Ross Douthat
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first heard Mar 2022
last heard Mar 2022
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It's a bacterial infection carried by ticks, primarily deer ticks.
If you get it
A lot of people present with this kind of bullseye rash around the tick bite, then you get a fever or some kind of immune system reaction.
And then if the disease isn't treated, it progresses and concentrates in your joints, and people get presentations of swelling in their knees, what looks like arthritis, that kind of thing.
And it has neurological manifestations too.
So that's the consensus.
And then the official CD.
CDC approved treatment is naturally antibiotics.
You're supposed to take them for four to six weeks, and most people who do that get better.
But then there are people who don't get better.
There's debate about how many, but let's say it's somewhere between five and twenty percent of Lyme patients don't seem to immediately improve on that dose of antibiotics.
So then the question is what do you do next?
And the official mainstream consensus is that you don't do anything because
the antibiotics you've taken should kill the active infection.
If you still have residual symptoms at that point, they are probably some kind of autoimmune response or inflammation left over from the infection, not an active infection itself.
You're just supposed to wait and expect that gradually your body will return to normal.
Then there is and has been now going back decades since the discovery of Lyme disease, a small but not that small group of doctors.
and researchers who think that actually Lyme disease persists in these cases, meaning that the bacteria itself is still very much alive in your bloodstream, and more importantly, sort of burrowed deep into your tissue, and that you have to continue treating it until you get better.
This has been the multi-generational medical controversy.
And the strongest evidence for the doctors who want to continue treating it is that we now have a number of experiments, especially on animal hosts, showing that in fact Lyme bacteria does persist in a lot of animal hosts after an antibiotic treatment.
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