Common Antibiotic Fights Lyme Disease Without Wrecking Your Gut Health

Study Finds ^ | May 01, 2025 | Research led by Brandon L. Jutras, Northwestern University

[Red Badger]

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[ConservativeMind]

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[Dr. Sivana]

Old school Amoxycillin took care of mine lickety-split 27 years ago with no side effects. I was living in the heavily wooded village of Hampton, CT. Not far from Lyme itself.

[Red Badger]

Some people believe Lyme Disease is a man-made disease........ala CIA........

[BipolarBob]

That’s bunk. The only way they could do that is if the did a “gain of function” research trying to make a tick disease that would spread and that doesn’t sound . . . The dirty dogs. It does sound like something they would do.

[Flaming Conservative]

Despite its name, pipercillin can be taken by people who are allergic to amoxicillin and other “cillins”. It’s good to know for people like me who are allergic to doxycycline and cillins.

[ETCM]

Bfl

[metmom]

Excellent news ping

[logi_cal869]

Um...Ok.

Key passage:

IN MICE.

And piperacillin’s side effects are NOT well researched.

[logi_cal869]

Don’t know about cia, but absolutely, positively a lab leak (intentional or otherwise).

[Salamander]

Years ago the people of Lyme CT decided the rattlesnakes all had to die, despite them living in the middle of nowhere so they slaughtered them.

Rattlesnakes are the predators of Deer and White Footed mice who are the main carriers of the nymph stage of deer ticks.

Without them the stage of tick development dead-ends.

Rattlesnakes all gone, the mice flourished unchecked.

Endemic became pandemic

Brilliant people up there.

😑

[Salamander]

What if you can’t tolerate penicillin?

Is different enough to not affect you?

[exnavy]

I grew up hunting, fishing, living outdoors may through november. Never even saw a tic until about ten years ago.

[GOPJ]

The antibiotic piperacillin has shown remarkable effectiveness against Lyme disease-causing bacteria, Borrelia burgdorferi, at doses 100 times lower than doxycycline, the current standard treatment.

Great news!

[FreedomPoster]

White footed mice, OK, but deer? Really?

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Thanks, RB. I find it interesting how these screenings of existing antibiotics take place. The researchers started with almost 500 existing drugs. That’s a lot of work.

The author wrote “It also demonstrates the value of repurposing existing medications, a strategy that can accelerate bringing treatments to patients by bypassing many required development and safety testing steps.”

Where was that not allowed? Oh, yeah, Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine during COVID. We were emphatically told “Do not use - they do not work” yet study after study showed their effectiveness. Repurposing drugs to fight COVID was verboten, yet repurposing drugs for Lyme Disease and other diseases is normal practice and encouraged. That exposed the corruption in the government-medical industry combine.

[NorthMountain]

Some people believe the Earth is flat and covered by an impenetrable dome. Some people believe that the Earth is hollow and there’s an entrance to the interior at the North Pole. Some people believe that Antarctica is an ice wall beyond which are other worlds we’re not allowed to visit.

[Red Badger]

I’ll take #3.....................

[Pearls Before Swine]

I’ve had several bouts of Lyme. The last was by far the worst, because it was a double infection with both Lyme and babeosis (a kind of American Malaria). Because it was a double infection, the doxycycline didn’t work and and I kept getting sicker (lost 30% of my red blood cells) until the blood tests figured it out. The bummer here is that you have to be sick for about 2 weeks for the blood tests to indicate that these parasites are what is causing your illnessl

Those friggin’ ticks are a real scourge where I live, on Cape Cod. I hear they are worse on Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard.