© Borgis - New Medicine 3/2014, s. 95-97
*Agnieszka Godek
Various techniques of tick-borne diseases treatment – antibiotics, diet
Health Science Department, The Academy of Business Administration and Health Sciences, Łódź, Poland
Head of Department: prof. Maciej Szpakowski, PhD
Summary
Tick-borne diseases are a group of diseases whose treatment has raised some controversy because of the conflict of opinions on therapeutic methods. Guidelines for the treatment of Lyme disease and co-infections have been developed by different groups of experts, most popular of which are IDSA and ILADS groups. Their treatment regimens primarily differ in terms of duration of treatment: IDSA proposes short-term treatment, undermined by ILADS, suggesting no effectiveness and preferring duration of treatment up to several years. In both cases, treatment is associated with the intake of antibiotics that reduce the body’s natural defense mechanisms and cause fungal infections. Therefore, in order to prevent negative effects of antibiotics, natural methods and diet shall be used. Lyme diet is a diet above all, antifungal, and methods based on natural herbal medicine. These methods are often undervalued and taken lightly as an „obsolete invention” of our ancestors. Meanwhile, they prove to be highly effective and contribute to the total eradication of Lyme disease which, treated with antibiotics only, can last for years taking a latent form to come back after a time.
This article provides an overview of treatments for Lyme disease and other tick-borne diseases using medicinal plants and diet.
Introduction
In the opinion of the National Institute of Health, the number of registered cases of tick-borne diseases in Poland is steadily increasing every year. Due to the non-specific symptoms and diagnostic difficulties, some tick-borne diseases are reported with a long delay. Those most vulnerable to all diseases transmitted by ticks are forestry workers, people working with agricultural crops, farm animals and hunting (1).
Diagnosis of Lyme disease is made basing on the presence of at least one of the such symptoms as erythema migrans, lymphocytic borrelial lymphocytoma of the skin, arthritis, inflammation of the heart muscle, neuroborreliosis, and the occurrence of serological antibodies against B. burgdorferi (2).
Treatment involves the use of antibiotics, however, the time of administration and joining them, raise discussions. There are two positions on the duration of antibiotic therapy. One stand is presented by a group of IDSA experts (Infectious Diseases Society of America), and the second by those from ILADS (International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society).
Treatment of Lyme disease according to IDSA
IDSA experts are of the opinion that there is no need to carry out serological tests or routine administration of antibiotics after being bitten by a tick. Exceptions include: a tick staying in the skin for over 36 hours, the tick was removed less than 72 hours earlier, at least 20% of ticks are infected with Borrelia burgdorferi in a specific area. In these situations, a single dose of 200 mg of doxycycline may be used. In the case of already present Lyme disease, IDSA recommends the use of antibiotics, such as oral doxycycline, amoxicillin and cefuroxime and intravenous ceftriaxone, cefotaxime and penicillin G. Therapy should last 10-28 days, but not longer than 4 weeks. Alternatively, treatment can be repeated if Lyme disease is advanced and gives joint or neurological symptoms. If joint symptoms persist despite repeated antibiotic therapy, and synovial fluid PCR result is negative, symptomatic treatment shall be used with administering non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs or topical anti-rheumatic corticosteroids. IDSA precludes the use of metronidazole, vancomycin, cholestyramine, diet, vitamin supplementation, and does not recommend combination or long-term treatment (3).
Treatment of Lyme disease according to ILADS
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