Lyme Disease
The best way to find out if you have Lyme disease is to talk to your family doctor about your symptoms. Blood tests aren't always necessary to make the diagnosis. They can often give false results. People who have been sick with Lyme disease for ... [... more]
Family Doctor |
Lyme Disease: A Patient's Guide, Diagnosis
Erythema migrans (see picture), the skin rash associated with Lyme disease, occurs as a circular rash that continues to grow. It may appear anywhere from 1 day to 1 month after the infected tick's bite, but it usually appears in about 7 days. The ... [... more]
acponline.org |
Lyme Disease
The NIAID has had a long-standing commitment to conduct research on Lyme borreliosis, or Lyme disease. The major goals of the NIAID Lyme Disease Research Program are to develop better means of diagnosing, treating, and preventing this disease. To ... [... more]
National Institute of Allergy |
Lyme Disease
Lyme disease is an infection caused by a kind of bacteria (germ) called a spirochete. This bacterium, Borrelia burgdorferi, is transmitted by the bite of an infected deer tick. It is the most common tick-borne infection in both North America and ... [... more]
American Medical Association |
Beware Of Ticks … & Lyme Disease
CVM says there are two basic types of Lyme disease vaccines available for dogs: the killed bacteria and a genetically engineered (recombinant) vaccine. Talk to your veterinarian, since vaccinating against Lyme disease may not be appropriate for ... [... more]
Food & Drug Administration |
Late Lyme Disease: Neurologic And Cognitive Manifestations
Neurocognitive dysfunction can occur as a late manifestation of Lyme disease (show table 2). The incidence is difficult to establish since Lyme disease may be overdiagnosed, the symptoms are not specific, psychologic factors may complicate the ... [... more]
Up To Date |
Diagnosis And Mechanisms Of Persistent Lyme Disease
Persistent symptoms after primary infection -- Patients with erythema migrans (EM), the classic rash of Lyme disease, may have lingering nonspecific complaints, such as headache, achiness, and fatigue, which may persist for as long as six months ... [... more]
Up To Date |
Lyme Disease Versus Fibromyalgia: Sample Cases
TOTAL BODY PAIN AND FATIGUE: FIBROMYALGIA MISINTERPRETED AS LATE LYME DISEASE -- A 39 year-old woman presents with a three year history of fatigue and "total body pain". There is no history of a tick bite, erythema migrans, or findings ... [... more]
Up To Date |
Reported Lyme Disease Cases And Incidence Rate Per State
Please Choose a State... Alabama Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska ... [... more]
aldf.com |
Lyme Disease: A Patient's Guide, Treatment
There is currently no proof that Lyme disease causes birth defects. Therefore, a pregnant woman with Lyme disease will most likely have a normal pregnancy, but she will have to be treated with antibiotics that will not affect the pregnancy. Lyme ... [... more]
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American Lyme Disease Foundation
The best private organization-based site that can be recommended to patients for education on Lyme disease is that of the American Lyme Disease Foundation. Of eight websites with "Lyme" in the domain name, only the American Lyme Disease ... [... more]
aldf.com |
Lyme Disease: A Patient's Guide, Prevention
Household pets can get Lyme disease. Checking pets for ticks before letting them enter a home reduces this risk of infection for both pet and owner. Please note that the tick commonly found on pets, the American Dog tick, is much larger than the ... [... more]
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