Lyme disease is a multisystem inflammatory disease caused by spirochetes, known collectively as Borrelia burgdorferi, which are spread by the bite of infected Ixodes ticks.(Lyme disease is an inflammatory condition caused by an infection with bacteria called Borrelia burgdorferi. Ticks carry these bacteria and transmit the bacteria to humans when they bite.)
Early localized disease includes erythema migrans (EM) and associated findings. EM occurs in up to 90 percent of patients, usually within one month after the tick bite. EM is not present or not detected or recalled in the remaining patients. Only about 30 percent of patients with Lyme disease recall the tick bite.
People at greatest risk are those who spend the most time out of doors in an "at-risk" environment:
1-Adventuresome and exploring children get Lyme disease more often than sedentary adults.
2-Telephone linesmen, people involved in forestry or other outdoor maintenance work in endemic areas, hunters, campers, orienteers, and hikers, are all at increased risk.
3-People who garden where there are lots of deer or near brush or scrub on the verge of forest are also at increased risk.
4-Those living in houses with bird feeders (because mice feed on dropped seeds) and nearby old stone walls (because mice live within these structures) may also be at risk.
5-People who live on property on the verge of or within a forest frequented by deer are at risk, especially if the areas between the forest and their land has brush and forest litter on the ground.
The best way to prevent Lyme disease is to know the areas of greatest risk and to take appropriate personal precautions following possible exposures.
there were vaccination for lyme disease. but it isn't used now for its sideaffects.howeverever in vaccination we didn't have good protection. Protective antibodies against OspA decline over time in the absence of booster doses of vaccine. Most patients are protected for one year after vaccination, and approximately 50 percent are protected for two years . As a result, patients who have been vaccinated in the past should be advised that they are no longer being protected from developing Lyme disease and personal precautions should not be abandoned. In addition, as mentioned above, even if they continue to have vaccine-induced protection against Lyme disease they are not protected against other tick-borne illnesses.
2006-10-02 08:11:43
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answered by ellina 2
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when you wish the reality, and the truly reply, then believe the outcome of assessments authorised by way of the FDA. You have had them and they're poor. If you had precise Lyme , untreated for greater than a million month, you could now not have a poor Lyme EIA. You would not have Lyme disorder. If you rather do not care approximately what's honestly bothering you, and as a substitute, you simply wish guilty all of it on Lyme, in spite of mostly poor bodily tests, no tick publicity, poor lab assessments, then welcome to the sector of the "lyme expert" and "Igenx lab". Those persons will inform EVERYONE they have got Lyme, and they're going to deliver you whatever to think in, conferences to visit each and every week. And they're going to assurance that 10 years from now you're no bigger in any respect -- since you're going to now not be looking for the truly quandary, handiest blaming it on a germ that is not there. I desire you re-consider this earlier than you get drawn into the Lyme Religion. If you've gotten different household individuals with equivalent problems - you can also wish to remember fibromyalgia, fibrositis, or different rheumatologic disorder -- -a session with a rheumatologist might support you. Good success to you.
2016-08-29 09:10:10
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answered by Anonymous
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No I have chronic Lyme disease. This is! Forth time being treated. If they catch it in time, There is alot me hope for a full recovery. Sometimes though it goes much to far for a full recovery.
2015-02-07 21:40:06
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answered by Jennie 1
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No that's not true:
Lyme disease is a bacterial infection. Even if successfully treated, a person may become reinfected if bitten later by another infected tick.
2006-10-02 07:56:50
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answered by swomedicineman 4
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not true I have friends that have had more than once I had it once and my Dr. still checks every time I am in there
2006-10-02 08:01:33
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answered by norsmen 5
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