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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Effects of Long Covid and Provision of Long Covid Care: Engagement with Dr. John Lambert (6 Jul 2022)

John Lahart: There is a cross-party parliamentary group meeting today about Lyme disease. Based on the evidence of long Covid's impact on the brain, as taste and things like that are controlled by the brain, would Dr. Lambert be minded to see a connection with a virus with regard to diseases like Lyme disease and myalgic encephalomyelitis, ME?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Effects of Long Covid and Provision of Long Covid Care: Engagement with Dr. John Lambert (6 Jul 2022)

Dr. John Lambert: I have managed patients with chronic symptoms from Lyme disease for many years. Many of the protocols I have put together for long Covid patients are based on my experience there. Johns Hopkins has done studies using PET scans on patients with persistent symptoms of Lyme disease, called post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome. When PET scans were done on the brains of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Effects of Long Covid and Provision of Long Covid Care: Engagement with Dr. John Lambert (6 Jul 2022)

...inflammation in those cases. The therapeutics of many of the lessons learned from managing patients with closed head injuries can be applied to treating patients with long Covid and, indeed, long Lyme disease. We just need to do more research into this and have a think. We can wait five years, until new data come along, or we can be pioneering and take the lead in terms of trying to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Effects of Long Covid and Provision of Long Covid Care: Engagement with Dr. John Lambert (6 Jul 2022)

...in Ireland of patients with fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome, ME. I hypothesise that some kind of infection might have triggered this condition years ago that we have yet to identify. Lyme disease is one of them. There are other tick-borne infections and now we have long Covid. No money goes into Lyme research. I hope the money that goes into long Covid research will benefit...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Effects of Long Covid and Provision of Long Covid Care: Engagement with Dr. John Lambert (6 Jul 2022)

Frances Black: I thank Dr. Lambert for attending and for the phenomenal work he has done and is doing. I know someone whose son had Lyme disease and Dr. Lambert was a godsend. They had no clue what was going on until they found Dr. Lambert. I apologise, as I missed some of Dr. Lambert's presentation, so forgive me if I am repeating questions. How many people have been impacted by long Covid? Has he...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Effects of Long Covid and Provision of Long Covid Care: Engagement with Dr. John Lambert (6 Jul 2022)

...have what is called “chemo brain”. It has done some damage and they have persistent central nervous system, CNS, symptoms including brain fog in the long term. There are analogies with other disease areas. Lyme disease patients can have persistent symptoms years and years after they have been treated. The issue is that we know it is causing this, but how do we reverse it?...