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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

The Importance of Full-Spectrum Light & Healthy Lightbulbs Banned in the U.S.

Once in a while you are forever changed by a book.

One such book for me is called Health and Light: The Extraordinary Study that Shows How Light Affects Your Health and Emotional Well Being, by photobiologist Dr. John Nash Ott, known as the father of full-spectrum lighting and time lapse photography.

Ott’s experiments led him to believe that only a full spectrum of natural light (including natural amounts of infrared and ultraviolet) can promote full health in plants, animals, and humans.

http://  Scroll to about 4:30 to begin

Exploring the Spectrum

Dr. John Ott documentary

Ott’s ingenious experiments on plants and laboratory animals reveal the importance of full-spectrum light for health and life.  At about 44:00 Ott mentions a 1964 paper presented at the American Academy of Pediatrics meeting in NYC on “tired child syndrome.” The severity of the symptoms was directly related to the amount of time they spent watching TV. Wanting to rule out overstimulation as a cause, Ott put bean plants in front of the TV for 6 hours each weekday and 10 hours on Saturdays and Sunday – the same amount of time the children were watching TV.  Then he did the same with white rats followed by autopsies.  The negative results were obvious.

At 48:00 a real life experiment was done in a classroom where some children struggled with hyperactivity.  After ninety days, they replaced the cool white fluorescent tubes with full-spectrum fluorescent tubes with radiation shields.  The results were astonishing for the hyperactive children labeled with learning disorders, but beyond that every student improved.

Imagine what would be found today with all the cell phone, TV, and computer/tablet use.

Understanding the importance of natural sunlight on human and biological health makes the government’s goal of dimming the sun yet more ominous.

Adding insult to injury, at 1:18:38, he shows the negative effects of radar used at the airport 14 miles away on aphids on the leaves of an orange tree.  Every few seconds the aphids would tense up in unison at the same interval of time which coincided exactly with the rotation of the radar rotor device.

Ott also wrote “My Ivory Cellar” on time-lapse photography, “Exploring the Spectrum,” and “Light, Radiation, and You: How to Stay Healthy.”  I recommend them all.  You will never look at lighting the same again.

https://www.jeremyrhammond.com/2024/05/02/ban-of-incandescent-lightbulbs/?

The Government’s Stupid Ban of Incandescent Lightbulbs

As always, the government is interfering in the marketplace to dictate our behavior without regard for the harms caused by its myopic meddling.

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May 2, 2024

(Photo by Benkonon/Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED)
(Photo by Benkonon/Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED)

Dr. Martin Moore-Ede, a leading world expert on circadian clocks and light, has an article in Psychology Today titled “Banned in the US: Healthy Light Bulbs“, which explains how government regulations aim to effectively ban incandescent lightbulbs in favor of LED bulbs.

This is being done under the guise of climate activism on the grounds that LED bulbs are more energy efficient, but the problem is that most LEDs emit a narrow spectrum with lots of blue light, which has harmful health effects.

The government as usual is interfering in the marketplace, trying to dictate our behavior in every aspect of our lives, with total disregard for the extraordinary harms caused by its myopic meddling.

Incandescent bulbs emit a broader spectrum including infrared light and so more closely mimic the health-supportive light we would get from the sun if we didn’t spend so much of our day indoors with our “modern” lifestyles. (I’m putting the word in quotation marks since I’m firmly convinced that someday when humankind becomes civilized, people will look back at our present era and view us as a bunch of barbarians.)

As Moore-Ede explains, sunlight exposure regulates our circadian rhythm, whereas evidence indicates that excessive blue light after sunset suppresses melatonin production and disrupts the regenerative powers of sleep in ways that increase the risk of cancer.  (See link for article)

https://blog.mindbrainbodylab.com/p/the-neuroscience-behind-sunlights

The Neuroscience Behind Sunlight’s Benefits: A Ray of Hope for Mental Health 🧠

How Sunlight Enhances Mood, Sleep, & Cognitive Performance

CODY ISABEL | NEUROSCIENCE
MAR 30, 2023

Dr. Huberman’s Sunlight Morning Routine

Summary:

  • Sunlight positively affects key brain regions, including the prefrontal cortex, hippocampus, amygdala, suprachiasmatic nucleus, and striatum.
  • Sunlight’s evolutionary benefits include regulating the circadian rhythm and providing essential Vitamin D for calcium absorption.
  • Sunlight can improve mood regulation, sleep, cognitive function, and attention, and memory while reducing inflammation and oxidative stress in the brain.
  • Low Vitamin D levels are linked to an increased risk of cognitive decline and various mental health disorders.
  • Prioritizing sunlight exposure is important for overall mental and physical health, but caution is necessary to prevent skin damage.

