LYME DISEASE, TRANSPLACENTAL TRANSMISSION AND FETAL DAMAGE. !!
ENFERMEDAD DE LYME, TRANSMISION TRANSPLACENTARIA Y DAÑO FETAL. !!
ENGLISH EDITORIAL:
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Hello friends of the network DERMAGIC EXPRESS brings you today another topic than what I have called the "SAGA" on the LYME DISEASE, in this case the controversial issue of TRANSPLACENTAL TRANSMISSION AND FETAL DAMAGE AND DEATH in pregnant women and infected with the feared BORRELIA BURGDORFERI.
I have found numerous references; most claims that the BORRELIA in pregnant women with LYME DISEASE traverses the placenta and reaches the fetus can cause multi organic damage, including the death of the same, intrauterine or a few hours or days after birth. Other authors say that this is false.
The CDC (Center of Control of Infectious Diseases) affirms that if the pregnant woman with LYME does her treatment, the child will be born healthy and recommends the use of the antibiotic AMOXICILLIN, because DOXYCYCLINE can cause damage to the developing fetus. The question here is what would happen if the BORRELIA species is resistant to AMOXICILLIN? Or the antibiotic to which BORRELIA is sensitive cannot be indicated because it would harm the fetus?
BORRELIA BURGDORFERI was discovered in 1,982 by the aforementioned Willy Burggdorfer, the causal agent of the ERYTHEMA MIGRANS or LYME DISEASE, and only 1 years later in 1.983 the first study was described where it is suspected that this ESPIROCHETE can cross the placenta and infect the fetus, study published by Shirts SR, Brown MS, and Bobitt JR. under the name of "Listeriosis and borreliosis as causes of antepartum fever". (8)
Later in the year 1,985 Schlesinger PA, Duray PH, Burke BA, Steere AC, Stillman MT. They publish a paper called "Maternal-fetal transmission of the spirochete of Lyme disease, Borrelia burgdorferi" where they report a case of a woman who developed LYME DISEASE and did not receive treatment with antibiotics. The child was born at 35 weeks of pregnancy and died of congenital heart disease the first week of life. The autopsy revealed the LYME ESPIROCHETE in the SPLEEN, KIDNEYS AND BONE MARROW. (2)
Later the same WILLY BURGDORFER the discoverer and "father" of the ESPIROCHETE BORRELIA, who along with Dr. Alan Mc Donald and Jorge Benach PhD, published in the year 1.987 (31 years ago) a work they called "stillbirth following maternal LYME DISEASE." and I quote from the conclusions of these scientists: (24.)
"... Two cases of transplacental transmission of the BORRELIA BURGDORFERI were found associated with fetal death and congenital malformations, different anomalies were detected in each case ..."
"... We recommend that pathologists study the tissues of stillborn fetuses in search of BORRELIA BURGDORFERI especially those with cardiac anomalies, and clinical doctors investigate the exposure during the first trimester of pregnancy to BORRELIA BURGDORFERI and in these cases determine if cardiac organogenesis is complete by the end of the first trimester of pregnancy”
"... We believe that there is enough evidence to alert women living in endemic areas of LYME DISEASE and doctors to recognize the early signs and symptoms of the disease and to start treatment with PENICILLIN at the same dose of SYPHILIS as used in pregnant women in the first trimester, regardless of the results of the laboratory tests ... "
Another study that is worth noting is the one made by the MEDLINE database updated for the year of July 2012, the last revision of November 2012 of 88 journal articles from the PUBMED database, which I summarize as follows:
Maternal-Fetal Transmission of Lyme Disease (RESULTS:
1.) Mothers with active Lyme Disease,Treated: 14.6% of the pregnancies with sequelae,
2.) Untreated: 66.7% of the pregnancies with sequelae,
3.) Unknown as to treatment: 30.3% with sequelae.
4.) Specific adverse outcomes included: cardiac 22.7%, neurologic 15.2%, orthopedic 12.1%, ophthalmic 4.5%, genitourinary 10.6%, miscellaneous anomalies 12.1%, 2nd trimester demise 12.1%. Highest rate of adverse outcome (72.7%) in women with infection acquired prior to or during first trimester.)
Now I will put a summary of the most frequent clinical manifestations described in the studies of children born to mothers with LYME disease, LYME positive
COMMON SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS IN LYME POSITIVE CHILDREN:
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1.) LOW GRADE FEVER: 59% -60%
2.) FATIGUE AND LACK OF RESISTANCE: 72%
3.) NOCTURNAL SWEATING: 23%
4.) PALE, DARK CIRCLE UNDER THE EYES: 42%
5.) ABDOMINAL PAIN: 20-29%
6.) DIARRHEA OR CONSTIPATION: 32%
7.) NAUSEA: 23%
8.) CARDIAC ANOMALIES: 23%: PALPITATIONS, (PVC) HERAT MURMUR, MITRAL VALVLE PROLAPSE
9.) ORTHOPEDIC DISORDERS: SENSITIVITY (55%), PAIN (69%) SPASMS AND GENERALIZED MUSCLE PAIN (69%), RIGIDITY AND / OR DELAY OF MOVEMENTS (23%).
10.) RESPIRATORY INFECTIONS OF THE SUPERIOR TRACT AND OTITIS: 40%
11.) ARTHRITIC DISORDERS AND PAINFUL JOINTS: 6% -50-%
12.) NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS:
A- HEADACHES: 50%
B-) IRRITABILITY: 54%.
