by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4982651/ Comment; Excellent review article of the non-respiratory, more serious effects of mold-related illness with recognition that mold is simply a surrogate marker for water-damaged buildings; bacteria, actinomyctes,...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine, Lyme Disease & Atypical Infections, Uncategorized
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fimmu.2019.01056/full Comment; What an interesting study! Galactose-α-1,3-galactose in tick saliva sensitizing human plasma cells to begin production of IgE antibodies resulting in allergy to red meat. Gary...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/jnr.21639 Comment; So glad that inflammation is finally being recognized as a strong link to abnormal brain function–seizures being a prime example of that! NeuroInflammation needs to be studied & fought; get...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine, Lyme Disease & Atypical Infections
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/1/?tab=om#inbox/FMfcgxwCggCPHnqDhGVzQVTtClNvhchV?projector=1&messagePartId=0.1 Comment; Persistent muscular pain, arthritic pain & nerve pain/paresthesias are the biggest predictors of Lyme disease, the “constants”...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine, Lyme Disease & Atypical Infections
https://www.cdc.gov/lyme/diagnosistesting/labtest/twostep/index.html Comment; Highly sensitive, less-expensive testing doesn’t miss disease, but has a lot of false positives. It won’t miss the disease but over-diagnoses it. More expensive confirmatory...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine
https://drive.google.com/drive/u/1/folders/1zX2ieWLaUXsQOElqJn5aIqh06OJrCB7j Comment; Characteristic changes in CIRS-WDB include bilateral increased forebrain parenchymal, cortical gray matter and pallidum volumes and decreased caudate nucleus volumes. The volumes...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine
https://www.militarytimes.com/2013/11/01/new-fda-warnings-on-cipro-may-tie-into-gulf-war-illness/?fbclid=IwAR2Q93n2zrYWa-dsXFJxGcXTZHnNgLoowKV7ynIiijzh2S57wiDfxeKKARw Comment; It would be interesting to know when big pharma knew of the mitochondrial damage from Cipro....
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine, Lyme Disease & Atypical Infections
https://parasitesandvectors.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13071-019-3495-7 Common; Borrelia is a complex organism with numerous changes in it’s life cycle as it moves between different hosts. This leaves it well versed to adapt to a wide-ranging spectrum...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine, Lyme Disease & Atypical Infections
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/trf.15346 Comment; Babesia is an intracellular parasite; after tick bite, the parasite gets inside red blood cells. Red blood cell exchange perfusion achieved a 75% reduction in parasite load but didn’t help...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine, Lyme Disease & Atypical Infections
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/68/ss/ss6806a1.htm?s_cid=ss6806a1_w Comment; This is a new registry, showing that incidence may be expanding, is worse during the Summer and in the Northeast & northern midwest of the US. So it’s most likely to be contracted...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine, Lyme Disease & Atypical Infections
Dodging antibiotic side effects Comment; I’ve long been a huge fan of antioxidants, and opponent of indiscriminant antibiotic use. This was published 6 years ago, sad that it didn’t get wider recognition among clinicians who need to see it. Good news for...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Lyme Disease & Atypical Infections
https://www.termedia.pl/Sjogren-s-syndrome-and-lymphadenopathy-unraveling-the-diagnosis-of-Lyme-disease,18,35945,0,1.html Comment; Typically, Lyme doesn’t present with swollen lymph nodes & Sjogren’s syndrome. This is a case that had a very happy...
