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Thank you so much!Try googling Burrascano's guidelines. Find the latest version. They might have them posted at ILADS main site.
I will pm you in a bit, posting in a rush.
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Quoting here from our Lyme "Bible" by one of the foremost experts in the field, Dr. Horowitz
"in the case of an uncomplicated EM rash with no systemic symptoms
according to scientific literature ~75% of patients are cured with a 3 week course of doxycycline 1-200 mg BID.
However, if a patient has multiple em rashes, stiff neck , headache (central nervous system symptoms) or tingling/numbness in extremities than the organism has disseminated and one month is insufficient since these patients go on to have persistent symptoms.
Also, the three week course of doxycycline does not address the cystic forms and allows spirochetes to survive.
(this is what happened with our youngest btw who is now back in treatment using the protocol below)
Although 3 weeks of doxy or ceftin (500mg BID) cures a significant percentage of uncomplicated em rashes the biology of borelia suggests that it may be worthwhile to offer patients the following regimen.
Month One
plaquenil 200mg BID
doxycycline 100 mg BID,
nysatin 500,000 units two BID (to avoid yeast issues from meds)
with flagyl or tindamax three days a week BID dosage based on body weight
as well as serraptase one BID (amazon or nutramedix)
Month Two
Plaquenil 200 mg BID
Omnicef 300mg BID
Zithromax 250mg BID 4 days a week with either flagyl or tindamax pulsed the other 3 days
continuing nystatin and serraptase"
this protocol hits all three forms of the spirochete and well as the biofilms it forms and prevent the establishment of a persistent infection.
I bought our primary care this book and this is what she does now always.
The other problem is co-infections which are the norm, not the exception. Testing is highly inadequate for them (as it is for Lyme as well) and they tend to also be a clinical diagnosis. If he doesn't improve on the protocol, there is a co-infections mucking up the works.
Probiotics, as Spryte said, are crucial
lemon water can help detox his system and epsom salt baths
a B complex vitamin because the B's get depleted by the meds
I wish you all the best
Is this information from this book: http://www.amazon.com/Why-Cant-Get-Better-Solving/dp/1250019400/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1409412031&sr=8-1&keywords=richard+horowitz ? Thanks!
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A few quick thoughts:
Double check the dose of doxy. It needs to be high enough to be bactericidal vs just bacteristatic (meaning it needs to kill the bugs rather than just stop them from replicating, which could make him feel better for a time, but then relapse later). Also, a minimum of 28 days on abx, to cover the entire life cycle of the spirochete, as abx only kill the bugs during particular parts of the life cycle. You might check the latest Burrascano guidelines for the doseage, I don't remember it off hand, or maybe Lizzie will post it for you. :) (Hi Lizzie!)
Take your abx with food and plenty of water, away from dairy. Sit up for at least 30 - 60 minutes after taking them.
Take probiotics! And in addition to the usual, take Florastor (S. Boulardii) - you can pick it up at the drug store or order on Amazon. Believe me, you don't want to risk C. Diff (Lyme *and* C. Diff survivor here). Take your probiotics 2 hours away from the abx.
I hope the 3 yr old is not on doxy? There are better options for kids.
More later, in a hurry, but wishing your DH (and your DD) well!!!
Is there somewhere to find out the dosage differences? I found some information that lists different antibiotics as either bacteriostatic or bactericidal, but not different dosages of the same antibiotic to be either one or the other.
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As quickly as possible. :) I know that's not much help. Disseminated Lyme is much harder to treat.
Thank you. That's what I'm learning. :(
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Is there a certain window of time from the bite date that is considered quick/early enough to be thorough?Apparently, our family should play the lottery. :glare: (not glaring at you, glaring at the ticks)
FWIW, my LLMD is of the opinion that if one treats quickly and thoroughly for Lyme, one has a better chance of beating any other infections that may have been transmitted by the tick. Lyme has a tendency to lower a person's immune response, so if the Lyme is treated - a person's immune system may be able to beat some of the other co-infections that are not treated by the same meds as Lyme. Not always, but sometimes. If the Lyme goes unchecked and untreated, the immune system suffers and one is unable to fight those other infections, which can then blossom into very serious situations.
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For those of you with experience with LLMDs and ILADS, is there a recommended length of treatment to start with? From what I can tell the ILADS approach is more dependent upon the symptoms of the patient and less on a standard, one size fits all type treatment. Would that be an accurate assessment?
