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 symptoms of Lyme disease are as follows in its early stage; rashes after the tick bite the affected person develops a red mark around the bitten area and after a few days it forms in a way it looks like a bull eye though its painless. The other symptom is flu, the affected person starts getting headaches, fever, aches all over the body and fatigue.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 symptoms of Lyme disease are as follows in its early stage; rashes after the tick bite the affected person develops a red mark around the bitten area and after a few days it forms in a way it looks like a bull eye though its painless. The other symptom is flu, the affected person starts getting headaches, fever, aches all over the body and fatigue.
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.
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.
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.
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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