C-) BAD MEMORY: 39%
13.) DELAY IN DEVELOPMENT: 18%
14.) SEIZURE DISORDERS: 11%
15.) VERTIGO: 30%
16.) TIC DISORDERS: 14%
17.) INVOLUNTARY ATETOID MOVEMENTS: 9%.
18.) LEARNING DISORDERS AND HUMOR CHANGES: 80%
A-) COGNITIVE SPEAKING: 27%
B-) SPEACH DELAY: 21%
C-) READING-WRITING PROBLEMS: 19%
D.) PROBLEMS OF VOCAL ARTICULATION: 17%.
E-) PROBLEMS OF AUDITIVES / VISUAL PROCESSING: 13%
F-) WORD SELECTION PROBLEMS: 12%
G-) DYSLEXIA: 8%
19.) SUICIDAL THOUGHTS: 7%
20.) ANXIETY: 21%
21.) ANGER OR RAGE: 23%
22.) AGGRESSION OR VIOLENCE: 13%
23.) IRRITABILITY: 54% -80%
24.) EMOTIONAL DISORDERS: 13%
25.) DEPRESSION: 13%
26.) HYPERACTIVITY: 36%
27.) PHOTOPHOBIA: 40-43%
28.) GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX WITH VOMIT AND COUGH: 40%
29.) SECONDARY ERUPTIONS: 23%
30.) OTHER ERUPTIONS: 45%
31.) CAVERNOUS HAEMANGIOMA: 30%
32.) OULAR PROBLEMS: POSTERIOR CATARACTS, MYOPIA, STIGMATISM, CONJUNCTIVE ERYTHEMA (LYME EYES), OPTICAL NERVE ATROPHY AND / OR UVEITIS: 30%
44.) FATIGUE AND LACK OF RESISTANCE: 72%
45.) SENSITIVITY OF SKIN AND NOISE (HYPERACUITY): 36-40%
46.) AUTISM.
There are numerous studies showing a clear EVIDENCE that the BORRELIA BURGDORGFERI in pregnant women is able to cross the placenta and infect the fetus. I could get tired here of giving you the description of each of them. But I will give you ALL the BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES that I found from the year 1.983 until the year 2.017, first the ones I found and then a chronology of ALL of them.
I close this issue which is HIGHLY DISCUSSED TODAY, with a post by Angélica Johansson, a great fighter against THIS PLAGUE that I found in my LINKEDIN network about the future of the planet and the LYME DISEASE ... I quote:
"..."1 million people are predicted to get infected with Lyme disease in the USA in 2018. Given the same incidence rate of Lyme disease in Europe as in the USA, then 2.4 million people will get infected with Lyme disease in Europe in 2018. In the USA by 2050, 55.7 million people (12% of the population) will have been infected with Lyme disease. In Europe by 2050, 134.9 million people (17% of the population) will have been infected with Lyme disease. Most of these infections will, unfortunately, become chronic.
The estimated treatment cost for acute and chronic Lyme disease for 2018 for the USA is somewhere between 4.8 billion USD and 9.6 billion USD and for Europe somewhere between 10.1 billion EUR and 20.1 billion EUR. If governments do not finance IV treatment with antibiotics for chronic Lyme disease, then the estimated government cost for chronic Lyme disease for 2018 for the USA is 10.1 billion USD and in Europe 20.1 billion EUR.
If governments in the USA and Europe want to minimize future costs and maximize future revenues, then they should pay for IV antibiotic treatment up to a year even if the estimated cure rate is as low as 25%. The cost for governments of having chronic Lyme patients sick in perpetuity is very large...."
But what you see every day is a fight between IDSA and ILADS, CDC and others on the subject of whether it is a simple tick bite and you take an antibiotic and you cure or that it is a disease of difficult diagnosis and high cost of treatment. Between believers and non-believers to summarize. The truth is that it is spreading all over the world in leaps and bounds.
And if you have doubts that this ESPIROCHETE may or may not harm the fetus of pregnant women, cause birth defects, and many other consequences including, stillborn babies, read this "MOUNTAIN" of references that I leave here.
CONCLUSION: BORRELIA BURGDORFERI, not only transmitted by the tick bite, is TRANSMITTED by sexual contact, fluids and can also colonize the fetus of pregnant women if there is no effective treatment able to eradicate it during the same. And it is not exclusive to the Northern Hemisphere. The BORRELIA is also in the Southern Hemisphere.
Greetings to all.
Dr. José Lapenta.
EDITORIAL ESPAÑOL:
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Hola amigos de la red DERMAGIC EXPRESS te trae hoy otro tema más de lo que he llamado la "SAGA" sobre la ENFERMEDAD DE LYME, en este caso el controversial tema de la TRANSMISION TRANSPLACENTARIA, DAÑO FETAL Y MUERTE en las mujeres embarazadas e infectadas con la temida BORRELIA BURGDORFERI.
He encontrado numerosas referencias, la MAYORIA afirman que la BORRELIA en las mujeres embarazadas con ENFERMEDAD DE LYME atraviesa la placenta y llega al feto pudiendo causar daño multi orgánico, inclusive la muerte del mismo, intrauterino o pocas horas o días luego de nacido. Otros autores dicen que esto es falso.
