Monday, January 26, 2015

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.

Early symptoms include fatigue, fever, cold chills, head and body pains and swollen, sore lymph nodes. These symptoms are transient and occur and disappear often. Many times victims ignore them and this can make diagnosis and treatment difficult for professionals. The sooner you advise your doctor that you have been bitten by a tick the sooner you can be treated for problems that have arisen from the bite.

Rashes and lesions will appear on your body and you may suffer Bell's Palsy and lose muscle tone on your face. This will happen within a very few weeks of being bitten. You can expect sharp shooting pains in your head and body as well as acutely painful head and neck aches caused by meningitis or spinal cord inflammation. Sleeping will be disturbed by pain and your heart may race causing dizziness. Symptoms may lessen or disappear over time whether you receive treatment or not but further problems occur without help.

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.

The treatment for this disease includes long term dosage of anti biotic. Those who receive early treatment can expect to recover completely. The anti biotic can be administered orally or through injection for a period lasting over thirty days. Health problems arise in those who require longer term treatment.

There are legal limits as to how much anti biotic can be administered to a patient and this presents a problem for those who have chronic symptoms. Doctors may refuse further treatment and insurance companies do not recognize chronic Lyme as a disease and will not cover further treatment. The internet offers natural solutions for those who suffer chronically. Most are fresh fruit and vegetable combinations that are designed to kill and flush the virus from the 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.




About the Author:




0 commentaires:

Post a Comment