By Christa Jarvis


There are different organisms responsible for causing different diseases. These are generally termed as pathogens and include fungi, viruses and bacteria. Bacterial diseases respond well to treatment as compared to the others and most of such related infections can be cured very well and completely. This addressees the concern of many victims asking the question, is there a cure for Lyme disease?

This far it has been shown that individuals can completely recover from Lyme disease infection. However, this has a link to the stage or level of ailment at time of initiating medication alongside other management. Experts recommend that such care modalities be started as soon as may be possible. Any delays in the care reflect wrongly on the outcome of care and the sooner such management is started the better.

Key drugs for treating any given patient with this condition is antibiotics. These are the drugs that act against bacteria. They are numerous and with varying modes of action. A combination of more than one drug is therefore necessary to ensure success especially in advanced stages. It is worth noting that individual variations and stage of the ailment may grossly affect care modalities prescribed for each and every patient. Generally, early localized infections respond well to doxycycline treatment alone.

All pregnant mothers and children under the age of eight must therefore see experts for appropriate care. Use of doxycycline presents more health risk than benefit and therefore not recommended as part of care.

Treatment period may considerably vary depending on individual response. Delays in recovery have been noted in late initiation of treatment. Similarly, such late initiation of treatment has also been linked to recurrence in ailment or related distressing symptoms. These distressing symptoms may take a long time to resolve but they finally disappear.

For one to completely be sure of cure there must be an assured control of all related symptoms and signs associated with this ailment. Better still, one must have used relevant drugs used for management of this infection as professionally prescribed. In line with this therefore, it requires that one observe changes that include and is not limited to end of muscle pains, fatigue, joint pains and body edema before being declared as healed. This usually takes up to four weeks of medication.

In very rare but devastating circumstances, this infection may end up advancing to the level of causing damage to vital body structures as nerves and brain. Such may point out rare cases of treatment failure or unattended disease cases. Not many of the affected victims end up this way and therefore the ailment is not considered a big threat to the general population.

In conclusion, all persons in a population should make it their responsibility to maintain health. This implies that all persons with suspected infections should not just be left unattended but guided to health care facilities for care. The symptoms may be mild and so administration of analgesics may mask the key health concerns which eventually cause disability. All the same, the most important thing to note is that the disease can be treated at all stages with a good prognosis.




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