All Posts Tagged With: "antibiotics"

It is time to rename LYME;  if we call it LIMES it will change the paradigm and help many more people on the road to recovery than if IV antibiotics suddenly were free for everyone, as often as they wanted them. That is not the best answer for most patients today.  Oxidative treatment would make more sense (UVB/OZONE).

Lyme is all around us but I believe we will help many more if we give up on blaming everything on the tick related introduction of more pathogens than we had the day before we are bit.  Continued

Linda’s comment: Lyme disease is a tick-borne illness caused by the spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi.

CONCLUSION: Antibiotics have varying effects on the different
morphological forms of B. burgdorferi. Persistence of viable organisms
in round body forms and biofilm-like colonies may explain treatment
failure and persistent symptoms following antibiotic therapy of Lyme
disease.

Linda’s comment:  Ok so some may respond to antibiotics, where does the tatigue, joint pain and cognitive dysfunction come from….While IDSA says there is no such thing as chronic Lyme or post treatment LD, this very report speaks of them…..

Link: http://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&id=21305487&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks

Excerpt:

Conclusions: In an appropriate clinical setting,
evaluation for POTS in patients suffering from post LD syndrome may lead to
early recognition and treatment, with subsequent improvement in symptoms of
orthostatic intolerance. (Cardiol J 2011; 18, 1: 63-66).

Linda’s comments: Linda’s comment:  This is the reasons why I try and guide people to make their own healthcare choices and learn all they can about holistic/alternative medicine….There are wayyyyyyyyyy to many folks with Lyme disease who are given these products…..<sigh>

link: http://www.medicationsense.com/fluoroquinolone.html 

Excerpt:

Levaquin and Cipro Reactions

In 2001, Dr. Jay S. Cohen published a ground-breaking article* on the severe and often disabling reactions some people sustained while taking Levaquin, Cipro, or another FQ antibiotic. Dr. Cohen says, “It is difficult to describe the severity of these reactions. They are devastating. Many of the people in my study were healthy before their reactions. Some were high intensity athletes. Suddenly they were disabled, in terrible pain, unable to work, walk, or sleep.” 
The 45 subjects in Dr. Cohen’s study reported the following side effects*.

Peripheral Nervous System

: Tingling, numbness, prickling, burning pain, pins/needles sensation, electrical or shooting pain, skin crawling, sensation, hyperesthesia, hypoesthesia, allodynia (sensitivity to touch), numbness, weakness, twitching, tremors, spasms.

Central Nervous System:

 

Dizziness, malaise, weakness, impaired coordination, nightmares, insomnia, headaches, agitation, anxiety, panic attacks, disorientation, impaired concentration or memory, confusion, depersonalization, hallucinations, psychoses.

I live in Ontario and I have Lyme disease. I contracted Lyme here. I was misdiagnosed for four year and I have chronic late stage Lyme. I am one of thousands of people who have this contracted disease in this country. This disease is like AIDS. It affects your immune system and every part of your body and is incurable. It will and can kill a person. Like AIDS it requires long term treatment but with antibiotics not antivirals since it is a bacterial infection.

The most common way of contracting Lyme is through a tick bite but there is science showing it can be passed on through birth and through breast feeding.(1,2) The bacteria that causes Lyme disease has also been discovered in semen although there have yet to have studies on if it is sexually transmitted although the bacteria is a Spirochete a relative to syphilis.(3) We also don`t screen the blood or organ donor supply so it may be possible to contract the disease this way too.(4)

Linda’s comment:  This is EXCELLENT read….I have taken ALL of these products and they WORK!!

Full aritcle: http://www.newhaven.edu/news-events/82773.pdf

Excerpt:

 Our results demonstrated that both herbal agents, but not doxycycline, had very significant effects on all forms of B. burgdorferi, especially when used in combination, suggesting that herbal agents could provide an effective therapeutic approach for Lyme disease patient. 

Mental illness in our young is epidemic. Does anyone believe that administering another toxic substance to an obviously already very toxic brain is the best approach long-term?

With our health care “system” we just hang a label on the disturbed youngster and start trying all the chemical straight jacket medications to see which is tolerated, in spite of frightening statistics about adverse effects including violent behavior that often appears. 
Everyone shows known chemicals and heavy metals that today when tested, aswww.ewg.org paid for on the “Ten Americans’ study of ten babies chosen at random across the USA and widely reported on the internet. It was also discussed in depth on CNN special on Toxic America that you can still watch any day on mywww.gordonresearch.com website.

Garry F. Gordon MD,DO,MD(H)
President, Gordon Research Institute
www.gordonresearch.com

Link: http://www.naturalnews.com/031198_psychiatry_teens.html#ixzz1CxTV2z9J

Excerpt:

NaturalNews) It’s been nearly a month since the nation’s attention was focused on Tucson, where five were killed and 13 injured , including Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, several other shootings missed the mainstream news. Violence seems to be erupting among youths everywhere, from Los Angeles(1) to Omaha(2) to Brooklyn(3) – indicating something is seriously going wrong in the minds of young persons in this country.

