Ticks, Lyme, Co-infections, health, community, exchange of ideas
InfectoLab was originally founded in Germany by Dr. Carsten Nicolaus, who also runs the BCA-clinic in Augsburg. It specializes in tick-borne diseases such as Lyme, and has had great success in Germany. Now, we have established InfectoLab in the U.S. as Lyme disease is on the rise, and we would like to provide comprehensive lab work for health care providers all over the country. Continue reading “An Introduction to InfectoLab with Dr. Felix Scholz”
Unfortunately for the many thousands of sufferers around the world, we don’t know a lot about the origins of Lyme disease. In fact, medical experts cannot even agree about what form the disorder takes; everyone agrees that acute Lyme is most definitely a legitimate medical disease, but when it comes to the much more elusive chronic Lyme, the medical community can’t seem to reach a consensus. Most of this has to do with the fact that the symptoms of Lyme change over time, and mutate as the bacteria become entangled more and more with the patient’s system. We do know, however, that whatever way it arrived in the U.S., Lyme is spread through ticks; these ticks have migrated across the country, spreading the disease to all states except Hawaii.