How To Treat Lyme Disease And Its Symptoms

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 a bacterial disease that is caused by the bite of ticks which are infected. It is most common in dogs and affect humans how live in areas where animals are or they like spending time with the animals.

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.

In late stages the symptoms are severe they include heart problems, kidney failure, affects the nerve system, brain damage, swollen glands and even painful joints. In this stage it might be hard to treat the illness unlike the early stages that is why if a person suspects that they have it should go and seek medication immediately.

It is also important to note that Lyme is not contagious. Health providers diagnose the illness when a person has the red rash especially people who live in areas mostly infested by ticks. The antibodies of the infected person may give false results as the antibodies may resist the illness for years so health providers do not take blood test at the early stages of these illnesses.

Treatment of this illness is simply by using antibiotics. Additional medicines may be given to relief pain in the joints and other areas that may be painful. This disease can also be treated naturally without using drugs. The option is of the patient.

People should not be worried about getting the disease from an infected person as it is not contagious. The age group that is likely to be affected is children between the ages of five to fourteen and adults between ages forty to forty nine but this affect people who live in areas that are infested with the ticks.

It is very essential for a person who feels sick to seek medical attention as soon as possible. It has been seen that Lyme gets worse when left untreated the symptoms progresses and become more complicated. For people living in areas infested with ticks it is important for them to get vaccinated to avoid being victims of this illness as prevention is better than cure.




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