Why Young Brains Are Sick
The list of assailing particles on children is long, and starts with chemical exposure in the womb. In July, 2005, the Environmental Working Group released a hallmark study using cord blood to assess the chemical exposure of neonates in-utero. The placenta has long been thought to shield the developing baby from pollutants in the environment. The study’s alarming results dispelled this as a wishful myth. Of the 287 chemicals identified in the umbilical cord blood of 10 infants, 180 were known carcinogens, 217 were toxic to the brain and nervous system, and 208 have been associated with birth defects or abnormal development in animal tests. The study concluded that, “the dangers of pre- or post-natal exposure to this complex mixture of carcinogens, developmental toxins and neurotoxins have never been studied.”(4)

Within hours of emerging from the womb, a newborn is given a dollop of antibiotics in the eyes, injected with the hepatitis b vaccine, with known neurotoxic properties,(5)and jabbed with a vitamin K shot, which contains 9 mg of benzyl alcohol. In 1992, Golding published concerns that vitamin K injections could be associated with a doubled risk of malignant disease in children, particularly leukemia. While there have been considerable doubts about whether the association is coincidental or causal, the controversy has never been completely resolved.(6)

Starting around the 60th day of life, infants with still immature immune systems are subjected to a battery of vaccines: DTaP, HiB, polio, Prevnar, and a squirt of oral rotavirus vaccine, all generally given at the same time. The onslaught of these shots, including two additional injections of hepatitis b vaccine, repeats twice, every 60 days. This deposits approximately 66 different viral or bacterial antigens and measurable amounts of a dozen different chemicals into a six month old infant.

By the time a child is five years old, a little 40 pound human will receive up to 35 injections, containing at least 110 different weakened pathogens (or pathogen particles), and an assortment of 59 different chemicals. If all approved shots are administered, the little tot will also be injected with stray viral DNA, four types of animal cells, cells from aborted fetal tissue and a bit of human albumin (a foreign protein.) By the way, all of these substances are listed on package inserts for each vaccine.

Link: http://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&id=21117376&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks

Excerpt:

Lyme disease is rare in the U.K. but there is evidence of an increase in
both prevalence of, and patient concern about, the infection. There are no
published data characterising Lyme disease as it is seen in the U.K. The
clinical and laboratory features of 65 patients diagnosed with the disease
between 2002 and
2007 were recorded and their clinical presentation and response to treatment
documented. In total, 34% of patients acquired the infection in the UK, 20%
in North America and 46% in Europe. Exposure to ticks was reported by 58% of
patients. Erythema migrans was seen in 91%, systemic upset in 62%, headaches
in 31%, arthralgia or arthritis in 28%, radiculitis in 11% and cranial nerve
palsies in 4.6%. Screening enzyme immunoassay tests were negative in 39% and
reference laboratory immunoblots were negative in 31% of patients,
principally those with early infection. The majority of patients were cured
with one course of antibiotic treatment, three patients had evidence of
persistent infection after treatment and two required intravenous therapy.
No cases of chronic Lyme disease were seen.

We would like to invite you and the NY Metro Area/East Coast patients and practitioners to come to a talk given by Dietrich Klinghardt, MD, PhD in NYC.  

Detailed information about the upcoming NYC seminar on Autonomic Response Testing and the special evening talk ,”Healing Long Term Lyme Disease and other Chronic Infections without Antibiotics” is located on our website:www.klinghardtacadaemy.com.   Dr. Klinghardt is known for his complementary work with chronic illness world wide and teaches practitioners how to individualize protocols for Lyme disease, MS, Autism, Cancer and other chronic conditions related to toxicity and pathogens.  

We hope you and local LLMD’s and  interested individuals will attend this unique evening. 

Dr. Klinghardt is rarely on the East Coast, but will be teaching in NYC on Feb 10-13, 2011 at the Holiday Inn Midtown.  We hope you will pass  this information to your colleagues so the NY area practitioners have an opportunity to come see and experience this world wide shift toward individualized health care.  Our goal at the Academy is to equip medical practitioners with the tools necessary to become true medical healers and learn how to combat the growing epidemic of chronic illness. We also want to empower patients with knowledge and optional healing protocols that are affordable. We understand that there is no cookie cutter approach to lyme disease, so all we can learn to add to our arsenal of protocols can only be beneficial to all. 

Please call me with any questions.
warm regards,

Debbie Floyd
Director, Klinghardt Academy
www.klinghardtacademy.com
debbieafloyd@gmail.com
908-899-1650

Full article: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38851878/ns/health?ns=health

Excerpt:

A rare and dangerous reaction to a range of common medicines
including antibiotics and anticonvulsants may be caused by a
severe immune response to reactivated herpes virus, scientists
said on Wednesday.

Researchers said their findings suggest that if doctors were to
test for the herpes virus in patients suffering the drug
reaction, they might be able to find ways to treat it and
possibly stop it becoming more severe, or even fatal.

The results should also help scientists find out what makes some
people susceptible to the reaction, which is known as Drug
Reaction with Eosinophilia and Systemic Symptoms, or DRESS, and
affects around one in 8,000 people who take the common medicines.

In a study into DRESS, also sometimes known as Drug-Induced
Hypersensitivity Syndrome (DIHS), French scientists found the
condition is actually an immune reaction prompted when a dormant
virus is reactivated and the body’s fighter T cells go into
overdrive to fight it.