Diagnosis and Treatment for Lyme Disease

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Lyme disease is diagnosed through clinical tests and analysis of symptoms. For patients who do not have the indications of Lyme disease, laboratory testing is not suggested. Since it is difficult to examine the bacterium in testing, it would be very important to examine the patient properly. In some cases, there are no rashes that resemble like a bulls-eye pattern which one of the visible symptoms. Lyme disease can be diagnosed as rheumatoid arthritis like the disease that lead to its discovery, lupus, fibromyalgia, autoimmune or neurodegenerative diseases. Most of the time, an example of tests that can be employed is blood tests to measure the antibodies emerging due to the infection.

 

Treatment of the disease can be through oral antibiotics alone in the early stage. However, as the disease progress there should be matching drugs for it to be cured. Oral antibiotics are standard in the treatment process. For adults and children aged 8 years old above, the type that can be used is doxycycline while amoxillin is for younger children, pregnant women, or breastfeeding women. They are known to remove the infection and avoid further problems. Antibiotics are recommended to be taken 14 to 21 days of the course and are the same as the 10 to 14 course when it comes to the intensity of the curing effect.

 

Meanwhile, as the disease progressed, the doctor may advise the patient to take a different set of antibiotics. Usually, this is the oral intake of an intravenous antibiotic for 14 to 28 days. This eliminates the infection but the recovery may take some time since the symptoms are more apparent than the first stage. Also, it is significant to take note that intravenous antibiotics are not just ordinary drugs so there can be side effects when taken. This can be a lower white blood cell count and mild to severe diarrhea. Some medical teams who offer alternative medicine prescribe bismacine.

 

However, the Food and Drug Administration warned the public that is it not recommended to be used in treating Lyme disease. This is because it has a high proportion of metal bismuth that is used in other oral medications but not for Lyme disease. It can lead to damage of heart and kidney functioning since it causes bismuth poisoning. In the late stages, arthritis that is evident is treated by oral antibiotic treatment too but turns to intravenous therapy when the patients do not get well.

 

A more popular question in Lyme disease cases is when to ask for a treatment and what to do when have a tick bite. Two advices from the doctor would be to observe and treat if there are signs and symptoms that are felt and to treat with a preventive antibiotic immediately. In here, the person tested using blood tests will be negative from the disease most of the time. However, in the late stages, blood test is very useful. It is just within two to six weeks that blood test is beneficial to the patient when it comes to determining for an infection.

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