subject: Lyme - The Stages Of Lyme Disease [print this page] A circular, bulls-eye rash at the site of the tick bite is the most distinguishable clue that you have contracted Lyme disease. Only about half of Lyme suffers get this tell-tale bulls-eye rash. Early symptoms also include fever, fatigue, headache, and depression. If not treated early, the consequences of this illness become much more severe. The infection begins to spread into the bloodstream very rapidly. This intermediate stage of the sickness bears the symptoms of heart palpitations, dizziness, and muscle, joint, and tendon pain. If patients still remain untreated, they can develop neurological disorders, like facial palsy, meningitis, encephalitis, and radiculoneuritis.
Lyme starts with a bite from a tick carrying the bacteria B. Burgdorferi. In 1975, there were a significant number of cases in a city in Connecticut with the same name as the illness. Allen Steere discovered that Lyme disease originated with tick bites in 1978. Willy Burgdorfer identified the bacteria that cause the disease in 1982. Adult and nymphal deer ticks can pass it on to humans and animals as well. Dogs are the most common pets to contract the disease, although it can happen in cats and horses. In North America, it is the most common tick-borne illness. If caught early, a single course of antibiotics can cure the problem. Caught late, Lyme can kill.
If the disease is allowed to advance without effective treatment, severe and chronic consequences can occur. Advanced stage symptoms can move through the body, usually affecting the brain, eyes, joints, nerves, and heart. Paraplegia and severe neurological disorders, such as fibromyalgia, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, depersonalization, vertigo, and even frank psychosis, are seen in the worst cases. Common in the knees, Lyme arthritis can also infiltrate many other joints in the body. Advanced patients also suffer from memory loss, debilitating fatigue, and sometimes delusions.
Lyme disease is sometimes misdiagnosed as ALS, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, Lupus, MS, and even psychosomatic delusions because there is not a conclusive lab test. The disease is diagnosed based upon a clinical exam, patient's description of symptoms, and the likelihood of exposure to an infected tick. If you find the tick and remove it within thirty-six hours of the bite, the chances of contracting the disease are greatly reduced.
Some sufferers with this illness have been helped with a new colloidal silver breakthrough. In the manufacturing process nano-sized silver particles are suspended in clustered double-distilled water at high concentration levels that are very successful at killing pathogens in the body, such as bacteria, viruses, and fungi. These silver particles switch off the pathogen's ability to use oxygen, so they suffocate and die in a few minutes while having no ill side effects to the person.
