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Wednesday, November 19, 2014

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

By Christa Jarvis


There are different organisms responsible for causing different diseases. These are generally termed as pathogens and include fungi, viruses and bacteria. Bacterial diseases respond well to treatment as compared to the others and most of such related infections can be cured very well and completely. This addressees the concern of many victims asking the question, is there a cure for Lyme disease?

Recovery from this particular kind of infection is closely related to the level or stage of the disease at the time of treatment initiation; the earlier the better because chances of symptoms recurrence is increased by late or third stage treatment initiation. Better results are guaranteed if such care comes as early as in first stage. Any delays reflect negatively on treatment outcome.

Like any other bacterial infections, this disease responds well to specific drugs. In this case, doxycycline is the drug of choice for clients whose diagnosis is made in first stage. All the same, other victims who seek care beyond first stage may need additional drug as cefotaxime to optimize outcome results. Better still, additional variations as age and pregnancy may be hindrance to this normal regime because doxycyline is contraindicated before the age of eight and in pregnancy.

An exception is in children under eight years and pregnant mothers for which it is completely contraindicated. The drug is not good for young children as it has more adverse responses than benefits.

When infection is already spread into the body system, symptoms and signs become more pronounced and the ailment is classified as in second or even third stage depending on how pronounced the symptoms are. Adding more drugs into care regime may be of much help ad such includes analgesics, anti-inflammatory drugs among many more.

A complete cure of this ailment is achieved when a prescribed dose is completed and the victim no longer experience related distressing symptoms like fatigue, pain, itching joints and or edema of various body parts. Immunoglobulin tests may still reveal high levels even when the disease is cured and are therefore not good reference points to verify if one is or is not cured of the ailment. Some of these symptoms may persist for a longer time but eventually they disappear.

For a smaller section of the population, the ailment may have devastating effects which end up in stage three and cause damage to brain, nerves and body joints. For such cases, it may be a reflection of failed treatment regime in the rare cases and or delayed presentations in which early symptoms were absent or unnoticed. This occurrence is extremely rare and therefore the ailment is considered amongst the curable infections.

To sum up, maintaining a healthy population is a responsibility bestowed upon all persons in the population. All these start at individual level and no single individual should ignore any sign of health deviation. It could be the beginning of all life troubles should it be one of the distressing illnesses as the one in question. After all these, it is only best to note that this disease is c curable.




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