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Lead Poisoning – With Comments from Linda & Dr. Gordon

Linda’s comments:  ListenUP and read this information….it is vital for all to understand how TOXIC OUR WORLD IS…..Everyone is exposed to lead today, however, we can fix it for the most part… 
Share this with your children and grandchildren….
Dr. Gordon’s comments:
Lead poisoning again is on the front page of the New York Times yet no one understands this fact: there is no safe level in children. Why would anyone allow any woman to go through pregnancy without at least some of my detox program, power drink, oral chelation like Beyond Chelation-Improved or Zeolite? Why not all three, as no one approach can deal with all the toxins we find in every newborn today and it all comes FROM THE MOM.

Please understand we all have too much lead and during pregnancy the body transfers the mother’s lead and other toxins to the baby and also concentrates it SIX fold.

How can we continue to ignore this epidemic when we have safe affordable answers? Maybe you can at least get 8 gm of BIOEN’R-G’Y C into pregnant women daily, as that too is an oral chelator. But let’s do something about the TEN AMERICANS report bywww.ewg.org that proves every child born is loaded with carcinogens, neurotoxins and endocrine disruptors.

The parents save $3000 or so by not going on appropriate nutritional products for detox during the entire pregnancy, but best results will be when starting 1 year before the pregnancy and treat the dad too! Or they pay $250,000- 500,000 in extraordinary health care costs to deal with what could have been prevented with a little rational family planning.

“No blood lead level has been found to be safe for a child,” Dr. Mary Jean Brown, chief of the lead poisoning prevention branch of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said in an interview last week. No blood lead level has been found to be safe for a child,” Dr. Mary Jean Brown, chief of the lead poisoning prevention branch of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said in an interview last week”

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

Excerpt:
MENGXI VILLAGE, China — On a chilly evening early last month, a mob of more than 200 people gathered in this tiny eastern China village at the entrance to the Zhejiang Haijiu Battery Factory, a maker of lead-acid batteries for motorcycles and electric bikes. They shouldered through an outer brick wall, swept into the factory office and, in an outpouring of pure fury, smashed the cabinets, desks and computers inside.

More on Aspartame…

Linda’s comments:  I don’t know what it is going to take to get the FDA to ban Aspartame….I know a doctor who refuses to listen….yes, that is right, however, what she won’t admit to is she is ADDICTED, as those of us who have suffered and gone through the withdrawals can attest to.  There is a horrible addicting property to these DIET chemicals…..to me it is a crime to even allow them on the market….I can speak to this as I was once ONE of those people….my addiction to diet coke and diet dr pepper was over the top….they almost had to hospitalize me through the withdrawals.  My doctors said aspartame withdrawals are worse than heroin withdrawals….while I never did heroin, I can say THANK GOD, as the withdrawals I had from this deadly neurotoxin was HORRIFIC….and the damage it did to my liver is unbelievable…..all I can say is DO NOT TOUCH DIET ANYTHING…..I now use www.justlikesugarinc.com as it is made from chicory trees from the Brazilian Rain Forest.

Sent: 4/2/2011 9:26:54 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time
Subj: [WNHO-Aspartame-Information] Seizures, stopped breathing and turned blue three times, aspartame
 

Hi Lucinda,

I’m so sorry of what has happened to your child.  Because of the fact
that each seizure was after some aspartame product, sugarfree Jello,
Diet Coke, Crystal Lite, etc. you should know that aspartame is a
seizure triggering drug.  Look at the FDA list of 92 symptoms and
notice how many times seizures are
listed:  http://www.mpwhi.com/92_aspartame_symptoms.pdf  I have it
here on FDA stationery because today they try and deny it.

The phenylalanine in aspartame as an isolate is neurotoxic, floods
the brain, lowers the seizure threshold and depletes
serotonin.  Lowered serotonin triggers psychiatric and behavioral
problems.  Aspartame damages the mitochondria or powerhouse of the
cell and interacts with all antidepressants.  What really makes it
bad is that all components of aspartame can trigger seizures,
aspartic acid, an excitotoxin that stimulates he neurons of the brain
to death causing brain damage, and the free methyl alcohol that
converts to formaldehyde and formic acid and causes metabolic
acidosis also can trigger seizures.

As I understand it your daughter used Crystal Lite during pregnancy
and some babies have been prone to seizures because their mother used
aspartame which causes birth
defects:  http://www.mpwhi.com/aspartame_causes_birth_defects.htm  Be
sure to print out this paper for your physician.