El CDC (Centro de Control de Enfermedades Infecciosas) afirma que si la mujer embarazada con LYME si hace su tratamiento, él niño nacerá sano y recomienda para ello el uso del antibiótico AMOXICILINA, porque la DOXICICLINA puede ocasionar daño al feto en desarrollo. La pregunta aquí es que pasaría si la especie de BORRELIA es resistente a AMOXIXILINA? o el antibiótico a la cual es sensible la BORRELIA no se le puede indicar porque dañaría al feto?
La BORRELIA BURGDORFERI fue descubierta en 1.982 por el ya mencionado Willy Burggdorfer, agente causal del ERITEMA MIGRANS O ENFERMEDAD DE LYME, y apenas 1 año después en 1.983 se describe el primer estudio donde se sospecha que esta ESPIROQUETA puede atravesar la placenta e infectar al feto estudio publicado por Shirts SR, Brown MS, y Bobitt JR. bajo el nombre de "Listeriosis y borreliosis como causas de fiebre anteparto". (8)
Posteriormente en el año 1.985 Schlesinger PA, Duray PH, Burke BA, Steere AC, Stillman MT. Publican un trabajo denominado "Transmisión materno-fetal de la espiroqueta de la enfermedad de Lyme, Borrelia burgdorferi" donde reportan un caso de una mujer que desarrollo la ENFERMEDAD DE LYME y no recibió tratamiento con antibióticos. El niño nació a las 35 semanas de embarazo y murió de enfermedad congénita del corazón la primera semana de vida. La autopsia revelo la ESPIROQUETA de LYME en el BAZO, RIÑONES Y MEDULA OSEA. (2)
Posteriormente el mismo WILLY BURGDORFER el descubridor y "padre" de la ESPIROQUETA BORRELIA, quien en junto con el Dr. Alan Mc Donald y Jorge Benach PhD, publican en él año 1.987 (hace 31 años) un trabajo que denominaron" niños nacidos muertos asociados a LYME DISEASE en embarazadas." y cito textualmente parte de las conclusiones de estos científicos: (24.)
".... A dos casos de transmisión transplacentaria de la BORRELIA BURGDORFERI se les encontró asociación con muerte fetal y malformaciones congénitas, diferentes anomalías fueron detectadas en cada caso..."
"... Recomendamos a los patólogos estudiar los tejidos de los fetos nacidos muertos en busca de BORRELIA BURGDORFERI sobre todo aquellos con anomalías cardiacas. Y los médicos clínicos investigar la exposición durante el primer trimestre del embarazo a la BORRELIA BURGDORFERI y en esto casos determinar si la organogénesis cardiaca esta completa el final del primer trimestre del embarazo"
"...Nosotros creemos que existen suficientes evidencias para alertar a las mujeres que viven en aéreas endémicas DE ENFERMEDAD DE LYME y a los médicos reconocer los signos y síntomas tempranos de la enfermedad e instaurar tratamiento con PENICILINA a la misma dosis de la SIFILIS que se usa en las embarazadas en el primer trimestre, independientemente del resultado que muestren los exámenes de laboratorio..."
Otro de los estudios que vale la pena destacar es el realizado por la base de datos MEDLINE actualizado para él año Julio 2.012, última revisión Noviembre 2.012 de 88 artículos de revistas de la base de datos PUBMED, el cual resumo así"
Transmisión materno-fetal de la enfermedad de Lyme (RESULTADOS:
1.) Madres con enfermedad de Lyme activa, tratada: 14.6% de los embarazos con secuelas,
2.) No tratada: 66.7% de los embarazos con secuelas,
3.) Desconocida en cuanto al tratamiento: 30.3% con secuelas.
4.) Resultados adversos específicos incluidos: cardíaco 22.7%, neurológico 15.2%, ortopédico 12.1%, oftalmológico 4.5%, genitourinario 10.6%, anomalías misceláneas 12.1%, desaparición del segundo trimestre 12.1%. Tasa más alta de resultado
Ahora te colocare un resumen de las manifestaciones clínicas mas frecuentes descritas en los estudios de niños con nacidos de madres con enfermedad de LYME, LYME positivos
SIGNOS Y SINTOMAS MAS COMUNES EN NIÑOS LYME POSITIVOS:
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1.) FIEBRE DE BAJO GRADO: 59%-60%
2.) FATIGA Y FALTA DE RESISTENCIA: 72%
3.) SUDOR NOCTURNAL: 23%
4.) PALIDEZ, OJERAS: 42%
5.) DOLOR ABDOMINAL: 20-29%
6.) DIARREA O ESTREÑIMIENTO: 32%
7.) NAUSEAS: 23%
8.) ANOMALIAS CARDIACAS: 23%: PALPITACIONES, (PVC) SOPLO CARDICACO, PROLAPSO DE VALVULA MITRAL.
9.) TRASTORNOS ORTOPEDICOS: SENSIBILIDAD (55%), DOLOR (69%) ESPASMOS Y DOLORES MUSCULARES GENERALIZADOS (69%), RIGIDEZ Y /O RETRASO DE MOVIMIENTOS (23%).
10.) INFECCIONES RESPIRATORIAS DEL TRACTO SUPERIOR Y OTITIS: 40%
11.) TRASTORNOS ARTRITICOS Y ARTICULACIONES DOLOROSAS: 6%-50-%
12.) TRASTORNOS NEUROLOGICOS:
A- DOLORES DE CABEZA: 50%
B-) IRRITABILIDAD: 54%.
