Time to Get Serious about Tick-Borne Diseases

Re:Time to Get Serious about Tick-Borne Diseases by zby on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @10:46AM (#20747550)

If diet helped - than maybe it was some kind of food allergy that was causing the symptoms not the lyme? Maybe you had lyme some time in the past - and this is why the tests were positive - but the symptoms were because of some food allergy causing Rheumatoid Arthritis.

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Re:Time to Get Serious about Tick-Borne Diseases by fezz on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @02:59PM (#20750662)

Diet can play a big factor in autoimmune disorders. proteins leaking from the gut into the bloodstream can trigger a strong immune system reaction which makes the autoimmune disorder flare up.

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Re:Time to Get Serious about Tick-Borne Diseases by zby on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @07:56AM (#20756463)

That is what I was writing about - autoimmune disorder causing the symptoms not the borrelia bacteria. But it is also possible that the bacteria caused the autoimmune disorder first.

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Re:Time to Get Serious about Tick-Borne Diseases by FreeFull on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @10:58AM (#20747689)

It is possible to get an allergy to beef from a tick bite. For an allergy though, one would expect the symptoms to return as soon as normal diet is resumed.

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