Tratamiento de la enfermedad de Lyme

What is Lyme Disease?

Lyme disease is the most frequent infectious and multi-organ pathology transmitted by the bite of a tick when infecting the organism with the bacteria Borrelia burgdorferi. Mosquitoes, fleas or other insects infected by the bacteria are also transmitters.

European reference center in the diagnosis and treatment of Lyme Disease

Symptoms of Lyme Disease

Early Lyme Disease

Lyme disease can manifest from the first days up to weeks after infection. If the disease is detected in this phase, antibiotic treatment usually eliminates the bacteria from the body.
Symptoms of early Lyme disease include fever, chills, general malaise and headache, joint pain, and muscle stiffness.

Early Disseminated Lyme Disease

The flu-like symptoms that appear in the first weeks of early Lyme disease may not manifest, which does not prevent the Borrelia bacteria from progressing in our body. In this case, the consequences are more serious.
We may suspect Lyme disease if there is weakness or paralysis of the facial muscles, altered heart rhythm, numbness and pain, difficulty breathing, or chest pain.

Chronic Lyme Disease

One of the reasons why chronic Lyme disease is difficult to detect is because it is associated with nonspecific symptoms that appear even years after contracting the disease. This delay in the appearance of symptoms means that they are not related to the tick bite. However, when they do manifest, the disease has already affected different organs and its consequences may be irreparable:

– Musculoskeletal symptoms: chronic inflammation and/or pain in one or more joints, muscle pain, or extreme fatigue that prevents patients from walking.

– Neurological symptoms: manifest as altered sensitivity, difficulty in coordinating movements, strange sensations, and even psychiatric problems.

– Other symptoms: cardiac symptoms, short-term memory loss, lack of concentration, inflammation of the brain and spinal cord, neuralgia or stabbing pain in the hands and feet.

One of the best-known symptoms of Lyme disease is erythema migrans, but in reality, there are few cases in which this red spot in the shape of a target or rash appears, or in which it is detected. From the moment of the bite, and up to weeks or even years later, a series of symptoms become evident that vary depending on the phase of the disease we are in.

This is the most frequent tick-borne disease, and its incidence is increasing. In fact, the European Commission has already alerted the Member States about the exponential increase in this disease and the need for greater medical specialization since the usual diagnostic tests are negative in 80% of cases and, due to a lack of in-depth knowledge of the disease's clinical presentation, patients do not receive the necessary treatment.

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Treatment phases for Lyme disease

The treatment for Lyme disease consists of 4 phases:

The therapeutic preparation phase aims to prepare the body prior to specific and personalized Lyme treatment. Since this is almost always a chronic, immunosuppressive disease, we must improve the patient’s internal environment (terrain) as much as possible, following the indications given by the tests performed.

Objectives of the therapeutic preparation

This phase involves:

Replenishing nutrient deficiencies identified through analysis (vitamins, minerals, amino acids, enzymes, essential fatty acids).
Rebuilding the intestinal flora and eliminating intestinal infections (caused by bacteria, fungi, and/or parasites), which is essential for ensuring the patient's immune system is as effective as possible when addressing Lyme infections.
Eliminating all toxic substances (heavy metals, mycotoxins, chemical toxins, etc.) to make the patient's internal environment (terrain) more conducive to the immune system's defensive activity and as inhospitable as possible to the germs causing the disease.
Rebalancing pH levels, eliminating the acidification commonly found in all chronic pathologies.
Immunoregulation in the case of autoimmune diseases caused by Lyme, and increasing the production of deficient lymphocyte types.
Initiating personalized treatment to eliminate the inflammation experienced by all Lyme patients, by molecularly reducing the production of inflammatory cytokines and increasing anti-inflammatory ones, among other methods.
Unblocking and eliminating dental foci, interfering scars, repairing blockages in the autonomic nervous system, etc.
Local pain management, if necessary, using highly innovative and effective techniques.
Deactivating any reactivated prior viral infections.
Everything that improves the patient's condition to initiate chronic Lyme shock treatment with the greatest chance of success.

Techniques used in therapeutic preparation

The techniques used in this phase are: serums with high doses of vitamin C, toxin-draining serums, specific chelation serums based on the heavy metals to be eliminated, alkalizing and multi-mineral and vitamin replacement serums, ozone in its different applications (major autohemotherapy simple or multi-pass or intestinal insufflation), molecular hyperthermia, vegetative neuroinjection therapy, microimmunotherapy, neural therapy, perineural injection therapy, whole-body hyperthermia, etc.

INUSpheresis® in the therapeutic preparation of Lyme Disease Treatment

Since the end of 2021, we have incorporated a new therapy that only we perform in all of Spain and currently available in only 10 clinics worldwide: INUSpheresis® therapeutic apheresis. With this technique, the fundamental part of the treatments that are required during the mentioned 2-3 months.

