Comments on: How Common is Lyme Disease in Dogs? http://blogs.dogster.com/vet_blog_information_advice/how-common-is-lyme-disease-in-dogs/ Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:25:38 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Kia Ren http://blogs.dogster.com/vet_blog_information_advice/how-common-is-lyme-disease-in-dogs/comment-page-1/#comment-6844 Kia Ren Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:03:15 +0000 http://blogs.dogster.com/vet_blog_information_advice/how-common-is-lyme-disease-in-dogs/#comment-6844 Dear Webmaster, Pathology.org is the largest up to date informational database consisting of general health and disease information. The only way to combat disease and promote healthy living is to provide the public current information on health and diseases. Pathology.org consists of breaking news in the health world and offers the information needed to take preventive and combative measures to fight disease. Your website seems to be a very credible resource and would beneficial to us in the fight to combat the contraction and spread of disease. You can aid us in this fight by simply putting a banner or link up for us, making our site available to your vast public. I have included the code for the banner within this email showing you exactly what this banner will look like. Thank you for your time, effort, and work you have done, we look forward to any thoughts you may have. Pathology.org is awarding you as top resource and if you would like to get the banner, please email me back with the subject line as your URL to avoid Spam and also to make sure that you only get the banner. Dear Webmaster,

Pathology.org is the largest up to date informational database consisting of general health and disease information. The only way to combat disease and promote healthy living is to provide the public current information on health and diseases. Pathology.org consists of breaking news in the health world and offers the information needed to take preventive and combative measures to fight disease. Your website seems to be a very credible resource and would beneficial to us in the fight to combat the contraction and spread of disease. You can aid us in this fight by simply putting a banner or link up for us, making our site available to your vast public. I have included the code for the banner within this email showing you exactly what this banner will look like. Thank you for your time, effort, and work you have done, we look forward to any thoughts you may have.

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]]> By: Chaz Butler http://blogs.dogster.com/vet_blog_information_advice/how-common-is-lyme-disease-in-dogs/comment-page-1/#comment-5416 Chaz Butler Mon, 25 May 2009 14:42:51 +0000 http://blogs.dogster.com/vet_blog_information_advice/how-common-is-lyme-disease-in-dogs/#comment-5416 People can get it from their animals, but they are just as likely to get Lyme Disease from a tick outside, or a mosquito than their animals. Unfortunately, what goes for humans and the fight against Lyme Disease, goes for animals. Testing isn't good enough and prevention and awareness are the best. Even athlete are starting to get Lyme Disease- see Perry Fields, track athlete's website : http://www.beatlymedisease.com people should keep their tick and flea prevention on their animals all the time. People can get it from their animals, but they are just as likely to get Lyme Disease from a tick outside, or a mosquito than their animals. Unfortunately, what goes for humans and the fight against Lyme Disease, goes for animals. Testing isn’t good enough and prevention and awareness are the best. Even athlete are starting to get Lyme Disease- see Perry Fields, track athlete’s website : http://www.beatlymedisease.com

people should keep their tick and flea prevention on their animals all the time.

]]> By: Dolores Claesson http://blogs.dogster.com/vet_blog_information_advice/how-common-is-lyme-disease-in-dogs/comment-page-1/#comment-5253 Dolores Claesson Tue, 12 May 2009 03:33:19 +0000 http://blogs.dogster.com/vet_blog_information_advice/how-common-is-lyme-disease-in-dogs/#comment-5253 Let's see...my dog had Lyme disease, my 15 year old daughter and myself are battling the disease here in FL. It was totally mis-diagnosed by all of our doctors. I know of cases here if FL where people have died as a result of Lyme. We may not currently have as many cases as the North East, but that is changing quickly. According to CDC estimates 300,000 new people are infected with Lyme disease in the US every year. This is the fastest growing epidemic in our country. Many people who have diagnoses of Fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Lou Gehrig's ALS, Multiple Sclerosis and other diseses have Lyme instead. People are mis-diagnosed and suffering for many years. The vacccine for humans caused some to have arthritis for the rest of their lives and was taken off the market. Our animals have better tests for Lyme than we do, or are given antibiotics once they have symptoms. We are not as lucky because the Infectious Disease Doctors want a positive ELISA test and Western Blot to be positive, and once they are...Lyme has taken hold in your system. The wait to see positive antibodies ensures that you will have a hard time eradicating the bacterial infection. It is a sad state of affairs when our pets receive better medical care than we do.In summary, our tests are not accurate and we are not even tested because the doctors do not even think of testing for Lyme and other co-infections. What a debilitating disease. Let’s see…my dog had Lyme disease, my 15 year old daughter and myself are battling the disease here in FL. It was totally mis-diagnosed by all of our doctors. I know of cases here if FL where people have died as a result of Lyme. We may not currently have as many cases as the North East, but that is changing quickly. According to CDC estimates 300,000 new people are infected with Lyme disease in the US every year. This is the fastest growing epidemic in our country. Many people who have diagnoses of Fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Lou Gehrig’s ALS, Multiple Sclerosis and other diseses have Lyme instead. People are mis-diagnosed and suffering for many years. The vacccine for humans caused some to have arthritis for the rest of their lives and was taken off the market. Our animals have better tests for Lyme than we do, or are given antibiotics once they have symptoms. We are not as lucky because the Infectious Disease Doctors want a positive ELISA test and Western Blot to be positive, and once they are…Lyme has taken hold in your system. The wait to see positive antibodies ensures that you will have a hard time eradicating the bacterial infection. It is a sad state of affairs when our pets receive better medical care than we do.In summary, our tests are not accurate and we are not even tested because the doctors do not even think of testing for Lyme and other co-infections. What a debilitating disease.

