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Coping with Lyme Disease, Third Edition:

A Practical Guide to Dealing with Diagnosis and Treatment
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Macmillan, Jun 1, 2004 - Health & Fitness - 337 pages
Now completely revised and updated-the bible for the thousands who contract Lyme disease each year

Lyme disease, transmitted through the bite of a tick, is one of our nation's fastest-growing epidemics. Since Coping with Lyme Disease was first published in 1993, the number of sufferers afflicted by this debilitating condition has grown alarmingly.
Every chapter has been thoroughly revised and new information about the long-term neurological effects of Lyme disease and congential and chronic versions of the illness has been added.
This comprehensive guide includes
- basic prevention tips
- a detailed catalog of the physical and psychological symptoms to look for
- a complete look at the medical and home care options and insurance policies available to patients
- a special discussion of Lyme's effects on women, children, and the elderly
- an expanded resource guide, with listings of news publications, state-by-state support groups, and special family services

This fully updated third edition informs readers of the latest medical findings in diagnosing and treating Lyme disease-providing crucial information about newly discovered Lyme-related illnesses, electromagnetic procedures, clinical and antibiotic therapies, and curative nutritional products now on the market. A longtime bestseller, this authoritative book is an essential tool for all Lyme disease sufferers.
  

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Review: Coping with Lyme Disease: A Practical Guide to Dealing with Diagnosis and Treatment

User Review  - Mieke - Goodreads

It's comforting to know that I'm not the only one. This disease took so much away. I'm grateful that I was diagnosed when I was. Read full review

Review: Coping with Lyme Disease: A Practical Guide to Dealing with Diagnosis and Treatment

User Review  - John Allen - Goodreads

The best word on the too-little-discussed-or-known about illness. The only problem I had was that the author constantly portrays this or that sufferer's story as being "melodramatic" or "unusually ... Read full review

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Contents

RECOGNIZING THE VARIED ASPECTS
5
Recognizing Symptoms and Seeking Help
24
Coinfections Mean Complications
41
Translating Those Tests into English
55
The Politics of Diagnosing Lyme Disease
86
II
98
SPECIAL AGES SPECIAL PROBLEMS
105
The Teenager
121
The Modern House Call
190
Whats Insurance For?
202
Diet and Nutrition
219
Adjunctive and Supportive Therapies
226
Practical Prevention and Public Health
236
A Vital Link
249
A Challenge to Fight
261
Lyme Disease Support Groups
273

Women
134
The Elders
148
Lyme Disease in Animals
157
GETTING TREATMENT AND SUPPORT
165
Chronic Lyme Disease
184
Helpful Links and Websites
297
Active Newsletters
305
Acknowledgments
321
Copyright

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Page 315 - Luft, BJ, Steinman, CR, Neimark, HC, et al.. Invasion of the central nervous system by Borrelia burgdorferi in acute disseminated infection, / Am.
Page 316 - Ticks and biting insects infected with the etiologic agent of Lyme disease. Borrelia burgdorferi, J.
Page 313 - Fibroblasts Protect the Lyme Disease Spirochete, Borrelia burgdorferi, from Ceftriaxone in Vitro.
Page 315 - Recurrent Erythema Migrans Despite Extended Antibiotic Treatment with Minocycline in a Patient with Persisting BB Infection.

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Community Health Nurses' Knowledge of Lyme Disease: Implications ...
Patricia A Capps, Robert R Pinger, Kathleen M Russell, Martin L Wood - 1999 - Journal of Community Health Nursing

About the author (2004)

Denise Lang is a popular speaker on family and health issues who has appeared on television shows nationally. A former award-winning reporter and editor, she currently works as a television producer in New York.

Kenneth Leigner, M.D., has published articles about Lyme disease in the Journal of American Medicine, the New England Journal of Medicine, and the Journal of Clinical Microbiology. He practices medicine in Armonk, New York.

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