Lyme Disease. Borreliosis
Well, what is Lyme disease and why does it have such an exotic name? The thing is it was first mentioned in the city of Lyme, a city in the USA, Connecticut.
Lyme disease or mite-born borreliosis (after the name of bacteria Borellia, spirochete type) is a disease caused by spirochetes and transmitted by the mites Ixodes dammini. More often the carriers of this disease are our domestic animals. The real tank of immature individuals Ixodes dammini is rats and mice.
As I’ve already said, Lyme disease is the transmission of the bacteria to a man through the bite of the infected Ixodic mites. The cases of the disease are more frequent in summer at a hot period of the season which, as a rule, favours the greater activity of the harmful mites.
In the majority of cases the area of the spreading of Lyme disease coincides with tick-borne encephalitis. The outbreaks of the borreliosis disease, despite the current opinion, are observed practically in all the regions of the Russian Federation.
What Are the Main Symptoms of Lyme Disease?
The Symptoms and Treatment Modes of Lyme Disease
As a rule, it’s difficult to diagnose the bite of the harmful mite, because of its small size. It’s important to notice that the nidus is hot by touch and doesn’t disturb much.
The spectrum of the symptoms of Lyme disease is very widespread that makes its identification quite a difficult task. At an early stage of the disease you can observe weakness, tiredness, fever, headaches, migrating muscle pain, characteristic skin eruption, and vertigo. The more serious manifestations of Lyme disease are the affection of the nervous system, locomotive system and even heart!
Proceeding from the above-listed symptoms of Lyme disease, it’s seems to be a very serious disease, that’s why the earlier you identify the disease, the easier is the treatment.
Unfortunately, it often happens that in case when the borreliosis disease is totally neglected the disease assumes a chronic character, the people get facial paralysis, meningitis, and even become invalids. Besides, as side effects, Lyme disease is usually attended by the weakening of short-term memory, problems with the eyesight, and various mental derangements.
Treatment Modes of Lyme Disease
In the majority of cases, at early stages of the development of disease (mite-borne erythema, without fever and intoxication), on conditions that you resort to competent medical help, the symptoms of borreliosis can be eliminated by antibiotics and Doryx the choice, the doze and the duration of taking of which depend on the stage of disease, the prevailing clinical syndrome, the form and the severity.
Treatment Modes of Lyme Disease
As a rule, the incubative period lasts from 2 to 30 days. The sick with the medium form of Lyme disease undergo obligatory hospitalization to an infectious diseases hospital at any period of the disease. Some weeks after the beginning of the infection positive reaction in antibody ELISA test is observed among the majority of the patients.
For borreliosis attended by skin manifestations, the duration of the therapy, as a rule, is about 10 days and 20-30 days for disseminated infections.
Perhaps the most famous medicines for Lyme disease are doxycycline, Amoxicillin, intoxication of tetracycline, chloramphenicol, penicillin, chloramphenicol-succinite, and many other less famous, but not less effective antibiotics. In the average, all the people who had borreliosis undergo observation by a specialized clinic during 2 years.
In conclusion I’d like to remind you a very important thing. Lyme disease, as any other disease, by all means requires the interference of professional physicians!!! Forget the much talked-about folk and non-traditional treatment modes of this disease, as the wasted time can often do a lot of harm to you and to give you a lot of troubles and health problems.
