Strep Titers/Lyme

[sf_mom]

As some of you may remember.... my husband had elevated strep titers and was treated over the last 10 months with antibiotics. This past summer 4 out of 5 members of our family were diagnosed with Lyme and my husband is showing IND on some Lyme specific bands. All of my husband's mild Lyme like symptoms have resolved with antibiotic treatment for strep. Two weeks ago we retested his ASO and Anti-DNase-B and just got results this morning.

 

Dec 09: ASO 283, Anti-DNase-B 680

 

Feb 2010: ASO 244, Anti-DNase-B 680 (tested after 40 days of antibiotics)

 

Dec 2010: ASO 244.6, Anti-DNase-B 960

 

Our LLMD is proceeding with provocation testing to determine if it is Lyme preventing him from resolving the strep. He has not been tested for co-infections yet. They believe the Lyme is hiding due his antibiotic treatments. We will see once further testing is completed.

 

I'm sure some of you can appreciate our confusion over the issue of strep titers. I am tempted to have our Dr. run Strep Pneumo Titers to see if he too is deficient like our children.

 

-Wendy

Edited December 8, 2010 by SF Mom

[NancyD]

Wendy,

 

I was just thinking before you mentioned it, run Strep Pneumo titers. I bet his are very low. My daughter's strep levels were up near 3000 and abx alone never helped. It was only IVIg AND Augmentin XR that pushed them down to normal range. Her Strep Pneumo titers are still extremely low.

 

Nancy

 

As some of you may remember.... my husband had elevated strep titers and was treated over the last 10 months with antibiotics. This past summer 4 out of 5 members of our family were diagnosed with Lyme and my husband is showing IND on some Lyme specific bands. All of my husband's mild Lyme like symptoms have resolved with antibiotic treatment for strep. Two weeks ago we retested his ASO and Anti-DNase-B and just got results this morning.

 

Dec 09: ASO 283, Anti-DNase-B 680

 

Feb 2010: ASO 244, Anti-DNase-B 680 (tested after 40 days of antibiotics)

 

Dec 2010: ASO 244.6, Anti-DNase-B 960

 

Our LLMD is proceeding with provocation testing to determine if it is Lyme preventing him from resolving the strep. He has not been tested for co-infections yet. They believe the Lyme is hiding due his antibiotic treatments. We will see once further testing is completed.

 

I'm sure some of you can appreciate our confusion over the issue of strep titers. I am tempted to have our Dr. run Strep Pneumo Titers to see if he too is deficient like our children.

 

-Wendy