Borreliose - Kardenwelt

Detect Lyme disease and treat it sustainably even after years

Reasons why antibiotics fail, common diagnostic errors, treatment options and structured approach to finding a solution. Even after many years. Based on personal experience.

Author: Jan Schöfer, operator of kardenwelt.de, himself affected by Lyme disease.

In the eyes of many people - including doctors - Lyme disease is a simple infectious disease that is treated with antibiotics. There is no such thing as "chronic Lyme disease". It cannot come back. That sounds too simple and too good to be true - and it is often wrong. Every Lyme disease patient knows that the reality can be much more complex and, above all, more serious.

First, some important facts about which there are often errors:

Lyme disease cannot be ruled out with certainty through antibody tests. It is better to carry out the LTT.
A typical redness after a tick means: Lyme disease. No redness means NOTthat there is no Lyme disease.
Lyme disease can stay in the body and come back even after successful treatment. A test to see whether the treatment was successful is important.
Any unexplained symptoms – whether typical or not – justify a blood test.
Antibiotic works. It should be given for at least three weeks without interruption.
Lyme disease rarely occurs alone.

Lyme disease is a systemic infectious disease, which can affect all organs, the brain and also the nervous system. The pathogens have mastered methods of camouflaging themselves from the immune system and also retreat to places in the body that cannot be reached by antibiotics.
Similar to herpes viruses can Borrelia even after therapy be reactivatedThey rarely show the same clinical picture in different people.

This Properties make it difficult not only the diagnosis, she impede also the sustainable Success selective therapy approaches. The classic recommendation of conventional medicine is three weeks of antibiotics. So far, so sensible. But if this approach doesn't work, three weeks can quickly turn into three years.

Apart from the fact that Borrelia bacteria become resistant to modern antibiotics after a relatively short period of time, the side effect is that the intestinal flora is damaged and the immune system is weakened. Antibiotics do not ask whether the bacteria are useful or hostile.

Treatments lasting months or years are usually the result of embarrassment. However, they have little chance of success. If antibiotic treatment of sufficient duration and with the appropriate medication does not lead to a cure, the doctor must ask himself why this is the case.

Basically, Antibiotics are not wrongWe do not advise against it – it just has to carried out correctly become.

Lyme disease rarely occurs alone

One Lyme disease puts a strain on the immune system This limits its performance. With consequences: Possible reasons for the lack of success of antibiotic therapies include immune deficits (hyperactivity / hypoactivity), but more often also free riders. The latter are also called “Co-infections”, i.e. infections that take advantage of the weakness of the immune system and are active – simply because they can.

List of the most common co-inceptions

Epstein-Barr virus
Herpes zoster
Herpes Simplex I + II
Chlamydia pneumoniae
Babesia
Helicobacter pylori
Toxoplasmosis
Human papillomaviruses

Will the Lyme disease after years finally diagnosed, the Diagnosis usually at least incompleteThe patient and doctor may get the impression that the antibiotic is not working because the symptoms persist even during administration. Antibiotics However, only for bacteriaIf several co-infections are active, the success against Borrelia is often only moderate.

It is also possible that after about one to two weeks of therapy, certain symptoms become more severe.

The reason is logical: If the immune system is relieved of the burden of Borrelia, it can and will be more effective against other pathogens. Battle between pathogens and immune system The patient feels in the form of Symptoms. Such a reaction is not necessarily bad – although it is as unexpected as it is unpleasant.

Overwhelmed by the situation, the so-called Herxheimer reaction (Reaction to decaying pathogens) was found. This reaction actually exists. It occurs in the first days before, but not after several weeks antibiotic.
Another common diagnosis is Antibiotic intoleranceIn the worst case, it leads to Termination of successful treatment.
The real reason – co-infections – is too often overlooked.

CONCLUSION: Persistent Lyme disease with possible co-infections must therefore be treated holistically, i.e. taking into account all immune aspects, possible co-infections, the patient's life situation and, if necessary, the toxic load on the body (e.g. from amalgam).

Co-infections and the immune system

In the Area of co-infections and the immunitary aspects can be a Microimmunotherapy effectively and is financially viable. This is a immunomodulatory procedure, which uses messenger substances (cytokines, interferons) to give the immune system the correct instructions. Microimmunotherapy is not just immune strengthening – it is an immune control. Read more about it here on the Pages of the Medical Society for Microimmunotherapy.

Complex clinical pictures offer many sources of errorIt is already a good step forward when doctors and patients realise that a Lyme disease rarely occurs alone The result can be a much more efficient therapy be.

But you shouldn’t expect miracles. long road to illness means an equally long way, to again out of here However, every journey begins with the first step, dem Understanding Lyme disease.

With this in mind, the entire Schöfer family wishes you the necessary strength and spirit!

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