Lyme Disease Early Symptoms

Lyme Disease Early Symptoms
Lyme disease is known to affect different areas of the body as it progresses in severity. The more it progresses, the more serious it gets, and equally, the more difficult it is to treat. The place where the tick bites the skin is where the bacteria enter from. As the bacteria spread in the skin from the original tick bite, the infection causes a red rash. Later on, other abnormalities can be manifested in the joints, heart, and the nervous system.

One of the most common Lyme disease early symptoms includes skin inflammation. While the disease progresses, there is usually heart and nervous system involvement. The later stages of the disease show motor and sensory nerve damage and brain inflammation, as well as arthritis.

In Lyme disease early symptoms, which are evident within days up to weeks of the tick bite, the skin around the bite develops a red ring. There may be an outer ring of brighter redness and a central area, which looks like a 'bull's-eye'. Patients often cannot recall the tick bite because the tick can be very small. Also, victims may not identify the rash, and connect it to Lyme disease, to consult a doctor. Some patients may never even get a rash.

There is general fatigue, muscle and joint pains and stiffness, lymph nodes becoming swollen and headache accompanying the redness of the skin. These symptoms resemble those of a typical viral infection, making it even trickier to be able to identify and know for sure that it is Lyme disease.

The redness may go away without treatment, usually in about one month. Some weeks, even months after the initial redness of the skin, the bacteria spread throughout the whole body. This is what subsequently leads to disease in the joints, heart, and nervous system.

In summary, the Lyme disease early symptoms can be identified as headache, stiff neck, fever, sleep disorders, muscle aches, fatigue and a characteristic rash on the skin. With timely detection of Lyme disease early symptoms, one is advised to see a doctor. This is important since at this early stage, natural treatment and elimination of Lyme disease is possible. Thousands of people have been able to treat Lyme disease naturally. Due to the negative side-effects of Lyme disease medication, it is simply better to treat it early, with an advantage of the possibility of natural treatment.

Early Lyme Disease

Early Lyme Disease
Lyme disease is a disease that affects multiple body systems. It is caused most by the Borrelia burgdorferi, which is carried by the minute tick called the Ixodes ammini. Other ticks in the Ixodidae family can cause lyme disease too, but those cases are extremely rare. This disease generally occurs in summertime and usually starts with a red and warm papule that isn't painful to the infected individual. The red and warm papule is the classic sign of Lyme disease, and it is known as ECM. However, if Lyme disease isn't treated, then months later that infected person will display heart or nerve abnormalities. If that isn't treated, then there may be possible arthritis in the large joints later in the progress of Lyme disease.

Now, the early signs and symptoms of Lyme disease are simple and easy to recognize. Therefore, if a person is paying attention to their body than they can get cured from this multiply system disorder as soon as possible. Typically, Lyme disease has three different stages. The first and earliest stage of Lyme disease is the erythema chronicum migrans. The ECM heralds the first stage of Lyme disease and it usually occurs at the site of the minute tick. The erythema chronicum migrans lesion generally feels very hot and itchy and may even grow up to over 20 inches (50 cm) in diameter. Sometimes it may even resemble a bull's eyes or target. After a few days of getting the first erythema chronicum migrans (ECM) lesion, multiple lesions will erupt everywhere around the infective person's skin and a migratory, ring-like rash, conjunctivitis, and diffuse urticaria occurs.

In the three weeks after those lesions erupt on the skin, the lesions will be replaced by small red blotches that will persistently stay on the skin for several more weeks. During this stage, the infected person will experience fatigue and malaise on a constant basis. Other intermitted signs and symptoms that the infected person may experience are headache, neck stiffness, fever, chills, achiness, and regional lymphadenopathy. The other signs and systems that are less common are meningeal irritation, roaming musculoskeletal pain mild encephalopathy, hepatitis, and splenomegaly. However, some infected persons have reported that they had an unrelenting sore throat and dried out cough many days before the erythema chronicum migrans had appeared.

In conclusion, it is not hard to diagnosis and detected Lyme disease. However, if it is not diagnosis properly it can negatively affect a person's well-being. Therefore, if a person has any of these early signs of Lyme disease then they need to see a doctor as soon as possible.