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I know there is some controversy over this, but I was wondering your opinion and if you have a strong opinion, what are the facts behind it?
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Jordana
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My Lyme doc says no, because it needs blood and some sort of protein to get into the bloodstream undetected. Just doesn't think so.
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hmm. That's what I thought. lots of different answers. I got progressively more sick for 3 years before figuring out it was lyme, so not sure if it's too late for husband.. I guess precautions and hope for the best!
Thanks everyone! Have a good night.
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It certainly can be. Since the year 2000, multiple studies have shown sexual transmission is possible in humans.
Additional studies show transmission by various means, including sexual, in animal models too.
Here are the studies and other info on sexual transmission.
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or should I start calling you Dr. Ruth??? Posts: 798 | From Cincinnati, OH | Registered: Jul 2016
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Those viral warts people catch in swimming pools are VERY much transmissible.
When I was weaker, I caught these warts. My daughter did too. My husband did once.
Now I never catch them, my daughter neither.
Some people have warts in their WHOLE BODY!!!
I know 2 kids that lived hell, after getting a small infection in their soles at the local swimming pool.
They got it chronic, whole body. It looked awful.
No treatment worked!!
In know a 3rd girl, who had awfully bad warts in her hands, that took years to heal.
Why is that the great majority does not catch warts, while some children will catch only on soles or hands, while others will catch the whole body?
the answer: different immune systems!
It's not the pathogen!!
I had lyme, hubby never caught it from me.
I had been bitten so many times, and fell ill so many times, overlapping infections, chronic doubled by acute lyme.
Hubby never caught anything.
Neighbors are also bitten, on and on, every year, they do not fall sick.
I live here for about 14 years, and fell ill at almost every bite in the past. Years of illness.
My neighbors are not all tick-bite free, but they are lyme-free. They get often bitten, like us.
Now, ticks bite me, and I don't fall ill. Nor my daughter.
Why? I guess, my immune system improved a bit.
I read that badly cooked meat can transmit Bb.
That unpasteurized milk can transmit Bb.
Mosquito bites, flea bites too.
But I don't believe that a strong person, that gets often bitten by ticks and never falls ill with lyme, will get lyme from an infected partner.
An immune compromised person will probably get lyme by any of the sources above: unpasteurized milk, cheese, raw meat, flies, mosquitoes, sex, whatever...
So the answer is yes, I guess, it is possible, as it is possible to catch lyme by many other sources.
The more immuno compromised the partner, the higher the chance.
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