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Lyme Disease & Herxheimer Reaction in Newborn

https://danielcameronmd.com/lyme-disease-herxheimer-reaction-newborn/

LYME DISEASE AND HERXHEIMER REACTION IN NEWBORN

Newborn with lyme disease and herxheimer reaction being examined by doctor.

The Herxheimer reaction, also referred to as a Jarisch-Herxheimer reaction, is “a transient clinical phenomenon that occurs in patients infected by spirochetes who undergo antibiotic treatment.”¹ It was first described in patients with syphilis but has also been associated with other spirochetal infections including leptospirosis, Lyme disease, and relapsing fever. The reaction is associated with the onset of new symptoms or a worsening of existing symptoms in patients receiving antibiotic treatment.

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In 2020, investigators published a case involving a 13-year-old boy with Lyme arthritis, a common manifestation of Lyme disease, who developed a Herxheimer reaction when treated with doxycycline. On the 7th day of treatment, the boy developed a low-grade fever and severe arthralgias with intense hip, ankle and cervical spine pain and myalgias.

You can read more about the 13-year-old boy’s case in an earlier blog “Herxheimer reaction in a 13-year-old boy with Lyme disease.” 

Newborn with herxheimer reaction

In their article “Lyme disease in a neonate complicated by the Jarisch–Herxheimer reaction,” Prodanuk and colleagues² describe the case of a 21-day-old infant who was admitted to the hospital with decreased activity, poor feeding and abdominal distension.

The parents removed an engorged tick from the infant’s forearm 5 days earlier. An EM rash was present at the site of the tick bite.

“Given the erythema migrans lesion at the site from which the engorged tick was removed, we made a presumptive diagnosis of Lyme disease and administered IV ceftriaxone,” the authors write.

Two hours after treatment began, the infant developed a fever, tachycardia and other symptoms consistent with the Jarisch–Herxheimer reaction.

Testing for Lyme disease was negative.

Clinicians should also “be aware of the possibility of the Jarisch–Herxheimer reaction during the initial phase of treatment.”²

Several studies, they warn, indicate “newborns with findings consistent with early localized disease may also be at higher risk for disseminated disease.”

“Given the limited data for neonates and the possible predisposition of this population to disseminated Lyme disease, clinicians should strongly consider administering IV antibiotics to target Lyme disease,” the authors suggest.

Patients can experience a broad range of symptoms resulting from a herxheimer reaction, explains Nykytyuk and colleagues, including fever, severe polyarthralgias, myalgias, chills, hypotension, nonpruritic, nonpalpable rash, tachycardia, nausea, headache, strengthening of existing or occurrence of new symptoms of the underlying disease.¹

The exact cause of Jarisch-Herxheimer reactions is still unknown. “At first, the role of an endotoxin in the development of JHR was suggested, but later experimental studies showed that spirochetes do not have biologically active endotoxins,” the authors explained.¹

Related Articles:

What does a Lyme disease flare-up feel like?
Herxheimer reaction in a 13-year-old boy with Lyme disease
Lyme disease causes a mix of symptoms including autonomic dysfunction

References:
  1. Dhakal A, Sbar E. Jarisch Herxheimer Reaction. [Updated 2022 Apr 28]. In: StatPearls [Internet]. Treasure Island (FL): StatPearls Publishing; 2022 Jan-. Available from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK557820/
  2. Prodanuk M, Groves H, Arje D, Bitnun A. Lyme disease in a neonate complicated by the Jarisch-Herxheimer reaction. CMAJ. 2022 Jul 18;194(27):E939-E941. doi: 10.1503/cmaj.220112. PMID: 35851530; PMCID: PMC9299745.

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**Comment**

This infant won the lotto by having astute parents, a noticable tick bite, and EM rash.  Many are not so fortunate to have these clear signs.  Many also test negative.  Without the signs and positive test, many are misdiagnosed and miss this opportunity for early treatment which is imperative.

