KeyLyme

Lyme is very tricky… patients diagnosed with dementia were misdiagnosed and actually had Lyme disease!

If something doesn’t seem right, continue to stand up for yourself and be your own advocate!

Case review: 80-year-old with Lyme encephalopathy instead of dementia - Daniel Cameron, MD, MPH “An 80-year-old patient was admitted to the hospital after a fall, and subsequently developed an acute confused state requiring transfer to a neuropsychiatric unit,” writes Karrasch and colleagues in the journal Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases. [1]