What if you learned alternative treatments and medications are available to treat Lyme disease beyond oral antibiotics? What if you knew Lyme disease specialists have advanced methods of diagnosing, evaluating, and treating symptoms? What if you learned that the best treatment might be offered outside the United States or Canada? Like many, you would want to make an appointment and receive treatment as soon as possible.
Benefits of Traveling for Treatment
Before you reject travel outside the country, consider the following:
- Airline ticket prices to places like Mexico are comparable to traveling inside the United States and Canada, especially when considering gas prices, lodging, meals, etc. According to reports, cost-effectiveness is a top reason people travel to other countries for treatment, listing Mexico as a prominent location
- Clinics like Lyme Mexico are accredited and meet high-quality standards
- Doctors are licensed, certified, and recognized for their contributions to research and practice through international organizations, such as the International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society (ILADS)
- Health insurance does not always cover the total cost of treatment in the U.S. and Canada, and receiving treatment overseas can cost less than what they would have to pay out of pocket
- The wait time to be seen by a Lyme specialist is much less outside the country
- You can combine your out-of-country doctor visit with a much-needed vacation
The benefits of receiving medical care outside the United States and Canada don’t end with travel. From your initial assessment to final treatment, your doctor will provide the most advanced research-based therapies using modern equipment.
Lyme Disease Treatments
If you’ve sought help from your family doctor for Lyme disease, you know the standard treatment is oral antibiotics. Even the most potent antibiotics, like doxycycline, degrade somewhat when passing through the digestive system. You don’t get 100% of the medicine. Family doctors don’t have a plan B for treating Lyme disease.
Lyme-literate doctors have many treatment options that, when integrated, prove effective. Your doctor may choose one or more of the following for the best results.
Intravenous Antibiotics
Lyme disease specialists working overseas appreciate the power of antibiotics. However, they prefer to administer antibiotics using an IV so the medicine goes directly to your bloodstream, where the Lyme bacteria live. IV methods mean you get 100% of the dose.
Intravenous Medicines, Vitamins, and Minerals
Lyme disease can lead to malnourishment in some people, so Lyme-literate doctors use the IV method to administer the vitamins and minerals you lack. Examples of beneficial IV therapies include Vitamin C IV Megadose, Silver, Methylene, Antimicrobial, and Gallium. Your doctor will choose a treatment based on your particular needs. They may also prescribe medicines such as Biltricide, Albendazole, Xifaxin, Nystatin, and Coartem. Each medicine works to eliminate parasites and parasite and fungal infections.
Therapeutic Apheresis
Lyme bacteria live in the blood, posing a need to clean your blood effectively. Therapeutic apheresis is a way to clean blood and plasma using simple methods. Some have seen significant results after one session. Plasmapheresis, for example, exchanges unhealthy plasma with donated, healthy plasma.
Because Lyme disease makes it hard for the body to eliminate bacteria and parasites, therapeutic apheresis procedures do the work for you.
Immune Modulation
In a person without Lyme disease, the immune system recognizes foreign agents and is activated to eliminate them. A person with Lyme disease has a weakened immune system that can’t fully protect the body from infections or viruses. Immune modulation provides extra support for the immune system.
With dendritic cell therapy, a vaccine is created from your blood. It enters the lymphatic system, activating white blood cells that can kill bacteria. Another way to kill bacteria is with antibodies, which the body naturally creates when not infected with Lyme. To get more antibodies into your blood, your doctor will extract them from a healthy donor and administer them through an IV.
Biofilm Eradication
Lyme bacteria or spirochetes are excellent at finding ways to protect themselves from elimination. One way is by creating biofilms, which are similar to tiny armor or shields that allow them to go undetected by the immune system. Even if they are detected, the body’s natural immune system is not strong enough to destroy the biofilm to get to the bacteria. Therefore, scientists developed a method to eradicate biofilm.
Once the biofilm is destroyed, follow-up treatments may be administered to quickly attach to the bacteria so they can be flushed from your blood.
Hyperthermia
When you get sick, your body allows its temperature to rise. Fever is one way the immune system gets rid of bacteria. Lyme disease prevents fever from working correctly to protect the body. Hyperthermia is a way doctors can mimic natural fevers to aid the immune system. Your doctor will slowly and safely increase your body’s internal temperature to the degree that it releases proteins to fight bacteria. Your temperature is then lowered safely.
For some, hyperthermia by extracorporeal photopheresis is more effective. Doctors extract your blood and sterilize and heat it in a separate chamber.
Detox Therapies
Bodies are filled with heavy metals and toxins you encounter daily. You can’t avoid things like smog and pollution. Processed foods contain ingredients that help Lyme bacteria thrive and weaken the immune system.
Detox therapies reduce the effects of toxins within the body. For example, chelating agents with claw shapes are administered to attach to active heavy metals and deactivate them so they can be flushed out of the body. Manual lymphatic drainage and homotoxicology are two other examples of detox therapies. Also, many treatments aid in detox, including coffee enemas, mud cataplasms, sitz baths, and more.
Make Your Health a Priority
Call a Lyme-literate doctor today to learn how they can help you feel better. They can give you all the details so you can weigh the benefits of traveling outside the United States or Canada for treatment and Lyme disease medications. Lyme disease treatments are non-invasive and occur on an outpatient basis, giving you extra time to enjoy the area.
