Here are five facts about #encephalitis to mark #WorldEncephalitisDay on Monday, 22nd February PLEASE RETWEET and help us raise awareness of this devastating brain condition. #Red4WED worldencephalitisday.org/?utm_source=tw…

This fucking has to stop. The urgency that patients feel and live with needs to infuse the institutions and people to the core. We are dying. Just like patients for the last 160 years. We will not go silently any longer. We are engaged, enraged and demanding change. NOW. /end

This appeals hugely. I love the idea of walking through nature with a therapist. I feel rather moronic that I’ve worked in mental health for a decade and not really given this sort of thing much thought. theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2…

anti-inflammation Rx. Another failure of our health system. My little family was devastated by PANS due to pervasive ignorance of providers from numerous specialties. I have been fighting for others ever since. Calling all pediatric providers to attend: neuroimmune.org/inflammatory-b…

It is encouraging to know if you have a chronic illness that effects cognition i.e. encephalitis. There can be hope of healing some types of brain injuries or dysfunction. #Lyme #PANS #MECFS @MoleculeraLabs

Link to online Visual Contrast Sensitivity Test. Results are given when test is complete. vcstest.com

It's always #Lyme season -- here are the most effective #tick repellents: ow.ly/kL9V50vxMKS #lymeawareness #lymedisease

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1989, survival of borrelia in antibiotic treated patients. Borrelia survives antibiotic treated patients 1989, it seems like many patients

For those with an interest in immuno/neuro/psyche, this will be of interest to you Royal College of Psychiatrists @BPNA_org Diane P ⭐️✨💙CAMHS Network💙✨⭐️ -to register, click the link zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Streptococcus and Lyme can be triggers of neuropsychiatric symptoms #panspandashour #LymeDiseaseAwarenessMonth aspire.care/featured/case-…

To give yourself the highest level of protection from disease-transmitting ticks, NYT Wirecutter recommends using a bug repellant with a 20% concentration of picaridin repellent in conjunction with permethrin-treated clothing. nyti.ms/3tqkvHN

It would be interesting to see if antibody responses to particular regions of the virus are only higher among patients with Long COVID. Seems like in Lyme disease, patients with chronic symptoms had a wider array of antibodies against different epitopes. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…

David Lee, MD Here’s a study showing deficient IR (fewer plasmablasts, mutated ab’s) in acutely dx’ed and treated patients who develop PTLDS pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30072990/

Wendy Adams Sierra Club Arbovirus News Bay Area Lyme Foundation When will we be able to purchase nootkatone? Seemed like an even more promising, safer tick repellent. nytimes.com/2020/08/10/hea…

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#Lyme microbes become stealthy. They don't just stay in your bloodstream. They expand to other places making it challenging to diagnose and treat. Dr. Rawls wrote about these stealthy microbes here: Can All Microbes Make You Sick? ow.ly/4P1q50EItFX #LiveLearnLyme