Welkom bij het Lymeforum

“The 2006 IDSA Guidelines actually ‘promote the idea that Lyme is a simple, rare illness that is easy to avoid, difficult to acquire, simple to  diagnose, and easily treated and cured with 28 days of antibiotics,'” the lawsuit states. “Even though the IDSA guidelines are not rules or requirements, the insurance defendants treat them as ‘de facto’ law that must be followed by doctors and refuse to cover treatment beyond the IDSA guidelines.”

According to the lawsuit, the 2006 guidelines reference an article by Dr. Leonard Sigal, a defendant in the lawsuit, in which he claims “’Chronic Lyme disease’ is a common clinical diagnosis in some geographic areas and is based on thinking that is at odds with scientifically validated findings.”

Torrey says the insurers began working with Sigal to deny Lyme disease coverage in the 1990s.
Sigal testified in a 1996 deposition that the defendant insurers paid him $560 an hour to review Lyme disease files for them and that he almost always denied coverage, according to the complaint.

Torrey claims doctors who criticized the guidelines as too restrictive put their medical licenses at risk as they were targeted by the insurers.

The top doctor in Sweden for tratment of advanced Lyme disease has been suspended from practicing medicine, leaving hundreds of patients wihout care in a country with a large and growing problem of tick-borne disease.

The physician, Kenneth Sandström, said the action was taken because he treated patinet
with longer courses of antibiotics than recommended by prevalling treatment guidelines.

Sandström is a seasoned general practitioner who treated his first Lyme disease case about five years ago, when a registered nurse who had been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis asked him to treat her for possible Lyme disease. He studied the scientific literature for several months – he at first thought the idea was “rubbish” — then put her on four months of antibiotics.

“Twenty years of MS was gone,” he told me at a conference in Philadelphia last November when he was facing disciplinary charges. He acknowledged that other cases were not as “easy” but said he saw overall and sometimes-dramatic improvement from longer antibiotic treatment. “You have to accept this is something,” he said.
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Mats Lindström, who lives in Stockholm, said his wife, Claudia, 47, was bedridden for seven years before going to Dr. Sandström in February of 2016. Within three months of receiving intravenous antibiotic treatment, she could get out of bed, he said.
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Sandström is one of two Swedish doctors who belong to the ILADS group, which provides continuing education on tick-borne diseases for physicians, a society spokesperson said. Its next conference will be in Paris in May, where a French physician told me of similar pressures on doctors to adhere to the rigid IDSA guidelines.
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‘A chronic disease’
While those guidelines have long prevailed in France, “there are more people…who believe that there is a real problem and that there is a chronic disease,” said Christian Perronne, a physician on the infectious diseases faculty at the University of Versailles-St Quentin. “More and more GPs agree and want to take care of patients but they are not sure — that the prosecutions will not stop.”

Sproetje schreef:Hetzelfde bij mijn link van Truthcures waar AIDS in één zin wordt genoemd samen met Lyme.
Dat doet de ziekte van Lyme geen goed.
Jammer, want Truthcures heeft het wat betreft die Western Blot voor lyme wel goed