Medical Blog

Routine Lyme medicines bounce off Lyme biofilms unless you use very strong treatments, which I outlined in 2014. Our Combatting Biofilms is still number one on the topic. But doctors have full waiting rooms, insurance that takes their time, and low reimbursement—hence, fast appointments. They have no time to read many books in a year. Dominico

The problem with using phages to treat Borrelia is their variable genome, exchange of genetic material and the fact that no two Borrelia are alike in living hosts (as opposed to lab cultures). One would have to engineer an array of phages and give them all each time. Even with this, some bugs may escape.

Hundreds of articles show that doxycycline and amoxicillin/Augmentin and IV/IM Ceftriaxone do not kill persisters or biofilm forms. Ceftriaxone [Rochephin] Pulse Dosing Fails to Eradicate Biofilm-Like Microcolony B. burgdorferi Persisters And yet these Lyme are killed well by Daptomycin + Doxycycline + Cefuroxime without Pulse Dosing Feng and coauthors suggest one possibility for persistent illness in some treated Lyme patients… “… is due