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Posted 2/12/2016 5:02 PM (GMT 0)
Just got a link to information about the IDSA treatment guidelines being removed them NGC. It leaves the only treatment guidelines are the ILADS guidelines.

Yeah! Here's the link.

www.lymedisease.org/idsa-guidelines-removed-ngc
Posted 2/12/2016 5:24 PM (GMT 0)
While this is good news, I'd be leery of getting too ahead of ourselves. IDSA is in the process of revising their guidelines, I don't doubt that their revised guidelines will be just as unpleasant and narrow-minded as the previous incarnations.

Don't mean to be such a pessimist, I do believe we are making progress! Hopefully the IDSA viewpoint becomes less powerful over time as the science and research progress and the clinical experience becomes more widely appreciated.
Posted 2/12/2016 10:01 PM (GMT 0)
WAIT!! They get taken down every 5 years when they expire anyway. The IDSA guidelines were just updated and although they do have to conform to NGC guidelines, I don't trust them to conform to ILADS treatment guidelines at all.

Lyme disease.org didn't report on this very well. Many people have been confused over this. The title and the article are very misleading.
Posted 2/13/2016 4:05 AM (GMT 0)
Sorry I read the title and the first few paragraphs and thought it was them removing the IDSA guidelines for real. If they do this periodically then its not real news.

Kim
Posted 2/13/2016 10:10 AM (GMT 0)
Thanks for the update Kim. I received this noti in my email earlier. Hmmm, def the pessimist in me is thinking its too good to be true that they are revising it to the ILADS way....but with the news that came about a couple days ago (i.e. the new strains of lyme/bart the CDC is admitting they found and the study about the new combo of abx found to treat/eradicate lyme), I am a *lil* hopeful I will say......we shall seeeeeeeeeee


-Courtney
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