by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine, Lyme Disease & Atypical Infections
Two-Tier Testing for Lyme Disease: How it Evolved Comment; Historically, a less expensive very sensitive screening test is done for certain illnesses. Sensitive means low risk of false negative (you have the illness but test says you don’t) but high risk of...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine, Lyme Disease & Atypical Infections
https://www.mdpi.com/2079-6382/8/2/72 Comment; Disulfiram, otherwise known as Antabuse, is used to treat alcoholics, it inhibits the oxidation of the aldehydes produced by metabolism of ethanol causing severe side effects and misery for anybody consuming alcohol. I...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine, Lyme Disease & Atypical Infections, Spirituality & Catholicism
Brian Dashore Guest Blog Comment; Poignant story of an elementary/middle school student going thru the trials of an “unknown” illness that was ultimately Lyme with multiple co-infections and medical complications and how he dealt with that in school....
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Lyme Disease & Atypical Infections
https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/vbz.2018.2318 Comment; Amazing how such primitive organisms can survive in such a harsh area with ongoing ionizing radiation! The populations of both Rickettsia raoultii & Bartonella species were reduced but still present....
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Lyme Disease & Atypical Infections
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10792-019-01096-7 Comment; Uveitis is inflammation of the anterior chamber of the eyeball. It can lead to blindness if not recognized and treated appropriately–often with steroids which suppress inflammation. I would...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine, Lyme Disease & Atypical Infections
Comment; VIP “cleans out the dust & cobwebs and puts on a fresh coat of paint”. It truly is a miracle drug that can actually cure pulmonary hypertension–which typically has a life expectancy of about 5 years (I was diagnosed in 2014, cured in...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Lyme Disease & Atypical Infections
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0020751918302480?via%3Dihub Comment; Piroplasmids divide by binary fission and as sporozoan parasites they possess sexual and asexual forms. The haploid state in the human host should make QPCR nucleic acid...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Lyme Disease & Atypical Infections
Where Lyme Disease Came From and Why It Eludes Treatment Comment; Phenomonal investigative reporting! So Plum Island CT & the US Dept. of Defense produced Lyme disease by making Borrelia much more toxic & downright deadly. Who released it and why? Agenda 21?...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Lyme Disease & Atypical Infections
https://www.treatlyme.net/guide/kills-bartonella-a-brief-guide Comment; Lyme is such a difficult disease–typical of spirochetes, causing so much harm. Dr. Ross provides a great overview, stepwise approach. In my experience, recovering from Bartonella, one of the...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Lyme Disease & Atypical Infections
TOUCHED BY LYME: Is Lyme disease a bioweapons experiment gone bad? Comment; Incredible! Lyme disease weaponized to become more virulent as part of a cold war experiment–we know that the trichothecenes of Stachybotrus have been weaponized, Lyme too!? What had...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Lyme Disease & Atypical Infections
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0020751918302431?via%3Dihub Comment; Molecular evidence that Babesia duncani, the causative agent of Babessiosis is carried by Dermacentor albipictus, the winter tick, in which the common mule deer is a common...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Lyme Disease & Atypical Infections
https://parasitesandvectors.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13071-019-3451-6 Comment; Interesting and somewhat scary that Ixodes scapularis is replacing other species as the dominant tick in undeveloped areas, the vector for Lyme disease, Babessiosis & Human...
