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Long-Lyme discussed with, ‘Medical gaslighting’ harming long-COVID patients, Fong A, Healthy Debate 22-07-13:’
ByCanLyme July 24, 2022July 24, 2022
Healthy Debate Response 22-07-14 “‘Medical gaslighting’ harming long-COVID patients, Fong A, Healthy Debate 22-07-13: https://healthydebate.ca/2022/07/topic/medical-gaslighting-long-covid/ “Pandemics disable people – the history lesson that policymakers ignore” -Spinney L, 2022 Thank you for the article. The golden era of discovery in medicine is over. Physicians are no longer looking for root causes of diseases. Medicine is being…
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CMAJ: Lyme disease in a neonate complicated by the Jarisch–Herxheimer reaction
ByCanLyme July 24, 2022
“A 21-day-old girl presented to the emergency department of an Ontario children’s hospital in early summer with a 1-day history of rash on the left arm and 3 days of decreased activity, poor feeding (not waking to feed, decreased volumes) and abdominal distension. She had no fever, weight loss, irritability, recent travel or known infectious…
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A New Look at Chronic Lyme
ByCanLyme June 25, 2022June 25, 2022
By Pamela Weintraub “Many physicians who treat tick-borne diseases now combine conventional medicine with gentler integrative strategies – and more long-term patients are getting well. In the summer of 1997, Jennifer Crystal discovered a red, splotchy rash on her arm. A 19-year-old counselor at a camp in Maine at the time, Crystal had grown up…
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CTV News: 14.5% of world population has or had Lyme disease: analysis
ByCanLyme June 23, 2022
A recent analysis estimates more than one-tenth of the world’s population likely has or at some point had tick-borne Lyme disease. Research published in the peer-reviewed journal BMJ Global Health found that more than 14 per cent of the global populace had antibodies to Lyme disease in their blood. Certain regions in Europe and Asia reported the highest rates…
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Ticks and Lyme disease are on the rise in Canada, experts warn. Here’s what you need to know
ByCanLyme June 23, 2022
Canada has seen a steep rise in reported Lyme disease cases in recent years, and as the planet warms, those numbers are expected to continue climbing. With ticks spreading further north each year, some advocates question whether Canada is prepared to cope with the rise of Lyme disease. The disease, which could cause lifelong health issues, has already…
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B.C. Canada: Five things to know about Lyme disease and ticks in B.C.
ByCanLyme June 20, 2022June 20, 2022
[CanLyme Note: 14 percent of the world population represents 1.09 billion people infected with Lyme disease yet the Canadian government and provincial government’s medical bureaucrats report ridiculously low case counts each year. The Lyme disease misinformation policy in Canada is directed by a private organization called the Association of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Disease of Canada…
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Lyme Borreliosis and Associations With Mental Disorders and Suicidal Behavior: A Nationwide Danish Cohort Study
ByCanLyme June 18, 2022
Abstract Objective: Lyme borreliosis is a tick-borne infectious disease that may confer an increased risk of mental disorders, but previous studies have been hampered by methodological limitations, including small sample sizes. The authors used a nationwide retrospective cohort study design to examine rates of mental disorders following Lyme borreliosis. Methods: Using Denmark’s National Patient Register…
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Don’t throw away that deer tick. Researchers at Mount Allison want to study it
ByCanLyme June 12, 2022June 12, 2022
CBC News: June 12, 2022 Study may help reduce the risk of humans contracting Lyme disease When most Maritimers find a tick on themselves or their animals, their first instinct is to pull it off and destroy it. But researchers at Mount Allison University are trying to get people to send those ticks their way…
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Hyperacusis (sound sensitivity), tinnitus (ringing in the ears), sudden hearing loss in Lyme disease – literature references
ByCanLyme June 11, 2022
