Lyme disease awareness
A few awareness points for 2018.
Ticks have a few - million - years on us! That's a lot of time to adapt to environments, spread throughout the world - e.g. migratory bird patterns are thought to be responsible for carrying ticks across continents... although maybe they were there first too.
Again - tick prevention is best! Use repellent when outdoors and make sure it says it specifically repels *TICKS* on the label.
Ticks carry, and transmit, borrelia burgdorferi, the bacteria that causes Lyme disease. The bacteria have a 'spiral shaped tail' which they use to bury themselves deep in the body where they set up colonies and excrete biofilms to 'hide' from the immune system (plaque is a biofilm - think old toothpaste adverts with the bacteria hiding under the plaque... imagine it deep inside the body, microscopic...).
The importance of immediate treatment for a tick bite cannot be overstated. The bacteria quickly try to get to 'safer' parts of the body, where it is difficult to reach them with medications. Treating an immediate infection - acute Lyme disease - should* kill the bacteria while they are in this acute phase, and when some bodies may launch an immune response (some people never produce antibodies; the reasons are unknown). If you can kill any bacteria before they travel throughout your body, the prognosis is generally good.
(*There are documented cases of people who received treatment quickly, but still developed systemic Lyme disease; however the quicker the treatment, the lower the risk.
After the bacteria enter the disseminated stage and the illness becomes systemic Lyme borreliosis, it becomes much more difficult to reach, and impossible - with current medical testing - to know if the infection is, or can be, eradicated from the body. More Lyme experts, who have been working in Lyme endemic areas (mainly in the Eastern U.S.) for decades, are now using terms 'relapse' and 'remission' for patients who are battling systemic Lyme disease.
Please, use this information - don't wait, seek appropriate treatment immediately if you are bitten, or if you suspect you have been bitten. One bite truly can change your life.
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