nymphal...
View ArticleVideo: Did ticks survive the recent cold blast?
This video from the TickEncounter Resource Center in Rhode Island is a hoot! How many of you are surprised?
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