When Life Gives You Lyme: You Tube Video

Thursday, March 19, 2009

You Tube Video

You may have noticed that I've posted several videos (to the right) from You Tube. These are videos that I've found that I think offer a good brief synopsis of the whole Lyme picture. The main three I've selected are consecutive news reports about Lyme done by a news anchor that suffered with it for several years before discovering what was going on. If you have a few minutes, I think they're pretty interesting. Just a note, sometimes random stuff comes up, but the main one I wanted to share was the three part news story.

I'm going to try to offer more content about Lyme education for awhile, and less about me...hopefully this is helpful. :)

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What is Lyme Disease?

While Lyme disease is very complex, it is basically a bacterial infection caused by a spirochete, (a corkscrew-shaped bacteria) called Borrelia Burgdorferi. It is a blood-borne infection most commonly spread by the bite of a deer tick, which can be as small as the size of a poppy seed. Because of it's corkscrew shape, the Lyme bacteria can literally drill through tissue and get anywhere in the body in very short periods of time, (within three weeks of a bite, the bacteria can be identified in spinal fluid.) This is the reason that Lyme can affect almost any body system, and the symptoms can be so varied. In advance stages, Lyme attacks the central nervous system and can be misdiagnosed as ALS, MS, Parkinson's or Alzheimers. Prevention is easy if you are aware of the risk and know what to look for. Please be AWARE!!