Treatment Guidelines


IMPORTANT NOTE

IF YOU SUSPECT THAT YOU HAVE A TICK-BORNE INFECTION, IT IS IMPERATIVE THAT YOU FIND A PHYSICIAN WHO IS KNOWLEDGEABLE OF LYME DISEASE AND CO-INFECTIONS.

MISSING THE DIAGNOSIS OF LYME DISEASE IS COMMON WITH PHYSICIANS WHO ARE NOT EXPERIENCED IN TREATING THESE VIRULENT INFECTIONS.  MANY LYME DISEASE PATIENTS HAVE SPENT YEARS OF SUFFERING DUE TO A MISDIAGNOSIS OF CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME, CHRONIC FATIGUE IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME, FIBROMYALGIA, MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS, LUPUS, RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS, PARKINSON'S AND AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS (LOU GEHRIG'S DISEASE), AMONG OTHERS.

INTERESTINGLY, DR. ALAN MACDONALD, A RESEARCH PATHOLOGIST, HAS STUDIED THE BRAIN TISSUE OF DECEASED ALZHEIMER'S PATIENTS AND FOUND BORRELIA, THE BACTERIA THAT CAUSES LYME DISEASE, IN THE BRAIN TISSUE OF THESE DECEASED ALZHEIMER'S PATIENTS.
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IN ADDITION, THE MAJORITY OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE PHYSICIANS UTILIZE GUIDELINES AUTHORED BY THE INFECTIOUS DISEASES SOCIETY OF AMERICA (IDSA).

THIS GUIDELINE IS CURRENTLY UNDER INVESTIGATION BY THE CONNECTICUT ATTORNEY GENERAL FOR POSSIBLE ANTITRUST VIOLATIONS.

L.E.A.P. ARIZONA'S FOUNDERS AND BOARD MEMBERS HAVE HAD DIRECT NEGATIVE EXPERIENCE WITH THE IDSA TREATMENT GUIDELINES FOR LYME DISEASE.  ALTHOUGH WE PROVIDE THESE GUIDELINES BELOW, L.E.A.P. ARIZONA DOES NOT ENDORSE THE IDSA TREATMENT GUIDELINES FOR LYME DISEASE, BECAUSE WE HAVE HAD PERSONAL EXPERIENCES WHICH WOULD INDICATE THAT THE IDSA GUIDELINES ARE HARMFUL TO THOSE SUFFERING WITH LYME DISEASE AND CO-INFECTIONS.

WE POST ALL THE GUIDELINES BELOW TO PROVIDE INFORMED CONSENT TO PATIENTS AND PHYSICIANS.  OUR OWN PERSONAL EXPERIENCES HAVE SHOWN US THAT THE ILADS' GUIDELINES AND DR. BURRASCANO'S GUIDELINES HAVE BEEN MORE BENEFICIAL TO US IN TREATING LYME AND CO-INFECTIONS.

 

 

TREATMENT GUIDELINES


Advanced Topics In Lyme Disease
Diagnostic Hints and Treatment Guidelines
for Lyme and Other Tick Borne Illnesses

by Joseph J. Burrascano, Jr., M.D.


National Guideline Clearinghouse
International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society (ILADS)
Evidence-based Guideline for the Management of Lyme Disease


ILADS (International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society)
Summary of Diagnostic Hints and Treatment Guidelines


 


Infectious Diseases Society of America
Practice Guidelines for the Treatment of Lyme Disease
Published in 2000

 

Infectious Diseases Society of America
The Clinical Assessment, Treatment, and Prevention of Lyme Disease, Human
Granulocytic Anaplasmosis, and Babesiosis:  Clinical Practice Guidelines by
the Infectious Diseases Society of America
Published in 2006

 

 

 

 

 

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