Fever is a useful response of the body to many infections. The increased temperature can not only kill some bugs directly, but can also increase the visbility of the infectious agent to the immune system (heat shock response).

The lyme spirochete is an intracellular parasite. Once it invades fibroblasts and the central nervous system, it is difficult to kill with antibiotics (that is why early therapy is important).

Heating the body to kill the spirochete can only be effective if two criteria are met: (1)the temperature is great enough over a period of time to kill the bug; and, (2)the increased temperature does not harm the patient. Malaria therapy for the treatment of syphilis, a spirochete that is sensitive to antibiotics, is ineffective for chronic lyme disease. Too, it is dangerous because of malarial resistance to drug therapy. Heating the body through external means is also ineffective because it can cause a variety of burns.

The Swiss have developed a method that heats the body from the inside out in a chemical fashion. The procedure is administered at the Aeskulap Klinic in Brunnen, Switzerland. I will be contacting the nurse in charge of this therapy (Brigit Kaik, RN) and hope to shortly post some of their data and possible publications.