Re: Should we pursue Lyme diagnosis further?

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Hi Sheri,

My son's igenex run by his DAN was negative, only a 41 band

positive. We went to a lyme dr, put him on antibiotics for 3 months,

then tested again and he had several more positive bands and his LLMD

called it a positive, although it was not a CDC positive.

With that said, I would pursue testing for coinfections. I believe I

recall that your son is doing rather well and with that, I would not

run out and put him on antibiotics. I would not go there unless a

child was obviously very sick and not responding well to herbals --

this was my son. He was completely unresponsive to any stimuli,

complete loss of any motor skills and crying 24/7 -- an assortment of

antibiotics has completely turned this around.

So what I am saying is not to rule out lyme for an ASD kid on an

unprovoked western blot. Coinfections are often the worst part of

lyme and it is best to know what you are dealing with. Look into

broad spectrum herbals like in the cowden protocol. Go slow and

avoid any regressions.

Caryn

>

> My ASD son had a western blot test performed by IGeneX recently.

Our

> DAN says that the test doesn't indicate that Lyme is an issue for

> him, but I thought I would run the results by you guys to get a

> little more feedback. I'm still really learning about these tests,

> and need a little input.

>

> The IgM result came back as " negative " with only " indeterminate "

for

> the 23-25 band and the 41 band.

> The IgG result also came back " negative " , but had " indeterminate "

for

> the 31 and 39 bands, and " +++ " on the 41 band.

> Hope that makes sense!

>

> What is your take on these results? We have not been treating him

> with prescription antibiotics at all since starting biomed in

> January. The only supplements he's taken that have any

antibacterial

> properties would be OLE (for about 2 months in the spring) and OoO

> (for about 2 months prior to this test). I've heard/read that a

test

> may very well show up as negative even if Lyme is present, and that

> it might only be after you start to treat it that it then could

test

> positive (sorry, I really don't know a lot about this).

>

> Thanks for any input,

> Sheri

>