MSN Home  |  My MSN  |  Hotmail
Sign in to Windows Live ID Web Search:   
go to MSNGroups 
Free Forum Hosting
 
Important Announcement Important Announcement
The MSN Groups service will close in February 2009. You can move your group to Multiply, MSN’s partner for online groups. Learn More
The Scientific Debate Forum.Contains "mature" content, but not necessarily adult.[email protected] 
  
What's New
  
  Disclaimer: Read this page first.  
  Links  
  Messages  
  General  
  Nutrition  
  "Mission Statement."  
  Why the "germ theory" is not science.  
  The Underlying Cause of "Disease."  
  The Scientific Method.  
  How dangerous are bacteria and viruses?  
  The Contributions of Hans Selye and others.  
  How direct effects are often ignored, and indirect markers used  
  Understanding "disease" at the molecular level.  
  Understanding disease at the molecular level, part II.  
  What the "common cold" can teach us about illness.  
  The AA connection to today's common "diseases."  
  How easy the key experiments would be to do.  
  The best practical diet and the explanation for it.  
  Fish oil quotes you might want to read  
  Where the "immune system" fits into this view of "disease."  
  How many 'scientific studies' violate the scientific method  
  Why you have to be careful with antioxidants.  
  Why Cancers today are more aggressive than those of the past.  
  The Latest Evidence.  
  Some studies worthy of note.  
  HSWC "in action."  
  How language can impede science.  
  How language impedes science, part II.  
  More on why "germs" don't cause "disease."  
  How a latent virus actually causes "disease."  
  A new report that "says it all."  
  The science "show" must go on?  
  Odds and ends  
  Some thoughts on a book by Robert Gallo.  
  Saturated fatty acids are the solution, not the problem.  
  It's stress, not "germs" that causes disease.  
  Epidemiology: Facts versus "factoids."  
  It's stress, not germs, part II.  
  The latest on "inflammation."  
  Why many nutritional claims make no sense  
  The use of hypotheticals in science.  
  What "viral infections" really do to the body.  
  What determines longevity?  
  An example of an anti-"saturated fat" study that is flawed.  
  A Rough Guide to a Gentle Diet.  
  A unified "AIDS" hypothsis without "HIV."  
  A unified "AIDS" hypothsis without "HIV." Part II.  
  Okay, so when is this diet going to kill me?  
  Scientific Debate Forum Pictures  
  The EFA Claim Was Refuted Long Ago  
    
  
  
  Tools  
 
All Message Boards : Lyme and other tick-bite diseases
Choose another message board
 
     
Reply
 Message 1 of 2 in Discussion 
From: MSN Nicknametaka00381  (Original Message)Sent: 7/20/2008 3:25 AM
Hans, would you think that the Lyme disease is just another lifestyle or diet related condition rather than being caused by the tick-transmitted pathogens? It surely resembles Aids. Would it be safe for a person having mostly Mead acid in the cells to camp in a tick infested area? The infected ticks are on a rise in many parts of continental Europe and USA.

TICK BITES AND LYME DISEASE

If you find a tick on your body, get a pair or tweezers and gently remove it and clean the area with alcohol. The tick that causes Lyme disease is very small, but can fill with blood and be huge. If a few days after the bite, you develop a red spot surrounded by an enlarging circle, or you develop flu-like symptom, go to your doctor. You should probably be given doxycycline for three weeks.

Even if you don't develop a bull's eye rash or flu-like symptoms, you still could develop Lyme disease many months or years later, characterized by nerve or joint damage. Now you are in big trouble because late-stage Lyme disease is very difficult to cure. Get an ELISSA blood test for Lyme disease and if it is positive, you need a Western Blot, which is more dependable. However, no completely dependable test for Lyme disease exists and many doctors treat arthritis and nerve damage as Lyme disease, even when all blood tests for Lyme disease are negative. A rule of thumb is that people with nerve damage are usually treated with intravenous Rocephin for 30 days, while people with arthritis do not need the intravenous treatment.

Many people who take the intravenous treatment get better for a few months only to have all their symptoms return, so all people with a diagnosis of Lyme disease should be treated with doxycycline 100 mg twice a day until they have no symptoms at all. This can take months or years and when they stop taking doxycycline, they should watch carefully for return of their symptoms and start taking antibiotics immediately if their symptoms return.

Tick bites can also cause Ehrlichiosis, babesiosis and tick-borne encephalitis, that can start out as flu-like symptoms, to damage your immunity and cause nerve damage, chronic tiredness and joint pains. A major problem is that you can be bitten by a tick and not know it.

SOURCE: http://www.drmirkin.com/morehealth/8233.html


First  Previous  2 of 2  Next  Last 
Reply
 Message 2 of 2 in Discussion 
From: MSN NicknameHansSelyeWasCorrectSent: 7/20/2008 6:28 PM
I still get inflammation when I get a cut, but it doesn't last very long, as it used to do. Since Lyme Disease seems to be dominated by inflammatory issues, it's possible that if you have Mead acid in your cells rather than AA, you would just get a rash that would last a couple of hours if bit by such a tick. I wouldn't take the chance, personally, but a simple experiment could be done with common lab animals. The fact that such experiments are not being done is what really irks me, because the evidence is so compelling, and so much suffering might be avoidable, if people were just told how much more resistant to various "diseases" they could be with simple dietary changes.