Lyme Disease Info

The treatment of Lyme disease with modern medicine is straightforward and very effective. Treatment within the first three weeks of infection is most effective and almost always results in a full cure. After the first three weeks, treatment still usually cures the disease, but the cure rate diminishes with time.

Most Lyme disease patients will receive one of three oral antibiotics: amoxicillin, doxycycline, or the more expensive cefuroxime axetil. In some advanced cases when neurological or cardiac abnormalities are severe, oral antibiotics are replaced with intravenous ceftriaxone, cefotaxime, or penicillin.

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Lyme Disease Info

Lyme disease strikes fear into the hearts of many. The idea of a small bug crawling from the grass or leaves under our clothes, sucking our blood like a miniature vampire, and leaving behind a disease is creepy at best. Indeed, Lyme disease is the most common arthropod-borne illness in the United States.

Because it is so repugnant and affects so many people but is seldom well-understood, there is a mass of false information out there, but it is time to set the record straight and separate fact from fiction.

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Lyme Disease Info

Lyme disease, caused by the bacteria B. burgdorferi and spread by deer ticks, is usually treated by physicians with oral antibiotics such as amoxicillin or doxycycline. Advanced cases are sometimes treated with intravenous antibiotics instead.

Although the Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the Infectious Disease Society of America both affirm the effectiveness of such treatment regimens, both admit that antibiotics are only successful in treating the majority of cases.

Some patients, especially those with long undiagnosed or untreated Lyme disease, may experience symptoms for months or years after the infection has supposedly been cleared. Patients in this position, and those adverse to antibiotics, often seek alternative treatments.

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