CDC/IDSA Lyme disease guidelines recommend against just about everything imaginable to treat a Lyme infection and of course there is no such thing as chronic Lyme disease. UGGGG!!!
But, not so with the brand new 2011 IDSA MRSA guidelines. Its an antibiotic festival, anything goes in order to help the patients, documented or not.
In other words, the other guidelines are TRYING to help the people suffering by giving them choices, even if there is not a ton of "peer-reviewed, double blind, blah blah blah" million dollar studies to prove it all right now and even if there is some risk to treatment.
ALL treatment has risks for goodness sake.
I can't prove on paper that ice cream makes me smile, but I know it does. Listening to the IDSA Lyme guidelines authors on this topic, heck I wouldn't get to have any till I could prove ice cram makes me happy.
Where is COMMON SENSE in all this? UGGG again!
It is a shame the IDSA Lyme guidelines couldn't be written in this fashion- if they were, we might have a choice, and a chance to get better.
This is a comparison of two sets of IDSA guidelines showing how insane the Lyme guidelines are - which I thought was important since new IDSA Lyme guidelines are due out this year.