Cytokine Syndromes That Look Like Lyme
Most Lyme disease symptoms are really symptoms of excess cytokine inflammation in the body. Any other syndrome or medical condition that causes the immune system to make too many cytokines, looks just like Lyme disease.
As I discuss in Control Cytokines to Fix Symptoms & Immune Health, cytokines made by white blood cells to fight invaders are good and bad. On the bad side, excess cytokines cause most of the symptoms found in Lyme disease. On the good side, white blood cells make cytokines when they see invaders, like bacteria, viruses, and toxins, to turn on the immune system. But in many conditions, where the invader wins the battle, the immune system makes too many cytokines.
Blocked Lyme Disease Care Regimen
By six to nine months of a full Lyme therapy regimen, if a person has had little to no improvements, then it is time to consider if another condition is causing too many cytokines, making it look like the Lyme care is not working. Below, in the video, I discuss these four conditions. It may be necessary to continue a Lyme regimen while adding steps to address these conditions.
What I mean by a “full Lyme therapy regimen” is following the first 13 steps in the Ross Lyme & Tick-borne Diseases Support Protocol. To be clear, this protocol calls for addressing Lyme, and if present the coinfections of Bartonella, Babesia, Anaplasma, and Ehrlicia. It also includes steps that help detox, support the immune system, and lower cytokines. If these steps are followed, and a person is not recovering, then it is time to look at other Lyme look-alike conditions.
Marty Ross MD Discusses Lyme Lookalikes
This video clip was recorded during Conversations with Marty Ross MD, our free weekly Lyme Q&A webinar series.
Resources
For more information, see one of the following articles.
- Yeast diagnosis: A Silent Problem. Do You Have Yeast?
- Yeast care regimen: Kills & Prevents Yeast: A Brief Guide
- Mold toxin illness diagnosis and care: Mold and Lyme Toxin Illness
- Mast Cell Activation Syndrome diagnosis and care: Mast Cell Activation Syndrome & Lyme.
- Activated chronic virus infection diagnosis and care: Chronic Viruses in Lyme: A Brief Guide.
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