Lyme Disease Specialists
Sometimes Lyme disease can get to complicated levels where the patient needs specialized care and not the general physician's attention. If the patient has other preexisting conditions especially, Lyme disease can get to a worrisome state.
It is advisable that you see a doctor immediately you note a tick bite. This is especially crucial if you have a preexisting medical condition like heart diseases, kidney disease or cancer. It's always better for you to assume that the tick was a Lyme disease carrier and thus to treat it aggressively. Waiting for symptoms to show may allow the disease to develop to the potentially fatal late-stage diagnosis.
Nevertheless, if the diagnosis comes late and the patient needs a specialist care, the following is a list of websites via which you can find Lyme disease specialists. Wrong diagnosis, improper treatment and persistent incidences of Lyme disease symptoms even after standard antibiotics treatments, may necessitate that a patent sees a specialist Lyme Literate Doctor (LLMD).
The Lyme Disease Association at www.lymediseasesssociation.com is among the largest patient advocacy groups for Lyme disease within the U.S. They have an up-to-date informative website on which you can search for Lyme disease specialists in your local area. Upon registration, you will be referred to several doctors in your area besides having all relevant information availed to you.
The California Lyme Disease Association at www.lymenet.org is another website from which you can obtain referrals to Lyme disease specialists. You will get the specialists contact information from the Resources tab and referrals from the Doctor Referral's tab.
The Lyme Disease Network at www.lymenet.org is New York based Lyme Disease network that facilitates services for the entire North America region. To find Lyme disease specialists enter the Flash Discussion tab and click on Seeking a Doctor. After registering, you will simply post a question to the site and you will immediately receive a private email message(s) detailing the available LLMD's in your area.
The Lyme Disease Foundation provides information of Lyme disease specialists once you download a request form and send it to the foundation via US mail. You must include US$5, a self addressed and stamped envelope too.
Other places you can find a Lyme diseases specialist include The Canadian Lyme Disease Association at www.canlyme.com, the International Lyme and Associated Diseases Society at www.ilads.org and the Infectious Diseases Society of America at www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/508667.
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Tuesday, June 24, 2014
Lyme Disease Pregnancy
Lyme Disease Pregnancy
Lyme disease is an illness that can pass on from a disease-carrying tick on a dog to a human. It can be passed on from an infected mother to her fetus via the placenta during pregnancy, and could possibly lead to a miscarriage, premature birth or stillbirth. Pregnant women should be very careful in making sure they don't get any tick bites during their pregnancy so that there are no chances that it will be transmitted to their unborn child.
There are certain antibiotics that are given to pregnant women who contract Lyme disease, such as cefuroxime, penicillin, axetil or amoxicillin. Medications such as ibuprofen or aspirin should not be ingested by pregnant women, but acetaminophen is safe to take in order to treat Lyme disease during pregnancy.
Ever since Lyme disease was found, there has never been any conclusive evidence that it can have severe adverse effects on a fetus. There have been some isolated occurrences of babies having been born with some congenital defects, but these were never linked to the mother suffering from Lyme disease. In further studies that were conducted, most of the pregnant women that were diagnosed with Lyme disease were simply given quick treatment with suitable antibiotics, and all these mothers gave birth to full term, healthy babies who showed no effects of having suffered the disease.
Although there are no proven links between pregnancy and Lyme disease, it is still of great importance that a pregnant woman protects herself from contracting the disease as best as she can. A woman's immune system will be compromised during her pregnancy, so having an illness of any sort will affect her body, and if she is not physically and emotionally able to cope, the chances are that her baby will suffer as well.
The best way to prevent getting Lyme disease is to take all the preventive measures you can think of. Ticks are the primary carriers of Lyme disease, so stay away from any areas that you know they are found in. Do not wear clothes that reveal your arms and legs, and make sure you tuck your trousers into your shoes or socks. Long hair should be tied back so that ticks have a harder time getting into it and nestling down inside it. Covering your hair with a scarf or hat is even better. Once you are done being outside in an area that you know ticks are common in, check your entire body over so that you don't have any on you, and wash yourself just to be sure.
Lyme disease is an illness that can pass on from a disease-carrying tick on a dog to a human. It can be passed on from an infected mother to her fetus via the placenta during pregnancy, and could possibly lead to a miscarriage, premature birth or stillbirth. Pregnant women should be very careful in making sure they don't get any tick bites during their pregnancy so that there are no chances that it will be transmitted to their unborn child.
There are certain antibiotics that are given to pregnant women who contract Lyme disease, such as cefuroxime, penicillin, axetil or amoxicillin. Medications such as ibuprofen or aspirin should not be ingested by pregnant women, but acetaminophen is safe to take in order to treat Lyme disease during pregnancy.
Ever since Lyme disease was found, there has never been any conclusive evidence that it can have severe adverse effects on a fetus. There have been some isolated occurrences of babies having been born with some congenital defects, but these were never linked to the mother suffering from Lyme disease. In further studies that were conducted, most of the pregnant women that were diagnosed with Lyme disease were simply given quick treatment with suitable antibiotics, and all these mothers gave birth to full term, healthy babies who showed no effects of having suffered the disease.
