Is There A Cure For Lyme Disease In The 21St Century?

By Toni Vang


Lyme Borreliosis is a dangerous infectious sickness that is caused by bacterial organisms. One of the signs of recognizing this infection is swellings in an affected area. That is just but one of the signs of this infectious disease. Other signs include swellings without the itch, high fever, tiredness and serious headaches. The infection can be detrimental especially when in its advanced stages as it makes movements hard. Your neck also becomes stiff, joints become painful, and the heart palpitates. In this article, we will try to discuss about the question of: is there a cure for Lyme disease and what you should do immediately after noticing the signs and symptoms mentioned above.

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.

Lxodes Genuses of ticks are the most commonly known ticks that spread the infection. For a person to get the sickness, the tick should have attached to your body for not less than thirty-six hours. The disease cannot be transferred to another person from one person. You can also not contract the disease from other animals and foods.

At the initial stages of contacting the illness when you go for a blood test, it will possibly test negative. We all know that prevention always better than cure. Let us then look at how you can prevent the illness. The first step is to avoid being bitten by ticks. Prevention means you need to dress well by wearing long clothes.

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 does a person treat Lyme infection? Lyme infection symptoms can be very discomforting, and immediately you get a tick bite immediately take antibiotic. Antibiotics are good for reducing the effects of the symptoms as well as treating the illness. You can also go to your health specialist and get the exact medication of what you need.

Another fact to take note of is that, the first symptoms of the infection start showing up withing two days to about three weeks. For this reason, you should take action immediately after the bite. Even so, overusing the antibiotics can be detrimental since the bacteria can form a resistance making the medication 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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