We perform them in 3 days and in a much more effective way, eliminating from the patient's body at once, among others:

Inflammatory cytokines
Fractions of viruses, bacteria, and fungi
Mycotoxins
Chemical products of all kinds
Heavy metals
Excess cholesterol
Immune complexes of autoimmune diseases

In all cases of chronic Lyme, we recommend starting treatment with 2, 3 or 4 weeks of shock treatment, with intravenous serums containing antibiotics, draining agents, and specific immune system activators. At Biosalud, we have developed an innovative system for administering antibiotics that eliminates their side effects. In addition, we can apply some specific protocols with techniques such as Ozone therapy (major autohemotherapy, multi-pass and intestinal insufflations), focal magnet therapy, colon hydrotherapy, oxygen therapy, specific and personalized intravenous serums with high doses of vitamins, minerals, fatty acids, enzymes and/or amino acids, molecular hyperthermia, whole-body hyperthermia, diathermy, phytotherapy and vegetative neuroinjection therapy, among others.

In the second week of this shock treatment, treatment with oral antibiotics is initiated, as indicated by the Lymecheck analysis and the existing co-infections in each case. We always use antibiotics in a pharmaceutical form without side effects and with a much higher effectiveness than that of the usual pharmaceutical forms.

Typically, our patients complete this phase in better condition than when they started, with often significant symptomatic improvements that begin to suggest a good chance of overcoming the multi-infection and returning to a normal life with a good quality of life in the necessary time.

After these 3 weeks of treatment, a comprehensive at-home treatment is implemented, including antibiotics, immune stimulants, neurotoxin drainage, natural anti-infectives, etc. The objectives in this phase are: to improve the compatibility and effectiveness of antibiotics, strengthen the immune system, treat existing pain, change the cellular environment by deacidifying and eliminating excess free radicals to reduce Borrelia reproduction, reduce the production of inflammation maintained by cytokines, regulate the Th1/Th2 and TH17 systems, support the proper functioning of various organs (especially the liver and kidneys), detoxification, and improve the immune system.

This phase is also accompanied by treatment in our facilities tailored to each case, often weekly, bi-weekly, or more commonly monthly, depending on the individual case and the control analysis results, which are performed every 2 months to check its evolution and effectiveness.

Two months after starting the Lyme shock treatment, we perform analytical tests to check the patient's response to the treatment (Lymecheck® and Nagalasa test®) and, after a clinical evaluation review, plan the steps to follow and how to continue with it.

If the patient has a genetic predisposition (HLA) that prevents a good response to antibiotic treatment, or if, by personal decision, they only want a treatment based on Biological Medicine, we have the necessary protocols to apply a treatment with a high probability of success.

Antibiotic Treatment

However, in chronic Lyme disease, we recommend the Integrative Medicine approach, which combines allopathic treatment (conventional, with antibiotics) with Biological Medicine, thus reducing the possible side effects of the former to a minimum and enhancing its beneficial effects.

In any case, everything should be weighed and decided on a personalized basis in each case and based on the clinical picture, successive analyses, and the patient's decisions. At Biosalud Day Hospital, we always use antibiotics in a pharmaceutical form without side effects.

Diagnosis of Lyme Disease

How is Lyme disease diagnosed?

At Biosalud, we have developed specific tests for the diagnosis and detection of Lyme disease, avoiding the high rates of false negatives produced by conventional analyses. In addition, we use the Biological Medicine approach to specifically understand the patient's situation at a multi-organ level.

Specific test for the diagnosis of Lyme disease

Complementary tests for the diagnosis of Lyme disease

Our specific test to diagnose and detect Lyme Disease is the LymeCHECK from Biosalud Análisis.

LymeCHECK® are very specific tests that we complement with others because Lyme disease involves other co-infections. We will take into account the patient's clinical history and perform all tests in the same analysis.

Quantification in blood of minerals, vitamins, amino acids, hormones, enzymes, essential fatty acids…
Verification of the functionality of the thyroid and adrenal glands.
Infrared regulation thermometry, to understand the patient's pathophysiology.
Biomolecular analysis that indicates the state of the immune system and the molecular alterations that will help us to protocolize the most suitable treatment in each case.
Canditest® and Koprocheck® for the study of intestinal infections by bacteria, fungi or parasites, as well as deficiencies in the intestinal flora, degree of inflammation, permeability, etc.
Analysis of possible viral infections accompanying Lyme disease, through Immunocheck®, as well as the quantification of all types of defensive cells (lymphocytes) to thoroughly understand the patient's immune status.
Nagalasa analysis, quantifying Nagalasa to determine the level of immune system blockage and Borrelia activity.
Patient's toxic load: ToxicChemicalCHECK® (chemical toxins), MycotoxinCHECK® (mycotoxins), Glyphosate (herbicide), and HeavymetalsCHECK® (heavy metals in hair and/or urine).
Other specific tests required for the particular case.

Early detection of Lyme disease

Lyme disease is very difficult to diagnose due to the wide variety of its symptoms and the immunosuppression that occurs. In many cases, it yields false negatives in normal serological tests.

Diagnosis and early detection of the disease are very important because Lyme becomes chronic without adequate treatment, leading to a progressive deterioration of the body that prevents patients from leading a normal life.

Furthermore, this is sometimes a very aggressive pathology that requires a personalized Lyme disease treatment with the most appropriate techniques in each case, in order to have the best options for regaining health.

Experts refer to this disease as "the great imitator" because it can mimic many others, such as rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, fibromyalgia, autism, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, chronic fatigue syndrome, lupus, Hashimoto's thyroiditis, ulcerative colitis, or Crohn's disease, among others.

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