Man, I am posting a lot in here. Sigh.
My 2.5 yo was bitten by a deer tick the other day. It couldn't've been on him for more than 10 hours or so before we had it removed. I had Lyme a few years ago (caught in time to kill with abx) so I'll probably be sort of mildly panicking in the 4 weeks (!) it takes for the blood test to be accurate.
Someone we know apparently does preventative abx for Lyme -- whenever he gets a bite he takes a dose or two of doxycycline to nip the bacterium in the bud before it spreads.
Anyone do this with toddlers? I'm just nervous about killing off his gut flora -- right after he finally started taking probiotics!
Also I heard elsewhere that 1-2 doses isn't enough to kill the bacterium, only to make it adapt. I don't know. When I had Lyme before the blood test came back they gave me a shot of abx and I had huge huge dieoff that same night. Then again the infection was pretty advanced in me.
Thoughts?
My 2.5 yo was bitten by a deer tick the other day. It couldn't've been on him for more than 10 hours or so before we had it removed. I had Lyme a few years ago (caught in time to kill with abx) so I'll probably be sort of mildly panicking in the 4 weeks (!) it takes for the blood test to be accurate.
Someone we know apparently does preventative abx for Lyme -- whenever he gets a bite he takes a dose or two of doxycycline to nip the bacterium in the bud before it spreads.
Anyone do this with toddlers? I'm just nervous about killing off his gut flora -- right after he finally started taking probiotics!
Also I heard elsewhere that 1-2 doses isn't enough to kill the bacterium, only to make it adapt. I don't know. When I had Lyme before the blood test came back they gave me a shot of abx and I had huge huge dieoff that same night. Then again the infection was pretty advanced in me.
Thoughts?