C-) MALA MEMORIA: 39%
13.) RETRASO EN EL DESARROLLO: 18%
14.) TRASTONOS CONVULSIVOS: 11%
15.) VERTIGO: 30%
16.) TIC NERVIOSO: 14%
17.) MOVIMIENTOS ATETOIDES INVOLUNTARIOS: 9%.
18.) TRASTORNOS DEL APRENDIZAJE Y CAMBIOS DE HUMOR: 80%
A-) HABLA COGNITIVA: 27%
B-) RETRASO: 21%
C-) PROBLEMAS DE LECTURA-ESCRITURA: 19%
D.) PROBLEMAS DE ARTICULACION VOCAL: 17%.
E-) PROBLEMAS DE PROCESAMIENTO AUDITIVO / VISUAL: 13%
F-) PROBLEMAS DE SELECCION DE PALABRAS: 12%
G-) DISLEXIA: 8%
19.) PENSAMIENTOS SUICIDAS: 7%
20.) ANSIEDAD: 21%
21.) IRA: 23%
22.) AGRESION O VIOLENCIA: 13%
23.) IRRITABILIDAD: 54%-80%
24.) LABILIDAD EMOCIONAL: 13%
25.) DEPRESION: 13%
26.) HIPERACTIVIDAD: 36%
27.) FOTOFOBIA: 40-43%
28.) REFLUJO GASTROESOFAGICO CON VOMITO Y TOS: 40%
29.) ERUPCIONES SECUNDARIAS: 23%
30.) OTRAS ERUPCIONES: 45%
31.) HEMANGIOMA CAVERNOSO 30%
32.) PROBLEMAS COULARES: CATARATAS POSTERIORES, MIOPIA, STIGMATISMO, ERITEMA CONJUNTIVAL (OJOS DE LYME), ATROFIA DEL NERVIO OPTICO Y / O UVEITIS: 30%
44.) FATIGA Y FALTA DE RESISTENCIA: 72%
45.) SENSIBILIDAD DE LA PIEL Y AL RUIDO: 40%
46.) AUTISMO.
Existen numerosos estudios donde se muestra una clara EVIDENCIA que la BORRELIA BURGDORGFERI en las embarazadas es capaz de atravesar la placenta e infectar al feto. Me podría cansar aquí de ponerte la descripción de cada uno de ellos. Pero te pondré TODAS LAS REFERENCIAS BIBLIOGRAFICAS que encontré desde el año 1.983 hasta el año 2.017, primero las que yo encontré y luego una cronología de TODAS ellas.
Cierro este tema el cual es ALTAMENTE DISCUTIDO HOY DIA, con un post de Angélica Johansson gran luchadora contra ESTA PLAGA que encontré en mi red de LINKEDIN sobre el futuro del planeta y la ENFERMEDAD DE LYME....Cito textualmente:
"... Se predice que 1 millón de personas se infectarán con la enfermedad de Lyme en los EE. UU. En 2018. Dada la misma tasa de incidencia de la enfermedad de Lyme en Europa que en los EE. UU., En 2018, 2.4 millones de personas se contagiarán con la enfermedad de Lyme en EE. UU. Para 2050, 55.7 millones de personas (12% de la población) habrán sido infectadas con la enfermedad de Lyme. En Europa para 2050, 134.9 millones de personas (17% de la población) habrán sido infectadas con la enfermedad de Lyme. La mayoría de estas infecciones, desafortunadamente, se volverán crónicas.
El costo estimado del tratamiento para la enfermedad de Lyme aguda y crónica para 2018 en los EE. UU. Se encuentra entre 4.800 millones de dólares y 9.600 millones de dólares, y para Europa en algún lugar entre 10.100 millones de euros y 20.100 millones de euros. Si los gobiernos no financian el tratamiento IV con antibióticos para la enfermedad de Lyme crónica, entonces el costo gubernamental estimado para la enfermedad de Lyme crónica para 2018 en los Estados Unidos es de 10,1 mil millones de dólares estadounidenses y en Europa de 20,1 mil millones de euros.
Si los gobiernos de los EE. UU. Y Europa quieren minimizar los costos futuros y maximizar los ingresos futuros, entonces deben pagar el tratamiento antibiótico IV hasta un año, incluso si la tasa de curación estimada es tan baja como del 25%. El costo para los gobiernos de tener enfermos crónicos de Lyme a perpetuidad es muy grande "...
Pero lo que tú ves a diario es una pelea entre IDSA E ILADS, CDC y otros sobre el tema de que si es una simple picadura de garrapata y te tomas un antibiótico y te curas o que es una enfermedad de difícil diagnostico y alto costo de tratamiento. Entre creedores y no creedores para resumir. Lo cierto es que se está diseminando por todo el mundo a pasos agigantados.
Y si tienes dudas de que esta ESPIROQUETA puede o no dañar el feto de las mujeres embarazadas, causar defectos congénitos, y muchas otras secuelas inclusive, niños nacidos muertos, Léete esta "MONTAÑA" de referencias que aquí te dejo.
CONCLUSION: LA BORRELIA BURGDORFERI, no solo se transmite por la picadura de la garrapata, SE TRANSMITE por contacto sexual, fluidos y además de ello puede colonizar el feto de las mujeres embarazadas si no hay un efectivo tratamiento capaza de erradicarla durante el mismo. Y no es exclusiva del hemisferio Norte. La BORRELIA también está en el hemisferio Sur.
