She asks if she can be 100% sure to be Lyme free for the sake of the newborn. Doctors are of no use.

I am considering sugesting her Benicar 40 mg. every six hours for a week. If she develops any symptoms she may have Lyme.

i know a woman who went many years without treatment, was in full remission after a long battle with Lyme, and relasped, unfortunatley, during her first pregnancy (her child is autistic).

Angie

1: JAMA. 1986 Jun 27;255(24):3394-6

Lyme disease during pregnancy.

Markowitz LE, Steere AC, Benach JL, Slade JD, Broome CV.

Lyme disease is an increasingly recognized tick-borne illness caused by a spirochete, Borrelia burgdorferi. Because the etiologic agent of Lyme disease is a spirochete, there has been concern about the effect of maternal Lyme disease on pregnancy outcome. We reviewed cases of Lyme disease in pregnant women who were identified before knowledge of the pregnancy outcomes. Nineteen cases were identified with onset between 1976 and 1984. Eight of the women were affected during the first trimester, seven during the second trimester, and two during the third trimester; in two, the trimester of onset was unknown. Thirteen received appropriate antibiotic therapy for Lyme disease. Of the 19 pregnancies, five had adverse outcomes, including syndactyly, cortical blindness, intrauterine fetal death, prematurity, and rash in the newborn. Adverse outcomes occurred in cases with infection during each of the trimesters. Although B burgdorferi could not be implicated directly in any of the adverse outcomes, the frequency of such outcomes warrants further surveillance and studies of pregnant women with Lyme disease.

PMID: 2423719 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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they're great, adn very helpful in helping prevent problems with pregnant women.