Tincup
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Every chance you get PLEASE discourage anyone from going to the infamous Children's Hospital in Boston. More garbage saying the Lyme tests are accurate.
More "fluff" for the new IDSA guidelines.
Curr Opin Pediatr. 2016 Jun;28(3):287-293.
Diagnosis of Lyme disease in the pediatric acute care setting.
Lipsett SC1, Nigrovic LE. Author information
1Division of Emergency Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Abstract
PURPOSE OF REVIEW:
We review the current evidence concerning the diagnosis of Lyme disease in children for application in the acute care setting.
RECENT FINDINGS:
Recent studies suggest that Lyme disease incidence is substantially higher than previously described.
Although efforts are ongoing to identify alternative testing strategies, two-tiered serologic testing remains the diagnostic standard in children with compatible clinical syndromes.
Published clinical prediction rules can assist clinicians caring for children with potential Lyme disease.
SUMMARY:
Two-tiered serologic testing remains the mainstay of the diagnosis of Lyme disease.
To minimize the risk of a false positive test, serologic testing should be limited to those children with symptoms compatible with Lyme disease with potential exposure to ticks from endemic regions.
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That is one scary place .. for any illness.
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droid1226
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"To minimize the risk of a false positive test, serologic testing should be limited to those children with symptoms compatible with Lyme disease with potential exposure to ticks from endemic regions."
This means the kids have to meet 3 criteria: a) They have to be sick with symptoms that resemble lyme b) The kid has to have played outside or been in a house that could have ticks in it
c) They have to be from an area that from the map that the CDC provides(completely outdated & horribly under reported) ......
even still if you use the awful map that is the CDC's most recent from 2013, it doesn't get anymore Ground Zero than Boston.
Also, can anyone explain rationally why a dr would actually go out of his way to "minimize the risk of a false positive"? What is the harm in treating for a few weeks & saving a kid a lifetime of illness?
At the very worst, the child is on doxycycline and gets a stomach ache once in a while but you've ruled out acute lyme. Doxycycline is given out to to teenagers like candy for facial acne for months or even years.
It's not even debating whether lyme is chronic or not. This is straight up corruption on the hospital's part. This could be argued in a court of law by a hack lawyer in a half hr. And it would be open & shut.
More proof that most Dr's are very easily persuaded by suits at the CDC with little or no medical experience.
Insane. I don't live near there. I'm grateful.
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