It's funny how some people don't seem to get them on them. It must be a chemistry like getting poison ivy. I can't look at poison ivy without getting it, yet I have a friend who can roll in it and never get it? Same with ticks, him and I used to hunt together many years back, I'd have ticks on me and he wouldn't!
Kinda what I was thinking too...another theory I had was that since they don't seem to like mint, I had not experienced ticks as a kid because we practically lived on peppermint "garden tea" in the summertime...probably close to 50% of our liquid intake...but I just made a batch of it last week so that may blow that theory. But then again, I didn't actually get bit...
You might be on to something! Sadly, one of the few things I don't like is mint! "AT ALL"!!! I think it goes back to a "Halloween" about 50 years ago when I ate soooooooooooooooooo many York peppermint patties, I "YAK'ed them all up and had one of those belly aches you get as a kid.
That is the popular professional medical opinion. Personally having researched Lyme to save my own life I disagree. Seems physiologically impossible. The tiny ones “nymphs” are just young ticks. I’ve seen no researcher explain how a young tick with Lyme suddenly cures itself as it ages. Here’s what we need to keep in mind. All peer reviewed research into Lyme must follow CDC guidelines. Those who have looked understand the CDC guidelines are patently flawed. Stands to reason any research using flawed guidelines is automatically circumspect itself. Look even deeper and you’ll find it’s not an accident My percentages might be off and it depends on the study but roughly 50% of people with Lyme never develop a bullseye rash. Here’s my own personal non scientific theory on that. And it ties back in with the nymph myth. The proboscis of a nymph tick is not long enough to breech the epidural layer of a human. Therefor the Lyme bacteria is injected into the skin, not the capillary or surrounding areas. Hence the bodies reaction to a bacteria in the skin is at first a rash. The rash is nothing more than an infection. The body trying to fight off a dangerous invader. Injected deeper into the capillaries by an adult tick the bacteria is whisked away by body fluids entering the blood stream quickly. The body has no time to react to the bacteria in one given spot. That’s my theory FWIW. Many researchers still buy the nymph myth. It also correlates with the CDC who place a large emphasis on the rash although they concede it’s not necessary to develop one.
Just found out yesterday that the young lad who is gonna put the steel roof on has been stuck in bed for the last week with it and will be doing another month of meds. Doesnt sound very fun to come down with?
The letter first off says it came from MSNBC. Second, it says; "A Government body admits"! What Government body??? Now, I don't trust any Government body but the letter is "vague" at best on facts! And coming from a news media of that culture is VERY skeptical.
I have not had it but we have animals w chronic Lyme and friends who fought it badly. Key takeaway is find a Lyme specialist if the treatment doesn’t go as well as you hoped. GPs can and do treat it but they tend to make blunt decisions and treat the titer test as “positive” or “negative”. Cured or not cured. Nothing about Lyme is that simple so having an experienced specialist pays off massively. David
