"Monster's Inside Me", an Animal Planet Channel production, recently aired a synopsis of one lyme disease and babesiosis based on a young girl's case in Maryland.  The complete segment is a approachable introduction to the complexity and invisibility of symptoms, diagnosis and treatment of lyme disease.

The episode is Monster's Inside Me - Episode 27 - "Killer in My Neck" (2012).  And will air again on Fri 14 Dec & Sat 15 Dec.


Several things I found of note:

DEET bug repellants recommended by the episode, DEET are usless for tick prevention. DEET neither repels or kills ticks. See Prevention... for specifics.

She told the typical lyme story of having doctor's say she was attention seeking not sick.

Physician's Please Note:  If you have a pt with mild anemia fitting the malaise and whiney "attention seeking" behaviors...  SLOW DOWN!!!!! ...think babesiosis w/ lyme.  Because there are NO words English to describe lyme pains, perceptual changes and lyme cognitive issues... lyme sufferers use every day words, resulting in pt communications which almost always sound trivial.  This pattern has shown in every of the 30 or so chronic cases I know of personally.  (For reference, I also know one person who was completely asymptomic - didn't know she had lyme until the test was done.)  See Diagnosis... for ideas on extracting info from lyme cognitively impaired pts.

Antibiotics and antiparasitics were responsible for returning her to healthy function.  Antibiotics alone wasn't enough.

The girl was given a short course of antibiotics at the age of 6.





babesiosis - Columbia University - http://www.columbia-lyme.org/patients/tbd_babesia.html

Monster's Inside Me - Episode 27 - "Killer in My Neck" (2012).

Monster's Inside Me Schedule - http://animal.discovery.com/tv-shows/monsters-inside-me/tv-schedule.htm