On Risks of Lyme disease rise with urban tick population

Posted on May 24 at 11:29 p.m. ( Suggest removal )

Thank you for this article! Most informative.

Also wear hats that cover shoulders and GLOVES tucked over the ends of a long shirt for extra protection from ticks.

Use Deet spray; kids percents are less than adults.

Remove all clothing upon getting home; put into dryer first then wash them all. Sometimes ticks can SURVIVE hot dryer heat!!

Do check ticks on each other; especially these areas: underarms, groin areas since tick love MOIST areas, and scalps!

If tick is EMBEDDED, after removing it by pulling it using a tweezers, clean it up with soap and water good.

If embedded, get to drs. office or ER promptly to get 6 weeks of antibiotics: doxycline for adults and for KIDS....Cefotaxime.

See below link for Dr. Burrascano's 08 Lyme Treatment Guidelines:

http://www.ilads.org/lyme_disease/treatm...

BettyG, Iowa lyme activist

On Pell Lake woman spreading word on Lyme disease

Posted on May 24 at 11:15 p.m. ( Suggest removal )

Gina Duwe, briliant article you wrote on Lisa on her lyme disease and the TRISH PROJECT, RIBBONS ACROSS AMERICA!

I've had chronic lyme for 39 years last christmas; 34.5 YEARS MISDIAGNOSED BY 40-50 DRS!! UNACCEPTABLE!

Later I discovered 300 OTHER illnesses/diseases MIMICK LYME disease since they overlap each other, and then I was more understanding then.

Please check out this link of CDC's LYME DISEASE STATISTICS:

1980 – Jan. 2008 …all 50 states broken down by years!

http://www.lyme.org/resources/1980-cumul...

I too never saw a tick embedded and had NO BULLS-EYE RASH at all!

Using my journal started as a teenager, I used that to help me pinpoint back as to what I was doing when I was so sick and bedridden for 2 weeks.

It was sub-zero Iowa winter weather. Roommates and I had NO PETS. Not time of year for gardening, and I wasn't one then.

So ALL normal ways of being bitten were eliminated.

The tick that bite me had to come off my folks' live christmas tree that they had yearly until the last of us 5 kids graduated 6 years later. Other people and 1 young family were all bitten by ticks the same way I was!!

Thank you for a well-written article, and Lisa, thank YOU for sharing your lyme story with all of us.

Another thing is that it's harder than heck to get SSDI, disability insurance, benefits!! It took me 5 years of hell to get it on my 2nd claim after my lawyer quit me 4 years into this all.

BettyG, Iowa lyme activist