What Were They Thinking?

Statements Proven False or Counterproductive

Patients with chronic pain, fatigue, or mental state disturbances should not be tested for Lyme borreliosis.

The committee recommends that insurance companies do not pay for laboratory assessments that are not indicated.

In addition, the committee asks laboratories not to recommend further serological assessments after a few weeks or months when interpreting serological results.

The belief that chronic Lyme disease exists is not supported by the evidence. It is a disservice to patients with unexplained symptoms to paste that label on them and treat them with potentially harmful long-term antibiotics. They are suffering, and they deserve our compassion and the bestthat science-based medicine has to offer, not bogus treatments by charlatans orwell-meaning but misguided LLMDs. American Lyme Disease Foundation (ALDF)

German Committee for Infectious Diseases and Vaccinations

The committee recommends that insurance companies donot pay for laboratory assessments that are not indicated.This includes serological tests without well-founded clinical suspicion, tests for borrelial antigens or genomicsequences in ticks, and lymphocyte transformation assays.

The committee recommends that insurance companies do not pay for laboratory assessments that are not indicated.

In addition, the committee asks laboratories not to recommend further serological assessments after a few weeks or months when interpreting serological results.

Last Updated- April 2019

Lucy Barnes

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