Here's what our friend with chronic Lyme just emailed to my wife today. There's more good medical fact here about Lyme in this one email than most doctors know!
Posted with her permission, and privacy protected:
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one site that I recommend is
www.lyme.net.
http://library.lymenet.org/domino/file.nsf
The link above will take you right to the library.
On this site click on On Line Library and reach the articles by Burrascano. He has done the most successful work/research on the disease and has been treating for many years. [my doctors] both support/subscribe to his treatment regime.
There is a great article there about how the disease affects children. Be sure to read that one.
The one thing that I see these doctors subscribe to is testing for Lyme and all the co-infections: Babescia, Rocky Mtn Spotted Fever, Typhus Fever, Erlichia, Bartonella. I had no fever, no spots, no symptoms other than I was tired. These co-infections don't all respond to Amoxi or Doxy - they have a different treatment protocol of their own so it requires combinations of antibiotics and timing such that it gets the main bacteria and the next life cycle which is 28-30 days.
[my son] was treated in March for 30 days. He was better for April, May but in June he started to relapse. So she is retreating for 3 mos. So far he has been positive for Erlichia and Lyme. When we go back in 30 days if he isn't feeling much better he will be tested for all others again.
These are tricky bugs - they hide, disguise themselves and when not treated with full fire power on the antibiotics they can come back with a vengeance. Once bitten you have no immunity to additional bites or infections. Additional infections just diminish your immune system's capability to fight. As with mine, it was not fighting back. Thus, I had no titer on the blood tests. I was on antibiotics for 6 mos before the tests were positive. That is common with a chronic infection. Usually the acute infections show positive so that is good in [your son's] case. I just worry that he might need a higher dose, different antibiotic and/or longer treatment time.