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Topic: Lyme from Mosquitos?

ChrisInMD
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Member # 32547

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Does anyone else believe they got Lyme from mosquitos?

My wife was just diagnosed. She was bitten by a large mosquito in our house that I subsequently killed that had a large amount of blood in it. I have had Lyme for 4 years and she was not affected until now.

I saw this study on the NIH website.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18274258

Posts: 15 | From Rockville, MD | Registered: Jun 2011 | IP: Logged |

ChrisInMD
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Member # 32547

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I also did not have the same symptoms as my husband. I got a severe pain in my neck and a dizzy spell. I do not have the same bacteria my husband has. I just got back from a doctor who blamed my natural body defenses.

Is it on;y me, did everyones' joint paint start as painful to the touch? Your body defenses do not react to painful to the touch.

Posts: 15 | From Rockville, MD | Registered: Jun 2011 | IP: Logged |

tick battler
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Member # 21113

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Yes, you can get lyme and coinfections from mosquitos. Three in my family were just reinfected this summer from mosquitos.

tickbattler

Posts: 1763 | From Malvern, PA | Registered: Jul 2009 | IP: Logged |

amk33
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Member # 13206

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Yes, I believe so. I also think you can get it from lice, fleas, probably spiders,too.

Search the web..I remember reading that the bacteria has been isolated from mosquitos.

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BoxerMom
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Member # 25251

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Babesia can be transmitted by mosquitos. Your symptoms sound like Babesia. It is a piroplasm, like Malaria.

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Must...find...BRAIN!!!

Posts: 2867 | From Pacific NW | Registered: Apr 2010 | IP: Logged |

Robin123
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Member # 9197

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If such is the case, that we can get it from all these critters, then is any repellent that's known to be a tick repellent also good against all bugs?

Posts: 13171 | From San Francisco | Registered: May 2006 | IP: Logged |

hopingandpraying
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Member # 9256

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Yes, my son had an oval rash on his thigh, with several mosquito bites in it. That was eleven years ago. It took 6 YEARS to finally get a diagnosis of Lyme, Babesiosis and Bartonellosis.

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