In order to work and achieve the desired goals it is important that one has good health. But in case one falls ill he or she can go to hospital to seek medical attention. When a person falls sick the extent of the illness is determined as a serious case when the person is dependent on medication and cannot do without them. Some illnesses are curable and others are not, in this article we will look at how to treat Lyme disease in human beings.
Lyme is known to be a disease that is usually diagnosed from a tick bite. The ailment is said to be bacterial and also affects some animals like dogs. People who are likely to get this illness are the ones who live or spend time with animals infested with the ticks.
The signs and symptoms of Lyme in its early stages are rashes and flu. If a person has been infected he or she gets red rashes this is the first sign that occurs and as days go by the rash starts forming in a way that it looks like a bull eye, though the rash is painless. The infected person also gets flu like symptoms like headaches, body aches and fatigue.
The later symptoms of this disease are joint pains, heart aches, swollen glands, brain damages and many other problems. It can also affect the nerve system and cause kidney failure. This later symptoms only occur if the infected person does not seek immediate medical attention.
However, Lyme is not a contagious disease so people should not be worried that they can get it from an infected person. Health providers mostly diagnose the illness by the red rash; this symptom is what they look for as it must appear to the person who suffers the ailment.
Antibiotics are given to the sufferer of illness in order to treat it. Additional medicine is given if the person has swollen glands and painful joints. People can also opt to treat it naturally if they do not want drugs. When examining the illness doctors do not do a blood test because the antibodies resist the disease and give false results.
People should not be worried about getting the disease from an infected person as it is not contagious. The age group that is likely to be affected is children between the ages of five to fourteen and adults between ages forty to forty nine but this affect people who live in areas that are infested with the ticks.
It is therefore important for people to be vaccinated against Lyme especially children as it has been seen that it causes serious problems in its later stages which can be irreversible or put one under lifelong medication. People who live with animals can also get them vaccinated and make sure that the area they live in is clean to avoid rodents which are notorious carriers of the tick because at the end of the day prevention is better than cure.
Lyme is known to be a disease that is usually diagnosed from a tick bite. The ailment is said to be bacterial and also affects some animals like dogs. People who are likely to get this illness are the ones who live or spend time with animals infested with the ticks.
The signs and symptoms of Lyme in its early stages are rashes and flu. If a person has been infected he or she gets red rashes this is the first sign that occurs and as days go by the rash starts forming in a way that it looks like a bull eye, though the rash is painless. The infected person also gets flu like symptoms like headaches, body aches and fatigue.
The later symptoms of this disease are joint pains, heart aches, swollen glands, brain damages and many other problems. It can also affect the nerve system and cause kidney failure. This later symptoms only occur if the infected person does not seek immediate medical attention.
However, Lyme is not a contagious disease so people should not be worried that they can get it from an infected person. Health providers mostly diagnose the illness by the red rash; this symptom is what they look for as it must appear to the person who suffers the ailment.
Antibiotics are given to the sufferer of illness in order to treat it. Additional medicine is given if the person has swollen glands and painful joints. People can also opt to treat it naturally if they do not want drugs. When examining the illness doctors do not do a blood test because the antibodies resist the disease and give false results.
People should not be worried about getting the disease from an infected person as it is not contagious. The age group that is likely to be affected is children between the ages of five to fourteen and adults between ages forty to forty nine but this affect people who live in areas that are infested with the ticks.
It is therefore important for people to be vaccinated against Lyme especially children as it has been seen that it causes serious problems in its later stages which can be irreversible or put one under lifelong medication. People who live with animals can also get them vaccinated and make sure that the area they live in is clean to avoid rodents which are notorious carriers of the tick because at the end of the day prevention is better than cure.