Re: Sweet Lyme Home, Chicago...

On Oct 31, 1:16 am, Stubby Elvis <webmas...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Oct 31, 1:04 am, the 3rd Man <sir_de...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Oct 30, 10:58 pm, Satan <webmas...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hiya bud,

How difficult do you think it would be to propose and pass a federal
bill that would make it mandatory to have a blood test as a
requirement for participation in high school or collegiate sports?

You're not talking about testing for Lyme disease?

yhea. was thinking if there was testing of a larger sample space in
the population would garner more attention to the problem.


Interesting idea...but it will take awhile for the full impact to hit
Chicagoland...and a lot of us stay indoors and eat pizza and ribs,
anyway...

Still, the percentages of infected ticks is high, by any
standards...and I don't think they reached those levels overnight. In
other words...it was probably under the radar, before.

Serology for Lyme is not diagnostic, in and of itself.
There would be no point in that.

wasn't aware of that. excuse my ignorance.

LOL...don't worry about it...most docs don't know.

That's the problem, in many cases.

There is a two-tier testing process, an ELISA...a screen, which isn't
particularly specific for Lyme...and a Western Blot...which is
supposed to be very specific for Lyme. These are indirect antibody
tests ONLY...they measure exposure, in the hope they record antibody
response to the causative organism.

Many, many problems with this process...and one is the apparent
inability to reproduce the results in different labs.

There is also controversy about how to interpret the Western Blot
results...as some bands on the test that are specific to Lyme are not
used by the CDC.

The CDC has established criteria for the interpretation of these
tests...again, which are not supposed to be diagnostic...but for
surveillance purposes...reporting.

Blood testing is only supposed to SUPPORT a clinical diagnosis...give
a doc confidence that he has got it right, more or less. You are
supposed to diagnose on the basis of observable clinical signs and
symptoms, as well as the supportive blood testing.

Problem is...most docs don't know this, and diagnose on the basis of
these blood tests ALONE. Wrong. Blood testing doesn't "rule in, or
rule out".

It has taken me EIGHT years to get rid of my cane, Stubby...this is
rough stuff if not caught and diagnosed early.


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