About Lyme disease - a disease caused by specific bacteria transmitted by ticks. Bacterium Borrelia has a tendency to multiply in all organs, and therefore, can cause a host of complications, including the most dangerous - neurological diseases such as meningitis, encephalitis or paralysis of the nerves. The more often patients also suffer from rheumatoid arthritis. Lyme disease can be dangerous for the body's main pump - the heart, causing its inflammation and even its blocks. In extreme cases, the patients experience psychiatric disorders.
Another name for the disease is Lyme disease. It has its roots in the American city where the first diagnosis was made about. Contrary to the views of lay people is a zoonotic disease and there is the possibility to bring in people.
The symptoms of Lyme disease can be divided into three main phases. Phase of infection characterized by redness of the skin or lymphatic infiltration (swelling) and flu-like symptoms. Other symptoms include joint pain, meningitis and heart. At the edge of the disease up to memory disorders, sensory and psyche, and paralysis of peripheral nerves. The effects of Lyme disease may be different and individual. Precisely because of its multiplicity many medical errors occur in diagnosis.
Treatment of Lyme disease is of long duration. It can last from several weeks to several months. To save themselves from a painful disease we must follow some rules. What priority will be to avoid ticks. This will help us clothing airtight (high shoes, long pants and sleeves), avoiding forested areas, not to sit on the logs (the preferred habitat of ticks), use of protective measures and to track changes in the body after return home from the forest.
If you find a tick should remove it with tweezers or in case of splinter with a needle long. Abdomen brand must hold closest to your skin and pull straight up, and the place of bite, wash with alcohol. If the tick has been rented in depth, we should see a doctor. It is absolutely forbidden to shoot or lubricate the tick with grease or gasoline, these practices can bring up to visual of bacteria in the body.
