Lyme Disease

Introduction

Lyme disease is a tick-borne infectious disease caused by a bacterium known as Borrelia burgdorferi carried by ticks in certain regions of the United States and Europe in which it is endemic. It can result in a fever-like illness with a characteristic rash, although not in all cases called erythematic migraines, and if left untreated, can cause more serious problems like arthritis, and cardiovascular and neurological complications. Even though resolution of the objective manifestations of infection after antibiotic treatment, a minority of patients have fatigue, musculoskeletal pain, difficulties with concentration and short-term memory (Steere, AC, 2001).

This peer-reviewed journal offers mild and self-limiting subjective symptoms as "post–Lyme disease symptoms," and if they last longer than 6 months, we call them "post–Lyme disease syndrome." The word "chronic" has been applied to Lyme disease in a wide variety of contexts and is sometimes used interchangeably with the preferred term "late Lyme disease” (Steere, AC, 2001) Chronic Lyme disease is used in North America and increasingly in Europe as a diagnosis for patients with persistent pain, neurocognitive symptoms, fatigue, or all of these symptoms, with or without clinical or serologic evidence of previous early or late Lyme disease (Steere, AC 2001).

Treatment of the Infectious Disease

Most cases of Lyme disease are curable with antibiotics. Some authors of Lyme disease discover that most common cause of lack of response of Lyme disease to antibiotics is a need of Lyme disease to begin with. The type of antibiotic depends on the stage of the disease and what areas of the body are exaggerated.

Premature infection is usually treated with medicines taken by mouth, for example, doxycycline, amoxicillin, or cefuroxime axetil. Some people will find a typical bull's-eye skin rash developing in an area of a tick bite; they should seek medical treatment as soon as possible. In general, antibiotic...