Saludos a todos.
Dr. José Lapenta.
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Compiled Dec 6, 2017 – by JC and Sue Faber RN www.lymehope.ca
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Hello friends of the network DERMAGIC EXPRESS brings you today another topic than what I have called the "SAGA" on the LYME DISEASE, in this case the controversial issue of TRANSPLACENTAL TRANSMISSION AND FETAL DAMAGE AND DEATH in pregnant women and infected with the feared BORRELIA BURGDORFERI.
I have found numerous references; most claims that the BORRELIA in pregnant women with LYME DISEASE traverses the placenta and reaches the fetus can cause multi organic damage, including the death of the same, intrauterine or a few hours or days after birth. Other authors say that this is false.
The CDC (Center of Control of Infectious Diseases) affirms that if the pregnant woman with LYME does her treatment, the child will be born healthy and recommends the use of the antibiotic AMOXICILLIN, because DOXYCYCLINE can cause damage to the developing fetus. The question here is what would happen if the BORRELIA species is resistant to AMOXICILLIN? Or the antibiotic to which BORRELIA is sensitive cannot be indicated because it would harm the fetus?
BORRELIA BURGDORFERI was discovered in 1,982 by the aforementioned Willy Burggdorfer, the causal agent of the ERYTHEMA MIGRANS or LYME DISEASE, and only 1 years later in 1.983 the first study was described where it is suspected that this ESPIROCHETE can cross the placenta and infect the fetus, study published by Shirts SR, Brown MS, and Bobitt JR. under the name of "Listeriosis and borreliosis as causes of antepartum fever". (8)
Later in the year 1,985 Schlesinger PA, Duray PH, Burke BA, Steere AC, Stillman MT. They publish a paper called "Maternal-fetal transmission of the spirochete of Lyme disease, Borrelia burgdorferi" where they report a case of a woman who developed LYME DISEASE and did not receive treatment with antibiotics. The child was born at 35 weeks of pregnancy and died of congenital heart disease the first week of life. The autopsy revealed the LYME ESPIROCHETE in the SPLEEN, KIDNEYS AND BONE MARROW. (2)
Later the same WILLY BURGDORFER the discoverer and "father" of the ESPIROCHETE BORRELIA, who along with Dr. Alan Mc Donald and Jorge Benach PhD, published in the year 1.987 (31 years ago) a work they called "stillbirth following maternal LYME DISEASE." and I quote from the conclusions of these scientists: (24.)
"... Two cases of transplacental transmission of the BORRELIA BURGDORFERI were found associated with fetal death and congenital malformations, different anomalies were detected in each case ..."
"... We recommend that pathologists study the tissues of stillborn fetuses in search of BORRELIA BURGDORFERI especially those with cardiac anomalies, and clinical doctors investigate the exposure during the first trimester of pregnancy to BORRELIA BURGDORFERI and in these cases determine if cardiac organogenesis is complete by the end of the first trimester of pregnancy”
"... We believe that there is enough evidence to alert women living in endemic areas of LYME DISEASE and doctors to recognize the early signs and symptoms of the disease and to start treatment with PENICILLIN at the same dose of SYPHILIS as used in pregnant women in the first trimester, regardless of the results of the laboratory tests ... "
Another study that is worth noting is the one made by the MEDLINE database updated for the year of July 2012, the last revision of November 2012 of 88 journal articles from the PUBMED database, which I summarize as follows:
Maternal-Fetal Transmission of Lyme Disease (RESULTS:
1.) Mothers with active Lyme Disease,Treated: 14.6% of the pregnancies with sequelae,
2.) Untreated: 66.7% of the pregnancies with sequelae,
3.) Unknown as to treatment: 30.3% with sequelae.
4.) Specific adverse outcomes included: cardiac 22.7%, neurologic 15.2%, orthopedic 12.1%, ophthalmic 4.5%, genitourinary 10.6%, miscellaneous anomalies 12.1%, 2nd trimester demise 12.1%. Highest rate of adverse outcome (72.7%) in women with infection acquired prior to or during first trimester.)
Now I will put a summary of the most frequent clinical manifestations described in the studies of children born to mothers with LYME disease, LYME positive
COMMON SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS IN LYME POSITIVE CHILDREN:
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1.) LOW GRADE FEVER: 59% -60%
2.) FATIGUE AND LACK OF RESISTANCE: 72%
3.) NOCTURNAL SWEATING: 23%
4.) PALE, DARK CIRCLE UNDER THE EYES: 42%
5.) ABDOMINAL PAIN: 20-29%
6.) DIARRHEA OR CONSTIPATION: 32%
7.) NAUSEA: 23%
8.) CARDIAC ANOMALIES: 23%: PALPITATIONS, (PVC) HERAT MURMUR, MITRAL VALVLE PROLAPSE
9.) ORTHOPEDIC DISORDERS: SENSITIVITY (55%), PAIN (69%) SPASMS AND GENERALIZED MUSCLE PAIN (69%), RIGIDITY AND / OR DELAY OF MOVEMENTS (23%).
10.) RESPIRATORY INFECTIONS OF THE SUPERIOR TRACT AND OTITIS: 40%
11.) ARTHRITIC DISORDERS AND PAINFUL JOINTS: 6% -50-%
12.) NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS:
A- HEADACHES: 50%
B-) IRRITABILITY: 54%.
