The Sounds of Advice #50: Lyme Disease
Today we are doing something a little different with the advice column. Today we will be talking about Lyme Disease. What it it is, how it's treated, and how to prevent it. 1. What is Lyme Disease (Aisling): Lyme disease causes a rash, often in a bull's eye pattern, and flu like symptoms such as fever, headaches and cold chills. Joint pain and weakness in the limbs can also occur. Most people with Lyme disease recover completely with appropriate antibiotic treatment. For those who develop syndromes after their infection is treated, pain medications may provide relief from the symptoms. 2. Causes (Michaelle): Lyme disease is caused by a bacterial infection passed through a tick bite. Some deer have a bacterium in their stomachs that should a tick bite them, the tick can pass the bacterium to humans through a bite on the skin. There have also been some cases reported of the same bacterium being passed through mosquito and spider bites as well, but it is pr...