Lyme Disease and Violence: No Link
By Garry Gordon, M.D. on Sep 26, 2009 in General News | comments(0)
This expert is concerned regarding the overdiagnsosis of chronic Lyme but marginal labs. He is certain that it can be a neurological condition; however, just not likely to cause psychosis.
Here are his comments and remember this expert admits in can be in the brain but now that it went too far for him, it was never Lyme anyway! Stick with LIMES and avoid having patients told it was never Lyme. That’s not to say that Lyme disease can’t affect the brain. It can.
“Like most manifestations of this disease, neurological symptoms are hard to recognize and manage,” Schaffner says. “You can have an encephalitis picture that almost always occurs with damage to one of the nerves to the face. This causes paralysis of part of the face. These are part of the later manifestations of Lyme disease.”
“There is no question that Lyme disease has neurological manifestations,” Wormser says. “But frank psychosis to the point of killing someone would be really far fetched. It is really clear they are dealing with a situation that probably wasn’t Lyme disease to begin with.”
Garry F. Gordon MD,DO,MD(H)
President, Gordon Research Institute
www.gordonresearch.com
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Lyme Disease and Violence: No Link
by Daniel J DeNoon
from WebMD — a health information Web site for patients
March 10, 2009 — Lyme disease can’t make a person violent or psychotic, infectious disease specialists tell WebMD.
According to media reports, the family and lawyer of a man accused of the murder of an Illinois pastor blame the man’s deteriorating mental health on longstanding Lyme disease. The experts who spoke with WebMD have not reviewed the man’s medical records and are familiar with the case only through media reports. But speaking in general terms, the experts reject the idea that violent behavior can be blamed on Lyme disease. “I don’t know of any convincing evidence that Lyme disease can cause violence or psychosis,” Gary Wormser, MD, tells WebMD. Continued