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

By Toni Vang


Lyme infection is also known as borreliosis. It is a very infectious sickness that is caused by bacteria known as Borrelia. When you are infected with the disease, you see the affected area expanding after some few days. You never feel itchy when you have this illness. If you go for a while without treatment some of the symptoms, you will have include fever, feeling tired and headache. In the advanced stages, you cannot move because you will be having neck stiffness, severe joint pains and heart palpitations. In this article, we will look at; is there a cure for Lyme disease so that you can avoid getting into these advanced stages.

Researchers on this illness indicate that after one month of infection you develop symptoms such as repeated swellings, tiredness, and memory loss. Many people wonder how the disease gets transferred from a person to another. You need to realize it is the ticks that transmit the illness through bites.

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.

The most peculiar thing about this illness is that, when you go for a test immediately after the tick bite, the chances of you testing negative is very high. The illness can be prevented by avoiding tick bites. Ensure you put on clothes that cover your body fully.

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.

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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