Essay on "Chronic Lyme Disease"

Essay 7 pages (2174 words) Sources: 5 Style: MLA

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Chronic Lyme disease Illiteracy

A nurse practitioner at the Lancaster County hospital was on record stating that patients are not interested in the debates. What they need is an effective treatment that is free of imitating the traditional Lyme treatment methods. The hospital treats its patients with a combination of the traditional and alternative cures. Immune boosters and supplements also form the ingredient of the final medication. Antibiotics come in handy if the patient's infection is active (Rosner, julie and Huckleberry 325). The management of the hospital confesses that there are no physicians in Delaware with substantial knowledge over the Lyme infection. Most of the casualties infected with the disease at the hospital come from Delaware. The management of the hospital reiterates that they apply the guidelines of the international Lyme and Associated Disease Society while administering their custom medicine to the patients.

A physician at the Johns Hopkins University clinic states that many of he patients who consult him do not test positive over the Lyme disease (Josh 425). Many of the patients contract the disease after subjection to tests at the Lyme specialty laboratories. These laboratories do not apply validated testing. They purport to test the Lyme disease better than the universal approved by FDA (Food and Drug Administration testing). This leads to unfounded claims that undermine the fight against the bacterial infection. This forms part of the evidence that mount that the Lyme disease exist and need urgent address. Four national institutions in the U.S. have carried out multiple trials to substantiate the existence of the disease. Recognizing that chronic Lyme disease exists could hinder strategies employed in finding a solution. The risk to society posed by the antibiotics needs a measure against the societal risks connected with failing to treat an emerging population. Medical practitioners should be encouraged to come up with guidelines on setting standard procedures for the Lyme infection.

Aside from facilitating the diagnosis of the Lyme disease, the standards of care would also aid in convincing insurance companies to provide cover for the disease. In the recent past, insurance companies are on record maintaining that the Lyme disease does not exist. A patient who offered medical cover by a particular insurance company does not get cover over the Lyme disease. Their argument is that the disease lacks standard medical practices like a scientific proof over its existence. The lack of information to support the diagnosis further complicates the ordeal of the patients. The insurance companies further state that the length of treatment and the antibiotic applied do not amount to the stipulated medical procedures. Upon the first claim, however, a patient could apply for a second claim, attaching a letter specifying the medical necessity and laboratory results.

The reality of the disease cannot hold simply because there is no scientific evidence. The deaths over the chronic Lyme disease should form the judgment of medics in establishing standards for care. The insurance companies are right in denying cover to the patients to some extent. Formality forms the major principle of most insurance companies. A sense of formality would aid the companies who are interested in standard procedures only. It does not make sense to provide cover for other illnesses and lock the chronic Lyme disease out. It further complicates the financial health of patients, who need ample financial backing to counter the illness.

Works cited

Hogan, Mary. Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: The Facts. New york: Oxforfd University press.

2002. Print

Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Committee on Lyme Disease and Other Tick-Borne Diseases: the State of the Science; National Academies Press . Critical needs and gaps in understanding

, amelioration, and resolution of lyme and other tick-borne diseases: the short-term and long-term outcomes: workshop report. New york: national Academies press, 2007. Print

Josh, Bill. Nature's Dirty Needle: What You Need to Know about Chronic Lyme Disease. New Y

ork: bush street press, 2003. print

Rosner, brian, buyers julie and Michael Huckleberry. The top 10 Lyme disease treatments:

defeat Lyme disease with the best of conventional and alternative medicine. South… READ MORE

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