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Activism, Treatment

Post-COVID Reactivation of Latent Bartonella: A Case Report & Literature Review

https://bmcinfectdis.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12879-024-09336-7

Case Report

Open access

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Post-COVID reactivation of latent Bartonella henselae infection: a case report and literature review

Yanzhao Dong, Ahmad Alhaskawi, Xiaodi Zou, Haiying Zhou, Sohaib Hasan Abdullah Ezzi, Vishnu Goutham Kota, Mohamed Hasan Abdulla Hasan Abdulla, Alenikova Olga, Sahar Ahmed Abdalbary & Hui Lu

BMC Infectious Diseases volume 24, Article number: 422 (2024) Cite this article

Abstract

Cat scratch disease (CSD) is caused by Bartonella henselae (B. henselae) and presents as lymphadenopathy following close contact with cats. However, in context of the global COVID-19 pandemic, clinical manifestations of CSD may vary, posing new challenges for healthcare professionals. Here we describe a case of a 54-year-old male with painful left upper arm mass, which gradually resolved until he was infected with COVID-19. The mass then rapidly progressed before admission. Meanwhile, pulmonary symptoms including pleural effusion emerged simultaneously. The cause was undetermined with routine blood culture and pathological test until the next generation sequencing (NGS) confirmed the presence of B. henselae. We believe this case is the first to report localized aggravation of CSD after COVID-19 infection and hopefully, offers treatment experience for clinicians worldwide.

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**Comment**

On a personal note: both my husband and I required Bartonella treatment for a relapse after COVID.  What the abstract does not mention is if this patient received the mRNA gene therapy shot which would complicate matters even more. Since his presentation was in January of 2023, he very well could have had multiple shots.

While the case report was about a severe Bartonella manifestation, please know Bartonella can present a million different ways.  Please read:  https://madisonarealymesupportgroup.com/2019/04/24/human-bartonellosis-an-underappreciated-public-health-problem/

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Bartonella, research, Treatment, Viruses

May: Lyme Disease Awareness Resources

Lyme Disease Awareness Month 2024

May is Lyme Disease Awareness Month, a time dedicated to increasing public knowledge about Lyme disease. This month emphasizes awareness on preventing tick bites, recognizing symptoms, and promoting early detection. 

Go here for nifty downloadable posters to share with others.

Go here for more prevention & printouts on how to identify and properly remove ticks, how to protect your pets and yard, learn about Lyme symptoms, as well as get guest blogs on various topics, a community action calendar, and Lyme statistics.

Go here for a free special issue of Lymetimes.

Topics within:

  • All things Mast Cell Activation Syndrome (MCAS)
  • Healing Guide for environmental toxins, Lyme, and EMF’s
  • Connection between mold illness and MCAS
  • Hidden ingredients in pills
  • History of LymeDisease.org

Go here for Upcoming Lyme Awareness Events.

Go here for tick prevention.

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Activism, diet and nutrition, Gut Health, Lyme, Mast Cell Activation Syndrome (MCAS), Mold, Supplements, Ticks, Treatment

Jadin Protocol for ME/CFS, Chronic Lyme & Q Fever

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Protocol for ME/CFS, Chronic Lyme, & Q Fever

Cécile Jadin, MD

8/2/23

Microbiome Prescription

Transcript available in Youtube link.

For more:  https://cfsremission.com/2023/08/02/video-presentation-of-dr-jadins-current-protocol-for-me-cfsvideo-presentation-of    Within this link is the following information as well as shortened videos and helpful information including a list of treatments.

Important point:  treatment duration is 1-3 YEARS.

Dr. Jadin’s protocol has been used for over 25 years with a high success rate (90%).

Cécile Jadin is a MD with decades of clinical experience treating ME/CFS applying and evolving a protocol that she inherited from her father’s time at the Pasteur Institute of Tropical Medicine.  She talks about Obligated Intracellular Organism or OIO. This term may be unfamiliar to many, for some background readings see this Research Topic on Frontiers.

Remission is the Target, not who is right

Patients and their MDs can go down two path, the paths actually run besides each other.

  • Follow Cécile Jadin process and protocol precisely
  • Follow Cécile Jadin process but use iterative sets of suggestions from Microbiome Prescription. By that, pick 1-2 of the top CFS tagged antibiotics, then at the end of first month, take a new microbiome sample and start with the secondary CFS tagged antibiotics (while waiting for the results).

The latter approach can be tried without prescription antibiotics because it identifies probiotics (that often produces natural antibiotics) and herbs (with antibiotic characteristics) and thus allows self-treatment for those without a cooperative medical professional. This no-antibiotics approach will likely work slower for most people. I discourage self-treatment, but often there is no alternative. My first choice is keeping strictly to clinical experience using the microbiome suggestions to select between clinical alternatives.

Go here for Dr. Jadin Resources which includes much more detail about the treatment

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diet and nutrition, Gut Health, Lyme, Treatment