Dr. Christine Green has been treating tick-borne disease for many decades and lectures worldwide to physicians about testing and treating. 

This is a must-hear show! 

You will never hear all this science-based and nuanced information on Tick-Borne diseases in one place. Dr. Green is an internationally renowned Tick-Borne “Medical Sleuth”!

In this show, you will learn:

  • What is Tick-Borne disease?
  • Where is it and why is it traveling?
  • How to avoid it?
  • Why all the mystery around diagnosing it?
  • What is Lyme?
  • What are co-infections?
  • What are effective tools to address this illness?
  • Which antibiotics and which herbs work for which conditions.
  • What does POTS (Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome) have to do with Tick-Borne illness?
  • What pathogens must you test for in POTS that are often missed?
  • Buhner protocols and books for Lyme.
  • And much more!

Dr. Green’s Amazing Links to Help YOU!

Patient Information

Strategy 1:  Avoid Ticks

Strategy 2: Tick Encounter

An app that lets you send a picture of the tick, and you get an identification

apps.apple.com/us/app/ticktracker/id1346060330

To send the tick in for identification of Lyme, babesia, ehrlichia, and/or anaplasma:**

  1.  Local Vector control will frequently identify ticks and Lyme.  Less frequently, other tick-borne pathogens
  2. Tick report  https://www.tickreport.com /
  3. Igenex Lab  Igenex.com

**A negative report on pathogens in a tick should never change treatment or prophylaxis for a tick bite.

University of Rhode Island has an informative website that can be reached via this website.  Tick-free New Hampshire has accurate advice about avoiding ticks, killing ticks on clothing after being outside, and removing ticks.** https://tickfreenh.org/tick-borne-disease/

**  Whenever you come in from a potential exposure to ticks (right season, being near or in grass or oak chaparral) shed your clothes and place dry clothes in a hot dryer for 10 minutes or more.  

***Showers and normal washing will not kill ticks.

Strategy 3: Tick Borne Disease Patients

  • MyLymeData is a patient registry for Lyme disease and tick-borne diseases.  Alread,y several publications have been produced that can help inform how to diagnose and treat this disease. https://www.lymedisease.org/mylymedata /

HEALTH CARE PROVIDER EDUCATION CME OPPORTUNITIES

Guidelines

  • Cameron, Daniel and Johnson, LB and Maloney EL Evidence assessments and guideline recommendations in Lyme disease: the clinical management of known tick bites, erythema migraines rashes and persistent disease Expert Review of Anti-Infective Therapy September 2014, Vol. 12, No. 9 , Pages 1103-1135  
  • The report of the Tickborne disease  working group under HHS to Congress  provides information on the challenge that tick-borne disease  represents to the health and wellbeing of the American population.  This clarifies here funding sources should go. https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/tbdwg-report-to-congress-2018.pdf
  • This  website provides accredited, evidence-based CME modules on Lyme disease for a physician audience. Current topic include: epidemiology of Lyme disease, when a blacklegged tick bite is more than a bite, managing blacklegged tick bites, early Lyme disease, serology, and Lyme carditis. New modules are scheduled to be posted by the end of the year.  https://www.lymecme.info/
  • Conferences sponsored by International Lyme and Associated Disease Society (ILADS) – https://www.ilads.org

Books

Cure Unknown, Pamela Weintraub

Conquering Lyme Disease, Brian Fallon and Jennifer Sotsky

In the Crucible of Chronic Lyme Disease, Kenneth Liegner

Why Can’t I Get Better: Solving the Mystery of Lyme and Chronic Disease, Richard Horowitz