Dr. Burrascano'sTreatment Guidelines (2008) - 37 pages
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Excerpt from Page 27:
CERTAIN ABSOLUTE RULES MUST BE FOLLOWED IF LYME SYMPTOMS ARE TO BE PERMANENTLY CLEARED:
1. Not allowed to get behind in sleep, or become overtired.
2. No caffeine or other stimulants that may affect depth or duration of sleep, or reduce or eliminate naps.
3. Absolutely no alcohol!
4. No smoking at all.
5. Aggressive exercises are required and should be initiated as soon as possible. (although ". . . aerobics are not allowed. . . ." See p. 31 for rehabilitation guidelines.)
6. Diet must contain generous quantities of high quality protein and be high in fiber and low in fat and carbohydrates - no simple carbohydrates are allowed. Instead, use those with low glycemic index.
7. Certain key nutritional supplements should be added.
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Furthermore: long term antibiotics + carbos (e.g., alchohol) = candida!
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mojo
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Well, I've been cheating a little since I'm feeling better and I know I need to STOP this right now.
Alcohol also hurts our immune system and we are already immune compromised.
So many reasons not to drink.
And I also lost the desire when I was sick - for quite a long time. I didn't even want to take a sip.
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LisaS
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I can't drink anymore. Used to love captain and coke. But now just a couple sips and I feel like I just got off a merry go round. Any more than that and I get weird hangovers. The next day I can hardly move. My legs and arms get this feeling like little sparks ar going off in them. (I know that sounds crazy). And I feel just very sick for three days.
One LLMD told me it was because we herx, because the alcohol kills spirochetes. I've also heard theories on the spirochetes eating the sugar in the alcohol and lots of other stuff.
I posted this question when I first found out I had lyme and I can't find the post but I saved one of the answers:
Pavia CS, Bittker S, Cooper D. Department of Medicine, New York Medical College, Valhalla.
Rats fed excessive amounts of ethanol developed marked hematologic and immunologic changes. These included a reversal of the normal lymphocyte to granulocyte ratio in the peripheral blood, lower spleen and lymph node weights and a greatly reduced capacity to express normal cell mediated immune functions, based on poor lymphocyte reactivity in vivo, and in vitro to T and B cell mitogens and borrelial antigens shortly after primary immunization with the bacterial spirochete, Borrelia burgdorferi. Further evidence for impaired immune function caused by ethanol was based on little or no antibody response against Borrelia in rats following in vivo sensitization with B. burgdorferi incorporated in complete Freund's adjuvant. These findings provide substantial direct evidence strengthening the notion that high levels of ethanol ingestion adversely affect the host immune system and can interfere with the immune response to microorganisms.
"Spirochetes have a limited metabolism and can only ferment a few types of organic molecules.
They ferment carbohydrates to acetate, ethanol , CO2, and H2 as major end products.
All spirochetes so far examined use the Embden-Meyerhoff-Parnas pathway to take glucose to pyruvate.
Under anaerobic conditions this is converted to acetate and ethanol using common fermentative pathways.
Interestingly, the facultative anaerobes in the group use both oxidative phosphorylation and substrate level phosphorylation in the presence of air and seem to be dependent on at least some fermentation.
The TCA cycle has not been detected in these microbes, and it is unclear how they get their ATP by oxidative phosphorylation.
B. burgdorferi will also move away from ethanol and butanol.
Alcohol, neurotransmitter systems, and behavior. From: The Journal of General Psychology Date: 10/1/2006
Alcohol affects several neurotransmitter systems within the brain. In this article, the author describes its effects on 5 major ones: glutamate, gamma-amino-butyric acid (GABA), dopamine, serotonin, and opioid systems.
(NK are natural killer cells...our first line of defense against precancerous cells.)
Clin Diagn Lab Immunol. 2002 Mar;9(2):282-6.
Impaired bactericidal activity and host resistance to Listeria monocytogenes and Borrelia burgdorferi in rats administered an acute oral regimen of ethanol.
PMID: 11874864
Vasdev S, Mian T, Longerich L, Prabhakaran V, Parai S.
N-acetyl cysteine attenuates ethanol induced hypertension in rats. Artery 1995;21(6):312-6
"All known pathways of ethanol metabolism result in the production of acetaldehyde, a highly reactive compound.
N-acetyl cysteine, an analogue of the dietary amino acid cysteine, binds acetaldehyde, thus preventing its damaging effect on physiological proteins.
(Above...unfortunately Bb has "zinc fingers" composed of:cysteine and histidine bound by zinc)
We have a "limited" amt. of the 2 enzymes needed to breakdown alcohol - alcohol deyhdrogenase is the first one. Women have less of this enzyme than do men.
Since the spirochetes are ALREADY fermenting sugar to ethanol/alcohol...adding a drink or two or more...may make things WORSE...significantly.
I have many more ethanol/alcohol files if you need them.
Pay close attention to HOW Flagyl works.
Flagyl + "extra" alcohol = alcohol poisoning (very life threatening). PMID: 1774157 [PubMed - indexed for MED
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I dunno, I drink 8-10 beers a day, maybe I am just an alcoholic and don't have lyme. I get no pain from lyme, just neuro symptoms and anxiety, and air hunger, I don't even test positive for lyme, only bartonella, I dunno, the anxiety drives me to drink the benzos don't cut it down enuff for me. Right now I am in between doctors and not treating with anything, I did 6 weeks of Ceftin that was unremarkable then 2 weeks of Bactrim that nearly blew my heart out of my chest, I dunno, maybe the right meds will change my stance, but right now after work, I gotta blow down a few colds ones.
