When Lyme disease affects learning
Ali Seppala seemed to operate in a fog.The 9-year-old, diagnosed five years ago with Lyme disease, would get so distracted she’d forget why she entered a room. She struggled with math and complained about pain in strange places, such as the tops and bottoms of her feet, her mother, Brianna Seppala, said.Ali’s health picture became clearer after a new round of tick-borne disease testing in the past few months showed she had babesiosis and a bartonella [...]