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Inflammation, Lyme, research, Testing, Ticks, Treatment

Former Australian AMA President & Partner Injured by COVID Shots – Unbelievably New Study Blames “Hot & Cold Days”For Rising Heart Problems

https://dailysceptic.org/2022/12/20/top-australian-doctor-reveals-she-is-vaccine-injured-and-says-doctors-are-being-censored/

Top Australian Doctor Reveals She is Vaccine Injured and Says Doctors Are Being Censored

BY WILL JONES
20 DECEMBER 2022

Former Australian federal MP Dr. Kerryn Phelps has revealed she and her wife both suffered serious and ongoing injures from Covid vaccines, while suggesting the true rate of adverse events is far higher than acknowledged due to under-reporting and “threats” from medical regulators. News.com.au has the story.

In an explosive submission to Parliament’s Long Covid inquiry, the former Australian Medical Association (AMA) president has broken her silence about the “devastating” experience — emerging as the most prominent public health figure in the country to speak up about the taboo subject.

“This is an issue that I have witnessed first-hand with my wife who suffered a severe neurological reaction to her first Pfizer vaccine within minutes, including burning face and gums, paraesethesiae, and numb hands and feet, while under observation by myself, another doctor and a registered nurse at the time of immunisation,” the 65-year-old said.

“I continue to observe the devastating effects a year-and-a-half later with the addition of fatigue and additional neurological symptoms including nerve pains, altered sense of smell, visual disturbance and musculoskeletal inflammation. The diagnosis and causation has been confirmed by several specialists who have told me that they have seen ‘a lot’ of patients in a similar situation.”

(See link for article)

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Dec. 20, 2022

News Australia

Dr Kerryn Phelps is calling for more research into COVID-19 vaccines after she says she experienced a vaccine injury.

**Comment**

Phelps was also diagnosed with a “vaccine” injury from her 2nd Pfizer dose, confirmed by specialist colleagues.  She suffered dysautonomia, intermittent fevers, cardiovascular complications with breathlessness, inappropriate sinus tachycardia, and blood pressure fluctuations. Both reactions were reported but never followed up by the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA).

Phelps states medical profession regulators have censored public discussion about “vaccine” injuries – threatening doctors with deregistration and prosecution if they make any public statements they consider to seek to “undermine” the national COVID gene therapy injection rollout.

I’ve posted previously that the ‘powers that be’ are blaming anything (cold weather, hot weather, depression, food, long COVID, short COVID, chemicals in the atmosphere, post-pandemic stress disorder, undiagnosed aortic stenosis, expensive electricity, and even the unvaccinated) but the elephant in the room and are using “climate change” in a bandwagon approach to secure money, power, and control.  Sure enough, mainstream media is now loudly promoting this latest bogus paper:  https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/heart-disease-almost-1-in-100-deaths-linked-to-extreme-hot-and-cold-days

Demonstrating that you can literally design a study for preconceived results, this analysis of 32 million deaths from cardiovascular disease found that more people died on days with extreme temperatures than not.  Well, that’s a big DUH!  The article then goes on to state that the “planet is enduring more frequent intense heat waves due to ‘climate change’ which is mostly caused by humans burning fossil fuels such as coal, oil, and gas.”  Yet climate experts have repeatedly stated that the climate has nothing to do with man, that “climate change” is a “lie and a scam,” that is being used as a “gravy train” to secure funding, and for political purposes to “create policy.”

The paper is now calling for future research to look at the social determinants of health and “climate change.”

Gotta keep that”climate change” research engine and grant money flowing.

Predictably, the author then calls upon cardiologists and national and international societies to “take a stand about ‘climate change’ and lead and advocate for countries to address ‘climate change’ in order to protect human health.”

http://  (Approx. 6 Min)

Heart Attacks Caused by “Hot and Cold Days?”

Dr. Suneel Dhand

Dec. 20, 2022

Dr. Dhand points out that it is common knowledge that extreme temperatures affect the heart.  This is old news.  He mentions, how about we have a public health campaign that goes all in on war against processed foods and obesity?

Dhand states:

“…our medical establishment has gone down this road. They want to focus on political platitudes, on riding a particular ideology, and getting doctors involved in things which aren’t really going to help their patients in the short term.”

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What is going wrong with Our Hearts?

Dr. Scott Jensen

Dr. Jensen takes the time to educate the public about what is going on with the heart after the mRNA gene therapy injections, and specifically addresses Dr. Phelps’ heart issues, and the fact cardiologists are warning that the mRNA injections are causing all manner of heart issues.