C-) BAD MEMORY: 39%
13.) DELAY IN DEVELOPMENT: 18%
14.) SEIZURE DISORDERS: 11%
15.) VERTIGO: 30%
16.) TIC DISORDERS: 14%
17.) INVOLUNTARY ATETOID MOVEMENTS: 9%.
18.) LEARNING DISORDERS AND HUMOR CHANGES: 80%
A-) COGNITIVE SPEAKING: 27%
B-) SPEACH DELAY: 21%
C-) READING-WRITING PROBLEMS: 19%
D.) PROBLEMS OF VOCAL ARTICULATION: 17%.
E-) PROBLEMS OF AUDITIVES / VISUAL PROCESSING: 13%
F-) WORD SELECTION PROBLEMS: 12%
G-) DYSLEXIA: 8%
19.) SUICIDAL THOUGHTS: 7%
20.) ANXIETY: 21%
21.) ANGER OR RAGE: 23%
22.) AGGRESSION OR VIOLENCE: 13%
23.) IRRITABILITY: 54% -80%
24.) EMOTIONAL DISORDERS: 13%
25.) DEPRESSION: 13%
26.) HYPERACTIVITY: 36%
27.) PHOTOPHOBIA: 40-43%
28.) GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX WITH VOMIT AND COUGH: 40%
29.) SECONDARY ERUPTIONS: 23%
30.) OTHER ERUPTIONS: 45%
31.) CAVERNOUS HAEMANGIOMA: 30%
32.) OULAR PROBLEMS: POSTERIOR CATARACTS, MYOPIA, STIGMATISM, CONJUNCTIVE ERYTHEMA (LYME EYES), OPTICAL NERVE ATROPHY AND / OR UVEITIS: 30%
44.) FATIGUE AND LACK OF RESISTANCE: 72%
45.) SENSITIVITY OF SKIN AND NOISE (HYPERACUITY): 36-40%
46.) AUTISM.
There are numerous studies showing a clear EVIDENCE that the BORRELIA BURGDORGFERI in pregnant women is able to cross the placenta and infect the fetus. I could get tired here of giving you the description of each of them. But I will give you ALL the BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES that I found from the year 1.983 until the year 2.017, first the ones I found and then a chronology of ALL of them.
I close this issue which is HIGHLY DISCUSSED TODAY, with a post by Angélica Johansson, a great fighter against THIS PLAGUE that I found in my LINKEDIN network about the future of the planet and the LYME DISEASE ... I quote:
"..."1 million people are predicted to get infected with Lyme disease in the USA in 2018. Given the same incidence rate of Lyme disease in Europe as in the USA, then 2.4 million people will get infected with Lyme disease in Europe in 2018. In the USA by 2050, 55.7 million people (12% of the population) will have been infected with Lyme disease. In Europe by 2050, 134.9 million people (17% of the population) will have been infected with Lyme disease. Most of these infections will, unfortunately, become chronic.
The estimated treatment cost for acute and chronic Lyme disease for 2018 for the USA is somewhere between 4.8 billion USD and 9.6 billion USD and for Europe somewhere between 10.1 billion EUR and 20.1 billion EUR. If governments do not finance IV treatment with antibiotics for chronic Lyme disease, then the estimated government cost for chronic Lyme disease for 2018 for the USA is 10.1 billion USD and in Europe 20.1 billion EUR.
If governments in the USA and Europe want to minimize future costs and maximize future revenues, then they should pay for IV antibiotic treatment up to a year even if the estimated cure rate is as low as 25%. The cost for governments of having chronic Lyme patients sick in perpetuity is very large...."
But what you see every day is a fight between IDSA and ILADS, CDC and others on the subject of whether it is a simple tick bite and you take an antibiotic and you cure or that it is a disease of difficult diagnosis and high cost of treatment. Between believers and non-believers to summarize. The truth is that it is spreading all over the world in leaps and bounds.
And if you have doubts that this ESPIROCHETE may or may not harm the fetus of pregnant women, cause birth defects, and many other consequences including, stillborn babies, read this "MOUNTAIN" of references that I leave here.
CONCLUSION: BORRELIA BURGDORFERI, not only transmitted by the tick bite, is TRANSMITTED by sexual contact, fluids and can also colonize the fetus of pregnant women if there is no effective treatment able to eradicate it during the same. And it is not exclusive to the Northern Hemisphere. The BORRELIA is also in the Southern Hemisphere.
Greetings to all.
Dr. José Lapenta.
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Hola amigos de la red DERMAGIC EXPRESS te trae hoy otro tema más de lo que he llamado la "SAGA" sobre la ENFERMEDAD DE LYME, en este caso el controversial tema de la TRANSMISION TRANSPLACENTARIA, DAÑO FETAL Y MUERTE en las mujeres embarazadas e infectadas con la temida BORRELIA BURGDORFERI.
He encontrado numerosas referencias, la MAYORIA afirman que la BORRELIA en las mujeres embarazadas con ENFERMEDAD DE LYME atraviesa la placenta y llega al feto pudiendo causar daño multi orgánico, inclusive la muerte del mismo, intrauterino o pocas horas o días luego de nacido. Otros autores dicen que esto es falso.
