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.
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.
Later symptoms are; joint pains- one is likely to feel pains at the joints at different times or at the same time. It can affect the nerve system and if the person affected does not seek medical attention as soon as possible he or she might get brain damages, heart problems, swollen glands, kidney problems and other serious problems caused by the disease.
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.
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.
Later symptoms are; joint pains- one is likely to feel pains at the joints at different times or at the same time. It can affect the nerve system and if the person affected does not seek medical attention as soon as possible he or she might get brain damages, heart problems, swollen glands, kidney problems and other serious problems caused by the disease.
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.
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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