Sound Sensitivity (Hyperacusis) and the Lyme Disease Connection (Increased sensitivity to certain frequency and volume ranges of sound) Carbamazepine in the Treatment of Lyme Disease–Induced Hyperacusis https://neuro.psychiatryonline.org/…/10.1176/jnp.11.1.97 AETIOLOGY AND CLINICAL PRESENTATIONS OF AUDITORY PROCESSING DISORDERS–A REVIEW HTTP://ADC.BMJ.COM/CONTENT/85/5/361.SHORT TINNITUS, HEARING LOSS, SOUND SENSITIVITY AND THE LYME DISEASE CONNECTION Otolaryngologic aspects of Lyme disease. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2041438 Central Auditory Processing Disorder https://link.springer.com/…/10.1007%2F978-0-387-79948-3… Lyme…
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Nova Scotia: Lyme disease advocacy group pushes for awareness, education, new clinic
ByCanLyme June 10, 2022
[CanLyme Note: Sadly this is the case for most Canadians with Lyme disease who do not present with the over-emphasized ‘bulls eye’ rash that occurs in only about 20% of cases. Through policy imposed via the Association of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Disease of Canada (AMMI), any doctors diagnosing Lyme disease are under pressure and risk…
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Experts expect bad year for ticks as disease-carrying bugs expand range in Canada
ByCanLyme June 3, 2022June 3, 2022
Lyndsay Armstrong, The Canadian Press HALIFAX – The prevalence of ticks that can carry Lyme disease is expected to be higher than ever in much of Canada this year, researchers say. Vett Lloyd, a researcher and director of the Lloyd Tick Lab at Mount Allison University in New Brunswick, says that as the impacts of…
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Updates
Heart Failure, Infection, & a Medical Brick Wall
ByCanLyme May 31, 2022
By Steven Phillips, MD “My father developed end-stage heart failure in his early 60’s, despite decades of top cardiology care. They said heart transplant was his only hope–They were wrong. Treating an overlooked infection permanently fixed his heart, averting the need for heart transplant. He passed away on 5/9/2021, 1 year ago today, at almost…
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Living with Lyme: Tiny Terror the Truth About Ticks
ByCanLyme May 29, 2022
May 25, 2022 Good Documentary by a News Reporter that has Been Through it Herself Watch full video
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This Tick Can Make You Allergic to Meat, and It’s Spreading
ByCanLyme May 29, 2022May 29, 2022
Work on genetically modified pigs might provide a solution to the strange illness “Kristina Carlson didn’t think much about the tick she pulled off her torso while she was hiking in the mountains of North Carolina in September 2020. But back home in Mississippi a month later, Carlson complained to her doctor of aching joints…
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BCCDC releases map of risk areas where people could contract Lyme disease
ByCanLyme May 26, 2022
The British Columbia Centre for Disease Control has updated its information on Lyme disease in the province. A Facebook post shows a map of the province and includes the areas the BCCDC considers ‘high-risk’ Lyme disease zones. “It’s certainly an update, and contradicts much of what doctors have been telling patients throughout the province for…
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CMAJ: Lyme disease in a neonate complicated by the Jarisch–Herxheimer reaction

A New Look at Chronic Lyme

CTV News: 14.5% of world population has or had Lyme disease: analysis

Ticks and Lyme disease are on the rise in Canada, experts warn. Here’s what you need to know

B.C. Canada: Five things to know about Lyme disease and ticks in B.C.

Lyme Borreliosis and Associations With Mental Disorders and Suicidal Behavior: A Nationwide Danish Cohort Study

Don’t throw away that deer tick. Researchers at Mount Allison want to study it

Hyperacusis (sound sensitivity), tinnitus (ringing in the ears), sudden hearing loss in Lyme disease – literature references

Nova Scotia: Lyme disease advocacy group pushes for awareness, education, new clinic

Experts expect bad year for ticks as disease-carrying bugs expand range in Canada

Heart Failure, Infection, & a Medical Brick Wall

Living with Lyme: Tiny Terror the Truth About Ticks

This Tick Can Make You Allergic to Meat, and It’s Spreading

BCCDC releases map of risk areas where people could contract Lyme disease

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