Lyme Disease Clinic

Lyme Disease Clinic

Lyme Disease Clinic

There is a number of Lyme disease clinics associated with many major hospitals around the country that specialize in the treatment of Lyme disease. With current CDC recommendations on detailing and reporting Lyme disease creating confusion as to how to even determine if someone has the disease.

I think it is important that the physicians who work with patients every day with the debilitating effects of the disease get a chance to do their job without the interference of the CDC or major medical institutions like Yale University that like to impose their considerable will on the medical community as a whole.

The most important factor to a Lyme disease sufferer is the speed with which he is actually diagnosed with the disease.  If a patient is diagnosed early in the progression of the disease, it can be treated and further symptoms like auto immune failure, rheumatoid arthritis and chronic fatigue syndrome can be avoided.

In 1989 the first walk in Lyme Disease Clinic was opened in Westchester County Medical Center in Connecticut. At the ribbon cutting ceremony more than fifty people showed up that day with containers of ticks that they wanted identified, while other filled out questionnaires that the medical professionals wanted filled out to gather more information about contracting the disease and all of the sufferer’s symptoms.

Only identified 15 years prior to the clinic opening, Lyme disease was estimated to have affected over 50,000 people in forty states and was named the second leading new infectious disease.

Lyme disease can be diagnosed with a ring shaped rash around the original tick bite area and can generate flu like symptoms, cardiac problems and neurological and joint problems. The clinic serves a seven county area for the Hudson Valley Hospital system and offers a 24 hour hotline with information on symptoms, treatment and where to go for treatment.