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Dr. Lloyd, we were talking about treatment and the guidelines we're using. There is some controversy as to how long you should be treating with antibiotics and whether chronic Lyme disease is a prolonged infection or whether there are in fact more side effects due to the original damage during the disease. I know there's controversy in the literature on that.
Both the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control recommend strongly against prolonged antibiotics. Both of these organizations state that several well-controlled scientific studies have shown no significant improvement in outcomes with them, and a number of cases of people having had to be admitted to hospital due to complications of the long-term antibiotics. We know that antibiotics themselves have their own complications, if used inappropriately.
How do you respond to that? What is the research that refutes this from these organizations?