Posted by Garnet71 on February 15, 2009, at 12:33:09
In reply to No Evidence For Chronic Lymes Disease, posted by bulldog2 on February 15, 2009, at 10:33:06
Bulldog,
From the first article you posted:
"They concluded there is no scientific evidence that the Lyme bacterium persists after an initial antibiotic treatment of two to four weeks, and no scientific basis for long-term antibiotic treatment."
Just wanted to clarify - chronic vs. acute, not that you had meant your post to come across differently. I don't have time to read all those articles you posted, but skimmed through them, but to not defer anyone from seeking Lyme's treatment, this article does not deny the existence of Lyme - just the use of long-term treatment.
Sidenote: as to flaws in studies, who doesn't find them in just about any study that exists? For every study that concludes one thing, another will be created to try to disprove it and scientists will always come along to criticize the findings. Just the nature of 'studies'. That's probably a reason why we (as a laypersons) can't make sound conclusions from reading a few articles - a person really has to read everything out there on the subject and conclude whether or not a higher theory is valid. One of the problems I see is the lack of inter-disciplinarism (is that a word?), lack of cross-interest by researchers in their chosen fields.
What you post here, though is good information. Hope I can come around to reading it all soon. Thank you!!!
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