by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine, ISEAI, Lyme Disease & Atypical Infections
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0214402 Comment; The apparent false positive rate is <4% due to differences in lab technique/testing used to explain differences between results in Australian labs (Lyme is unknown in Australia)...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine, ISEAI, Lyme Disease & Atypical Infections
Lyme Disease Prevalence: Does Sex Matter? Comment; Two big areas unaddressed by this study: 1) women are more prone to seek medical attention than men, 2) while women certainly participate in outdoor activities, I suspect men spend more hours/year in general in the...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine, ISEAI, Lyme Disease & Atypical Infections
https://www.newswise.com/articles/paper-based-test-could-diagnose-lyme-disease-at-early-stages?sc=dwhn Comment; This test has a specificity of 96.3% and a sensitivity of 85.7%. In addition to being much more sensitive than existing tests, the assay requires 15 minutes...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine, ISEAI, Lyme Disease & Atypical Infections
https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4450/10/10/315 Comment; Tick-borne illnesses have more than doubled between 2004 & 2016! Is this due to improved surveillance or is it legitimately growing? Probably both; regardless, we need to get serious. President Trump recently...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine, Lyme Disease & Atypical Infections
President Signs Tick Act into Law Comment; Vector-borne illnesses such as Lyme & the many other tick-borne illnesses are a big problem. Considering that Lyme was likely weaponized by the Dept. of Defense, hopefully this will give us better abilities to learn more...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine, ISEAI, Lyme Disease & Atypical Infections
https://mbio.asm.org/content/10/5/e02166-19 Comment; Detailed history of the discovery of Borrelia burgdorferii, the organism responsible for Lyme disease and it’s association with Babesiosis, another tick-borne illness. Alan G. Barbour, Jorge L....
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine, ISEAI, Lyme Disease & Atypical Infections
https://www.boston25news.com/news/some-lyme-disease-patients-having-trouble-getting-treatment-covered/995615585 Comment; This is criminal activity by the insurance companies, perhaps some MAJOR awards against insurance companies would convince them to do the right...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine, ISEAI, Lyme Disease & Atypical Infections, Neurodegeneration & Brain Health
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31488744 Comment; Interesting, valid study demonstrating that there’s a correlation with folks who have had a concussion with poor response to therapy also having had exposure to Lyme, suggesting neuroborreliosis. Recall that...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine, ISEAI, Lyme Disease & Atypical Infections
https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/jpps/index.php/JPPS/article/view/30254 Comment; Color me cynical; from a pharmacy perspective, the problem is that we don’t have enough investment by the pharmaceutical industry into new medications to treat this elusive...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine, ISEAI, Lyme Disease & Atypical Infections
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/zph.12627 Comment; Primary language (English vs. Spanish) was a significant predictor of whether an individual had knowledge of LD symptoms, correctly identified ticks as vectors for LD and performed daily tick checks....
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine, ISEAI, Lyme Disease & Atypical Infections
https://academic.oup.com/jme/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/jme/tjz140/5566654?redirectedFrom=fulltext Comment; This shows that exposure to ticks found in parks within metropolitan Pittsburgh PA is equivalent to being in rural areas of the NE USA in terms of...
by Dr. Raymond Oenbrink | CIRS, Functional & Integrative Medicine, ISEAI, Lyme Disease & Atypical Infections
https://www.mdpi.com/2075-4450/10/9/297 Comment; A huge variety of illnesses from a large variety of tick species–but Florida has pretty diverse ecosystems which may explain the variety. Thankfully, there’s more risk than actual documented illness-so far!...
