Shared from Dr. Richard Horowitz - Dr Robert Bransfield just published an article on the incidence of Lyme disease among children with autism spectrum disorder. This paper proposes that some children with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in the United States have undiagnosed Lyme disease and different testing criteria used by commercial laboratories may be producing false negative results. Lyme is the great imitator, and multiple infections have been linked in the medical literature to ASD. Both Lyme and ASD have immune dysregulation, and it is known that systemic infections (such as Bb, Bartonella, and viral infections) with associated inflammation can affect chronic neurodegeneration (Perry et al. Nature Reviews Immunology 7, 161-167, Feb 2007). Some french doctors belonging to Chronimed in France have similarly discovered that Borrelia burgdorferi has been found in children with ASD in Europe. Dr Phillipe Raymond showed evidence this past June at the Lyme Sans Frontier conference in Strasbourg, France, that certain children treated with antibiotics like Zithromax reversed their ASD. Harvard University and the University of California also recently published on the role of environmental toxins in ASD. Chronic infections and toxins are important parts of the MSIDS model, since treating them often leads to clinical improvement in my patients. These 2 factors must be addressed as important underlying causes of chronic disease worldwide. medical-hypotheses/article/S0306-9877(14)00233-3/abstract
Posted on: Sat, 12 Jul 2014 15:56:00 +0000
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