Ticks usually go for your lower body and work their way up to a constricted area on your body such as your waist band. If you are an outdoorsman, you can prevent tick encounters by wearing long socks and long pull your socks over your long pant legs. By doing this you...
Are you trying to recover from Lyme disease or a different chronic illness? Clinical depression can prevent or stop your progress. Everyone gets depressed when challenged with an illness and the work and expense of getting better, but major clinical depression...
You could be someone who has recently contracted the Lyme illness and are asking the question of “Why me?” It is very unfortunate that you became ill, but it does not have to completely rule your life. It is very likely that you were an outdoorsy person that loved to...
Hypothetical Situation: You may have recently been bitten by a tick and you go to your doctor to get a precautionary checkup. You ask your doctor if you have contracted any illness from the tick bite. Your doctor informs you that you are not...
You may know that the spirochete, Borrelia burgdorferi, is a common host of the deadly Lyme infection, but this specific specimen is predominantly found in the United States of America. The genus Borrelia is a member of the Spirochetaceae family which contain...
The spirochete, Borrelia burgdorferi, is a specimen attributed to causing lyme infection in individuals residing in the United States of America. On the list of medical priorities of preventing, curing, and analyzing diseases, Lyme infection has climbed its way...
Take a moment to pray or ponder those who perished from the internal ravaging effects of Lyme infection. Though the number of fatalities brought by this disease remain minuscule, it is still imperative that the deadliness of the epidemic be recognized. Between the...
It was November of 1998 when Tina Garcia was infected with the spirochete, Borrelia burgdorferi. She went 6 years with no antimicrobial therapy and became disabled by the end of 2004. Garcia fought hard against the Lyme infection and by 2005, she became the Founder...
Contrary to the rarity of a pathognomonic rash, such as the Lyme infection, to be fatal, a few cases have reported amyopathic dermatomyositis followed by severe interstitial pulmonary fibrosis. These diseases developed despite the reported cases participating in...
Are you experiencing flu-like symptoms that possibly encompass fever, stiff neck, swollen lymph nodes, muscle aches, headaches, chills, joint pain, and fatigue? You could be one of the sum 15,000 annual cases of this disease in the United States. Don’t worry...