Can Lyme Disease Be Really Cured?

Can Lyme Disease Be Really
Cured?

About Lyme Disease
Lyme disease is the most common disease today, caused by a
bug bite.
Today most healthcare professionals believe that only deer ticks,
the ones smaller than a match head, transmit Lyme disease. But
in reality, Lyme disease is caused by a bacterium Borrelia
burgdorferi, a spirochete.
Lyme Specialist in Virginia believes that dealing with this disease
can be quite difficult for both medical professionals and patients.
One of the biggest reason being the diagnosis of the disease.
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Lyme Disease Symptoms
People affected with the disease often experience the symptoms
in two stages. The first symptoms tend to appear in early stages
whereas the other experience the symptoms in the later stages.
Symptoms of this disease vary depending on how long the
individual has been infected. Fever, chills, pain in muscle joints
and swollen lymph nodes are some of the symptoms on the initial
stage of the disease.
Stiff neck, heart palpitations, inflammation of the nervous system,
memory problems, numbness, tingling sensation, dizzy spells are
some of the symptoms which tend to appear in the later stages of
the disease.
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Lyme Testing
MELISA
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Diagnosis of the disease is one of the most crucial aspects of
treating the disease. Lyme disease testing could use a major
overhaul as the disease is quite sneaky.
The test used to diagnose the disease is quite expensive. As per
healthcare experts, a more accurate Lyme disease test is the
MELISA.
This involves radioactive blood cell counting. MELISA is not that
quite common test which is in practice.
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Can Lyme Disease
Be Really Cured?
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Lyme Disease Treatment Option
Often patients suffering from this disease are confused if the
disease is curable or not. Healthcare pioneers believe that the
standard practice to treat Lyme disease is antibiotics.
If an individual is suffering from convincing-enough symptoms or
tick exposure and has undergone a blood test which has elicited a
positive result but up to only 30% in the body for Lyme disease
then taking antibiotics for a few weeks can be a great option for
them as it helps ease the symptoms.
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However, in case of an individual whose Lyme disease
disseminated throughout the body the antibiotics might not work.
Initially, healthcare might treat such individuals with oral antibiotics
first and if that fails to work then IV antibiotics are prescribed to
such patients.
However, in some cases, even IV antibiotics don’t completely
eradicate the disease. Hyperbaric Oxygen Treatment is also
suggested to ease the symptoms.
While taking frequent antibiotics also has its own set of problems
which is why a mix of treatment with Integrative Physical Therapy is
suggested to patients for better and faster recovery.
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