Chronic Lyme desease in Human patient and dog with its treatment

LYME DESEASE

Introduction: Lyme disease is the contagion transmitted by the ticks that carry the spiral shaped bacterium called Borrelia Burgorferi. This disease has been named after the town called Lyme in Connecticut where the disease was first diagnosed sometimes during the year 1975 after the mystifying epidemic of arthritis. The organism was named for its actual discoverer, Willy Burgdorfer. The effects of this desease could be continuing and disabling until it is traced and treated suitably with antibiotics.

Description: Lyme disease or Lyme Borreliosis is the vector-borne disease. Term signifies that it spreads from one person to another. The tick bearing the bacterium literally inserts them into the person’s blood stream through its bite while feeding the blood. However, it is important to note that the disease is not infectious and cannot be transmitted directly from one person to the other or even from pets to the humans.

Causes and symptoms: The Lyme disease bacterium once entering the body via the tick bite moves through the blood stream rapidly to the entire body. This bacterium could easily be traced in the cerebrospinal fluid – virtually affecting the nervous system only within 12 hours of the tick bite. Lyme desease requires to be treated immediately and extensively as its bacteria can easily hide for long-term within the body in the clinically concealed condition. Such quality of these bacteria denotes that how the symptoms of the Lyme disease can easily spread after months or years or even over decades.

Diagnosis: The clear diagnosis of this disease is difficult and is mainly depending on the information provided by the patient besides the doctor’s clinical tests and examination reports, especially through discarding of other probable causes of the symptoms. The disease may also mimic other conditions like chronic fatigue syndrome-CFS, multiple sclerosis-MS and other deseases having several body symptoms.

Treatment: Antibiotic therapy is the ideal line of treatment for this disease, but simultaneously over prescribing of antibiotics may also lead to serious problems; hence treatment doses should be strictly as directed by the doctor only. Disease organisms could lead to tolerance to families of medications over a period of time, ending up the drug useless. If the patient exhibits strong indications of Lyme desease – symptoms and medical history, the physician would perhaps initiate treatment on the conjecture of this disease.

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