• Bouffard RP

• Herbal Medicine
• Lyme Disease

Lyme Disease is an ever-present diagnosis that is becoming more and more common in the United States.  Each year, approximatley 30,000 cases of Lyme disease are reported to the CDC by state health departments and the District of Columbia.  However, this number does not reflect every case of Lyme disease that is diagnosed in the United States every year.  Standard national surveillance is only one way that public health officials can track where a disease is occuring and with what frequency.  Recent estimates using other methods suggest that aproximately 300,00 people may get Lyme disease each year in the United States.  Its occurence was considered only limited to the geographic region of the Northeast, but current data from the CDC demonstrates that it has been detected in every state expect for Hawaii.  Current treatment protocols are limited to acute antibiotic therapies and treatment for symptoms (pain, inflammation, depression, fatigue) with minimal result.  There is an increasing pool of evidence that herbal/botanical intervention may prove to be a better treatment solution with better long-term outcomes.

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