My wife has been tested (with a standard blood test at our Dr.) and was negative. However, I realize that those tests are not so great and often are not accurate.

We just had a 44 year old die from lyme here in MD. Get yourself tested now. Your wife has it too. She could have passed it on to the little one.

Have your doctor call 1-727-937-9077 and get the kit. Go to www.bowen.org. They were just patented for the lyme test in Jan. 2005. They will test for lyme, babesia, HME, and HGE. They also test for E-coli.

Go to the Pfizer pamphlet to see the pictures of the co-infections that Bowen will show you: www.lymediseaseinformation.com

This is not a disease to play with. Know what you are fighting and have the proof in the pictures.

We just had a 44 year old die from lyme here in MD. Get yourself tested now. Your wife has it too. She could have passed it on to the little one. You donate $250 for all the tests and you take the donation off of your taxes.

Have your doctor call 1-727-937-9077 and get the kit. Go to www.bowen.org. They were just patented for the lyme test in Jan. 2005. They will test for lyme, babesia, HME, and HGE. They also test for E-coli.

Go to the Pfizer pamphlet to see the pictures of the co-infections that Bowen will show you: www.lymediseaseinformation.com

This is not a disease to play with. Know what you are fighting and have the proof in the pictures.

Good luck, keep in mind that not everyone with LD has positive results, observe your children for symptoms.

My 18 year old daughter did research with Igenex for her AP Biology course...outer cell protein expression stuff...

She asked to be tested last Fall when her knees started aching. She's really tall, so aching knees at her age aren't out of the question, but we tested her to cover our bases....I honestly didn't think it would come back positive....Silly me....She has lyme and babesia microti....I have lyme anad babesia WA1..

Had my son tested this month....test came back equivocal. We're doing an antibiotic challenge for four days then have the blood work done again to see if the antigen expression is more clear on the western blot for him.

The good part of having your kids tested by the right lab, Igenex, is that you have a base line from a lab that is licensed to do patient testing, rather than investigational or research testing, and is at least recognized by some insurers and all LLMDs.

You can wait til they are on antibiotics for some normal kid thing, then have them tested. You're most likely to get a reliable test that way.

If they do have lyme, you are catching it early and hopefully when it's primarily musculo skeletal rather than neurological....In other words, much easier to treat.

I am terrified of my kids going through what I have been through the last eight years....they will be tested periodically to make sure that they never have to go through my extent of disease involvement.