Archive | February, 2009
Lyme Resources
Our list is in development. You could drive yourself nuts trying to read everything out there about Lyme. We’ll cut through the noise to provide you with the best, up-to-date info. Here’s a good place to start: The International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society ILADS Brochures – to read online or download. Treatment Guidelines – [...]
Continue reading...Getting Rid of Lyme
19. February 2009
Early Stage Lyme If Lyme Disease is diagnosed within the first few weeks after infection and treated with antibiotics for long enough, it can frequently be cured. Unfortunately, there’s no general agreement on what “long enough” means. Most doctors prescribe an antibiotic for two to three weeks, four weeks tops. Often this is not enough. [...]
Continue reading...Lyme Disease Symptoms
11. February 2009
The first symptom of Lyme disease (also called Lyme’s disease) for about 50% of people is a small, red bull’s-eye rash, called erythema migrans, at the site of an infected tick bite. The rash usually appears a week or two after a painless bite, but can appear within 3 to 30 days. It typically spreads [...]
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5. February 2009
Several Ixodes species of ticks are known to carry the Lyme bacteria in the U.S., mostly in the Northeast, Midwest, and Northwest, and all over Canada. An infected tick is called a vector, meaning it does not get Lyme Disease itself but is a carrier, transmitting it from one host to another. Common Lyme hosts [...]
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20. February 2009
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