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Woman Develops Lyme Disease Symptoms After Giving Birth, But Baby Doesn’t – Yet

https://danielcameronmd.com/woman-develops-lyme-disease-symptoms-after-giving-birth/

WOMAN DEVELOPS LYME DISEASE SYMPTOMS AFTER GIVING BIRTH

In their article, “An Unusual Case of Serologically Confirmed Post-Partum Lyme Disease Following an Asymptomatic Borrelia burgdorferi Infection Acquired during Pregnancy and Lacking Vertical Transmission in Utero,” Pavia et al. describe the case of a young woman who developed symptoms of Lyme disease immediately following the birth of her child. [1]

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A 23-year-old woman, who lived in Brooklyn, NY, had visited her primary care doctor complaining of bilateral knee swelling and pain. Three days prior, she had delivered a healthy baby girl.

The pain was reported as 8/10 in severity and was exacerbated by walking, according to the authors.

When the woman was 6 months pregnant, she experienced similar knee pain briefly but never sought treatment.

“Interestingly, except for a brief 2-day period where she experienced knee pain, she remained symptom-free for Lyme disease for the remainder of the pregnancy.”

During her pregnancy the woman had taken several trips to wooded areas in upstate New York.

She denied any known exposure to ticks or the development of any rash.

Testing for Lyme disease was positive by Western blot with several reactive bands including: 18, 23, 28, 33, 41,43, 58, 66, and 93 kDa.

The woman was treated successfully with a 3-week course of doxycycline.

Her newborn was symptom-free at birth and has never shown any of the usual signs or symptoms of active disease well into early childhood and beyond, the authors state.

According to the authors, “There was no evidence for congenital or perinatal transmission of this pathogen at any point pre-term or postnatally.”

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References:
  1. Pavia CS, Plummer MM, Varantsova A. An Unusual Case of Serologically Confirmed Post-Partum Lyme Disease Following an Asymptomatic Borrelia burgdorferi Infection Acquired during Pregnancy and Lacking Vertical Transmission in Utero. Pathogens. 2024 Feb 20;13(3):186. doi: 10.3390/pathogens13030186. PMID: 38535530; PMCID: PMC10976031.

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**Comment**

This, of course, will be used ad nauseam to push the myth that congenital transmission is rare or doesn’t occur.  FALSE!  Further, it is widely known that the immune system often keeps the infection in check until a trigger sets it off.

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Lyme, Pregnancy, research, Testing, Transmission, Treatment

Obstetrical and Neonatal Outcomes in Women With Gestational Lyme Disease

https://obgyn.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ijgo.15380

Obstetrical and neonatal outcomes in women with gestational Lyme disease

First published: 21 January 2024
https://doi.org/10.1002/ijgo.15380
Read the full text

Abstract

Objective

The incidence of Lyme disease (LD) infections has risen in recent decades. Gestational LD has been associated with adverse pregnancy outcomes; however, the results have been contradictory. The study objective was to examine the effects of gestational LD on obstetrical and neonatal outcomes.

Methods

Using the Healthcare Cost & Utilization Project National (Nationwide) Inpatient Sample from the United States, we conducted a retrospective cohort study of pregnant patients admitted to the hospital between 2016 and 2019. The exposed group consisted of pregnant patients with gestational LD infection (International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision [ICD-10] code A692x), while the comparison group consisted of pregnant patients without gestational LD. Descriptive statistics and multivariate logistic regression models, adjusted for baseline maternal characteristics, were used to determine the associations between gestational LD and obstetrical and neonatal outcomes.

Results

The cohort included 2 ,943, 575 women, 226 of whom were diagnosed with LD during pregnancy. The incidence of LD was 7.67 per 100, 000 pregnancy admissions. The incidence of gestational LD was stable over the study period. Pregnant patients with LD were more likely white, older, to have private health insurance, and to belong to a higher income quartile. Gestational LD was associated with an increased risk of placental abruption (adjusted odds ratio [aOR], 3.45 [95% confidence interval (CI), 1.53–7.80]) and preterm birth (aOR, 1.58 [95% CI, 1.03–2.42]).

Conclusion

Gestational LD is associated with a higher risk of placental abruption and preterm birth. Pregnancies complicated by LD, while associated with a higher risk of certain adverse outcomes, can be followed in most healthcare settings.

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Lyme, Pregnancy, research, Transmission

It’s Crucial to Acknowledge & Treat Congenital Lyme Disease

https://www.lymedisease.org/kristina-bauer-congenital-lyme/

It’s crucial to acknowledge and treat congenital Lyme disease

kristina bauer, disulfiram for Lyme disease

By Kristina Bauer

Growing up in Illinois, I loved athletics and spending time outdoors exploring, hiking, camping, and boating. But I didn’t understand how important it was to prevent tick bites. My mom would check my head when I came in from playing in the woods, sometimes pulling off multiple ticks at a time.

