Lyme Disease Blog

There was a Lyme community kerfluffle today with Kodak over their Mother’s Day ad on their Mom-A-Thon website. The tongue-in-cheek idea of the promotion is to save a mother afflicted with Lackus Appreciatis, an “overwhelming feeling of recurring unappreciatedness and seasonal ingratitude.” In a video featuring actress and singer Florence Henderson, visitors are urged to [...]

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 – [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]