Low Muscle Tone

[mdmom]

I have always wondered about this. Both of my children pre-diagnosis for Lyme had weekly OT sessions for hypotonia. My daughter was (I wish I could say "is") an avid swimmer - intense practice 4x/week and still has no muscle tone.

 

 

My son does not exercise much, but he is far into puberty and most boys form some muscle mass naturally at this stage. He has hardly any muscle tone - he is skin and bones.

 

I know Lyme has so many neurological effects - is this one of them?

[SSS]

The famous Dr. J says yes, in regard to gestational lyme in babies- major sign, poor muscle tone.

[socalmom]

Hi mdmom,

 

My son is congenital Lyme and has low muscle tone.

 

I saw it diminish with abx, meaning I saw his abilities improve such as being able to do the monkey bars all the way where before he was only able to hang and do maybe 1 "swing" on the bars.