Ear, Bone, Lyme Infections
Chronic ear infections
Chronic ear infections may be due to a bacteria or a virus. It can cause persistent blockage of the ear, hearing loss, skin flaking, chronic ear drainage, balance problems, deep ear pain, headache, fever, excess sleepiness or confusion.
Chronic ear infections usually develop over many years in those who have had ear problems. Treatment of persistent ear infections is complex and requires a combination of antibiotics, cortico-steroids, and/or placement of tubes. When this fails surgery may be required.
There is also the meta-physical aspect to the inability to “hear the other“. That is the inability, or unwillingness to feel the other’s feelings or pain. This seems to stem from the inability or unwillingness to focus our attention on our own feelings and pains. Deliberately sensing the physical expressions of one’s own pains and discharging them via the CB+T and c2C, rather than suppressing, opens up the ability and willingness to care about and emphatize with others.
Bone Infections
Bone infections are acquired from an infection elsewhere in the body, trauma or spread from adjacent infected tissues. The diagnosis of bone infection requires a bone scan, blood cultures and X-rays. Sometimes the bone marrow has to be aspirated to discover the right organism.
It is a serious infection and carries a high complication rate if not treated promptly. Chronic bone infection can take years to heal and can keep on recurring. Most at risk are those who have artificial joints or metal components in the joint.
Lyme disease
Lyme is a tick borne disease that can cause skin rash, fever, chills, body aches and joint pain, sometimes severe weakness and temporary paralysis. It is easy to get the infection in grassy woodlands where the tick breeds. When dealt with promptly, most people recover fully.
It triggers chronic immune-type symptoms such as: headaches, inability to sleep, confusion, migrating joint pains, excess fatigue, paralysis of one side of the face and difficulty concentrating. Tests are not proof.
