How To Treat Lyme Disease

By Enid Hinton


Everyone wishes to be in good health in order to work and achieve their goals. But it has been impossible for others to have good health due to some certain type of illnesses that is why hospitals have been built to help such people. There are some illnesses that are so serious that make the affected person become weak and depend on medication while some illness are not that serious. This article focuses on the 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.

Signs and symptoms of Lyme in humans are flu- the infected is like to be fatigued, get chills, body aches and fever. Another symptom is rashes- the infected person gets a red rash which after some days becomes like a bull eye though the rash is not painful. These are the signs and symptoms in the early stages.

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.

However, Lyme is not a contagious disease so people should not be worried that they can get it from an infected person. Health providers mostly diagnose the illness by the red rash; this symptom is what they look for as it must appear to the person who suffers the ailment.

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 therefore important for people to be vaccinated against Lyme especially children as it has been seen that it causes serious problems in its later stages which can be irreversible or put one under lifelong medication. People who live with animals can also get them vaccinated and make sure that the area they live in is clean to avoid rodents which are notorious carriers of the tick because at the end of the day prevention is better than cure.




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