Dr. Jensen, an outspoken critic of the tyrannical, unscientific COVID measures, was threatened with an investigation by the state medical board after exposing hospitals were getting money for labeling people as COVID (which was just the tip of the corruption iceberg).  Thankfully, that has been dismissed. Jensen is not new to persecution by state medical boards which are “run by a powerful mob.”  As a Minnesota physician, he’s been investigated FIVE times due to allegations by anonymous critics, which finally led him to threaten to retaliate against the Minnesota medical board.

These witch hunts are becoming increasingly common but have been used against Lyme literate doctors for decades.

The stress & burden of these investigations can not be over-stated.  They are designed to tie-up and eliminate dissenters.

Due to the extreme mis-management of COVID, Florida Governor, Ron DeSantis is starting a CDC review panel with prominent COVID dissidents.

DeSantas recently held a roundtable.  Here’s a five minute highlight:

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Dec. 20, 2022

Public Health Integrity Committee – Accountability Roundtable

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Activism, vaccines, Viruses

Ischemic Stroke With Hemorrhagic Conversion in a Case of Lyme Neuroborreliosis

https://www.cureus.com/articles/97069-ischemic-stroke-with-hemorrhagic-conversion-in-a-case-of-lyme-neuroborreliosis

Ischemic Stroke With Hemorrhagic Conversion in a Case of Lyme Neuroborreliosis

Srinandan Sathi, Daniel Kim, Patrick Duplan, Paul Kim, Carl Shenkamn

Published: August 15, 2022 (see history)

DOI: 10.7759/cureus.28028

Cite this article as: Sathi S, Kim D, Duplan P, et al. (August 15, 2022) Ischemic Stroke With Hemorrhagic Conversion in a Case of Lyme Neuroborreliosis. Cureus 14(8): e28028. doi:10.7759/cureus.28028

Abstract

Lyme disease is an infectious tick-borne illness predominant in northeastern and midwestern United States. The clinical presentation varies significantly and only a few cases develop Lyme neuroborreliosis (LNB), which makes diagnosis difficult. A 59-year-old male visiting from Michigan presented to a hospital in Florida with an ischemic stroke with aphasia and acute confusion for two days. He had imaging that noted a subacute infarct in the left parietal lobe along with multiple areas of white matter signal abnormalities and CSF serology positive for Borrelia burgdorferi IgM and IgG antibodies. The patient was placed on ceftriaxone for 30 days and showed significant clinical improvement. We present a case of ischemic stroke with hemorrhagic conversion and an incidental finding of LNB.

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**Comment**

There is no way on earth that only a few cases develop Lyme neuroborrliosis.  This statement shows the researcher’s complete disconnect from reality.

Testing is so abysmal, thousands fall through the diagnostic crack.  Then, if they manage to win the lottery and test positive, they are told it’s a “false positive,” and to “go home and be well.”

This patient in fact did win the lottery and managed to get diagnosed in Florida, which like all Southern states has had to fight tooth and nail to get public health to even recognize it.  And that probably wouldn’t have happened if it weren’t for infected researcher, Kerry Clark, who is finding Southern borrelia strains that will never be picked up in a million years using current CDC two-tier testing.  He also showed DNA of Bbsl in Lone Star ticks which might be a bridge vector of transmission to humans, but is still considered by ‘the powers that be’ to not transmit Lyme disease.  Instead, infected Southerners have been told they have STARI, a disease that looks, acts, and smells just like Lyme.

This patient, despite showing significant improvement, requires follow-up which will never happen.  If and when symptoms reappear he will simply be told it’s all “in his head.”

Category:

Lyme, Psychological Aspects, research, Testing, Treatment

‘Near-Universal’ Negative Experiences With Healthcare Providers Reported by Lyme Disease Patients

https://danielcameronmd.com/near-universal-negative-experiences-with-healthcare-providers-reported-by-lyme-disease-patients/

‘NEAR-UNIVERSAL’ NEGATIVE EXPERIENCES WITH HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS REPORTED BY LYME DISEASE PATIENTS

Lyme patient expressing frustration with doctor.

Lyme disease can be a challenging illness for both physicians and their patients. In an article entitled “Knowing the entire story – a focus group study on patient experiences with chronic Lyme-associated symptoms (chronic Lyme disease),” Baarsma et al. share various perspectives of self-identified chronic Lyme disease patients from the Dutch Lyme community.

