The disease of Lyme is an infectious state caused by a burgdorferi called of Borrelia of spirochete (a bacterium formed like a corkscrew), diffusion by drills. Because of its nonspecific symptoms, it is difficult to diagnose and easy to confuse with other diseases, a reason for which the specialists sometimes refer to him like large applicant . He was identified at the human ones and the animals, in particular those with the fur, which carry usually drills.
The disease of Lyme obtained its name of the place where it was identified the first time - Lyme old man, Connecticut, in 1977. It very started when two are concerned mothers decided to detect the source of increase not explained in the number of cases of the youthful rheumatoid arthritis, and upwards finished finding a new disease. Since then, the condition proved more common than at the beginning considered, and of the thousands of articles of the disease of Lyme were written and published.
Considering the time and the sectors when the demonstrations occurred, the specialists soon bound the disease to a certain type of drill, generally found among common stags. While research progressed, they also realized that the infection had of the phases early and implying late of the eruptions and other dermatological symptoms, and, without adapted treatment, it could affect the nervous system, eyes, heart, joined (consequently the confusion made in studies earlier with arthritis), and, in the most serious cases, it was even related to meningitis.
Today, the infection can be detected completely easily. If you make inform the bull 'the eruption and of you traditional of eye of S your doctor that you 'the VE exposed to the contact with drills (by wood walk or the familiar animals, which could have carried the drills inside the house), no other test is necessary and any doctor will probably think of the disease of Lyme immediately. If you are not sure, a simple analysis of blood is rather usually. The treatment includes two or three weeks of antibiotics. In spite of what you could have read inside of the articles of the disease of Lyme available in the libraries and on the Internet, the disease is entirely setting and does not leave any long-term side effect, if the good treatment is employed as of the access. Except antibiotics, there aren 't all the other solutions effective, thus should see you a doctor with the very first symptoms and follow the treatment consequently.
The disease of Lyme is completely common to the United States nowadays, with hundreds of thousands of diagnosed cases each year, and the number of diagnoses also increases in Europe (probably because of the atmospheric changes which make it possible drills to thrive in many sectors). Moreover, it was more often recorded among children than of the adults. As usual, him 's to better prevent the infection than to treat the disease, thus specialists recommend the attention while living, while going or while camping in the sectors infested by drills. Using the insect repellant is an good idea, since the bacteria can enter your system only by bites of drill, and it cannot draw aside from one human infected to another, or sick animals with the human ones.