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Wow, 8-10 beers per day is a lot. I'd look for a good doctor asap.
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I have an appt with a new llmd on June 11th, the one I went to for 2 months was a former president of ILADS, so at this point I don't have alot of hope or belief, it no different than a shrink clinically telling me I have GAD, at least I got a positive BART test but what does it mean??, can I even trust it, maybe I just discovered a new protocol, alcohol and benzos, they make you not care your sick! All I get is chronic anxiety, air hunger, parathesis, myalgia, dizzyness and sore feet, that cold just be hangover
Sorry if I am cynical but 20 years of shrinks feeding me pills for GAD, and now some llmd saying that they were wrong and its all from lyme/bart based on the same clinical symptoms is hard to swallow.
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I haven't been able to drink for many years as after I have one or two I get a terrble headache. Its not much fun when you get the hangover before the buzz!
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quote:Originally posted by LisaS: I can't drink anymore. Used to love captain and coke. But now just a couple sips and I feel like I just got off a merry go round. Any more than that and I get weird hangovers. The next day I can hardly move. My legs and arms get this feeling like little sparks ar going off in them. (I know that sounds crazy). And I feel just very sick for three days.
One LLMD told me it was because we herx, because the alcohol kills spirochetes. I've also heard theories on the spirochetes eating the sugar in the alcohol and lots of other stuff.
I posted this question when I first found out I had lyme and I can't find the post but I saved one of the answers:
Pavia CS, Bittker S, Cooper D. Department of Medicine, New York Medical College, Valhalla.
Rats fed excessive amounts of ethanol developed marked hematologic and immunologic changes. These included a reversal of the normal lymphocyte to granulocyte ratio in the peripheral blood, lower spleen and lymph node weights and a greatly reduced capacity to express normal cell mediated immune functions, based on poor lymphocyte reactivity in vivo, and in vitro to T and B cell mitogens and borrelial antigens shortly after primary immunization with the bacterial spirochete, Borrelia burgdorferi. Further evidence for impaired immune function caused by ethanol was based on little or no antibody response against Borrelia in rats following in vivo sensitization with B. burgdorferi incorporated in complete Freund's adjuvant. These findings provide substantial direct evidence strengthening the notion that high levels of ethanol ingestion adversely affect the host immune system and can interfere with the immune response to microorganisms.
"Spirochetes have a limited metabolism and can only ferment a few types of organic molecules.
They ferment carbohydrates to acetate, ethanol , CO2, and H2 as major end products.
All spirochetes so far examined use the Embden-Meyerhoff-Parnas pathway to take glucose to pyruvate.
Under anaerobic conditions this is converted to acetate and ethanol using common fermentative pathways.
Interestingly, the facultative anaerobes in the group use both oxidative phosphorylation and substrate level phosphorylation in the presence of air and seem to be dependent on at least some fermentation.
The TCA cycle has not been detected in these microbes, and it is unclear how they get their ATP by oxidative phosphorylation.
B. burgdorferi will also move away from ethanol and butanol.
Alcohol, neurotransmitter systems, and behavior. From: The Journal of General Psychology Date: 10/1/2006
Alcohol affects several neurotransmitter systems within the brain. In this article, the author describes its effects on 5 major ones: glutamate, gamma-amino-butyric acid (GABA), dopamine, serotonin, and opioid systems.
(NK are natural killer cells...our first line of defense against precancerous cells.)
Clin Diagn Lab Immunol. 2002 Mar;9(2):282-6.
Impaired bactericidal activity and host resistance to Listeria monocytogenes and Borrelia burgdorferi in rats administered an acute oral regimen of ethanol.
PMID: 11874864
Vasdev S, Mian T, Longerich L, Prabhakaran V, Parai S.
N-acetyl cysteine attenuates ethanol induced hypertension in rats. Artery 1995;21(6):312-6
"All known pathways of ethanol metabolism result in the production of acetaldehyde, a highly reactive compound.
N-acetyl cysteine, an analogue of the dietary amino acid cysteine, binds acetaldehyde, thus preventing its damaging effect on physiological proteins.
(Above...unfortunately Bb has "zinc fingers" composed of:cysteine and histidine bound by zinc)
We have a "limited" amt. of the 2 enzymes needed to breakdown alcohol - alcohol deyhdrogenase is the first one. Women have less of this enzyme than do men.
Since the spirochetes are ALREADY fermenting sugar to ethanol/alcohol...adding a drink or two or more...may make things WORSE...significantly.
I have many more ethanol/alcohol files if you need them.
Pay close attention to HOW Flagyl works.
Flagyl + "extra" alcohol = alcohol poisoning (very life threatening). PMID: 1774157 [PubMed - indexed for MED [/QB]
exactlly
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Lack of desire to consume alcohol is quite common with Lyme infection. Good, too, as it's another trigger, like high blood sugar levels, to cause BB multiplication. {Them li'l buggers get sloshed & 'whoop it up'!}
My LLND says N-O alcohol until you are over the acute stage... no matter how long that takes. Once it's "in remission", the occasional wine or drink w/ a full meal is fine, but you can NEVER AGAIN get totally "wasted". A great way to bring on a relapse!
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Alcohol use and lithium (Rx for manic depression which CAN happen in lyme) will indeed relieve some of the symptoms, but do not CURE.
Then add hypothyroid and the need for supplementing the thyroid hormones...
Bandaids.
(The first 2 do not come without significant dangers!)
Li...nice try, wrong mineral.
When and if you develop bladder problems, docs will Rx Pyridium to help with those SYMPTOMS.
Nice try, wrong mineral if you're looking for a CURE.
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