Re:Lyme Disease Cases Are Exploding
by spacebatsghost on Tuesday June 25, 2019 @05:18PM
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Most non-Lyme Literate Medical doctors prescribe Doxycyclin. If you are seeing a Lyme Literate Medical doctor they'll put you on a cocktail (often Clarithromycin, Doxy, Alinia (anti-parasitic), and a few others. This also depends if you have co-infections or not.
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The UK NICE guidelines suggest doxycycline, and have a section discussing the evidence for that:
https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng95
"Lyme literate" seems to be a pseudoscience term related to the ME-like crypto-syndrome "chronic Lyme disease" - for example, see towards the end here:
https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/legislative-alchemy-2014-so...
A family member is on Doxycyclin for another issue unrelated to Lyme. It has caused them a fair amount of nerve degeneration issues in the toes and fingers. This is perhaps the risk that the some doctors are trying to avoid.
There is no formal certification process for "Lyme Literate Medical Doctors". Many are quacks who don't follow evidence based medicine guidelines.
https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/florida-revokes-medical-lic...