Can your PAndas kid have chronic Myco and NO lyme or do they almost al

[Broo100]

My son tested negative for lyme but we are fighting myco. I wonder if we should keep looking for lyme somehow

[beeskneesmommy]

Myco is not transmitted only by ticks. myco often jumps in opportunistically with bronchial or respiratory illness, like walking pneumonia.

[rowingmom]

Stephen Buhner suggests that almost everyone has been exposed to mycoplasma pneumonia, and that it passes through the general population every few years.

[ktdommer]

5 in my family all with myco and Lyme.

Which lab tested for Lyme?

[BeeRae22]

It is my understanding that there are different types of mycoplasma, and that mycoplasma pneumonia is not the same as Lyme related mycoplasma. My dd has mycoplasma pneumonia and has not tested positive for Lyme yet. I say yet, because we do suspect bartonella but haven't "found it" yet.

 

Mycoplasma pneumonia is very prevalent in public places (particularly in schools) but most children don't contract it, or at least don't have enough of an infection to be be noticed (maybe a 1 day fever, a cough for a few days, but usually passed off as a cold).