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I don't have any experience with any of these programs, but I thought I'd bump the thread for you!
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Thanks for all the suggestions!
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In all the moves we've made we have never had any appliances that we had to move. With this move we have a refrigerator, a chest freezer, a washer, and a dryer that we are taking with us. Is there anything in particular I need to do in order to make sure they are dry and ready to go? Does it make a difference if they are going to possibly be in storage for a while?
Thanks!
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So, I received The Homer level last night, and wow! I love it and at the same time I feel that it won't be an easy ride (especially for me ;-).
I have a question, in the Homer core book it says additional suggested materials: Dictionaries: see suggestions in Aesop p. 21
I tried to look up the free samples on CW website, and it ends with page 20.
Could somebody please tell me what the Dictionaries recommendations are for Classical Writing program? We don't really have a good one, so if I am buying a new dictionary, I want to make sure that it is the one that is recommended.
Thank you!!!
They recommend a school or student dictionary such as The Oxford School Dictionary, a good college dictionary such as Webster's or American Heritage, and a pocket dictionary for each student to keep with him while reading and writing.
We never had a student dictionary and we don't have any pocket dictionaries either. We used my old Webster's College dictionary and Webster's American Family Dictionary.
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I've never heard this before; thanks for sharing it! Personally, I think it would be worth a try. Do you think you could take a different approach with her? Instead of providing studies, could you say something like, "I know this sounds crazy, but some people have had relief with amber necklaces. Would you be willing to try one?"
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If we are eating at the dining room table, yes. It has a beeswax finish, so the placemat helps protect the table. If we're eating at the kitchen table, which has an enamel finish, no.
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The personal endings -o, -s, -t, -mus, -tis, -nt are used in the present tense, yes. But don't just look for them to be sure that the verb is in the present tense because that is not always the case. They are also there in the future tense: -bo, -bis, -bit, -bimus, -bitis, -bunt. There is no such thing in the Latin language as a "verb ending," such as you would have if you conjugated a verb in the French or English languge, because both languages require a separately written subject for the verb. In Latin you have a verb stem and a personal pronoun ending. The personal ending has nothing to do with the verb and everything to do with the subject performing the action. This is why word order in Latin can vary; the personal ending on the verb dictates who performs the action, unlike in English where it is the subject that appears directly before the verb dictates who performs the action. In English if we write "the woman likes gifts" and "the gifts like the woman" it would have two different meanings based on the word order. In Latin, though, we can write "femina amat dona" or "femina dona amat" or "dona femina amat" or "dona amat femina" and they all still mean "the woman likes gifts."
Here are the parts of the verb vocabimus (we will call):
voca (verb stem + stem vowel) bi (tense sign) mus (personal pronoun ending)
Thank you! This is very helpful, especially the bolded. I was thinking that my study of French and Spanish was probably muddying the water for me and that helps me understand. I need to reread your whole response, but that is definitely helpful!
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Personal endings are the pronoun. In Latin the verbs end with the pronoun that is performing the action of the verb. This is why one word (such as ambulo) can be an entire sentence, because is contains both the subject (the pronoun "I" written as the personal ending "-o") and the verb. The personal endings will differ based on the verb tense, but they are always the pronoun that is performing the action of the verb.
So, the present tense endings just happen to be the same as the personal endings?
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I've been wondering why I am struggling with the format of Recitation for FFL and I think I may have figured out what is confusing me! In Lesson XI, for example, it lists the following for recitation: personal endings; tense endings (5 tenses); amo (six tenses, p.p.); do, sot, judo, lavo (p.p.); and sum (three tenses). Can anyone explain why personal endings are called personal endings and not present tense endings? Isn't that what they are, present tense endings?
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I am so sorry I didn't see this sooner, in time to help you. But the one I turned in this year looked like this. I split the two sets of documents because last year, when I turned in a receipt for my rising third grader's paperwork, but no portfolio for him, because it wasn't required, the lady at the office was a little confused, so I made it clearer this year.
Acknowledgment of Receipt of Required Documents
Name of Student:
Name of Home Education Program Supervisor:
Address:
CONTENTS OF PORTFOLIO:
__________ Evaluation of Student
__________ Log and Samples of Student Work
__________ Test Results as Required in Grades 3, 5, and 8
DOCUMENTS PERTAINING TO HOME EDUCATION FOR UPCOMING SCHOOL YEAR:
__________ Affidavit for Upcoming School Year
__________ Objectives for Upcoming School Year
__________ Medical Exemption Form
Received by: ________________________________ Date: ___________________
No worries! I ended up wording it like arcara did. I like the way you did the acknowledgement. I'll keep it on file for next year!