One of the pivotal studies that approved aspartame is a 52 week oral
toxicity study done on 7 infant monkeys. Five had grand mal seizures
and one died.

As soon as aspartame was approved people started having seizures big
time.  Dr. Wurtman said the 80 cases he collected was enough to have
FDA remove it from the market.  In 1986 James Turner, Atty and the
Community Nutritional Institute in Washington, D.C. petitioned the
FDA to ban aspartame because it was causing so many seizures and
people were going blind from the free methyl alcohol.  It was taken
all the way to the Supreme Court and with all this information to ban
it, it was stopped.  I heard it was because of a corrupt judge. They
had all the evidence so it should have been banned and someone at the
FDA meeting at the time said FDA was ready to take it off the shelves.

The FDA tried to have the manufacturer indicted for fraud because
they were not able to show safety and got caught doing such things as
excising brain tumors from rats and when they died they resurrected
them back on paper.

In another  email I will give you the Aspartame Resource Guide which
has the medical books, movie and even the history of how Rumsfeld got
it on the market after the FDA revoked the petition for
approval.  Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic by H. J. Roberts,
M.D. has a chapter on drug interaction and you will notice it
interacts with anti seizure medication.  Your physician needs this
medical text and one by Dr. Blaylock titled “Excitotoxins: The Taste
That Kills”.  In this one it will tell you what to give your child
because a lot of problems may not show up until puberty.

You didn’t tell me what state you’re in, but if you do take this to
court we will give you all the information you need and there is a
movie being made, and telling your story in this film can save a lot
of other victims who have no idea its aspartame triggering the
seizures.  Dr. Sanchez here in Atlanta told me about a case where he
gave the lady every anti-seizure medication in the PDR and nothing
worked.  Then he put her in the hospital and happen to see a case of
Diet Coke under her bed.  He told her that was the problem and she
had to get off of it.  She went crazy he said (its very addictive and
withdrawal problems are sometimes hard to cope with) and was admitted
to a mental hospital.  Two weeks later she got out, no more seizures
and no more mental problems.  It was the aspartame in the Diet Coke
that kept causing her  seizures and he didn’t know that aspartame
interacted with anti-seizure medication.  Another physician in the
movie also told a similar story – off aspartame the patient stopped
having seizures.

Let me know you received this.  I wasn’t quite sure about your email address.

All my best,
Betty
www.mpwhi.com, www.dorway.com, www.wnho.net
Aspartame Toxicity Center, www.holisticmed.com/aspartame

Dr. Gordon comments on Thyroid Issues

There is an epidemic of patients who need thyroid support! The attached shows how thyroid can protect pregnancies from untoward outcomes.

Nonetheless, the current January 2011 Townsend Newsletter reports that the Oregon Medical Board is attacking a licensed MD there for prescribing thyroid when the T4 and TSH target levels they are insisting on were not present. They are ignoring all of the overwhelming clinical evidence that the patient needed and was benefited by the thyroid prescription. 

This is very sad since   subclinical hypothyroidism is EPIDEMIC in our toxic world. Just consider the levels of Fluorine and Bromide present today that induce iodine deficiency in our population, as one cause of suboptimal thyroid function. For many other causes please consider owning the $300 new text on Nutritional Medicine by Alan Gaby with nearly 30,000 references behind it.

But look at this report. How many miscarriages or other pregnancy problems would be eliminated if doctors were not living in fear of their medical licenses? If they read Broda Barnes’ book on Thyroid Disease later reviewed by Dr Stephen Langer and then the book, Hypothyroidism Type 2 by Mark Starr that brings the rationale for diagnosing borderline or subclinical hypothyroidism into clear focus.

We should err on the side of more thyroid support for patients since there are so many contributors to low thyroid function instead of putting doctors in harm’s way for practicing real medicine.

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

Link: http://www.peerview-institute.org/news/content.nsf/PaperFrameSet?OpenForm&pp=1&id=126B011F4ED45893852575D20063B434&refid=3473&specid=26&newsid=852576140048867C8525780F002FD1C6&locref=ntkwatch&u=http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Abstract&list_s=21193190

Excerpt:

OBJECTIVE: To investigate whether levothyroxine (LT4) treatment has beneficial effects on IVF results and pregnancy outcome in infertile patients with subclinical hypothyroidism undergoing IVF/intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI).

