Can Lyme Disease Be Really Cured?

Can Lyme Disease Be Really Cured?

About Lyme Disease Lyme disease is the most common disease today, caused by a bug bite.

Today most healthcare professionals believe that only deer ticks, the ones smaller than a match head, transmit Lyme disease. But in reality, Lyme disease is caused by a bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi, a spirochete.

Lyme Specialist in Virginia believes that dealing with this disease can be quite difficult for both medical professionals and patients.

One of the biggest reason being the diagnosis of the disease.

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Lyme Disease Symptoms People affected with the disease often experience the symptoms in two stages. The first symptoms tend to appear in early stages whereas the other experience the symptoms in the later stages.

Symptoms of this disease vary depending on how long the individual has been infected. Fever, chills, pain in muscle joints and swollen lymph nodes are some of the symptoms on the initial stage of the disease.

Stiff neck, heart palpitations, inflammation of the nervous system, memory problems, numbness, tingling sensation, dizzy spells are some of the symptoms which tend to appear in the later stages of the disease.

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Lyme Testing

MELISA

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Diagnosis of the disease is one of the most crucial aspects of treating the disease. Lyme disease testing could use a major overhaul as the disease is quite sneaky.

The test used to diagnose the disease is quite expensive. As per healthcare experts, a more accurate Lyme disease test is the MELISA. This involves radioactive blood cell counting. MELISA is not that quite common test which is in practice.

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Can Lyme Disease Be Really Cured?

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Lyme Disease Treatment Option Often patients suffering from this disease are confused if the disease is curable or not. Healthcare pioneers believe that the standard practice to treat Lyme disease is antibiotics.

If an individual is suffering from convincing-enough symptoms or tick exposure and has undergone a blood test which has elicited a positive result but up to only 30% in the body for Lyme disease then taking antibiotics for a few weeks can be a great option for them as it helps ease the symptoms.

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However, in case of an individual whose Lyme disease disseminated throughout the body the antibiotics might not work.

Initially, healthcare might treat such individuals with oral antibiotics first and if that fails to work then IV antibiotics are prescribed to such patients.

However, in some cases, even IV antibiotics don’t completely eradicate the disease. Hyperbaric Oxygen Treatment is also suggested to ease the symptoms.

While taking frequent antibiotics also has its own set of problems which is why a mix of treatment with Integrative Physical Therapy is suggested to patients for better and faster recovery.

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