Treatments to Overcome Lyme Disease Symptoms Lyme disease is a common bacterial infection. It occurs when an infected black-legged tick bites. Generally, it is not a serious disease that could be life-threatening, but this could make several changes to your body and daily lifestyle. This may also affect your brain. Therefore, this disease should be diagnosed as early as possible.
The Symptoms of Lyme Disease To get proper Lyme disease treatment, first, it is important to detect the disease timely. You can do this by recognizing the symptoms. The symptoms of Lyme disease are quite similar to flu symptoms. You may experience: ● ● ● ● ●
Red rashes (generally in bull's eye's pattern in the bitten area) Joints and muscles pain Fatigue Mild fever Swelling and stiffness in joints
You can overcome some of these symptoms without treatment and medications, but to get rid of other symptoms, you need proper treatment and medications.
Diagnosis and Treatments To confirm the symptoms of Lyme disease, first, physicians conduct a couple of laboratory tests, including ELISA test (enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay) and Western blot test. They can also ask you questions related to your medical history and recent activities. You need to correctly answer the questions to help the physician recognize your health condition correctly. Doctors give certain antibiotics to Lyme disease patients to help them overcome their symptoms. The antibiotics include doxycycline, amoxicillin, and cefuroxime. These antibiotics are not clinically proven to cure Lyme disease patients but it has been found that they help patients overcome most Lyme disease symptoms. Doctors usually recommend a 14 to 21 days course of antibiotics to patients, but a 10-14 days course is equally effective. A patient should choose a 10-14 days course and later extend it if required. Doctors also recommend a proper Lyme disease diet to the patient. The antibiotics are given to patients in two ways: orally and intravenously. Orally- Oral antibiotics are very common. Generally, doctors prescribe oral antibiotics to normal patients. The patients need to intake antibiotics orally.
Intravenously- The doctors may prescribe giving antibiotics intravenously (directly to the veins) to the patient when they find the link of the central nervous system with the disease. Apart from this, the doctor may also prescribe some clinically proven herbal products to the patients, such as Intra Cell and Spiro Clear. These immunity booster herbal products have the potential to treat Lyme disease.