Lähettäjä: Soijuv Lähetetty: 12.11.2006 11:51
IDSA:n (Amerikan infektiotautien yhdistys) ns. "borrelioosiohjeiden" julkistamisesta aiheutunut myrsky ei laannu. Ohjeet laatineet lääkärit kertovat olevansa hämmästyneitä niiden saamasta negatiivisesta vastaanotosta! Uusia ohjeita vaaditaan laadittaviksi, erilaisia Tv/radio-ohjelmia asian tiimoilta on jo käyty useita ja tullaan käymään tulevan vuodenkin aikana. Lisäksi asiasta on kirjoitettu eri lehdissä useita artikkeleita.
Seuraavassa kirjailija PJ Langhoffin artikkeli. Satiirisessa artikkelissa hän kuvailee borrelioosiin sairastuneiden mahdollisuuksia hoitaa tautia "hoitosuositusten" jälkeen. Langhoff ja hänen tyttärensä sairastavat borrelioosia.
Valkosipulilla borrelioosia ja vampyyreita vastaan!
"Lääkäri Shapiron mukaan borrelioosin ympärillä käytävät keskustelut ovat turhia. Tarvitsemme ennemminkin valmisteen, joka auttaa borrelioosin aiheuttamaan ahdistukseen emmekä taudin hoitoon.
Meillä on jo lukemattomia menetelmiä, joilla borrelioosia voidaan hoitaa."
IDSA:n juuri julkaisemien hoitosuositusten mukaan menetelmiä ei kuitenkaan ole monia, sillä ohjeissa mitätöitiin lähes kaikki hoitomenetelmät. IDSA:n niin sanotut "hoitosuositukset" ampuvat alas lääkäreiden mahdollisuudet diagnosoida ja hoitaa borrelioosia ja/tai lisäinfektioita. Sen lisäksi niissä ei ole annettu mitään ohjeita miten tautia pitäisi hoitaa - lukuunottamatta lyhyttä antibioottihoitoa, joka on usein osoittautunut tehottomaksi sekä annostuksen että hoidon pituuden suhteen.
Shapiro ja IDSA:n ohjeet saavat aikaiseksi sen, että kaikki borrelioosiin sairastuneet on tuomittu elinikäiseen kärsimykseen ja työkyvyttömyyteen. Ja mistä syystä? Ei mistään muusta, kuin heidän henkilökohtaisten näkemystensä vuoksi.
Mutta mitä siitä? Shapiron mukaanhan on olemassa lukuisia menetelmiä borrelioosin hoitamiseksi. No niin Shapiro, miksi et nimeäisi muutamia?
Hei, odottakaa, nyt tiedän - sain idean. Koska valkosipulilla on pitkä historia vampyyrien karkottamisessa ... niin ja punkithan imevät verta...
Miksi emme siis ripustaisi valkosipulilettejä ympäri keittiöitämme - näin me kaikki paranisimme? Olen varma että SE parantaisi kaiken ahdistuksen niin sanotuilta borrelioosiin sairastuneilta, jotka kuvittelevat olevansa sairaita, vaikka mehän tiedämme että tauti on itseasiassa lähinnä heidän mielikuvituksensa tuotetta.
Garlic wards off Lyme and Vampires--11/03/06
Well now I've gone and done it. For lack of anything better to do today, just before my typical afternoon crash followed by a nap, I got this bright idea in my head to clean out the kitchen spice cabinet.
Apparently it was an idea that was long overdue, because as soon as I opened the cabinet door, it began raining its contents onto the countertop.
Dodging the falling brown paper bag containing God knows what, last year's left-over didn't-work or couldn't tolerate prescription medicines and boxes of Jello instant pudding that have survived the relocation of our home on three separate occasions, I waited until the dust settled and then took stock of the remaining goods.
I looked into the brown paper bag. So THAT'S where my daughter's prescription Allegra caplets went to. Good thing she hasn't needed any of them---ever.
And what was the reasoning behind KEEPING the medicines that I could not tolerate? Was I thinking that maybe on some future date I would magically be able to take the pills? I'm sure like most Lyme patients, because it took me over a dozen years to get ANYONE to believe that I had Lyme disease, when I finally DID get medicine, even if I could not take it, I held onto them for some sentimental, self-validational purpose, and I was now finding it very difficult to let go of the little guys. (A brief tearful memorial service over the kitchen trash can was held for the ones whose efficacy date had already expired).
Or maybe I should dig them out of the garbage can "just in case", seeing how the new IDSA "guidelines" have made ANY type of Lyme-effective antibiotics worth more than the gold crowns on my Hallmark card. (Visualize trench-coated Lyme med "dealers" in dark alleyways meeting with Lyme patients who cannot find meds anywhere else...I have a fleeting thought of "gee I wonder how much flagyl will fetch on the black market--oops I mean "green" market, ok strike that thought, I didn't mean it anyway).
Somewhere behind the organic vanilla extract and the monkey on a palm tree decorative party toothpicks, I realized that I was out of minced garlic.
Oh crap. Now I wasn't going to be able to make the whole fryer I had planned on for lunch, in my electric George Foreman countertop home chicken cooker thingy.
After all, garlic has good properties that are supposed to be beneficial for Lyme patients. Applying a more-is-better line of logic, I reasoned that maybe with enough garlic consumption, the Lyme bugs could be sent packing...or at the very least I would require breath mints or a stronger deodorant, I'm not sure which.
Whatever its beneficial abilities, I was determined to once again put them to the test and right now my spice cabinet needed minced garlic and I had to make my way to the supermarket in order to buy some. And so it came to pass.
