Complex Chronic Illness
Lyme Disease is a wakeup call. There are many chronic infectious agents with the ability to affect us adversely. They are often considered stealth pathogens/infections, as often they infect without producing illness immediately. In stead, they slowly work their way deeper into the body, hijacking our systems to work and support them. Our immune system becomes ineffective to protect us. When it becomes hyperactive, autoimmune disorders can occur. Detoxification pathways break down, unable to remove the toxic burden, recycling them over and over. This makes a person feel sicker and sicker and very fatigued, like a flu.Inflammation becomes excessive leading to increased pain and discomfort.
Acute and Chronic Lyme Disease
Acute Lyme Disease is an infection of less than a year. Optimal conditions for treatment are a swift diagnosis and the best possible protocol plan set forth by a Lyme-literate Provider. Even then the destruction of the disease is dependent upon an individual's response to treatment, which is different in each case, showcasing the need for an accurate and thorough evaluation. This is where awareness enters the picture. If Non Lyme-literate providers understood this and the average person understood the need for quick intervention, then Chronic Lyme Disease could be prevented in most if not all cases.
Borrelia Burgdorferi, the Lyme bacteria, is a Spirochete bacteria typically shaped like a cork screw, but can also change into a cystic and intracellular form. It can create a biofilm that covers it, allowing it to hide more efficiently. It loves to burrow into many different tissues in the body, including nervous tissue, joint tissue, connective tissue, muscles, the heart, and the brain.
Lyme Disease is a complex of multiple co-infections resulting from the bite of it's most well known vector, the Tick. There is also evidence that other vectors carrying these diseases are Mosquitos, lice, biting flies, fleas, mites, and sand flies. Lyme can be transmitted from a person who has been bitten by an infected tick through blood transfusions, organ donation, across the placental barrier to a fetus, sexually, through body fluids, and probably through breast milk.
Chronic Lyme disease (CLD) is a world-wide epedemic. It is the fastest growing and most prevalent insect borne infection in the United States. It is defined as being ill with Lyme greater than a year. The longer a person is sick, the more secondary damage and dysregulation will occur, and the more difficult it is to control the infection. This means that other systems in the body, like the immune system, hormonal system, and autonomic nervous system stop functioning in a healthy way. The immune system becomes hypersensitive to the constant insult of the bugs, goes haywire, and reacts to everything, or responds to nothing. When this happens people with CLD become sensitive to everything, including chemical sensitivity and mold toxins. The liver stops working optimally, and the body has a hard time clearing toxins, increasing the intensity of symptoms. This creates systemic inflammation and other symptoms, making everything worse for the ill person, and treatment more complex and difficult.
Acute Lyme Disease is an infection of less than a year. Optimal conditions for treatment are a swift diagnosis and the best possible protocol plan set forth by a Lyme-literate Provider. Even then the destruction of the disease is dependent upon an individual's response to treatment, which is different in each case, showcasing the need for an accurate and thorough evaluation. This is where awareness enters the picture. If Non Lyme-literate providers understood this and the average person understood the need for quick intervention, then Chronic Lyme Disease could be prevented in most if not all cases.
Borrelia Burgdorferi, the Lyme bacteria, is a Spirochete bacteria typically shaped like a cork screw, but can also change into a cystic and intracellular form. It can create a biofilm that covers it, allowing it to hide more efficiently. It loves to burrow into many different tissues in the body, including nervous tissue, joint tissue, connective tissue, muscles, the heart, and the brain.
Lyme Disease is a complex of multiple co-infections resulting from the bite of it's most well known vector, the Tick. There is also evidence that other vectors carrying these diseases are Mosquitos, lice, biting flies, fleas, mites, and sand flies. Lyme can be transmitted from a person who has been bitten by an infected tick through blood transfusions, organ donation, across the placental barrier to a fetus, sexually, through body fluids, and probably through breast milk.
Chronic Lyme disease (CLD) is a world-wide epedemic. It is the fastest growing and most prevalent insect borne infection in the United States. It is defined as being ill with Lyme greater than a year. The longer a person is sick, the more secondary damage and dysregulation will occur, and the more difficult it is to control the infection. This means that other systems in the body, like the immune system, hormonal system, and autonomic nervous system stop functioning in a healthy way. The immune system becomes hypersensitive to the constant insult of the bugs, goes haywire, and reacts to everything, or responds to nothing. When this happens people with CLD become sensitive to everything, including chemical sensitivity and mold toxins. The liver stops working optimally, and the body has a hard time clearing toxins, increasing the intensity of symptoms. This creates systemic inflammation and other symptoms, making everything worse for the ill person, and treatment more complex and difficult.
Co-Infections
Multiple co-infections exist along with Borrelia that cause Chronic Lyme Disease. These are universal now as a single tick can carry numerous (seven plus) different infectious pathogens. Co-infections include bacteria, fungus, parasites, yeasts, and viruses.
Bacteria
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Parasites
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Viruses
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Mold
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