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Sugar & Lyme Disease — Don’t Have Sugar While Grappling With Lyme Disease, Reader Writes

Posted in Diabetes Articles by Connie Bennett on August 26th, 2008

I love getting mail from readers of this blog. Here's an interesting e-mail I just received from John in Maryland, who, unfortunately has Lyme disease, like me:"I have Lyme disease and I wanted to comment on the issue of eating sugar/sweet food/carbs when you have Lyme disease and while on antibiotics. "Sugar in all its forms (except stevia) is a real problem when you have Lyme and are on antibiotics for months. With a weakened immune system and being on antibiotics...eating sugar is a recipe for disaster. "Yeast overgrowth is a real problem for people taking long-term antibiotics, and yeast...