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Asking Is There A Cure For Lyme Disease

By Enid Hinton


Millions of people enjoy spending time in wilderness areas that are wooded and have leafy ground cover. This terrain is a perfect breeding ground for ticks. Many ticks carry viral and microbial diseases that can be serious and cause tremendous discomfort for the host whether human or animal. Knowing the dangers of being bitten may cause campers and hunters to ask their doctors is there a cure for Lyme disease?

One of the most important steps to curing this infection is early diagnosis and care. Being aware of what to look for if you are bitten by a tick will greatly enhance chances of early diagnosis. You may first notice an unusual rash that looks like a bulls eye at the site of the bite. It may spread to about twelve inches across and may reoccur in other parts of the body. You will notice that there is no itching or pain from the rash but heat will emanate from it when touched.

Other symptoms include fatigue, chills, fever, serious headaches, joint and muscle pain and swollen lymph nodes. All of these issues including the rash will come and go thus causing confusion when diagnosing the real cause of the problem. The longer the time between the bite and treatment the more symptoms you will see.

You will discover more lesions in other parts of your body, muscle tone loss in one or both sides of the face, called Bell's Palsy will occur within the first few weeks of infection and severe head and neck aches will be common caused by inflammation of the spinal cord. Patients will also experience shooting pains that interfere with sleep patterns as well as having dizziness and heart palpitations. Most of these issues will dissipate with or without treatment but most people suffer additional complications without treatment.

Untreated cases experience severe arthritis pain and swelling in knees, hips and other large joints. Loss of short term memory and other neurological problems in over five percent of the people who receive no treatment for their tick bites. These chronic ailments may include numbness in hands and feet as well as sharp reoccurring pains in the head and body.

Most physicians treat their patients with massive long term doses of anti biotic. The most common application is through oral consumption but some patients receive injections. The treatment may last up to thirty days and those who delay treatment may require intravenous treatment and be confined to the hospital.

There is a limit to how much anti biotic can be administered to a patient legally and those with chronic Lyme symptoms will be denied treatment by doctors and coverage by health insurance. There are natural treatments that may be helpful to combat the symptoms of pain and memory loss. Most ingredients involve raw fruits and vegetables that work as natural anti bodies that can kill and flush the infection from your body.

Early detection of the disease is the surest way to assure complete recovery of this ailment. The more information you have on the subject the sooner you will know when to seek help from a physician.




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