You know how it goes. IF you can see at all to drive to the store, you park as close to the door as you possibly can to avoid walking far, because you technically don't qualify for a handicapped parking plate because your doctor doesn't think you "look" sick--yet far enough away from the other cars because you can't really see if you are in between the painted lines of your slot or merely on top of them.
IF you do manage to find the spice aisle, you take out your folding "excuse me could I please trouble you for a moment to read this" sign you have conveniently carried in your purse or jacket pocket which you wave in front of the first unsuspecting stranger walking past.
On really good days you can pick up a few coins as they quickly avert their eyes and throw their loose change at you. Once in awhile you get lucky and some burly 16-yr. old stockboy points to the appropriate jar and if you act quickly enough, you can correctly grab the right one before his hand moves. But remember to ask him to verify its the right one lest you return home and at the next dinner party someone asks you "does this taste funny to you" (oh darn, that was MACE next to the minced garlic, I must have grabbed the wrong one).
A whole lot of effort to read those tiny spice jars with impossibly small six point type on them if you ask me. (I hum to myself--"the things we do for Lyme")
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Tonight while on my laptop, I decided to research just what the benefits of garlic were, for Lyme patients. Garlic has powerful chemicals that are touted to kill active Bb (Borrelia burgdorferi--aka Lyme spirochetes). The chemicals in garlic also have the important ability to cross the blood-brain barrier and kill the bugs in the brain, which is good news.
But instead of finding helpful information on the "net" right away, I found an article that was disturbing, to say the least. It came from the site "WebMD". This particular article was written in 2000, but it remains on the internet nonetheless.
http://www.webmd.com/content/article/36/1728_60394
It was titled "Why the Swedish Army Hopes Garlic and 'Lyme' Don't Mix.
The first thing I noticed was that the word "Lyme" was in quotes, as if Lyme wasn't a real illness, but some cleverly fabricated pseudonym.
Then I began to read the article. At first it sounded fairly plausible. Plausibility turned to fallibility as I continued. The article went on to promote what is/was the Lymerix Vaccine, a dangerous, Lyme-causing (some claim) vaccine that was pulled from the market. And yet here it was being hailed as "safe" and "moderately effective."
This from the (in)famous "Dr." Eugene Shapiro who goes further to claim the following:
"...that the concern surrounding Lyme disease is unnecessary. "What we really need is a remedy for the anxiety about Lyme disease because we have plenty of ways to treat Lyme disease."
OK, Shapiro says there are Plenty of ways to treat Lyme? Not according to the new IDSA "guidelines" , which quickly disqualify most of the current treatments and attempts to minimize Lyme again. Shapiro claims what is really needed is a remedy for the anxiety.
These IDSA so-called "guidelines" shoot down the ability of doctors to diagnose and treat Lyme disease and coinfections, but then fails to mention any options other than a one-time treatment of a drug that will prove to be ineffective at that dose and duration.
What Shapiro and others who have set up the IDSA "guidelines" are doing is to essentially condemn all Lyme patients to a lifetime of disability and suffering for no apparent reason other than their personal agendas.
But then again, there are "plenty of ways to treat Lyme". Okay Shapiro, why not name a few? Because the IDSA hasn't left us with much to work with, in fact, like my spice cabinet, its ideas are woefully out-of-date and empty.
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Hey, wait, I know, I have an idea.
Since garlic has such a long history of warding off evil vampires.... and ticks suck our blood....
Why don't we just all go out and hang garlic braids in our kitchens so we can all be cured?
I'm certain THAT will cure all the "anxiety" of the so-called "Lyme" patients who believe they are ill when we all know that its really "all in our heads!"
(If you can't find a garlic braid, I know a burly stock boy who is good at pointing out the jars in the spice aisle of my piggly-wiggly.)
Now off to prepare that chicken...Pass me the garlic please Mr. Shapiro.
-©2006 PJ Langhoff
PJ Langhoff is the author of "The Forgotten" (a poem about Lyme), "The Singing Forest, a Journey Through Lyme Disease", and other books. She and her children are 14-year Lyme patients. Ms. Langhoff is a Lyme patient advocate, support group leader and founder of www.Sewill.org (SE WI & IL Lyme Leagues) and www.LymeLeague.com (international site for Lyme patient stories).
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It was titled "Why the Swedish Army Hopes Garlic and 'Lyme' Don't Mix.
The first thing I noticed was that the word "Lyme" was in quotes, as if Lyme wasn't a real illness, but some cleverly fabricated pseudonym.
Then I began to read the article. At first it sounded fairly plausible. Plausibility turned to fallibility as I continued. The article went on to promote what is/was the Lymerix Vaccine, a dangerous, Lyme-causing (some claim) vaccine that was pulled from the market. And yet here it was being hailed as "safe" and "moderately effective."
This from the (in)famous "Dr." Eugene Shapiro who goes further to claim the following:
"...that the concern surrounding Lyme disease is unnecessary. "What we really need is a remedy for the anxiety about Lyme disease because we have plenty of ways to treat Lyme disease."
OK, Shapiro says there are Plenty of ways to treat Lyme? Not according to the new IDSA "guidelines" , which quickly disqualify most of the current treatments and attempts to minimize Lyme again. Shapiro claims what is really needed is a remedy for the anxiety.
These IDSA so-called "guidelines" shoot down the ability of doctors to diagnose and treat Lyme disease and coinfections, but then fails to mention any options other than a one-time treatment of a drug that will prove to be ineffective at that dose and duration.
What Shapiro and others who have set up the IDSA "guidelines" are doing is to essentially condemn all Lyme patients to a lifetime of disability and suffering for no apparent reason other than their personal agendas.
VALKOSIPULILLA BORRELIOOSIA JA VAMPYYREITA VASTAAN!
Valvojat: Jatta1001, Borrelioosiyhdistys, Bb