Is There A Cure For Lyme Disease ? Here Is The Information One Needs To Know

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.

Management involves use of antibiotic drugs alongside other care modalities that seek to handle specific individualized symptoms. Drug of choice has always been doxycycline. This drug may work very well in the first stage involving a localized infection. Once the infection is disseminated as in stage two or three; there is need for adding other drugs into the regime of care. Such may include cefotaxime

There are some limitations to this care regime. In pregnancy and early stages of life, doxycycline which is key drug in this regime is completely contraindicated as the risks involved surpass benefits to the victims. It is therefore better to seek appropriate management from experts in such states of health.

In cases of disease dissemination to body system, use of doxycycline and cefotaxime have shown appreciable results. Medication may take one to four weeks depending on how each client respond to treatment. Besides antibiotics, other drugs such as anti-inflammatory and analgesic drugs may be incorporated to handle associated distress related to this kind of infection.

For one to completely be sure of cure there must be an assured control of all related symptoms and signs associated with this ailment. Better still, one must have used relevant drugs used for management of this infection as professionally prescribed. In line with this therefore, it requires that one observe changes that include and is not limited to end of muscle pains, fatigue, joint pains and body edema before being declared as healed. This usually takes up to four weeks of medication.

Most clients absolutely recover from their illnesses while a few section of population may experience persistent trouble with their infection despite treatment. The infection may then impair functioning of major body structures and could as well cause physical damage. This results to sustained experience of body distress but the good news is that all these too may be cured completely.

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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