TOUCHED BY LYME: Unraveling the Lyme-autism connection
This doctor finds about 20% of her autistic patients turn out to have Lyme disease, and for many of them, Lyme treatment helps their autism symptoms. She’ll speak in Sacramento March 21.
Dr. Lynne Mielke is a psychiatrist who specializes in the biomedical treatment of children with Autism Spectrum Disorders. She finds that many of her patients turn out to have Lyme disease.
“If the child has autism from birth, many times it’s because they actually inherited an infection from their mother,” Dr. Mielke said in a 2011 TV interview. When treated for Lyme, she said, some or all of their autism symptoms recede or even disappear entirely.
Dr. Mielke will be a guest speaker March 21 at a meeting in Sacramento sponsored by FEAT, Families for Early Autism Treatment. She’ll be joined at the podium by Tina Hendrix, a co-founder of FEAT, whose 20-year-old daughter Mary has been diagnosed with Lyme-induced autism.
Both Dr. Mielke and Tina Hendrix’s family were featured in a TV news segment last fall.
The event is free and open to the public.
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
MIND Institute Auditorium
2825 50th Street
Sacramento, CA 95817
Please park on 50th Street
Click here for more information at the FEAT website.
TOUCHED BY LYME is written by Dorothy Kupcha Leland, LymeDisease.org’s VP for Education and Outreach. Contact her at dleland@lymedisease.org.
Here are some tips that will help parents, who
are concerned about their kid with such a condition:.
It is so important to get a variety of viewpoints from professionals and this can easily be done with a multi-team
autism assessment. What is certain is that those who are affected by
autism face a daily struggle that consumes resources and takes an emotional toll.
My son was diagnosed with Autism a couple years ago. He is now five. I am so happy and relieved this has made national news. I always believed there was a connection with bacteria and lyme. I was dignosed with CFS and Fibromyalgia about four years before my son was born. I continued having shmptoms during my pregnancy so i worried even before he was born how this would effect him because I believed my symptoms had a bacterial cause and iI believed I had Lyme for mny years never had an official dx but having worked in the medical field I have done a lot of research and lyme bacteria are more like a parasite in nature because they lack a cell wall it is had to cure this illness. I do always feel better on antibiotics and as soon as i stop symptoms return. How do I get in contact aith this dr. I live two hours away and had I read this months prior i would have driven to Sacramento to see her. Any one have any info on how to contact her. I write for my local newspaper and would like to publish a story about this. Thank you.
Her website: http://www.optimalhealthspectrums.com/