Black on teeth/Lyme patients on antibiotics...?

August 28, 2009

Hi, I have 2 patients who are twins that are both being treated for Lyme disease

by 2 different naturopaths. They are on a continually changing antibiotic

regime. They both have developed black on their teeth. It can be scraped off,

so I don't think its the teeth themselves that are rotting--although I could be

wrong. Has anyone heard of this and do you have any ideas about treating it

while they continue their treatment from their ND's?

One of the ND's told one of them that some antibiotics can cause this side

effect but that the antibiotics that they were taking are not known to.

Its kind of tough working on them because so many of their symptoms seem related

to the antibiotics and they are on so many supplements that its hard to get my

head around what is from what and how to approach treating them with TCM. Any

thoughts on that would be greatly appreciated. I have spent most of my career

helping people avoid antibiotics so its hard to get my head around believing

that being on them for years is actually going to restore health.

August 29, 2009

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Hi Laura,

Usually Erytromiecin (sp?) blackens the teeth and it is not an antibiotics for

treatment of Lyme disease. Blackening of the teeth in this case is under the

enamel, you cannot scrape it off. In case of your patients I think it is a

result of high acidity, systemic and local.

Change in diet may help.

Tatiana

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> Hi, I have 2 patients who are twins that are both being treated for Lyme

disease by 2 different naturopaths. They are on a continually changing

antibiotic regime. They both have developed black on their teeth. It can be

scraped off, so I don't think its the teeth themselves that are

rotting--although I could be wrong. Has anyone heard of this and do you have

any ideas about treating it while they continue their treatment from their ND's?

>

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