Why is this disease taken so lightly!
 Since taking on this blog project and going through information on Lyme disease I now find it more serious and feel that so should my mom. The doctors spoke to my mom and explained the disease to her as if it would  be gone tomorrow after taking on the 30 day antibiotics. So I am more so hurt at reading the information that is being collected during this research. The IDSA is merely over looking this chronic disease, and making it out to be easily treated when that is not the case at all. Many people live with this disease throughout their whole lives.

The Chronic Lyme Disease Controversy
 "The IDSA developed two sets of Lyme treatment guidelines—the 2000 and the 2006 IDSA Guidelines.
 IDSA - The Infectious Disease Society of  America (IDSA) represents physicians, scientists and other health care professionals who specialize in infectious diseases. IDSA'S purpose is to improve the health of individuals, communities, and society by promoting excellence in patient care, education, research, public health, and prevention relating to infectious diseases."

“More than 19,000 scientific studies on tick-borne diseases that suggest chronic Lyme disease exists, doctors and researchers who follow the IDSA guidelines dismiss the notion that a Lyme infection can persist after a thirty-day dose of oral antibiotics and condemn the use of long-term antibiotics, claiming they are useless and potentially harmful. But the ILADS has a divergent view: persistent and recurring symptoms demonstrate a continuing and chronic infection, which does not always respond to the IDSA’s limited duration of two to four weeks of antibiotic treatment. And despite all of the evidence concerning chronic Lyme disease, the 2006 IDSA Guidelines actually dismiss chronic Lyme disease as nothing more than “the aches and pains of daily living.” The IDSA’s dismissal of the existence of chronic Lyme is problematic because the 2006 IDSA Guidelines have been “widely cited [by many doctors and insurance companies] for conclusions that chronic Lyme disease is nonexistent.”

Because many antibiotics do not effectively penetrate the blood-brain barrier, these antibiotics are not transported to the brain. Consequently, these patients must be treated with intravenous antibiotics because when the antibiotics are “delivered directly into the blood, they bypass the digestive system where some of the medication is lost.” And even though chronic Lyme sufferers often respond to intravenous antibiotic therapy, the 2006 IDSA Guidelines do not recommend intravenous antibiotic treatment for any Lyme patients.