DESIGN: Prospective, randomized trial.

SETTING: University-affiliated infertility clinic.

PATIENT(S): A total of 64 infertile patients with subclinical hypothyroidism, defined as an elevated serum TSH level associated with a normal free T4 level and without frank symptoms of hypothyroidism.

INTERVENTION(S): Patients were randomized into an LT4 treatment group or control group. For the LT4 treatment group, 50 μg LT4 was administered from the first day of controlled ovarian stimulation for IVF/ICSI.

MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE(S): Results of IVF and pregnancy outcome.

RESULT(S): There were no differences in patient characteristics between the two groups. Total dose and days of recombinant human FSH used for controlled ovarian stimulation were also similar. The number of grade I or II embryos was significantly higher in the LT4 treatment group than in the control group. There was no significant difference in the clinical pregnancy rate per cycle between the two groups. However, the miscarriage rate was significantly lower in the LT4 treatment group than in the control group. Embryo implantation rate and live birth rate were significantly higher in the LT4 treatment group. In the control group, both thyroid peroxidase antibody and thyroglobulin antibody levels were significantly higher in the miscarried subgroup than in the delivered subgroup.

CONCLUSION(S): LT4 treatment can improve embryo quality and pregnancy outcome in subclinical hypothyroid women undergoing IVF/ICSI.

Skin infections in pregnancy

Link: http://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&id=21079901&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks

Excerpt:

The article outlines examples of a viral (varicella-zoster virus, VZV), a
bacterial (Lyme borreliosis) and a parasitic (scabies) infection in
pregnancy with their risk for the mother and/or child as well as their
management. VZV infections cause various clinical scenarios depending on the
maternal immune status and the time of infection. Herpes zoster usually
poses no risk to the pregnant woman and there is no need for antiviral
therapy. VZV infection of a seronegative mother, however, may lead to severe
varicella in the pregnant woman and to congenital malformations (congenital
varicella syndrome) in case of early infection or neonatal varicella in case
of perinatal infection. Prompt therapy with acyclovir or administration of
VZV immunoglobulin for prophylaxis is mandatory in those patients. 
In case of Lyme borreliosis of the mother, adequate antibiotic therapy with
amoxicillin prevents harm to the fetus. Doxycycline is contraindicated
during pregnancy. 
Scabies represents an important differential diagnosis of pruritic
dermatoses in pregnancy and should be treated with permethrin 5% cream.

Insanity virus — a crazy idea?

This research about the “insanity” virus has not stopped, and in fact, the more you read up on endogenous retrovirus the more you will see that this all further reinforces my FIGHT4yourhealth concept. The June Discover magazine on the newsstands brings this story up to date but the more you become interested in the infection component of today’s epidemic of impaired health, the more you will see how this infection from endogenous retroviruses found in what we used to call our JUNK DNA, helps explain Bipolar and MS as well as Schizophrenia.

Maybe we all need to get toxins out so our immune system can handle these inborn infections better, and more of us will need to lower the total body burden of all infections fungal bacterial and viral using ACS 200 Silver that is proven to efficiently lower even Borrelia and Candida.

This is worth really understanding, as this is real and when we begin to understand how these virus that are in our DNA are kept under control, until certain things happen, like a severe viral infection during pregnancy, and then years later the child starts to hear voices
etc. I have covered on my website with 8 hours of webinars, the topics of Food, Infection, Genetics, Hormones, Toxins, etc but this aspect of infection was not covered. If we think about it, there could be some tie in here to the live virus given children when they receive their MMR, and subsequent development of Autism. There could be a HERV-W involved in that condition too.

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

Excerpt:

 #1: http://discover.coverleaf.com/discovermagazine/201006/?pg=64#pg65

#2: http://articles.sfgate.com/2002-08-05/news/17557040_1_mental-illness-mental-health-dr-e-fuller-torrey

Insanity virus — a crazy idea? / Mainstream psychiatric outcast ponders parasitic mental illness
August 05, 2002|By Keay Davidson, Chronicle Science Writer

#3: New Findings Boost Theory That Infection Causes Schizophrenia 

Psychiatric News March 19, 2010 
Volume 45 Number 6 Page 1 
© American Psychiatric Association 
1.   Mark Moran