By Dr. Daniel Cameron

“Healthcare providers frequently struggle to provide effective care to patients with chronic Lyme-associated symptoms…potentially causing these patients to feel misunderstood or neglected by the healthcare system,” the authors wrote.

They listed 6 themes that emerged from the participants experiences: Late diagnosis, abandonment, loss, unpredictability, lack of understanding, and a need for a holistic experience.

The authors unfortunately found, “Negative experiences with healthcare providers were near-universal, also in patients with short-lived CLD-associated symptoms.”

Here are a few of the participants experiences with healthcare providers.

Lack of in-depth questioning

“If the GP had asked something, then I would have remembered. If he had asked: “Have you been in the woods, have you had a tick bite?”, then I would have [said]: “Yeah, I did have a tick bite.” And then maybe, well, then you hope that it [would have] been treated at that time. But that didn’t happen and he didn’t ask.”

Lack of seeing the ‘big picture’

“They only look at that one thing, […] but all that time no-one looked at the entire picture.”

Need to fit into clinician’s viewpoint

“You go to a doctor with the anticipation that they are going to make an effort for you, but along the way you notice that they have their own interests and ideas, and if you don’t fit into their frame of reference then you can go. Yeah, the doctor is only insulting.”

Patients feeling not heard

“What I think is a pity, is… you go through a lot in a short while, all sort of things happen, and, uhm, there’s a doctor in front of you who doesn’t want to hear it. Look, when you try to describe a symptom, you experience that for the first time, you also don’t know what the medical term is. You try to describe something, but you just notice that the other side of the table is completely disinterested.”

Symptoms dismissed as psychiatric

“Well, they can’t find anything, so it must be ‘between the ears.’”

“In summary, we find that CLD patients experience significant symptoms, for which they only rarely find adequate relief from regular medical practitioners.”

The authors concluded, “Verbalizing these themes, patients use various repertoires for their shared experiences, such as a feeling of abandonment or not being heard by the medical system, feelings of loss with respect to their previous health, and the idea that they might have been better off had they been diagnosed sooner.”

Furthermore, “We hypothesize that these findings are not unique to CLD, but may also be applicable to other conditions with an uncertain aetiology, such as Long COVID,” they wrote.

Related Articles:

Symptoms of Lyme disease are not excessive
Dismissing chronic Lyme disease for somatic symptom disorder diagnosis
My child has Lyme disease: parents describe fear and frustration

References:
  1. Baarsma ME, Claassen SA, van der Horst HE, Hovius JW, Sanders JM. Knowing the entire story – a focus group study on patient experiences with chronic Lyme-associated symptoms (chronic Lyme disease). BMC Prim Care. Jun 2 2022;23(1):139. doi:10.1186/s12875-022-01736-5

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Activism, Lyme, research

FAKE NEWS: Latest MMWR Bivalent Booster Analysis

https://vinayprasadmdmph.substack.com/p/latest-mmwr-analysis-of-bivalent?

Latest MMWR analysis of bivalent booster is irredeemably flawed

Dangerous times for science.
Vinay Prasad

There is only one right way to know who benefits from a bivalent booster, and that is a randomized trial. Take people over the age of 65, who have already gotten 3 doses of the parent vaccine, and randomize them in 3 arms to a 4th dose of Wuhan vaccine, a bivalent booster, and placebo vax, and measure severe disease and hospitalization.

Pfizer and Moderna can afford this study. It can be completed rapidly. The US FDA has a societal obligation to demand it, and yet that did not happen. This raises the question if regulators work for the public or instead plan their lucrative future consulting careers for Pfizer and wish to give them an easy market share. Remember that Scott Gottlieb former FDA commish, is now on their board of directors.

Over the last year White House officials continue to work closely with Pfizer to push bivalent boosters through based on mouse data. This has no precedent in modern regulatory history and constitutes a multi-billion dollar give-away to the company. Now the CDC seeks to perform a study to justify that action. Enter the latest MMWR study.  (See link for article)

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Important excerpt:

“…the CDC is no longer a scientific agency, they are a arm of political propaganda and this study fits the bill.”

This corrupt agency must not receive one more dime from the taxpayers and it must have no more power to lead public health.

Category:

Activism, research, vaccines, Viruses