In a message dated 7/13/2006 7:12:13 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
 writes:

Doxycycline is also an antibiotic.


Doxycycline is one of the tetracycline-type antibiotics and seems to  be 
effective in treating the disease early in its course. Those of us whose  
treatment wasn't started in a timely manner ended up on a salad bowl of  antibiotics, 
sometimes on IV, and sometimes doubling up two kinds at once, as  you might 
have read in Laura Larson's article. My understanding is that the lyme  
bacterium has a long reproductive cycle and can also change forms, hence the  
different kinds of antibiotics, some of which affect reproduction and some of  which 
kill bacteria. (A layperson's interpretation - fell free to correct  it.)
 
Remember that doxycycline (all tetracyclines?) increase photosensitivity,  
including skin and eyes, or so I was told.
 
Leslie Starr
Baltimore & Port Republic
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