Thank you. :)
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Congratulations! :hurray: How exciting! I've been wishing you would write something for as long as I've been reading your posts on here!
If you have a print version please don't make the cover that weird new texture that so many things are being made in. I don't know what it is, but I do not like touching it.
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Yes, that is very helpful and much more amiable than anything I was coming up with.I print up a receipt that says, "I have received the following items for (child's name):". The I list the items I'm turning in such as, 2013-2014 portfolio, Grade 8 standardized test scores, evaluator's letter, 2014-2015 Affadavit, medical exemption letter. Then I put a line for the signature.
HTH!
Thank you!
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When I turn in the portfolio, I include a receipt that I make my school district sign, as proof that they did receive the portfolio, in case they lose something. On the receipt, there is a space to check off for the following:
-samples of work
-log (which is a booklist and a calendar with days checked on it)
-letter from evaluator (and I make a copy of this to keep at home, just in case)
-affidavit for upcoming year
-objectives for upcoming year
-medical paperwork or exemption for upcoming year
I know this is an old thread, but I was wondering if you would mind sharing the wording of your receipt. Last year I read some advice about requesting a receipt, but I didn't think to create my own. When my husband dropped off the portfolio, he asked for a receipt and the person accepting it looked at him strangely. So he came home with a hastily written receipt scrawled on a post-it note. I thought I'd include a receipt this year, but my wording sounds a bit stiff and untrusting. ;) Thanks!
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I don't know if the figures are correct. It's important to note, however, that North America and Europe have more food than they need, so it's not a question of the West having 'enough' and the rest being undernourished. My calorie charts might allow you to estimate where the 'middle' lies. I also don't know if your figures are food bought or food actually eaten - there's an awful lot of wastage in the West.
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Thanks, Laura. I appreciate the information. Sadly, there is an awful lot of food wasted here. Years ago, when I worked in a restaurant I was shocked at the amount of food thrown away every single night. They claimed they couldn't donate it. Couldn't or wouldn't because they were afraid of a lawsuit? I did see something recently about a program that encourages businesses to donate leftover food. That was somewhat encouraging.
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http://my.extension.illinois.edu/documents/1919100503100310/Fairness3.pdf
On this site, I found the following information and I'd like to make sure it is accurate.Percent Population Per Continent
Africa 13%
Asia 64%
Europe 9%
South/Latin America 6%
Oceana/Australia 1%
North America 8%
Antartica (mostly uninhabited)
Percentage of Food Consumption
Africa 1%
Asia 8%
Australia 20%
Europe 22%
North America 41%
South/Central America 6%
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I'm looking for some overly simplified statistics of a complicated issue for a simulation with a mixed age group. Food volume by head would be the closest thing, I guess.
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Can anyone point me toward some resources that show world food consumption by continent? The closest thing that I've found are projected numbers for 2025.
Thanks!
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Well there was a thread on getting books that are free on Kindle that have Whispersync audio versions available for free... Those audios will come from Audible. There was another thread that was connected to some deal audible was running at the time about how many you bought in a month to receive free credits. Audible just ran that again. If you just join, you'll start getting emails about the deals. But yes, the best deal on the planet is to get the free kindle books that have the free audiobooks through whisper sync. My ds is listening to Huck Finn right now, and I'm pretty sure that's how we got it. If you google, I'm sure a list will pop up.
PS. Do you know about the summer program Sync? http://www.audiobooksync.com/free-sync-downloads/
No, I didn't know about that. Thank you!
Ok, try going through this. It's sorted by low to high, children's ebooks, whisper sync ready. The whisper syncs aren't all free, but many are $1 or $2.49 or very low. You'll be able to click then and see what the audio would be that you'd be getting.
and here was the link I'll bet some of us were using. I have no clue if they still are free or not. http://blog.the-ebook-reader.com/2012/09/15/get-22-free-audiobooks-and-ebooks-to-test-amazons-whispersync-for-voice/
Thanks, I'll check those out.
HELP: What type of bug is this?!
in The Chat Board
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My guess would be carpet beetles from looking at the picture. From what I remember, they eat a large variety of things. Getting rid of them can be really difficult. :(