A great report here from Joanne Drayson on her blog: Looking at Lyme
http://lookingatlyme.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/lyme-disease-parliamentary-meeting.html
http://lookingatlyme.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/lyme-disease-parliamentary-meeting.html
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I wonder if perhaps areas within the UK can begin to legislate change toward Bb, similar to what is being done, slowly, in the U.S. on a State-by-State basis. Provide a legal safety net for clinicians who treat more aggressively or outside of suggested protocol...
MeSci, the iconic Lyme rash may be the exception rather than the rule, although when you see it, it's pretty cool. Still, I have clinical records of spider bite reactions that, when those records were reviewed by the NIH, I was informed each could have been a distinct EM rash instead of what the mistaken clinician assumed were spider bites.
Besides, I've had many tick bites, and several normal bull's eye rashes, as well as some atypical rashes with the tick still embedded.
Moral of the story - hmmm...no moral. No reason why most clinicians would be aware of this EM tidbit anyway. So, maybe, if you get an odd looking rash of unknown cause, run it by your GP, but don't expect them to be aware that EM's can manifest differently.
Sorry. Those iconic rashes have a formal name: Erythema Migrans, ie.EM's.
The first time I saw a classic EM rash, I was so shocked I almost fell off my seat. I had ringworm - or not - when I was about 9.So I searched for pictures of ringworm and there was no recognition there for me.I'm beginning to wonder whether I might be a Lymie, as the image of a rash on that page looks familiar. I hadn't realised that a Lyme rash was like that. Not sure though - I may have misremembered.
I did too, sigh, a long time ago. Now I am being treated for Bartonella and Lyme.Before ME, did you ever have a flu without major respiratory symptoms but with a screaming high fever, and an extreme all of body ache?
Sushi, do you think you contracted Lyme and company in New Mexico? If so, I'd be waving that flag in the face of the CDC daily.