Lyme Diagnostics
If you suspect you have Lyme, doctors can form a diagnosis by your considering your symptoms, history and serology. Most of the Lyme literate docs whom I have interviewed say they will start treatment on the basis of a clinical diagnosis, so the patients aren’t left waiting and wasting precious time before killing the Lyme bacteria.
Typical Lyme tests are the Western Blot, ELISA and PCR. However, these tests have limited clinical value. Only when the infection is active can the bacteria be measured and identified.
Lyme bacteria has survived throughout milennia because it has the ability to cloak itself and evade the human immune system. Therefore, it can be impossible to detect, using such serology tests.
Aside from a clinical diagnosis, there are some new approaches. A Wisconsin research and education company, NeuroScience, Inc, working in conjunction with an independent laboratory called Pharmasan Labs, Inc, have teamed up in the name of improved diagnostics for Lyme disease and other illnesses.
Dr. Gottfried Kellermann, CEO of NeuroScience, Inc. states on the company website: "It is my life mission to improve the lives of people through better science."
NeuroScience has created a diagnostic tool called My Immune ID-Lyme, which “utilizes the immune memory and cytokine alterations to identify any B burgdorferiexposure (current and/or past) and therefore identify Lyme disease even when B burgdorferi is successfully evading the host immune system or is currently dormant.”
If you’re able to communicate well with your doctor(s), encourage them to use newer, better ways to test for Lyme.
The next step, of course, is successful treatment.
Once you know you have Lyme, I encourage you to treat it from every angle: intentional, behavioral, social and cultural. This integral healing approach leaves no stone unturned. It includes body, mind, spirit and shadow.
For further information on treating Lyme from every angle, or the cross-training approach, see the 100 Perspectives.
Be fearless in fighting Lyme and insist that your doctor is too.
Be well!
Typical Lyme tests are the Western Blot, ELISA and PCR. However, these tests have limited clinical value. Only when the infection is active can the bacteria be measured and identified.
Lyme bacteria has survived throughout milennia because it has the ability to cloak itself and evade the human immune system. Therefore, it can be impossible to detect, using such serology tests.
Aside from a clinical diagnosis, there are some new approaches. A Wisconsin research and education company, NeuroScience, Inc, working in conjunction with an independent laboratory called Pharmasan Labs, Inc, have teamed up in the name of improved diagnostics for Lyme disease and other illnesses.
Dr. Gottfried Kellermann, CEO of NeuroScience, Inc. states on the company website: "It is my life mission to improve the lives of people through better science."
NeuroScience has created a diagnostic tool called My Immune ID-Lyme, which “utilizes the immune memory and cytokine alterations to identify any B burgdorferiexposure (current and/or past) and therefore identify Lyme disease even when B burgdorferi is successfully evading the host immune system or is currently dormant.”
If you’re able to communicate well with your doctor(s), encourage them to use newer, better ways to test for Lyme.
The next step, of course, is successful treatment.
Once you know you have Lyme, I encourage you to treat it from every angle: intentional, behavioral, social and cultural. This integral healing approach leaves no stone unturned. It includes body, mind, spirit and shadow.
For further information on treating Lyme from every angle, or the cross-training approach, see the 100 Perspectives.
Be fearless in fighting Lyme and insist that your doctor is too.
Be well!
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