New Treatments for Encephalitis

Case of Worsening Brain

The gentleman had been forgetting things and had fallen as well.  He was seen in the Emergency Room, got hospitalized and after tests he was diagnosed with autoimmune encephalitis. 

He was tried on steroids but that made his Diabetes worsen so even though it helped his brain, it had to be stopped.

He was started on LDN (low dose naltrexone)  which didn’t affect his sugars as well as other supplements. He felt more energetic on LDN .

He was counselled on food choices so that his sugars improved. It was realized that Covid may have played a role – lab tests confirmed that.  He was treated for the Covid and his energy further improved. 

He was feeling better and his sugars were better.

Why Functional/Integrative Medicine Can Help

So conventional medicine was not able to treat his autoimmune encephalitis because the medications worsened his Diabetes.

Functional/Integrative medicine had more tools with which to treat his condition.  A combination of medications and supplements made him feel better.  They were cutting-edge treatments for the encephalitis.

And then we thought of Covid as a possibility.  When the Covid test came back positive, that was a good thing.  Because more things could be done for that. 

And he responded to those interventions!

So if you or someone you know has a condition that seems untreatable, realize that may not be so. Functional/Integrative Medicine can offer a way because how we think about a disease is different and the treatments available are different.

So don’t resign yourself to a disease and treatments that you may not be able to tolerate until you see an integrative medical doctor who uses a wide variety of treatments.