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1/🧵 You are a BAD #GOLFER & have a big day with buddies & are in the tall grass a LOT. Later, you take off a #tick👇and in 7 days develop a fever & headache. You have no rash. The emergency room gives you acetaminophen. Is that OK?
#medtwitter #Nurse
#medtwitter #Nurse
2/ Tick bites are a big deal in Summer months. Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever is a concern, and the absence of rash also brings up #Ehrlichiosis. This @NEJM paper showed that worse golfers retrieved balls from the rough & got the dz more often!
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3/ Of those with #Ehrlichiosis, 20% get bad nervous system dz & 20% of those die. If you live in Southern US and find a Lone Star tick (pic above), and then develop fever & headache, get evaluated and probably start the antibiotic doxycycline quickly!
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One of the big #LymeDisease lies is that it takes two whole days of tick attachment to transmit disease. There have been studies published debunking this lie, but I like to use #tick #biology instead. iai.asm.org/content/70/7/3…
And #spirochete #science. Because first of all, you have to know how spirochetes operate. They are able to adapt to different environmental conditions by changing their outer surface proteins (Osps).
#LymeDisease #LymeDiseaseAwarenessMonth
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#LymeDisease #LymeDiseaseAwarenessMonth
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It’s pretty well known and accepted as fact that Borrelia spirochetes express OspA in the tick gut environment and OspC in a human. How do they change their coat from OspA to OspC while they are feeding?
#LymeDiseaseAwarenessMonth
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#LymeDiseaseAwarenessMonth
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@ClareWHarris @DemocracyStorm @meg_Y12 @WisePaxCat @KikiAdine @jomareewade @jacknielsenN7 @Trumpet1984 @morethanmySLE @brycetache @axidentaliberal @ShuriResists @horridpoplyrics @ScarletAvengers @TheSWPrincess @TeelaResists @bannerite @MplsMe @MsActiviss Day: #2 bc I had to break quarantine to venture out in search of the elusive creature known as "Toilet Paper"- alas, I was unsuccessful but I did buy a tidy amount of Kleenex which shall do doubt duty." 😷 😂✌
@ClareWHarris @DemocracyStorm @meg_Y12 @WisePaxCat @KikiAdine @jomareewade @jacknielsenN7 @Trumpet1984 @morethanmySLE @brycetache @axidentaliberal @ShuriResists @horridpoplyrics @ScarletAvengers @TheSWPrincess @TeelaResists @bannerite @MplsMe @MsActiviss "Double" d*mn you spell check! 😱
@ClareWHarris @DemocracyStorm @meg_Y12 @WisePaxCat @KikiAdine @jomareewade @jacknielsenN7 @Trumpet1984 @morethanmySLE @brycetache @axidentaliberal @ShuriResists @horridpoplyrics @ScarletAvengers @TheSWPrincess @TeelaResists @bannerite @MplsMe @MsActiviss @Planetscape
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@etta8247 (yes she's real & a great follow!)
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@Sophia_RESISTS @Ruatha_Pern
@RavenRlyyeh
@joeynova33
@PDKMom
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@DutchResister
@JimmyStreich
@model_daughters
@ToBeSafeNSound
@tazarae20
@chicating
@etta8247 (yes she's real & a great follow!)
@pr0udsnowflake
@YvetteJacqR
@cat_persists
@Sophia_RESISTS @Ruatha_Pern
@RavenRlyyeh
@joeynova33
@PDKMom
@tis_me_ingrid
@DutchResister
@JimmyStreich
@model_daughters
Ever shattered an orange using liquid nitrogen? That's how we get DNA out of ticks in our new @FrontiersIn article frontiersin.org/articles/10.33… @UMassMedical @broadinstitute @karlssonlab
We have a lot of ticks. 1000s & 1000s of ticks. People send them to us as part of our #citizenScience #tick disease study ProjectAcari.org. The problem? getting the DNA out.
We want to use high-throughput #DNA sequencing to find out everything we can about each individual #tick - its species, its intestinal #microbiome (they have one too!), and if it carries dangerous pathogens.
Many of you know our situation 👇 but today my mom had to use her Target card🎯,(over it's limit), to get a cash advance of $90 to pay for HER meds.
She's on 4 diff.high BP meds.
She's already cut her meds in 1/2 to save $. 😭
McConnell: sign the bill lowering drug costs!!!
She's on 4 diff.high BP meds.
She's already cut her meds in 1/2 to save $. 😭
McConnell: sign the bill lowering drug costs!!!
My mom is now 78-year-old yrs old.
She's an RN who worked until she was 75.
She had to quit bc my health continues to decline.
B4 the #ACA, we went through our life savings on my #Healthcare.
We even went to the MAYO clinic (I still owe $9000)
No one should go bankrupt bc health
She's an RN who worked until she was 75.
She had to quit bc my health continues to decline.
B4 the #ACA, we went through our life savings on my #Healthcare.
We even went to the MAYO clinic (I still owe $9000)
No one should go bankrupt bc health
76 yr old Mom needs help gofundme.com/76-yr-old-mom-…
Please help us! 😭
Can't afford next mos.' RX @$198/mo necessary to digest/absorb food.
My now 77-year-old Mom is my caregiver. We get $64/mo for food (long gone) + trying to save home.
#Lyme #SaveOurCare
#Fibromyalgia
#IBD
Even $5 or $10 will help + RTs are free. 🙏
Can't afford next mos.' RX @$198/mo necessary to digest/absorb food.
My now 77-year-old Mom is my caregiver. We get $64/mo for food (long gone) + trying to save home.
#Lyme #SaveOurCare
#Fibromyalgia
#IBD
Even $5 or $10 will help + RTs are free. 🙏
I was bitten by a #tick in 2011 & it utterly destroyed my life.
I contracted E. Chaffeensis, Rickettsia, & what was later found to be #Lyme.
I wasn't treated for 11 mos. By then, the bacteria had invaded my spinal cord + brain.
#LymeDisease #healthcare #tick #foodstamps
I contracted E. Chaffeensis, Rickettsia, & what was later found to be #Lyme.
I wasn't treated for 11 mos. By then, the bacteria had invaded my spinal cord + brain.
#LymeDisease #healthcare #tick #foodstamps
76 yr old Mom needs help gofundme.com/76-yr-old-mom-…
Please help us! 💔
I was a practicing trial atty when I was bitten by a tick. I contracted E. Chaffeensis, Rickettsia, & what was later determined to be #Lyme.
I also contacted Coxsackie B4 virus-a cousin of polio. I wasn't treated for 11 mos. I have lost most use of my left side (I'm left- handed)
I also contacted Coxsackie B4 virus-a cousin of polio. I wasn't treated for 11 mos. I have lost most use of my left side (I'm left- handed)
