Lyme Resources
Make sure you get adequate and appropriate antibiotic treatment as soon as possible. Often antibiotics are not prescribed soon enough or long enough.
Pure essential oils and Natural Lyme remedies, herbal and homeopathic, are available from CHI. Contact us for more information.
Tickborne Rickettsial Diseases
Insect Repellents: Use and Effectiveness (pdf)
DEET
Mountain Mint Tick Repellant, use in place of DEET: Make a safe repellant
Check with state’s health department regarding tick infestation, as the data changes yearly.
Health Epidemic Remains Unnoticed - An opinion by Connie Bennett
Special to AOL
News, (May 28, 2010) -- We're in the midst of a terrifying epidemic, although
you wouldn't know it to talk to most doctors and health specialists.
The disease is growing at a rate faster than AIDS. From 2006 to 2008 alone, the
number of cases jumped a whopping 77 percent. In 2008 alone, the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention listed 28,921 "confirmed" and 6,277 "probable"
cases of the disease, but there could be as many as 420,000 because of
underreporting.
Prominent victims include Parker Posey, Richard Gere, President George W. Bush,
Alice Walker and Christie Brinkley.
If any other disease had stricken so many people, the medical community would be
scurrying for knowledge, scrambling for cures or rushing to warn patients (think
swine flu).
But that's not the case with Lyme disease -- a disease carried by ticks.
Instead, ill-informed doctors are often flummoxed when patients complain of
fatigue, headaches, fever or chills, muscle or joint pain, mental confusion,
swollen lymph nodes and neurological symptoms. It's an appalling display of
indifference.
As Lyme Disease Awareness Month comes to a close and Memorial Day travelers
flock to grassy, tick-infested holiday spots across America, vacationers and
physicians alike need to be on the alert for freckle-sized menaces that are
responsible for the fastest-growing, most misdiagnosed infectious disease in the
country. The CDC has a map that shows where
the ticks are most prevalent.
For my part, I was lucky because my smart nutritionist friend, JJ Virgin,
immediately grew suspicious when, almost overnight, I became an exhausted,
headache-ridden, nightmare-plagued, memory-challenged zombie suffering from
vertigo, sleeping problems, swollen glands, achy eyes, sensitivity to light and
noise, fever, chills and a sore neck.
She insisted I get tested for Lyme disease the next day.
When I tested positive for Lyme disease and babesiosis (a malaria-like
co-infection also spread by ticks), I began to research my condition, reading
books such as "Cure
Unknown: Inside the Lyme Epidemic" by science journalist Pamela Weintraub,
watching the poignant documentary "Under
Our Skin: The Untold Story of Lyme Disease" and interviewing experts on my
radio show.
Unfortunately, many victims of this poppy-seed-sized predator spend months or
years without effective treatment, because perplexed doctors wrongly diagnose
chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, lupus, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's,
Alzheimer's, arthritis or psychiatric disorders. It took "The Joy Luck Club"
author Amy Tan many years, numerous doctors and her own sleuthing before she was
diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease.
We nature lovers need to be vigilant whenever we bike or hike near fields,
wooded areas or trails. (For instance, I always wear white socks (NB: from
the leaflady - make sure you pull them up over your pants, and apply high
quality pure essential oil to the socks and tops of your shoes) ; don caps
to cover my thick, curly hair; never sit on grass anymore; and wash my workout
clothes after coming home.)
Each of us needs to inspect our bodies for tiny, black intruders and tweeze them
out before they have time to infect us with any number of diseases.
To reduce the ick factor, we can give this health-wise precaution a romantic
twist, as Brad Paisley humorously suggests in his song "Ticks": "I'd like to
walk you through a field of wildflowers, and I'd like to check you for ticks."
But more important is the need for public health community to treat this disease
like the epidemic it is, and start putting real resources into educating the
public and the medical profession about how to identify it, treat it, and
prevent it.
Essential Oils: Specific pure, pharmaceutical grade, therapeutic Essential Oils have a place in the field of infection control. They are indispensible when antibiotics do not work because they have a long, validated history of being antibacterial, antiviral, antifungal and antibiotic. Certain essential oils may be used directly on the skin, but very few. Certain essential oils improve their ability to fight organisms as they age, and several have been tested in combination with plant based natural cleaners like BGC with no lessening of the ability of the plant cleaner to function fully. CHI offers only pharmaceutical grade, high quality, pure, therapeutic essential oils.
JBNI: While all of the JBNI formulas have been tested at Dana Farber, the two products that brought them into this approach to infection control were 15.3 and 46. 15.3 is a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory herbal formula based on thousands of years of application through the practices of Oriental Medicine. 46 is an immune boosting formula but as all JBNI products, they have multiple applications and can be potentiated when used in combination. JBNI offers its products through professional practitioners.
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