Month: February 2022

  • Bell’s Palsy ~ the face and the gut?

    Bell’s Palsy ~ the face and the gut?

    Lyme disease, caused by a tick-borne spirochaete of the Borrelia species, is associated with facial palsy and, in acute Lyme, gastroparesis

  • Chronic fatigue, Lyme, Covid and the gut microbiome

    Chronic fatigue, Lyme, Covid and the gut microbiome

    Antibiotic use in early life and throughout life “favours an intestinal microbiota composition which might be a risk factor for ME/CFS” (Konig et al., 2022). Clinically, I also find this to be a highly common pattern in patients with stealth infections especially those with lengthy and difficult recoveries. This finding was borne out by the…