El CDC (Centro de Control de Enfermedades Infecciosas) afirma que si la mujer embarazada con LYME si hace su tratamiento, él niño nacerá sano y recomienda para ello el uso del antibiótico AMOXICILINA, porque la DOXICICLINA puede ocasionar daño al feto en desarrollo. La pregunta aquí es que pasaría si la especie de BORRELIA es resistente a AMOXIXILINA? o el antibiótico a la cual es sensible la BORRELIA no se le puede indicar porque dañaría al feto?
La BORRELIA BURGDORFERI fue descubierta en 1.982 por el ya mencionado Willy Burggdorfer, agente causal del ERITEMA MIGRANS O ENFERMEDAD DE LYME, y apenas 1 año después en 1.983 se describe el primer estudio donde se sospecha que esta ESPIROQUETA puede atravesar la placenta e infectar al feto estudio publicado por Shirts SR, Brown MS, y Bobitt JR. bajo el nombre de "Listeriosis y borreliosis como causas de fiebre anteparto". (8)
Posteriormente en el año 1.985 Schlesinger PA, Duray PH, Burke BA, Steere AC, Stillman MT. Publican un trabajo denominado "Transmisión materno-fetal de la espiroqueta de la enfermedad de Lyme, Borrelia burgdorferi" donde reportan un caso de una mujer que desarrollo la ENFERMEDAD DE LYME y no recibió tratamiento con antibióticos. El niño nació a las 35 semanas de embarazo y murió de enfermedad congénita del corazón la primera semana de vida. La autopsia revelo la ESPIROQUETA de LYME en el BAZO, RIÑONES Y MEDULA OSEA. (2)
Posteriormente el mismo WILLY BURGDORFER el descubridor y "padre" de la ESPIROQUETA BORRELIA, quien en junto con el Dr. Alan Mc Donald y Jorge Benach PhD, publican en él año 1.987 (hace 31 años) un trabajo que denominaron" niños nacidos muertos asociados a LYME DISEASE en embarazadas." y cito textualmente parte de las conclusiones de estos científicos: (24.)
".... A dos casos de transmisión transplacentaria de la BORRELIA BURGDORFERI se les encontró asociación con muerte fetal y malformaciones congénitas, diferentes anomalías fueron detectadas en cada caso..."
"... Recomendamos a los patólogos estudiar los tejidos de los fetos nacidos muertos en busca de BORRELIA BURGDORFERI sobre todo aquellos con anomalías cardiacas. Y los médicos clínicos investigar la exposición durante el primer trimestre del embarazo a la BORRELIA BURGDORFERI y en esto casos determinar si la organogénesis cardiaca esta completa el final del primer trimestre del embarazo"
"...Nosotros creemos que existen suficientes evidencias para alertar a las mujeres que viven en aéreas endémicas DE ENFERMEDAD DE LYME y a los médicos reconocer los signos y síntomas tempranos de la enfermedad e instaurar tratamiento con PENICILINA a la misma dosis de la SIFILIS que se usa en las embarazadas en el primer trimestre, independientemente del resultado que muestren los exámenes de laboratorio..."
Otro de los estudios que vale la pena destacar es el realizado por la base de datos MEDLINE actualizado para él año Julio 2.012, última revisión Noviembre 2.012 de 88 artículos de revistas de la base de datos PUBMED, el cual resumo así"
Transmisión materno-fetal de la enfermedad de Lyme (RESULTADOS:
1.) Madres con enfermedad de Lyme activa, tratada: 14.6% de los embarazos con secuelas,
2.) No tratada: 66.7% de los embarazos con secuelas,
3.) Desconocida en cuanto al tratamiento: 30.3% con secuelas.
4.) Resultados adversos específicos incluidos: cardíaco 22.7%, neurológico 15.2%, ortopédico 12.1%, oftalmológico 4.5%, genitourinario 10.6%, anomalías misceláneas 12.1%, desaparición del segundo trimestre 12.1%. Tasa más alta de resultado
Ahora te colocare un resumen de las manifestaciones clínicas mas frecuentes descritas en los estudios de niños con nacidos de madres con enfermedad de LYME, LYME positivos
SIGNOS Y SINTOMAS MAS COMUNES EN NIÑOS LYME POSITIVOS:
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1.) FIEBRE DE BAJO GRADO: 59%-60%
2.) FATIGA Y FALTA DE RESISTENCIA: 72%
3.) SUDOR NOCTURNAL: 23%
4.) PALIDEZ, OJERAS: 42%
5.) DOLOR ABDOMINAL: 20-29%
6.) DIARREA O ESTREÑIMIENTO: 32%
7.) NAUSEAS: 23%
8.) ANOMALIAS CARDIACAS: 23%: PALPITACIONES, (PVC) SOPLO CARDICACO, PROLAPSO DE VALVULA MITRAL.
9.) TRASTORNOS ORTOPEDICOS: SENSIBILIDAD (55%), DOLOR (69%) ESPASMOS Y DOLORES MUSCULARES GENERALIZADOS (69%), RIGIDEZ Y /O RETRASO DE MOVIMIENTOS (23%).
10.) INFECCIONES RESPIRATORIAS DEL TRACTO SUPERIOR Y OTITIS: 40%
11.) TRASTORNOS ARTRITICOS Y ARTICULACIONES DOLOROSAS: 6%-50-%
12.) TRASTORNOS NEUROLOGICOS:
A- DOLORES DE CABEZA: 50%
B-) IRRITABILIDAD: 54%.
