Posted by bleauberry on July 21, 2009, at 5:22:38
In reply to Re: From Columbia Newsletter on Lymes Disease., posted by Phillipa on July 20, 2009, at 20:31:53
> BB how come the Center Of Disease Control will not recommend long term antibiotic treatment? Guess I was Lucky got two years of it. I don't know I think the orignal article was posted a while back by was it SLS? If not please correct me thanks. Phillipa ps someone posted it as that is how I found it and saved it.
The Centers For Disease Control is not in the clinical healing business. They are in the surveilance business. Their recommendations for treatment were the best that was known at the time. But as you know, in any large beauracracy trying to adjust or change things is like trying to move a boulder. It is slow with a lot of resistance.
Several hundred physicians and thousands of patients however are not in the surveilance business. They are in the business of getting well, which most often in the real world happens outside of the CDC outdated recommendations. Science has come a long way.
But more importantly, "clinical evidence is rapidly over-ruling academic evidence" as doctors discover what works and what doesn't with their patients. CDC doesn't treat patients and has no experience with actual sick people. The doctors on the front lines do.
CDC is not a bible. It is a guideline. They provide surveilance of disease. They are not in the healing business. Unfortunately the association of Infectious Disease Specialists have adopted the CDC guidelines as a bible, and that probably accounts for why so many people who sought treatment from them had poor or inadequate outcomes.
I answered the rest of your questions in my previous post. Go back and take another look at that if it helps.
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