SCOTLAND

Many patients in Scotland and throughout the world are being failed by current medical practice regarding Lyme Disease (also known as borreliosis) and related tick-borne co-infections. As stated in a recent editorial, Lyme disease: time for a new approach?, in the British Medical Journal, "recently, the medical community has been collectively forced out of its comfort zone on Lyme disease by increasing evidence of the complexity of this multisystem disease"... If borreliosis is caught early, patients recover with standard treatment with doxycycline. However, 10 to 20% of patients go on to develop a debilitating chronic condition called Post-Treatment Lyme Disease Syndrome. Currently, many patients are not cured by the standard treatment and are then abandoned without further help. Their quality of life is severely impaired and many such patients seek private help or self-medicate.

Primary location: United Kingdom