Is There A Cure For Lyme Disease Currently?

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.

Studies conducted on the illness, have revealed that after a month of contracting the infection, there is the development of symptoms of tiredness, swellings and memory loss. Most people normally question how the illness gets transferred to persons or between people. Well, know today that the disease is caused by the bite of ticks.

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.

Did you know that when you go for testing immediately after the tick bite there is high chances that you will test negative? Let us look at how you can prevent yourself from contracting the disease. If you want to prevent getting the sickness, you must then avoid being bitten by a tick. The best way to prevent tick bites is by wearing clothes that fully cover your body.

Health hygienists recommend that people should regularly spray their house with pesticides to kill all ticks in the house to reduce their numbers. When the numbers of the ticks are small, you will also reduce the likelihood of the tick sticking on your clothes or when sleeping on the bed. However when you find that one has stuck on your body, you should remove it with tweezers. You should not allow a tick to suck your blood until it gets full because it is the only way you can easily get Lyme.

How does a person treat Lyme infection? Lyme infection symptoms can be very discomforting, and immediately you get a tick bite immediately take antibiotic. Antibiotics are good for reducing the effects of the symptoms as well as treating the illness. You can also go to your health specialist and get the exact medication of what you need.

However, some people develop the symptoms as early as two days. The treatments can take up to three weeks. Beware because when you use antibiotics for long you from a resistance and it proves to be 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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