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Lyme update:
A few years ago no one had ever heard of this debilitating disease. Now, the diagnosis of Lyme Disease brings a wave of shock and fear through one’s body. It is the most common bug-borne disease in the U.S. Left untreated Lyme can result in serious problems affecting the joints, brain, heart, and nervous system. Lyme is transmitted primarily by a tick bite but can also be passed through mosquito, fleas, human fluids (semen, urine, tears, saliva), blood transfusions, breast feeding, foods, and from the pregnant mother to her unborn child. Many deer carry the lyme tick.
Tick Bite:
Initial bite with tick embedded in skin
A few years ago no one had ever heard of this debilitating disease. Now, the diagnosis of Lyme Disease brings a wave of shock and fear through one’s body. It is the most common bug-borne disease in the U.S. Left untreated Lyme can result in serious problems affecting the joints, brain, heart, and nervous system. Lyme is transmitted primarily by a tick bite but can also be passed through mosquito, fleas, human fluids (semen, urine, tears, saliva), blood transfusions, breast feeding, foods, and from the pregnant mother to her unborn child.
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Lyme Symptoms
Bull's eye rash
The tell tale sign in about a fourth of all diagnosed cases is Erythema Migrans (bull’s eye rash). Any time you have a rash, take a picture for future reference. The rash may take 3 to 30 days to appear after infection. It may be bluish, pink, red, small or large and radiate out in circles with a clear center. Many describe the sensation as warm and actually burning rather than painful. Unfortunately, only about 1/3rd of all Lyme cases ever develop a rash. The rest watch their health fall apart without a clue as to what is happening to them.
Initial additional symptoms can include: *flu-like symptoms *stiff neck *sore throat *chills *vomiting *headaches *muscle spasms *nausea *vomiting *swollen lymph glands *extreme fatigue *fever of 100 to 103 degrees Fahrenheit
Antibiotics may be given but many times Lyme lives on in the body. The initial soreness and fatigue may stop – but is the Lyme disease really gone? Sadly, many times it lives on and over time health declines. That’s where we come in to help with natural methods.
Let's start at the beginning
If you find a tick unattached (crawling) or attached to your body – what do you do? Don’t grab it with your fingers or crush, squeeze, twist, or puncture the body of the tick. The spirochetes and bacteria can go through intact skin. Normally, it takes a minimum of 24 hours of feeding time for the tick to transmit disease (which can also include Rocky Mountain spotted fever and tularemia). If it is not attached lightly brush it off your skin. If it IS ATTACHED use a pair of fine-tipped tweezers as close to the skin as possible and gently and slowly hold a constant pressure pulling away from the skin until the tick releases. Don’t get impatient or in a hurry. It is important that the head and mouth parts come out in tact with the tick – not in your skin. Save the tick in a glass bottle and label the bottle with your name, date of bite, and area location you picked up the tick. Clean the skin thoroughly with rubbing alcohol or some type of antiseptic. Then, wash your hands with soap and water.
No tweezers?
Use rubber gloves or paper towels around fingers – then disinfect fingers with alcohol and wash fingers very thoroughly for five minutes. Sooooooo, the head or mouth broke off in the skin? Use the tweezers to pull them out like you would a splinter. Remember to disinfect the area.
Home remedies do not work
Think about it! Fingernail polish will help hold the tick in place – not get it to release. Vaseline won’t work because ticks don’t breathe very often. Both of these remedies will hold the tick on the skin longer giving it a higher chance of infecting you. If you had a hot match or cigarette to your rear end you might upchuck your stomach contents – ticks vomit into your skin all the bacteria and disease when they get a red hot poker touching them.
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Lyme Symptoms
*Bull's eye rash is only seen in 1/3 of all Lyme patients
*Muscle soreness
*Fatigue, tiredness, poor stamina
*Rash
*Borrelil lymphocytoma
*Continual low-grade fever
*High fever, chills or sweating
*General flu like symptoms
*Regular mild to moderate muscle & joint pain
*Severe unremitting headache & neck stiffness
*Bell's palsy
*Mental confusion & loss of short term memory
*Mood swings, irritability, depression
*Disturbed sleep (especially 3 a.m. until upon rising)
*Vision weakness with rapid changes in prescritions
*Feeling of pressure in eyes, face & cranial areas
*Twitching of muscles throughout body while at rest
*Chest pain & heart palpitations
*Shortness of breath with cough
*Motion sickness and vertigo
*Weight loss or gain
*Swollen glands
*Irritable bladder
*Upset stomach
*Severe, unrelenting muscle spasms
*Epstein Barr virus
Lyme Disease: The Great Imitator
Lyme can mimic over 200 known diseases.
Lyme can look like or be diagnosed as:
Bell's Palsy
MS
Chronic Fatigue
Fibromyalgia
Arthritis
Vertigo
ALS
Alzheimer's
and on and on and on.....