I spent the next 30 years going from a very sick state, back to being athletic, and then going back to sick, not realizing what had resulted from those childhood tick bites.

Many doctors told me I was the healthiest sick person they knew, and I should increase my dose of treatment for Crohn’s disease even though I did not have typical Crohn’s symptoms. Truth is, they weren’t pulling the right labs.

I had flu-like symptoms, extremely painful fibromyalgia, migrating joint pain, frequent infections, and intestinal ulcers that would not resolve with prednisone and mesalamine drugs. Sixteen doctors missed my hallmark symptoms of Lyme disease because they hadn’t been trained in medical school about the symptoms and how to diagnose it properly.

I knew I was sick but got a pass from so many experts that I hoped I could lead a normal life. After college, when I married and had children, the health problems continued. By then, I was living in Texas.

Lyme disease and co-infections

In time, I visited the best-known Lyme specialist in the state and found I tested CDC-positive for Lyme and several co-infections. My LLMD made sure I tested my kids as well, although we knew that Lyme testing is not always definitive. Although none of my kids had ever had a known tick bite, they all had compromised immune systems—getting sick often and taking a long time to get well.

My sickest child also experienced periodic “absence seizures”— brief, sudden lapses of consciousness—yet had no bands on the Western blot Lyme test at all. Another child was positive through IGeneX Labs. The other two had only a few positive bands—but given a thorough history and taking into account the mother’s health, were given a clinical diagnosis of Lyme.

We treated all five of us over the course of 10 years, an expensive and gut-wrenching process. After about seven years, the kids and I were all feeling better. Over time, my kids resumed school, work, and enjoying their lives.

The heartache of watching our friends being active while we were stuck in bed, feelings of abandonment by the medical care system, and a lack of resources for the Lyme community is what fueled me to start advocating for congenital families.

The need for education

I thought, “how could this happen in America, and who is speaking for us?” I vowed to do what I could to change that by advocating, educating, and legislating for pediatric and congenital Lyme patients, and opening access to care for treatments. In time, I started the Texas Lyme Alliance and started speaking on behalf of congenital families because there was not a lot of discussion on the topic. I conduct interviews with leading clinicians and researchers for treatments and diagnostics to educate families and physicians alike.

I graduated from the Institute of Integrative Nutrition Health Coaching, and now connect people to resources for complex Lyme treatment all over the world. While I do not provide medical advice, I love unraveling the mystery of treating Lyme disease, and enjoy passing on my knowledge I’ve learned and my experience from treating with some of the best doctors from Texas to Germany.

This interview with Dr. Ronald Wilson can be passed along to your family, friends, and physician to help them understand how to test for Lyme, and how crucial it is to treat all the forms Lyme goes into to evade treatment and the immune system.

http://  (Approx. 23 Min)

Congenital Lyme

Dr. Wilson serves on the Medical Board of Texas Lyme Alliance.

Congenital Lyme, a Dr.’s perspective. Dr. Wilson is a board certified OBGYN of 31 years, delivered 6,000 babies, became a Lyme patient then turned Lyme doctor. He had treated 5,000 Lyme patients over 15 years. Dr. Wilson is a Harvard graduate and the President of Education for ILADEF, the international authority in guidelines (ILADS) for treating tick born illness. Thank you Dr. Wilson and all the Lyme docs around the world for helping us get our lives back! Interviewed by Kristina Bauer, founder Texas Lyme Alliance and Communications Expert GOTCHA.

You can see more of Kristina’s interviews on the website of the Texas Lyme Alliance.

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Lyme, Pregnancy, Testing, Ticks

More COVID Shot Bad News: Cumulative Cardiotoxicity, 1 in 3 Suffer Neurological Effects, & DNA Contamination Could Reach Fetus

https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/concerns-over-cumulative-cardiotoxicity?

Concerns over Cumulative Cardiotoxicity with mRNA Injection

Troponin Measurements Before and After 4th Shot Give Clues

PETER MCCULLOUGH, MD
OCT 31, 2023

The field of pharmacovigilance and drug safety is loaded with regulatory structure and milestones. One of the exercises a new drug must go through is “cumulative toxicity” testing. If a drug is harmful, one dose may not be enough to bring out a side effect. However after 5 or more does, many times problems will emerge. It is usual and customary to count all adverse events for 30 days after a drug is stopped because it may have accumulated in the body or have induced lingering effects.

We have learned COVID-19 vaccines are very long lasting in the body, and since the start of the worldwide mass vaccination campaign, our public health agency sponsors have never mentioned cumulative toxicity as a concern.

Levi et al published an analysis in the European Journal of Heart Failure that appeared to make the COVID-19 vaccines look “safe.” But on the surface there are problems. 324 healthcare workers had cardiac troponin (test for cardiac damage) blood testing before and after the 4th injection. The authors focus on one unfortunate soul who had chest pain, a pathologic rise in troponin, and had to undergo more blood testing, ECG’s, echocardiography, and cardiac MRI. One out of 324 is far to many to have this problem with a routine vaccination!

