Sunday, November 16, 2014

Is There A Cure For Lyme Disease ? Find Answers To Your Concerns

By Christa Jarvis


Ailments are caused by different organisms with varying levels of virulence. Such ailment causing organisms are termed as pathogens and include viruses, fungi and bacteria. Of all these, bacterial infections are easier to manage as compared to the others. Is there a cure for Lyme disease? The answer is yes. It is possible as it is one of the bacterial infections which can be treated. It is spread by ticks when they cling to human skin in an attempt to feed unknowingly spread this ailment.

This far it has been shown that individuals can completely recover from Lyme disease infection. However, this has a link to the stage or level of ailment at time of initiating medication alongside other management. Experts recommend that such care modalities be started as soon as may be possible. Any delays in the care reflect wrongly on the outcome of care and the sooner such management is started the better.

Like any other bacterial infections, this disease responds well to specific drugs. In this case, doxycycline is the drug of choice for clients whose diagnosis is made in first stage. All the same, other victims who seek care beyond first stage may need additional drug as cefotaxime to optimize outcome results. Better still, additional variations as age and pregnancy may be hindrance to this normal regime because doxycyline is contraindicated before the age of eight and in pregnancy.

All pregnant mothers and children under the age of eight must therefore see experts for appropriate care. Use of doxycycline presents more health risk than benefit and therefore not recommended as part of care.

Treatment period may considerably vary depending on individual response. Delays in recovery have been noted in late initiation of treatment. Similarly, such late initiation of treatment has also been linked to recurrence in ailment or related distressing symptoms. These distressing symptoms may take a long time to resolve but they finally disappear.

A complete cure of this ailment is achieved when a prescribed dose is completed and the victim no longer experience related distressing symptoms like fatigue, pain, itching joints and or edema of various body parts. Immunoglobulin tests may still reveal high levels even when the disease is cured and are therefore not good reference points to verify if one is or is not cured of the ailment. Some of these symptoms may persist for a longer time but eventually they disappear.

In very rare but devastating circumstances, this infection may end up advancing to the level of causing damage to vital body structures as nerves and brain. Such may point out rare cases of treatment failure or unattended disease cases. Not many of the affected victims end up this way and therefore the ailment is not considered a big threat to the general population.

In conclusion, all persons in a population should make it their responsibility to maintain health. This implies that all persons with suspected infections should not just be left unattended but guided to health care facilities for care. The symptoms may be mild and so administration of analgesics may mask the key health concerns which eventually cause disability. All the same, the most important thing to note is that the disease can be treated at all stages with a good prognosis.




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