Very interesting , we constantly are aware of lymes disease in are area seems to be very prevalent here in northesat Pa just talked with someone today that found a deer tick that was on them for 5 days doctor got him on antibiotics but he is already dealing with very sore stiff joints . Both of my neighbors have been affected with lymes and I cut firewood constantly normally when I find a tick its just crawling on me and very rarely is it dug in .Out pheasant hunting this year I came out of the woods one day with approx. 20 deer ticks on my pants and never found one on my skin .Maybe I should allow more stings when working in the beeyard !!!!
it's no picnic when doing the Bee Venom Therapy for treating Lyme though. The protocol calls for 10 bee stings near the spine 3 times a week, so that is 30 stings each week, for 2 YEARS. Purposeful stings on my arthritic knee are painful enough, but I can't image having my back feel like that for 2 years.
They currently tell people that if they find a tick, to remove it and then do 3 stings around the bite area itself to prevent any Lyme from taking hold, because once it is in your system, it is in there pretty good.
Very interesting ruthiesbees, I did not read the entire paper, but I thought it would be some sort of vaccine, or IV. After hearing how bad Lyme disease is, I think I could do 30 stings a week, if there was no other delivery method.
I wish I was better with a computer I'd send that to a couple of people I know with Lyme disease.
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