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Saturday, May 16, 2015

Is There A Cure For Lyme Disease In The Current Times?

By Toni Vang


Lyme Borreliosis also known as Lyme infection is one of the infectious diseases that are brought by bacterial organisms. One of the easiest ways to identify if you have the infection is if you see swellings in the affected areas. That is not the only sign that shows that you have the infection. Some of the other signs are that the swelling does not itch yet you feel fever, some tiredness and serious headache. When it gets to the advanced stages, it can make your movement difficult because your neck stiffs, heart palpitation and severe joint pains. In this piece of writing, we want to see: is there a cure for Lyme disease to help people mitigate the symptoms.

Studies conducted on the illness, have revealed that after a month of contracting the infection, there is the development of symptoms of tiredness, swellings and memory loss. Most people normally question how the illness gets transferred to persons or between people. Well, know today that the disease is caused by the bite of ticks.

The ticks that transmit the infection are the Lxodes genus ticks. For the disease to spread the tick attaches to a person for at least thirty-six hours. Studies show that the infection cannot be transmitted from a person to another person. Neither can it also be transferable in foods or other animals.

Did you know that when you go for testing immediately after the tick bite there is high chances that you will test negative? Let us look at how you can prevent yourself from contracting the disease. If you want to prevent getting the sickness, you must then avoid being bitten by a tick. The best way to prevent tick bites is by wearing clothes that fully cover your body.

Health hygienists regularly recommend spraying of houses using pesticides to kill all ticks within the house so as to reduce their numbers. When their numbers reduce, the likelihood of the ticks sticking to your clothes also reduces. Even so, if you get a tick that has stuck on the body or clothes, use tweezers to remove them. Do not allow them to suck too much of your blood since it through that that you contact the diseases.

How would a person get treatment once they get the illness? When you see that the tick that has been removed is full of blood, it will be advisable if you take an antibiotic immediately. The reason it is important to take the antibiotic is to prevent the disease from getting to advanced stages. There are many antibiotics that will easily help in managing the illness. Remember that in the beginning it is not easy to detect the illness.

It is also important to note that for the first symptoms to develop it can take a period of two days to three weeks. It is for this reason you should not keep silent immediately you remove a tick from your body. Take caution because if you overuse antibiotics the bacteria will form resistance, and it will be ineffective.

There is research still being conducted about a vaccination for this illness. Antibiotics that doctors have recommended for the illness include cefotaxime and doxycycline as they aid in treating the infection. If you take the drug within seventy hours after being bit by a tick, the likelihood of developing the symptoms will reduce.




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