by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine, Lyme Disease & Atypical Infections
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-46377-4 Comment; Fight ticks with fire. I like it! Controlled burns can be good for wilderness areas, this may be an additional benefit. Elizabeth R. Gleim, Galina E. Zemtsova, Roy D. Berghaus, Michael L....
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine
Erythromelalgia Comment; a rare disease that causes a lot of distress, rarely recognized without any specific primary therapy–lots of ways to try to provide symptomatic relief though. General Discussion Erythromelalgia is a rare condition that primarily affects...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine
https://www.cbs8.com/article/news/white-house-basement-floods-as-heavy-rains-pound-dc-region/507-96d85d0f-2d38-4fff-bd7e-c4916ca8561a Comment; Sad to see so much damage, hopefully it’ll bring the plight of water-damaged buildings and mold-related CIRS to the...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, ElectroMagnetic Field Sensitivity, Functional & Integrative Medicine
Source: Washington Post Comment; Amazing kids! It’s a shame school budgets cannot afford appropriate remediation and so many remediators are not up to speed on the technology required to diagnose and fix the problem. Add to that the fact that EMF exponentially...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Addiction, CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine, Mast Cell Activation Syndrome, Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS)
https://muhc.ca/newsroom/news/gut-bacteria-associated-chronic-pain-first-time Comment; Something I’ve suspected for a long time, good to see research is panning out in this direction! People with fibromyalgia show variations in microbiome compositionJun 19, 2019...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine, Lyme Disease & Atypical Infections
https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-019-7069-6 Comment; Great comparison between Lyme & Malaria in terms of how we have approached both illnesses and the successes we’ve had as well as the differences in clinical presentations....
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine, Lyme Disease & Atypical Infections
https://www.hindawi.com/journals/criog/2019/9869323/ Comment; Interesting case! Great care! How many places in the world would have been able to provide this level of such great care?...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine, Lyme Disease & Atypical Infections
https://www.wesa.fm/post/lyme-disease-bill-would-change-coverage-amid-controversy-over-chronic-condition#stream/0 Comment; Hard to diagnose, numerous false-negative lab tests, numerous treatment regimens with nebulous outcomes in a chronic, indolent illness that can...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine, Lyme Disease & Atypical Infections
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11940-019-0579-9 Comment; So many options with treatment–there should not be a “cookbook” approach; an individualized approach on a “per patient” basis is needed. Steroids may be useful with...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine, Lyme Disease & Atypical Infections
https://www.karger.com/Article/FullText/499901 Comment; So hard to diagnose, false-negative labs, incredible variety of presentations–high index of suspicion needed. Case Rep Neurol 2019;11:142–147https://doi.org/10.1159/000499901...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine, Lyme Disease & Atypical Infections
https://academic.oup.com/milmed/advance-article/doi/10.1093/milmed/usz156/5524322 Comment; Good to know that the US Army’s efforts to protect their troops with uniform treatment is effective–sad to know that family members of those troops are still...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine, Lyme Disease & Atypical Infections
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10393-019-01401-x Comment; Good strategy & plan for tracking & predicting disease risk!...
