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Topic: Q re: treatment guidelines and IDSA and the fight!

pomegranite
LymeNet Contributor
Member # 3339

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Hi All~

I wonder if anyone knows what treatment guidelines are employed in other countries, esp countries with nationalized healthcare systems?

In fighting the IDSA guidelines I have been asked this many times by journalists, lyme illiterate medical professionals and non-lyme activists.

I don't know the answer. It seems a potentially important and relevant question.

How do they treat lyme patients in Germany, France, England, Ireland, Canada or anywhere else for that matter? What are the standard guidelines used by those medical systems???

Anyone know? Anyone able to point me to the answer?

Pomegranite

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sometimesdilly
Frequent Contributor (1K+ posts)
Member # 9982

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here's a link to a European lyme advocacy group you can check to find some info:

http://www.lymediseaseaction.org.uk/index.htm

dilly (ps- have you contacted the relevant Maryland Senate legislators who are considering spreading the IDSA guidelines throughout Maryland? See Tincup's posts! Monday is the last day to make a difference on this.)

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minoucat
Frequent Contributor (1K+ posts)
Member # 5175

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The Lymeinfo site also has excellent and up-to-date info. see http://www.lymeinfo.net/lymefiles.html

Lymenet serves well as a forum and as a jumping off point to other info. I don't see the point in trying to replicate other, successful, LD information sites that have their own specialty. It would be enough to have clear links to those sites from Lymenet.

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david1097
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Member # 3662

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Canada for one.

That is the country that commissioned 2 studies on the most cost effective way to treat lyme..... The conclusion of the TWO Canadian studies was not to even test for it.

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sienna
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Member # 10980

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www.lymeblog.com has some good articles.

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