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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: coug who wrote (105936)6/12/2005 3:21:47 AM
From: Jill  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
Where do you live? There are areas it has not penetrated yet although I just heard about a professor's son who got it in December on a camping trip in the Grand Canyon and is very sick and is now on doxycycline for a minimum of 3 months. Which is upsetting as I thought the southwest/desert was pretty much lyme-free.

I don't really think you develop immunity to it because all the scientific literature unfortunately shows the opposite; you can get it again and again.

However I do agree about the hygiene hypothesis. Growing up in the dirt, allowing your immune system to practice itself on the naturally occurring microbes in your area, and NOT taking antibiotics for every little cold and infectoin, makes for a much healthier adult.

Thanx to all for the discussion and interest. Hopefully people will pay attention...I do this periodically cuz some folks got their heads buried in the sand in their own backyards...it certainly unfortunately led to problems for me, and for others I know about now. But knowledge is power, and consideration for others is so important.
Also, lyme didn't really have its first outbreak till the 70's in Connecticut...so that's another reason the immunity theory doesn't work in this particular connection in terms of growing up.
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