Lyme Disease

Lyme is a tick borne disease that is transmitted by Deer Ticks. Approximately 500,000 people contract Lyme Disease yearly in the United States. It is very prevalent on the East coast and Midwest but can be found throughout the United States as well as all over the World. Borrelia Burgdorferi, the bacterium responsible for Lyme disease comes in several forms.  It comes in a spirochete form that can "drill into tissue" or in a cyst form that hides itself from antibiotics. It can also alter hide inside biofilm to become indetectable. This results in the immune system having difficulty identifying the disease and fighting it.  Lyme results in a number of symptoms that can sometimes look like Multiple Sclerosis, Fibromyalgia, Arthritis, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, ALS, Autism, ADD and many others. Another reason Lyme Diseases is often misdiagnosed is because the most common type of Lyme Disease test is inaccurate beacuse of Lyme Diseases ability to hid istself well from the immune system. www.lymedisease.org states that, "According to a new study, the CDC’s standard two-tier testing for Lyme disease failed to accurately diagnose more than 70% of blood samples from individuals with an erythema migrans rash greater than 5 centimeters across... This is significant, because patients with symptoms of Lyme disease are often denied proper diagnosis and treatment based on the CDC’s two-tier testing protocol. Furthermore, EM rashes less than 5 cm are often disregarded in reporting Lyme disease cases." The CDC recommends testing with the Elisa first which is highly inaccurate and only performing the Western Blot test which is more accurate if the Elisa test comes back positive.  In addition to contracting Lyme disease many patients contract a number of co-infections such as Babesia, Bartonella, Anaplasma, Ehrilichia  and others. http://www.lymeactionnetwork.org/about-lyme-disease/ Lyme disease can be dormant in your body for years and come back later when your immune system is weakened and wreak havoc.