Although there are no proven links between pregnancy and Lyme disease, it is still of great importance that a pregnant woman protects herself from contracting the disease as best as she can. A woman's immune system will be compromised during her pregnancy, so having an illness of any sort will affect her body, and if she is not physically and emotionally able to cope, the chances are that her baby will suffer as well.
The best way to prevent getting Lyme disease is to take all the preventive measures you can think of. Ticks are the primary carriers of Lyme disease, so stay away from any areas that you know they are found in. Do not wear clothes that reveal your arms and legs, and make sure you tuck your trousers into your shoes or socks. Long hair should be tied back so that ticks have a harder time getting into it and nestling down inside it. Covering your hair with a scarf or hat is even better. Once you are done being outside in an area that you know ticks are common in, check your entire body over so that you don't have any on you, and wash yourself just to be sure.
Lyme Disease Doctors
Lyme Disease Doctors
Lyme disease is no longer a mystery illness, according to many Lyme disease doctors who are improving many breakthrough treatments for patients suffering from the chronic disorder.
In the past Lyme disease cases were simply regarded as a chronic illness that required multiple treatments of antibiotics and pain pills combined with lifelong episodes of reoccurring suffering for patients with the disease.
Lyme disease doctors define this illness as being one that is carried by ticks, which makes anyone vulnerable to acquiring it, and many cases that come in for treatment from lyme disease doctors often find that they experience a long series of unsuccessful treatments and ineffective drug therapies.
The universal symptoms of Lyme disease are a destabilized immune system, fever, chronic fatigue and a distinctive skin rash only found in patients with the disease.
Currently, there is a new treatment for people who suffer from this disease called Hyperbaric Chamber Therapy. Patients lie still in the in home Hyperbaric oxygen Chamber while the chamber fills with pure oxygen. This restores the oxygen to the red blood cells in the patient and increases blood oxygen circulation to bodily tissue and organs.
This helps the body in healing the wounds from the rash as well as improves immune system and bodily function.
Lyme disease doctors attest that this treatment is very effective in treating Lyme disease, autism, cerebral palsy and other auto immune disorders such as AIDS, Cancer and Lupus.
The duration of treatment vary from one patient to another. Lyme disease doctors claim that most patients will feel energetic and less lethargic after about ten treatments with the Hyperbaric Chamber.
Although there are a lot of success stories out there that claim that the Hyperbaric Oxygen Chamber is a true cure for people who suffer from Lyme disease, doctors strongly promote its healing affects but caution patients to not get too overly enthusiastic about the treatment because it serves as a tool along with certain drug treatments to aid in alleviating symptoms, not to cure the disease.
Lyme disease doctors also understand that Lyme disease patients, like those who have autism and Cerebral Palsy, do not have to resign to feeling like there will never be a cure because there is hope with the new medical breakthroughs of drug therapies and alternative treatments as well as the benefits of the Hyperbaric Chamber.
So, Lyme disease doctors do offer hope to those who are afflicted with this illness to not give up and to continue to have treatments from the Hyperbaric Chambers.
Lyme disease is no longer a mystery illness, according to many Lyme disease doctors who are improving many breakthrough treatments for patients suffering from the chronic disorder.
In the past Lyme disease cases were simply regarded as a chronic illness that required multiple treatments of antibiotics and pain pills combined with lifelong episodes of reoccurring suffering for patients with the disease.
Lyme disease doctors define this illness as being one that is carried by ticks, which makes anyone vulnerable to acquiring it, and many cases that come in for treatment from lyme disease doctors often find that they experience a long series of unsuccessful treatments and ineffective drug therapies.
The universal symptoms of Lyme disease are a destabilized immune system, fever, chronic fatigue and a distinctive skin rash only found in patients with the disease.
Currently, there is a new treatment for people who suffer from this disease called Hyperbaric Chamber Therapy. Patients lie still in the in home Hyperbaric oxygen Chamber while the chamber fills with pure oxygen. This restores the oxygen to the red blood cells in the patient and increases blood oxygen circulation to bodily tissue and organs.
This helps the body in healing the wounds from the rash as well as improves immune system and bodily function.
Lyme disease doctors attest that this treatment is very effective in treating Lyme disease, autism, cerebral palsy and other auto immune disorders such as AIDS, Cancer and Lupus.
The duration of treatment vary from one patient to another. Lyme disease doctors claim that most patients will feel energetic and less lethargic after about ten treatments with the Hyperbaric Chamber.
Although there are a lot of success stories out there that claim that the Hyperbaric Oxygen Chamber is a true cure for people who suffer from Lyme disease, doctors strongly promote its healing affects but caution patients to not get too overly enthusiastic about the treatment because it serves as a tool along with certain drug treatments to aid in alleviating symptoms, not to cure the disease.
Lyme disease doctors also understand that Lyme disease patients, like those who have autism and Cerebral Palsy, do not have to resign to feeling like there will never be a cure because there is hope with the new medical breakthroughs of drug therapies and alternative treatments as well as the benefits of the Hyperbaric Chamber.
So, Lyme disease doctors do offer hope to those who are afflicted with this illness to not give up and to continue to have treatments from the Hyperbaric Chambers.
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