C-) MALA MEMORIA: 39%
13.) RETRASO EN EL DESARROLLO: 18%
14.) TRASTONOS CONVULSIVOS: 11%
15.) VERTIGO: 30%
16.) TIC NERVIOSO: 14%
17.) MOVIMIENTOS ATETOIDES INVOLUNTARIOS: 9%.
18.) TRASTORNOS DEL APRENDIZAJE Y CAMBIOS DE HUMOR: 80%
A-) HABLA COGNITIVA: 27%
B-) RETRASO: 21%
C-) PROBLEMAS DE LECTURA-ESCRITURA: 19%
D.) PROBLEMAS DE ARTICULACION VOCAL: 17%.
E-) PROBLEMAS DE PROCESAMIENTO AUDITIVO / VISUAL: 13%
F-) PROBLEMAS DE SELECCION DE PALABRAS: 12%
G-) DISLEXIA: 8%
19.) PENSAMIENTOS SUICIDAS: 7%
20.) ANSIEDAD: 21%
21.) IRA: 23%
22.) AGRESION O VIOLENCIA: 13%
23.) IRRITABILIDAD: 54%-80%
24.) LABILIDAD EMOCIONAL: 13%
25.) DEPRESION: 13%
26.) HIPERACTIVIDAD: 36%
27.) FOTOFOBIA: 40-43%
28.) REFLUJO GASTROESOFAGICO CON VOMITO Y TOS: 40%
29.) ERUPCIONES SECUNDARIAS: 23%
30.) OTRAS ERUPCIONES: 45%
31.) HEMANGIOMA CAVERNOSO 30%
32.) PROBLEMAS COULARES: CATARATAS POSTERIORES, MIOPIA, STIGMATISMO, ERITEMA CONJUNTIVAL (OJOS DE LYME), ATROFIA DEL NERVIO OPTICO Y / O UVEITIS: 30%
44.) FATIGA Y FALTA DE RESISTENCIA: 72%
45.) SENSIBILIDAD DE LA PIEL Y AL RUIDO: 40%
46.) AUTISMO.
Existen numerosos estudios donde se muestra una clara EVIDENCIA que la BORRELIA BURGDORGFERI en las embarazadas es capaz de atravesar la placenta e infectar al feto. Me podría cansar aquí de ponerte la descripción de cada uno de ellos. Pero te pondré TODAS LAS REFERENCIAS BIBLIOGRAFICAS que encontré desde el año 1.983 hasta el año 2.017, primero las que yo encontré y luego una cronología de TODAS ellas.
Cierro este tema el cual es ALTAMENTE DISCUTIDO HOY DIA, con un post de Angélica Johansson gran luchadora contra ESTA PLAGA que encontré en mi red de LINKEDIN sobre el futuro del planeta y la ENFERMEDAD DE LYME....Cito textualmente:
"... Se predice que 1 millón de personas se infectarán con la enfermedad de Lyme en los EE. UU. En 2018. Dada la misma tasa de incidencia de la enfermedad de Lyme en Europa que en los EE. UU., En 2018, 2.4 millones de personas se contagiarán con la enfermedad de Lyme en EE. UU. Para 2050, 55.7 millones de personas (12% de la población) habrán sido infectadas con la enfermedad de Lyme. En Europa para 2050, 134.9 millones de personas (17% de la población) habrán sido infectadas con la enfermedad de Lyme. La mayoría de estas infecciones, desafortunadamente, se volverán crónicas.
El costo estimado del tratamiento para la enfermedad de Lyme aguda y crónica para 2018 en los EE. UU. Se encuentra entre 4.800 millones de dólares y 9.600 millones de dólares, y para Europa en algún lugar entre 10.100 millones de euros y 20.100 millones de euros. Si los gobiernos no financian el tratamiento IV con antibióticos para la enfermedad de Lyme crónica, entonces el costo gubernamental estimado para la enfermedad de Lyme crónica para 2018 en los Estados Unidos es de 10,1 mil millones de dólares estadounidenses y en Europa de 20,1 mil millones de euros.
Si los gobiernos de los EE. UU. Y Europa quieren minimizar los costos futuros y maximizar los ingresos futuros, entonces deben pagar el tratamiento antibiótico IV hasta un año, incluso si la tasa de curación estimada es tan baja como del 25%. El costo para los gobiernos de tener enfermos crónicos de Lyme a perpetuidad es muy grande "...
Pero lo que tú ves a diario es una pelea entre IDSA E ILADS, CDC y otros sobre el tema de que si es una simple picadura de garrapata y te tomas un antibiótico y te curas o que es una enfermedad de difícil diagnostico y alto costo de tratamiento. Entre creedores y no creedores para resumir. Lo cierto es que se está diseminando por todo el mundo a pasos agigantados.
Y si tienes dudas de que esta ESPIROQUETA puede o no dañar el feto de las mujeres embarazadas, causar defectos congénitos, y muchas otras secuelas inclusive, niños nacidos muertos, Léete esta "MONTAÑA" de referencias que aquí te dejo.
CONCLUSION: LA BORRELIA BURGDORFERI, no solo se transmite por la picadura de la garrapata, SE TRANSMITE por contacto sexual, fluidos y además de ello puede colonizar el feto de las mujeres embarazadas si no hay un efectivo tratamiento capaza de erradicarla durante el mismo. Y no es exclusiva del hemisferio Norte. La BORRELIA también está en el hemisferio Sur.
Saludos a todos.
Dr. José Lapenta.
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