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How To Treat Lyme Disease

By Enid Hinton


It is important for every person to have good health in order to carry on with everyday activities. But in case a person falls sick, he or she can go to a hospital to seek medical attention. When someone falls ill, the extent of the sickness can be determined by the health providers as a serious case or not, that is why there are patients who are admitted and others discharged almost immediately because their case is not serious. In this article, we will be looking at what causes, signs and symptoms and how to treat Lyme disease.

Lyme is known to be a disease that is usually diagnosed from a tick bite. The ailment is said to be bacterial and also affects some animals like dogs. People who are likely to get this illness are the ones who live or spend time with animals infested with the ticks.

The signs and symptoms of Lyme in its early stages are rashes and flu. If a person has been infected he or she gets red rashes this is the first sign that occurs and as days go by the rash starts forming in a way that it looks like a bull eye, though the rash is painless. The infected person also gets flu like symptoms like headaches, body aches and fatigue.

The later symptoms of this disease are joint pains, heart aches, swollen glands, brain damages and many other problems. It can also affect the nerve system and cause kidney failure. This later symptoms only occur if the infected person does not seek immediate medical attention.

When doctors or health provides suspect that a patient is suffering from Lyme the do not carry out a blood test. This is because antibodies of the patient might be resisting the disease and therefore gives false results. What the doctors look for at first is the red rash as it is a must for a person suffering this illness to have it.

Antibiotics are given to the sufferer of illness in order to treat it. Additional medicine is given if the person has swollen glands and painful joints. People can also opt to treat it naturally if they do not want drugs. When examining the illness doctors do not do a blood test because the antibodies resist the disease and give false results.

Human beings can also get Lyme through rodents as they are known to be carriers of the ticks which are harmless to them. People can also get them when they stand unknowingly in grasses where the ticks are. The age group that is most affected the disease are children between the ages of five to fourteen and older people between the ages of forty to forty nine.

It is not a must for one to live in an area infested with ticks to get Lyme. A person might get it through rodents or standing unknowingly where the ticks are. To ensure that one does not get the illness it recommended for them to get vaccinated along with their animals and if a person suspects to have the disease they should seek immediate medical attention instead of waiting for it to reach severe stages. Good health is just as important as seeing a new day that is why we need to stay healthy.




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