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in the GI tract. These include abdominal pain, heartburn, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and blood in the stool. Gastrointestinal Lyme disease may mimic colitis or Crohn’s disease. Small intestinal bacteria overgrowth may be present. H. pylori are frequently resistant to treatment if Lyme disease is also present in the GI tract.
Do deer ticks carry diseases other than Lyme disease?
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that can be transmitted by the bite of an infected tick. One common co-infection is Babesia microti. Babesia symptoms include sweats (day or night and often drenching), unrelenting headaches or head pressure, heart palpitations, a burning sensation in the feet, and muscle and bone pain. Ehrlichia and anaplasma are infections that can come on quickly and cause very high fevers, chills and intense fatigue, although they can also present as moderate headache and fatigue. In addition to neuropsychiatric changes mentioned above, Bartonella hensalae can cause purple stretch marks and make stretch marks and surgical scars change from skin tone to a more purple color. When symp- toms are all on one side of the body, Barto- nella is often the culprit.
How is the diagnosis of Lyme disease made?
The diagnosis of Lyme is often made using the criteria set forth in the CDC
surveillance case definition of Lyme dis- ease, including a two step laboratory testing strategy: an antibody screen followed by a confirmatory Western blot. These tests are known to miss 20-50% of patients who have Lyme disease. One of the biggest problems with Lyme disease testing is that the best tests available are blood tests and Lyme dis- ease does not live in the blood. A recently published study of monkeys experimentally infected with Borrelia burgdorferi found that the C6 antibody test gave false nega- tive results in all of the monkeys that were treated with antibiotics and in more than ½ of those that were untreated. Currently there are no blood tests that can tell your doctor that you do or do not have Lyme; they can only tell if you have been exposed to Bor- relia. Your clinical condition, supported by blood tests, is the only accurate measure of active Lyme disease. A negative blood test does not mean you do not have active Lyme disease; it may mean your immune system is not producing antibodies to Borrelia; it is up to your physician to determine if you have active infection. Lyme disease is a clinical diagnosis supported by blood tests. In Connecticut, if your doctor is consid- ering the diagnosis of Lyme disease, it very well may be the correct diagnosis. Studies have shown that in the Northeast, as many as 70% of ticks may be infected with Lyme and 50% of ticks may carry other tick-borne illnesses. In 2009, tick drags conducted by researchers at the University of New Haven found that a startling 90% of ticks carried Lyme disease and 30% carried Babesia microti.
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