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- From: LONGDISTSHTR <longdistshtr@InfoAve.Net>
 - To: NAFEX <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
 - Subject: [NAFEX] Lyme Disease Confirmation
 - Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 23:10:55 -0400
 
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 Charles, Lyme Disease can be more easily diagnosed 
than previously. Trying to do it relying on signs and symptoms, as was our only 
tools in the days when it first appeared. 
If you were my patient, I would suspect "tick 
fever" which is relatively harmless, but I would drawn a urine sample and have 
it tested by a lab which conducts the LDA procedure which is a Lyme 
Dot-Blot Assay for screening purposes. 
If that were positive, then we would submit another 
urine sample for the confirmation test which is the RWB or Reverse Western 
Blot. 
You don't want to guess or fool around with 
self-diagnosis.  Get a physician to check you out.  I have several 
patients who suffered for years because we didn't have a good diagnostic test. 
Now that we do it is a realitively simple matter to treat it early and avoid a 
bunch of foolishness. I don't like antibiotic treatments but they seems to 
be relatively safe and effective if Lyme D. is caught early. 
Doc Lisenby 
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- [NAFEX] Lyme Disease Confirmation, LONGDISTSHTR, 05/27/2003
 
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