Guides on symptoms to Lyme disease !

Lyme disease is also known as borreliosis, a considerably common disease that is diagnosed to a number of 300,000 people per year in US itself. This disease is caused by bacteria Borrelia Burgdorferi. This infection are usually cased by a peculiar black legged ticks. These ticks can be of varying sizes with the most immature ones called nymphs which are a size of 2mm, therefore difficult to see and most mature ticks known as adult ticks that can be spotted easily. Ticks usually cause an infection by attaching themselves to the host's body and staying for almost 36-48 hours.

Some points to be taken note of when dealing with ticks-

·         Lyme is a common disease but only 5 percent of tick bytes may result in an infection.

·         The nymph ticks are active during spring and summer while the adult ticks are active during the cooler months.

·         These ticks should be detached on being spotted.

·         Ticks follow there own method to find hosts as they can neither fly not jump, so they usually rest in their peculiar questing position on grass tips and wait until the host pass by, as soon as the host pass or comes in contact with the grass tips they rest on, these ticks crawl into the body and attach themselves after finding a suitable place.

There are various symptoms to identify an infection or Lyme disease-

·         Fever is a common occurrence, along with constant chills

·         Headache is also a part of the disease symptoms

·         Fatigue

·         Muscle pain along with joint ache can be common feature of the disease symptoms.

·         The most common and well known symptoms to Lyme disease is the rash that have a 70 to 80 chance of occurrence. These rash start off as a small red patch which gradually expands to almost 12 inch across or more. These rash may even take a target or bull eye like effect as it fades out while expanding.

·         When rash does not occur, a common symptoms otherwise would be swollen lymph nodes.

·         Some other symptoms which may develop later are, swollen knee, facial palsy, heart palpitations, dizziness etc.

Treatment

Lyme disease are totally recoverable. This disease is usually treated with antibiotics when noticed on early stages of occurrence and as a result it recover to normal pretty quickly. The antibiotics dosage are different from one to another as various facts are taken note of like the affected person's age, disease condition, patients allergies, medical history etc.

Conclusion

Lyme disease is a common occurrence in a lot of regions, but is totally curable, though the infection is common but not transmittable. The disease is caused by ticks which may be of various sizes and should be detached from the body on being spotted. There are various symptoms of Lyme disease but none that are chronic or permanently damaging.

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