Lyme Disease

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My daughter was recently diagnosed with Lyme Disease after months of not understanding what was going on with her. I just saw this new film will be available to stream this week and think it could be a great resource for parents. I don't think there is enough awareness and conversation about Lyme considering there are more cases than breast cancer and HIV combined, and children under age 16 are most affected.

Here's a link: https://www.thequietepidemic.com/

Very sorry to hear this, I hope she manages to shake it off completely. My neighbour had it probably about 25 years ago- wasn't diagnosed until she went to see a consultant because of pains in her joints and he suggested testing for it. She was cured. Another friend up the road has chronic Lyme disease and I know of several other people who have had it detected at the rash stage.

The ticks are very common here (Dorset). Most days between March and October I pick up one or two whenever I go out in my garden (we live out of town) - one day last year I had 8 of the little blighters on me. When the kids were little I had to inspect them every evening at bath time. I've been lucky so far - make me livid that there isn't a human vaccine yet, one was abandoned years ago due to lack of funding, and now there's another tick bourne disease coming into the country.