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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.
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Um...Ok.
Key passage:
IN MICE.
And piperacillin’s side effects are NOT well researched.
What if you can’t tolerate penicillin?
Is different enough to not affect you?
I grew up hunting, fishing, living outdoors may through november. Never even saw a tic until about ten years ago.
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.
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.
Folks allergic to penicillin will have to opt for something else...?
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Lymes is nothing to mess with. I lost my Yellow Lab to it - she was diagnosed too late to save her. It effected her kidneys. :(
We are VERY vigilant around here. All dogs and people get regular doses of tick spray/oral chews. Expensive, but not as costly as losing a well-trained hunting dog!
Had my first tick of the season on me, yesterday. It was on my sweatshirt, but I still squished it a good one. So satisfying!