A review of studies of maternal exposure to infectious agents and schizophrenia in their offspring suggests that eliminating certain infections could prevent as many as 30 percent of schizophrenia cases.  Continued

A Wake-Up Story, by Healthy Child Healthy World

Linda’s comment:  This video is simple and to the point….if you don’t care about your own health, please think about your children and grandchildren.  We know that babies are born into our world carrying 500 to 600 environmental toxins….There was a study done using 600 newborn babies within hours after birth…the blood tests results were very alarming….WATCH THIS VIDEO MORE THAN ONCE….pass it on to your grown children…show it to your place of worship…show it to everyone you can think of…This video shows hundreds of chemicals, etc., etc. etc., that are harming YOU, me and YOUR CHILDREN AND GRAND-CHILDREN….
 
What moms do not realize is their unborn child becomes the “toxic dump” for all the assaults and poor eating habits while carrying their child.  What needs to be done to help prevent or curtail these toxic loads is AT LEAST one year from becoming pregnant, the mother and father need to  clean up their bodies and consider a lifelong daily detox, prior to getting pregnant, AND after that year continue the detox. Your unborn child will have a better chance in life.
 
I personally did the wrong things when I was pregnant….I DIDN’T smoke or drink alcoholor take any medications, BUT I sucked down Diet Coke and Diet Dr Pepper and ate things that were unhealthy.  I didn’t eat organically, I took my folic, but no other supplements….I made a lot of mistakes….then I had 14 amalgams in my mouth and ALL the mercury from those amalgams were dumping DAILY into my body for my unborn child to take in as I chewed gum and ate. (the chewing of gum and foods releases on going Mercury into your bodies.  Bottom-line we are bringing children into the world who are already full of toxins and pathogens…..THIS MUST STOP…
 
This video, I hope, will bring education and awareness to all who care….even if the adults will not make the changes for themselves, make those changes for your children and grandchildren.
 
One last thing….think about those children who got “SLAMMED” with vaccinations on top of their already toxic bodies AND people wonder why we are dealing with Autism….Autism justisn’t caused by vaccinations, IMHO!!!!  However, think about it…..these babies are born with already toxic bodies, THEN they get 14 plus vaccinations within the first 2 years of their life….If you know those that are vaccinating babies, PLEASE get them to demand that those vaccinations be given ONE AT A TIME….BTW, my 30 year old daughter got her first 3 in 1 shot, got seriously ill and I said NO MORE….Yes, I took on the schools, and they backed down.  Now Arizona has 3 laws on the books to help protect parents who don’t want vaccinations….One other thing…When my daughters playmates got the chicken pox, measles, And mumps, I ran my daughter over to their house to play and get a natural exposure…..I protected her with high dosing of VitC and good children’s vitamins…PLUS, she got NO sugar…. Just be aware, if your child shows and/or showed no problems with vaccinations, they can have many problems as they go older….Don’t forget those vaccines were made and given before all the stink about nasty vaccines….KNOWLEDGE IS POWER….take charge of you own healthcare journey…some docs hate this, but alternative docs love it when you take the lead…they have a better chance of getting you well, when you lead the team….
 
What is more important than the health of your children and grand-children???
 
Keep a smile on your face, love in your heart and walk with the angels, holding hands in the “chain of love”….
 
 

ACS 200 & ACZ Nano

Linda’s comment:  I personally can not live without my ACS200 and ACZnano Zeolite….I go so far as to carry a bottle of each in my purse….
CS basic technology goes to the head of the class of effective antimicrobials for topical applications. Many of you are still not convinced that ACS 200 is the breakthrough technology in colloidal silver chemistry that we have been telling you. Please understand the principals behind ACS 200 did not get EPA approval, as a sterilant easily. This is a multi-billion dollar market making what you do about treating patients who have infections of only passing interest to investors who have put up the money to get this sterilant product approved in a highly competitive environment.

That same knowledge base brought out the Total Body Detox with ACS 200 and ACZ. These are so easy to use that if you begin to believe that your patient’s toxins are part of their health problem, you owe it to them to let them try this convenient easy, gentle, lower dose form of ZEOLITE suitable for every age, including during pregnancy and for all pets.

Remember only when you lower the total body burden of toxins do you really deal with inflammation at the core. Only then can any chelator or Zeolite detox program begin to show its true potential. With the numbers on their website supporting the fact that mercury is really being removed with the easy affordable Total Body Detox Program.

When you have a surface that must remain sterile, whether on board a cruise ship kitchen or an operating room or a dentist office, this will be the sterilant that will set the standard for a long time.  It has additional molecules to enable it to deal with dangerous surfaces like our nation’s capitol after the anthrax exposure.

With this product no building will be needlessly closed for days, weeks or months like the post office where the anthrax was shipped from with a clean-up bill in the millions.

This is vital information for you if you believe there is something to my FIGHT program and you want to eliminate the needless deaths in over 100,000 people each year where no antibiotic would work. ACS alone would have made a huge difference and with my infection program by adding VIT A, D, C, Garlic immune support etc, as clearly described on my website under infection protocols.

We should be able to save over 90% who otherwise will die with the standard drugs being used today. It is never too late to add ACS and ACZ topically and orally, the drugs will not be damaged by adding Silver. And, now we have ANTIFUNGAL ANTIVIRAL and ANTIBIOTIC effects that are real without exception even HIV, Hepatitis and Lyme!!!

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

http://www.resultsrna.com/products/steriplex_health_care_now_epa_approved.php

STERIPLEX Health Care Now EPA Approved
By David Larson, President

Powered by the leading silver technology utilized by Advanced Cellular Silver (ACS) 200®, STERIPLEX® Health Care is now the most powerful Sporicide/ Sterilant ever approved by the EPA.

As germs like MRSA, C. diff. and anthrax become increasingly life-threatening, the war on superbugs continues as biotechnology companies from around the world race to produce products that kill germs effectively, without harming people or the environment. And while consumers become ever more aware of product safety, harsh chemical disinfectants are out; safe and effective is definitely in.

STERIPLEX® Health Care (HC) is a revolutionary new Sterilant/Sporicide, which has recently received Federal EPA Registration. A paradigm shift in infection control STERIPLEX® Health Care sets new standards, killing spores in a tiny fraction of the time of competing products while remaining safe to people and the environment. Independent GLP certified laboratories have verified that STERIPLEX® Health Care destroys the most virulent pathogens including C. sporogenes and B. subtilis spores 10 to 32 times faster than other sterilant brands. With never before seen kill times, these results are truly remarkable as virulent spores are truly some of the toughest germs to kill. A sporicide will typically destroy all other germ species as well.

And just how safe is safe? STERIPLEX® Health Care is completely non-toxic, non-corrosive, non-flammable and 100% biodegradable. STERIPLEX® Health Care can safely be used as a not critical care instrument soak and to disinfect all hard surfaces. Competing sterilants have performance problems and/or serious corrosion and toxic side effects. For example, Glutaraldehyde is a widely used sterilant in medical facilities, but it is highly toxic. Because of its many adverse side effects, Glutaraldehyde was banned in Great Britain several years ago. Chlorine-based products are extremely corrosive and harmful if inhaled or swallowed. Alcohol-based products, which offer only modest antimicrobial performance, disintegrate plastics and are harmful if inhaled or swallowed.

Now consider that the new spore testing benchmarks required by the EPA to achieve sterilant (sporicidal) registration are far more rigorous today than the testing required of previously approved chemical sporicides. The new EPA spore testing protocols required STERIPLEX® Health Care to be tested against spore concentrations of nominally 100 times previous testing levels. Even so, STERIPLEX® Health Care passed all testing in record times. EPA Registration #84545-5 was issued to sBioMed™ November 2, 2009.

STERIPLEX® HEALTH CARE is registered as a broad spectrum Sterilant/Sporicide, Tuberculocide, and Bactericide.

While the current EPA registration of STERIPLEX® HEALTH CARE designates use as a hard surface sterilant, future applications of the safe STERIPLEX® technologies could include uses in state-of-the-art disinfection products for hospitals, schools, food processing, and antimicrobial cleaning products and even topical surgical prep and burn center treatments.
Seven U.S. patents have already been issued to sBioMed® and seven more U.S. patents are being processed for issuance. All patents have been filed globally.

