Resources for Lyme Disease for Healthcare Providers and Patients

Below are some web resources that can help the healthcare professional stay informed, and inform his or her patients.

The Centers for Disease Control

The Centers for Disease Control provides extensive and authoritative information for both professionals and patients. Here you will find discussion of epidemiology, signs and symptoms, testing, treatment, and prevention. Highlights of CDC resources include:

• Educational materials, brochures, and fact sheets designed for patients, including childrens resources. Fact sheets are available in English, Spanish, Brazilian, Portuguese, and Tagalog. Do you maintain a website for your practice? The CDC provides a code for a free Flash widget you can post to your site.
• Extensive discussions for healthcare professionalson treatment and testing, as well as a 52-page manual on tick-borne diseases of the United States. There are also four expert-commentary videos on Lyme carditis, southern tick-associated rash illness, PCR testing, and testing procedures to minimize false-positive and false-negative results.
• The CDC has a wide-ranging discussion of post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome and chronic Lyme disease,as well as related guides to help patients understand and make informed choices about conflicting health-related information.
• A page ofstatistics, graphs, and mapsprovides a fascinating look at the spread of Lyme disease over the past two decades.
• Avideodescribing the issues with a chronic Lyme diagnosis, intended for patients.
• The Lyme Disease Resources Tool Kit.
• Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Treatment of Lyme Disease.
• NIAID Views on Chronic Lyme Disease.
• CDC Views on Post-Treatment Lyme Disease Symptoms, Often Called Chronic Lyme Disease.
• The Pain of Chronic Lyme Disease: Moving the Discourse in Different Direction.
• Unorthodox Alternative Therapies Marketed to Treat Lyme Disease.
• Is it Possible to Make a correct Diagnosis of Lyme Disease on Symptoms Alone? Review of Key Issues and Public Health Implications.
• Straight Talk About Chronic Lyme Disease.
• The Clinical Relevance of Studies on Borrelia burgdorferi Persisters.
• False and Misleading Information About Lyme Disease.
• Treatment trials for Post-Lyme Disease Symptoms Revisited.
• Recommendations for Patients after a Tick Bite.
• Is it Possible to Make a Correct Diagnosis of Lyme Disease on Symptoms Alone? A Review of Key Issues and Public Health Implications.
• The Challenge of Diagnosing Lyme Disease.

Lyme Disease Case Studies

• A Case Study Revealing the Natural History of Untreated Lyme Disease.
• Anchoring Bias, Lyme Disease, and the Diagnosis Conundrum.

The Infectious Disease Society of America

The IDSA presentsmaterialson Lyme disease for patients, professionals, policy officials, and the press. Highlights include:

• Practice guidelineson assessment, treatment, and prevention of Lyme disease and other tick-borne illnesses.
• Apractice parameteron treatment of nervous system Lyme disease, from the American Academy of Neurology and endorsed by the IDSA.

Lyme Disease Library

Chronic Lyme Disease

• Chronic Lyme Disease Ways to Outsmart a Smart Disease by Gigi Guthrine, M.S.W.
• In the Crucible of Chronic Lyme Diseaseby Kenneth B. Liegner, M.D.
• Why Can™t I Get Better? Solving the Mystery of Lyme & Chronic Diseaseby Richard I. Horowitz, M.D.
• How Can I Get Better? An Action Plan for Treating Lyme Resistant Lyme & Chronic Diseaseby Richard I. Horowitz, M.D.
• Healing Chronic Illnessby Connie Strashem.
• Treatment of Chronic Lyme Disease: Fifty-one Case Reports and Essays in Their Regardby Burton Waisbren SR, M.D.
• Nature™s Dirty Needleby Mara Williams, RN, M.S.N.

Unlocking Lyme: Myths, Truths, and Practical Solutions for Chronic Lyme Disease by William Rawls, M.D.

Diagnosis and Treatment

• Beating Lyme: Understanding and Treating This Complex and Often Misdiagnosed Diseaseby Constance A. Bean with Lesley Ann Fein, M.D.
• Coping with Lyme Disease: A Practical Guide to Dealing with Diagnosis and Treatmentby Denise Lang and Kenneth Liegner M.D.
• Life After LymebyKristin Reihman, M.D.
• Combating Biofilms Why Your Antibiotics and Antifungals Failby James Schaller, M.D. and Kimberly Mountjoy.
• The Diagnosis and Treatment of Babesia: Lyme™s Cruel Cousin-The Other Tick-Borne Infectionby James Schaller, M.D.
• Lyme Looniesby David Skidmore.
• The Lyme Disease Solutionby Kenneth B. Singleton M.D.
• Insights into Lyme Disease Treatment: 13 Lyme-Literate Health Care Practitioners Share Their Healing Strategiesby Connie Strasheim.
• Compendium of Tick-Borne Disease A Thousand Pearlsby K. Spreen.

First Person Stories About Coping with Lyme Disease

• Believe Me: My Battle with the Invisible Disabilityof Lyme Disease by Yolanda Hadid.
• Bite Me: How Lyme Disease Stole My Childhood, Made Me Crazy, and Almost Killed Meby Ally Hilfiger.
• Gone in a Heartbeat: A Physicians Search for True Healingby Neil Spector, M.D.
• Suffering the Silenceby Allie Cashel.
• The Gratitude Curve: Using the lessons of chronic illness to reach personal empowermentby Gregg Kirk.
• The Tick Slayer Battling Lyme Disease and Winningby Perry Louis Fields.
• The Widening Circle: A Lyme Disease Pioneer Tells Her Storyby Polly Murray.

Diet and Nutrition

• The Lyme Diet: Nutritional Strategies for Healing from Lyme Diseaseby Nicola McFadzean, N.D.
• Nourish, Heal, Thrive: A Comprehensive and Holistic Approach to Living with Lyme Diseaseby Rika Keck.
• Recipes for Repair: A Lyme Disease Cookbookby Gail & Laura Piazza.

Integrative and Alternative Medicine

• Healing Lyme: Natural Healing And Prevention of Lyme Borreliosis And ItsCo-infections by Stephen Harrod Buhner.
• Healing Lyme Disease Coinfections Complementary and Holistic Treatments for Bartonella and Mycoplasmaby Stephen Harrod Buhner.
• The Top 10 Lyme Disease Treatments: Defeat Lyme Disease with the Best of Conventional and Alternative Medicineby Bryan Rosner.
• When Antibiotics Fail: Lyme Disease and Rife Machines with Critical Evaluation of Leading Alternative Therapiesby Bryan Rosner.
• Beyond Lyme Diseaseby Connie Strasheim.

Parenting

• Lyme Disease: A Mothers Perspectiveby Karen Angotti.
• When Your Child Has Lyme Disease: A Parents Survival Guideby Sandy Barenbaum and Dorothy Leland.
• Paris in Oaklandby Eliza Q. Hemenway.

ChildrenBooks

• Little Bite, BIG Trouble: A Birds-Eye View of Chronic Lyme Disease by Sarah Schlichte Sanchez.
• Nick, the No Good, Icky Tickby Karen Gloyer.
• Hide and Seek: No Ticks, Pleaseby Nancy Fox.
• No Ticks, Please/No Garrapatas, Por Favorby Nancy Fox.

Documentaries and Videos

• Documentaries and Videos from Fox5NY.
• Under Our Skin a documentary film about Lyme disease.

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