]]> By: Joan Lando http://blogs.dogster.com/vet_blog_information_advice/how-common-is-lyme-disease-in-dogs/comment-page-1/#comment-3559 Joan Lando Tue, 18 Nov 2008 01:41:28 +0000 http://blogs.dogster.com/vet_blog_information_advice/how-common-is-lyme-disease-in-dogs/#comment-3559 My elderly mother-in-law has a small dog and perhaps this dog has lyme disease. The dog is limping on both hind legs, eating less, and has difficulty with her joints. Massachusetts is the home of this dog. What is the cost of having a lyme disease test for a dog? Being elderly, she doesn't part with money very easily. My elderly mother-in-law has a small dog and perhaps this dog has lyme disease. The dog is limping on both hind legs, eating less, and has difficulty with her joints. Massachusetts is the home of this dog. What is the cost of having a lyme disease test for a dog? Being elderly, she doesn’t part with money very easily.

]]> By: Jenny Standridge http://blogs.dogster.com/vet_blog_information_advice/how-common-is-lyme-disease-in-dogs/comment-page-1/#comment-2886 Jenny Standridge Thu, 04 Sep 2008 19:09:02 +0000 http://blogs.dogster.com/vet_blog_information_advice/how-common-is-lyme-disease-in-dogs/#comment-2886 I completely agree with Tootie Truesdell. I have suffered many symptoms of the joints, central nervous system and others (migraines, insomnia, numbness of limbs) for years and was just this year, finally diagnosed with Lyme. I went to an infectious disease doctor and an epidemiologist who are both Lyme literate. Also, I am in Georgia. The South. And Lyme does happen here. It is a disease with many symptoms and co-infections. It's serious to protect yourself. It certainly can be very hard to treat and *cure* after the acute stage. I completely agree with Tootie Truesdell. I have suffered many symptoms of the joints, central nervous system and others (migraines, insomnia, numbness of limbs) for years and was just this year, finally diagnosed with Lyme. I went to an infectious disease doctor and an epidemiologist who are both Lyme literate. Also, I am in Georgia. The South. And Lyme does happen here.
It is a disease with many symptoms and co-infections. It’s serious to protect yourself. It certainly can be very hard to treat and *cure* after the acute stage.

]]> By: Tootie Truesdell http://blogs.dogster.com/vet_blog_information_advice/how-common-is-lyme-disease-in-dogs/comment-page-1/#comment-2829 Tootie Truesdell Sat, 30 Aug 2008 00:49:14 +0000 http://blogs.dogster.com/vet_blog_information_advice/how-common-is-lyme-disease-in-dogs/#comment-2829 I beg to defer with you that Lyme Disease is "rare" on the west coast despite the low number of cases that have been reported to the CDC,. As a nurse and someone who contracted Lyme Disease here in California, I have learned that it is very "underdiagnoised" disease as physicians often fail to test for it and are often not aware of it's symptoms.. I assume that some veterinarians are probably doing the same thing. Tick bites need to be taken very seriously, even if a "bulls eye" rash does not develop. People need to be careful about protecting themselves and their pets from tick expose. This can be a very devistating disease if left untreated. I beg to defer with you that Lyme Disease is “rare” on the west coast despite the low number of cases that have been reported to the CDC,. As a nurse and someone who contracted Lyme Disease here in California, I have learned that it is very “underdiagnoised” disease as physicians often fail to test for it and are often not aware of it’s symptoms.. I assume that some veterinarians are probably doing the same thing. Tick bites need to be taken very seriously, even if a “bulls eye” rash does not develop. People need to be careful about protecting themselves and their pets from tick expose. This can be a very devistating disease if left untreated.

