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, 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 | Functional & Integrative Medicine, Lyme Disease & Atypical Infections
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/jmv.23713 Comment; Chronic Fatigue comes from a variety of complex chronic illnesses. Viruses and subviral particles can cause these infections and be very difficult to diagnose, empiric treatment with antiviral...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | Functional & Integrative Medicine, Lyme Disease & Atypical Infections
This Little-Known Bacterium Could Be The Infectious Cause of Crohn’s Disease – And It Can Be Treated Comment; Mycobacterium paratuberculosis as a causative agent for Crohn’s at least and possibly irritable bowel disease (includes ulcerative colitis) in general,...
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...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine, Lyme Disease & Atypical Infections
https://doi.org/10.3389/conf.fneur.2018.60.00047 Comment; Fascinating and sobering that post-concussion syndrome patients have such a high rate of Borrelia serology presence, great insight into testing these two syndromes with such similar presentation and different...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Lyme Disease & Atypical Infections
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0020751918302455?via%3Dihub Comment; A proteome is a set of all expressed proteins in a cell, tissue, or organism, and a systematic analysis of proteins within a defined system for their identity, quantity, and...
