Lyme Disease

							           Lyme Disease

                              A New Name for
                             an Old Condition?



August 2008, Sonoma County
                                 Cecile Jadin
California                       South Africa
  Continued Discontinuity In
        Microbiology
 Examples: H.Pylori,Leishmaniosis,
  Trypanosomiasis, Toxoplasmosis, Rickettsia…
 Slows down progress in research
 Masks the pandemia of today's germs - already
  highlighted by Homer in the sixth section of
  the Iliad:
    “migration of gulls who every winter carry the
    carnage and war from one end of the earth to the
    other”
 Medicine is built mainly on new findings
 If this were the case for Mathematics and
  Physics, how chaotic would it be?
  Borreliosis’ Case
 Drury discovers Malgache fever in 1702 - Central
  Africa
 Early 1900’s Spirochete hispanicum in Spain
 A few years later, Nicolle tracks Malgache fever -
  Northern Africa
 Scheltz, while working in Congo in 1933, reports
  the same recurrent fever associated with
  spirochete
 In 1944, Palakov publishes that the relapsing fever
  disabling patients in Cape Town is due to the same
  bug
 Heisch claims the recognition of Borreliosis as
  causing the never-ending fever in 1950 - Kenya
 Borrelia burgdoferi, isolated in 1982 by Willy
  Burgdorfer after a mysterious outbreak of arthritis
  in Connecticut in 1975, is Americanised as Lyme
  disease
      The Vector is Known
Ixodes Ricinus & Others
  Life span of 4 Years
  Walking distance of 50 meters/life time
  Can lay 1000 eggs
  Can be genetically infected - trans-ovarian
   transmission of Rickettsia has been observed
  Is more virulent than ever:
       Insecticides: tick & eating birds
       Global Warming
       Traffic intensity
  More than one organism is needed to collapse
   the immune system
Check as many tick-born
 Lyme is a tick-born
A tick contains lab offers
diseases as your an average
   80 germs
of presence
indisease of insect bites
or close contact
  Our Diagnostic Tools
 Medical history -    Insect Bite?
 Contact?
 Symptomatology - Headaches?
 Chills? Fatigue? Muscular & Joints Pains?
 Carditis?…
 Medical examination - Rash?…
 Biological investigation
     Biological Investigation
Infections


    Rickettsia Prowazeki
    R. Mooseri
                                  Dysfunction
                                   
                                   
                                       FBC
                                       ESR
   R. Conori                         LFT
   Q Fever                           TFT & Thyroid antibodies
   Mycoplasma                        IgE
    Pneumoniae                        Iron Study
   Chlamydia Pneumoniae              Kidney Study
   Chlamydia Trachomatis             Glucose
   Chlamydia Psittaci                CRP
   Brucellosis                       RF
   Toxoplasmosis                     ANF
   H. Pylori                         Cardiolipin
   Bartonella                        Cholesterol
   Lyme Disease:
Direct examination preferred
 Bilharzia
          Biological Window
           500 Patients Randomly Sampled
                  TFT
                  KFT
                  ESR
             FBC (abs
          Thyroid AB
      Toxoplasmosis
          Borreliosis
        CRP, RF, ANF
                  Iron
         Mycoplasma
                  LFT
           Bartonella
Chlamydiae non spec
       Lympho Study
 Rickettsial Infection
                         0%   10%   20%   30%   40%   50%   60%   70%   80%   90%   100%
  1 Germ  Different Diseases
  1 Disease  Different Causes
  According to its           Neurological Disease
    position in the human     Psychiatric Disease
One disease at a time
    body, spread              Rheumatologic Disease
    throughout the
One disease after another
    Reticulo- Endothelial     Cardio-Vascular Disease
All diseases together
    tissue                    Dermatologic Disease
  According to its           Etcetera
    specific toxicity
  Facing the
    physiological
    conditions of the host
  Symbiosis of germs
          Experience with
            Treatment
 Established by French school 30 years ago,
  used in our clinic since 1992
 Antibiotics
 Preferably orally - except for Ceftriaxone
 Pulse Therapy as opposed to continuous
 High Dosage
 Associated - Bacteriostatics + Bactericidals
 Alternated
 With Adjuvants: vit B com - probiotics - gastric
  proton inhibitor
 Vaccination - Mutation - Relapse