What authors may have revealed in the cohort is cumulative cardiotoxicity. These patients were ~147 days after the last shot. Among healthy persons, we should be concerned over troponin elevated BEFORE the fourth shot.  (See link for article)

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Important points:

  • as many as 14.81% cumulatively sustained damage from shots 3 and 4
  • all small prospective cohort studies have found one or more cases indicating cardiac damage: Mansanguan, Beurgin, and now Levi
  • 75% of people in the U.S. took one or more shots

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https://www.theepochtimes.com/health/nearly-1-in-3-covid-19-vaccine-recipients-suffered-neurological-side-effects-study

Nearly 1 in 3 COVID-19 Vaccine Recipients Suffered Neurological Side Effects: Study

The people included in the study suffered from headaches, tremors, muscle spasms, insomnia, sleepiness, vertigo, and difficulty in concentration.

10/30/2023

Almost a third of individuals who received a COVID-19 vaccine suffered from neurological complications including tremors, insomnia, and muscle spasms, according to a recent study published in the journal Vaccines.

The study analyzed 19,096 people who received COVID-19 vaccines in Italy in July 2021, out of which 15,368 had taken the Pfizer vaccine, 2,077 had taken the Moderna version, and 1,651 took the AstraZeneca version.

While both Pfizer and Moderna are mRNA vaccines, AstraZeneca, being an adenovirus vaccine, uses a different mechanism to trigger the immune response.

The study found that about 31.2 percent of vaccinated individuals developed post-vaccination neurological complications, particularly among those injected with the AstraZeneca jab. Different vaccines had a different “neurological risk profile.”  (See link for article)

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Important points:

  • females faced an “increased risk of developing neurological complications”
  • a primary female sex steroid called estradiol triggers a specific immunity process to produce “antibodies against infections.”
  • “Caution should be used when administering COVID-19 vaccines to vulnerable people, such as to those who suffer from allergies,” the study stated. “We strongly believe that our findings are relevant for public health regarding the safety of vaccines in a large cohort.”
If you are a Lyme/MSIDS patient YOU ARE VULNERABLE.

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https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/pfizer-vaccine-dna-pregnant-mother-fetus/?

DNA Contamination in Pfizer Shots Could Transfer From Pregnant Mom to Fetus, Experts Suggest

According to a panel of experts, led by Steve Kirsch, regulators are ignoring proof that Pfizer intentionally concealed the presence of contaminants in its COVID-19 vaccines. Those contaminants could threaten unborn babies whose mothers receive the vaccine, the experts said in a recent video.

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Activism, Heart Issues, Pregnancy, vaccines, Viruses

Nobel Prize for Scientists of Kill Shot

https://gregreese.substack.com/p/nobel-peace-prize-for-shot-that-killed?r=smi4r#play   Video Here (Approx. 3 Min)

Nobel Peace Prize For Shot That Killed Over A Hundred Thousand American Children

The perpetrators of this mass murder remain free, pushing for round two, and awarding themselves the Nobel Peace Prize.

Greg Reese

Oct. 4, 2023

  • A recent multi-country ecological analysis by Rancourt et al estimated that COVID-19 vaccination has resulted in 17 million excess deaths.
  • The CDC quietly confirms that at least 118K children/young adults have ‘died suddenly’ since the shot rollout.  Actual count is much higher as this number is already a year old.
  • US nursing home data clearly shows the shots are killing the elderly.
  • FOIA documents revealed 274 pregnancy adverse events, of which 75 were “serious”, yet public health “authorities” and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) strongly recommend the COVID clot shot during pregnancy.
  • There has been a 4,070% increase in VAERS miscarriage and stillbirth reports since the COVID shot rollout.
  • The mRNA shots are now linked to cancer.
  • A 2012 study says that after testing with different mouse species and Wistar rats, “a high local accumulation of nanoparticles, nanocapsules and nanoemulsions in specific locations of the ovaries was found in all animals.”
  • Shocking FOIA Results: $11 Million to Bribe OB-GYNs to Lie to Moms About Safety of MRNA-Vaccines – interview with Dr James Thorp by Dr Wolf – READ
  • Yet, despite this genocide, the two scientists who developed the shots have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.  Welcome to the topsy-turvy world of COVID.
  • Go here for the latest VAERS report and the mounting list of adverse reactions and deaths.

While the press release for the mRNA Nobel fantasizes about COVID-19 vaccines “saving millions of lives and helping the world bring a close to the pandemic,” based on pixie dust, the published data and >3400 peer reviewed papers describe just the opposite. COVID-19 shots have resulted in catastrophic injuries, disabilities, and death.  Source

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Activism, Cancer, Pregnancy, research, vaccines, Viruses