]]> By: Liz http://blogs.dogster.com/vet_blog_information_advice/how-common-is-lyme-disease-in-dogs/comment-page-1/#comment-2824 Liz Fri, 29 Aug 2008 06:38:50 +0000 http://blogs.dogster.com/vet_blog_information_advice/how-common-is-lyme-disease-in-dogs/#comment-2824 If Lyme is carried by mice, what if my dog gets a hold of a mouse that's infected and bites it? Will my dog get Lyme Disease? Or can it only be transmitted by tick bites? If Lyme is carried by mice, what if my dog gets a hold of a mouse that’s infected and bites it? Will my dog get Lyme Disease? Or can it only be transmitted by tick bites?

]]> By: Vanessa http://blogs.dogster.com/vet_blog_information_advice/how-common-is-lyme-disease-in-dogs/comment-page-1/#comment-2819 Vanessa Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:12:32 +0000 http://blogs.dogster.com/vet_blog_information_advice/how-common-is-lyme-disease-in-dogs/#comment-2819 My dog Remington is vaccinated against Lyme Disease. It's all to common here is Massachusetts that it isn't worth the risk - ticks are everywhere. We go in the woods a lot, and I wouldn't go in there without Remington being vaccinated and on frontline. My dog Remington is vaccinated against Lyme Disease. It’s all to common here is Massachusetts that it isn’t worth the risk – ticks are everywhere. We go in the woods a lot, and I wouldn’t go in there without Remington being vaccinated and on frontline.

]]> By: Matt http://blogs.dogster.com/vet_blog_information_advice/how-common-is-lyme-disease-in-dogs/comment-page-1/#comment-2817 Matt Thu, 28 Aug 2008 02:37:58 +0000 http://blogs.dogster.com/vet_blog_information_advice/how-common-is-lyme-disease-in-dogs/#comment-2817 Despite the fact that Lyme disease is a fairly rare in the West and South, the cost of vaccination made it a fairly easy choice for me, someone who's dog is exposed to a large number of ticks several times a year. Our dog, Alice, is exposed to the deep woods 6-10 times a year, so the $50 cost for the Lyme vaccine and booster, plus a new vet-strength ($15-$20) tick collar every 3 months is a pretty small price to pay compared to the ongoing cost to treat Lyme Disease. She only wears the collar during our camping/fishing/hunting trips (stored in an airtight container when not in use). They lose their juice after 3 months. I've used the <a href="http://www.preventic.com/" rel="nofollow">Preventic</a> collar, which works terrific. We've returned to the cabin with all of the humans covered in ticks, but not one on Alice. Would the author advise for or against vaccination for those dogs in low risk areas? Despite the fact that Lyme disease is a fairly rare in the West and South, the cost of vaccination made it a fairly easy choice for me, someone who’s dog is exposed to a large number of ticks several times a year.

Our dog, Alice, is exposed to the deep woods 6-10 times a year, so the $50 cost for the Lyme vaccine and booster, plus a new vet-strength ($15-$20) tick collar every 3 months is a pretty small price to pay compared to the ongoing cost to treat Lyme Disease.

She only wears the collar during our camping/fishing/hunting trips (stored in an airtight container when not in use). They lose their juice after 3 months. I’ve used the Preventic collar, which works terrific. We’ve returned to the cabin with all of the humans covered in ticks, but not one on Alice.

Would the author advise for or against vaccination for those dogs in low risk areas?

]]> By: Lyme Advocate http://blogs.dogster.com/vet_blog_information_advice/how-common-is-lyme-disease-in-dogs/comment-page-1/#comment-2808 Lyme Advocate Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:29:57 +0000 http://blogs.dogster.com/vet_blog_information_advice/how-common-is-lyme-disease-in-dogs/#comment-2808 Great post. We just posted on <a href="http://www.lyme-disease-research-database.com/lyme_disease_blog_files/lyme_disease_dogs.html" rel="nofollow">Lyme disease in dogs</a> as well, over at the Lyme Disease Research Database. Great post. We just posted on Lyme disease in dogs as well, over at the Lyme Disease Research Database.

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