We gathered some of our related posts and general information on the use of DOXYCYCLINE.
Do not lay down for an hour after taking, avoid sun and take with food is most common advice.
ACUTE: "Given the relatively low success rates in trials using 20 or fewer days for the treatment of EM rashes, ILADS recommends that EM patients receive 4-6 weeks of doxycycline, amoxicillin or cefuroxime as initial therapy. A minimum of 21 days of azithromycin is also acceptable and has been shown to be especially effective against European strains of Borrelia.
Further treatment is guided by the clinical course and response to treatment. Ten to twenty percent of patients who have been treated for early Lyme disease remain ill following antibiotic therapy."
"For the best chance of cure in acute Lyme, I found doxycycline to works best in my Seattle practice. But if a person cannot take doxycycline, cefuroxime or amoxicillin is an option."
"The best antibiotic to use is Doxycycline because it treats Lyme and can treat the other tick borne infections like anaplasma, ehrlichia, babesia, bartonella, and Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever if they are present. For an adult I recommend 100 mg 2 times a day. For a child of any age I recommend 2.2 mg/kg 2 times a day. I use this dose in children of any age for up to three weeks.
If someone cannot take doxycycline, the alternative antibiotics include amoxicillin, cefuroxime, and azithromycin. However, there are no studies showing the proper dose or duration of these alternatives."
SAFETY IN CHILDREN
CHRONIC:
"Patients who still hope to recover their health often find their way to doctors willing to prescribe longer courses of antibiotics for Lyme disease. And as a result, some people get much better. Unfortunately, however, not everybody.
This is one of the questions we have sought to answer through our MyLymeData patient registry: Why do some people improve substantially with antibiotic treatment, while others do not?"
"In this article, you will learn how to build a Lyme disease herbal or prescription antibiotic treatment. Later, in this guide I provide nine sample herbal and prescription antibiotic treatment plans, including the dosing regimens I find effective."
"It is great to see multiple research studies attempting to identify effective treatments for chronic Lyme disease. None of the antibiotics in current use for Lyme disease were developed for the bacteria that causes Lyme. Newer technology allows hundreds of existing drugs to be screened for their effectiveness against Borrelia. The limitation of most of these studies is that they were performed in vitro (outside of a living organism), but they establish a starting point for future in vivo studies."
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