The Vitamin D Newsletter: Another Shattered Family

People face prison over shaken baby syndrome yet it now appears that many of the cases are Vitamin D deficiency during pregnancy. This is very sad to read and I doubt if many of you are knowledgeable about these facts:

broken bones and bleeding eyes could happen during a vaginal delivery, but what about brain hemorrhage, certainly that is proof of abuse? Well, it has been proof – proof positive of parental child abuse – for decades, sending thousands of parents to prison for “Shaken Baby Syndrome.” Guess what, it turns out that 26% of newborn infants have brain hemorrhages after a normal, natural, vaginal delivery.
This is information that you need to know, as perfectly innocent parents are being punished because no one is measuring Vitamin D levels during pregnancy or putting this together with “temporary brittle bone disease,” not “shaken baby syndrome and no one is diagnosing rickets in newborn children – yet here it is.”

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

Excerpt:

This is a periodic newsletter from the Vitamin D Council, a non-profit trying to end the epidemic of vitamin D deficiency. If you want to unsubscribe, go to the end of this newsletter. If you are not subscribed, you can do so on the Vitamin D Council’s website.
This newsletter may be reproduced as long as you properly and prominently attribute its source. Please reproduce it, post it on Internet sites, and forward it to your friends.

Dear Dr. Cannell:
I am writing to you today to see if there is any information or help you can give to me. On October 25th of 2009, I gave birth to our wonderful son & we were overjoyed. Four days later we noticed that our son had a swollen right thigh so we took him back to the hospital & there an x-ray was done & he had a fractured femur!

Then on the 2nd of Nov. the hospital carried out further scans & we were told that he had fractures to the fibula, tibia & 3 fractures of the ribs. You can now only imagine the situation we are now in but we remain strong & are fighting this all the way knowing that we have not shaken our baby or abused our son or caused these fractures. It was only after our repeated requests that the hospital carried out blood tests on our son for calcium, Vitamin D etc. this was after him been in the hospital & after we had been accused of Shaken Baby Syndrome.” These tests came back as normal.

Human Granulocytic Ehrlichiosis Complicating Early Pregnancy

Background.
The goal of this case is to review the zoonotic infection, human granulocytic ehrlichiosis, presenting with pyrexia.

Case.
A 22-year-old multigravid female presented to the emergency department with a painful skin rash, high fever, and severe myalgias. The patient underwent a diagnostic evaluation for zoonotic infections due to her geographical and seasonal risk factors. Treatment of human granulocytic ehrlichiosis was successful though the patient spontaneously aborted presumably due to the severity of the acute illness.

Conclusion.
Treatment of human granulocytic ehrlichiosis in pregnancy presents unique challenges.Management of pyrexia during pregnancy is limited to external cooling in the setting of thrombocytopenia and elevated
aminotransferases. Extensive counseling regarding teratogenic potential of medications allows the patient to weigh the pros and cons of treatment

Maternal Lyme borreliosis and pregnancy outcome


Int J Infect Dis. 2009 Nov 17. [Epub ahead of print]


Lakos A, Solymosi N.

The Center for Tick-borne Diseases, Visegrádi 14, Budapest, H-1132, Hungary.

BACKGROUND: There is disagreement regarding whether Lyme borreliosis is associated with adverse pregnancy outcome.

METHODS: We performed a review of the data from 95 women with Lyme borreliosis during pregnancy, evaluated at the Center for Tick-borne Diseases, Budapest over the past 22 years.

RESULTS: Treatment was administered parenterally to 66 (69.5%) women and orally to 19 (20%). Infection remained untreated in 10 (10.5%) pregnancies.

Adverse outcomes were seen in 8/66 (12.1%) parentally treated women, 6/19 (31.6%) orally treated women, and 6/10 (60%) untreated women. In comparison to patients treated with antibiotics, untreated women had a significantly higher risk of adverse pregnancy outcome (odds ratio (OR) 7.61, p=0.004).

While mothers treated orally had an increased chance (OR 3.35) of having an adverse outcome compared to those treated parenterally, this difference was not statistically significant (p=0.052). Erythema migrans did not resolve by the end of the first antibiotic course in 17 patients.

Adverse pregnancy outcome was more frequent among these ‘slow responder’ mothers (OR 2.69), but this was not statistically significant (p=0.1425). Loss of the pregnancy (n=7) and cavernous hemangioma (n=4) were the most prevalent adverse outcomes in our series.
The other complications were heterogeneous.

CONCLUSION: Our results indicate that an untreated maternal Borrelia burgdorferi s.l. infection may be associated with an adverse outcome, although bacterial invasion of the fetus cannot be proven.

It appears that a specific syndrome representing ‘congenital Lyme borreliosis’ is unlikely.

PMID: 19926325 [PubMed – as supplied by publisher]