Introduction/epidemiology
Lyme’s disease is a transmitted disease from ticks, once the tick bites you, a small red bite mark will appear. A normal bite will disappear in a couple of days and does not indicate that you have Lyme’s disease. If that bite mark does not disappear and you get the following symptoms at first, you might have Lyme’s disease.
The symptoms of Lyme disease are: a rash and flu-like symptoms. For the rash, three to thirty days after the bite that is considered infective, will have an expanding red area around the bite that area will expand out twelve inches across. This is known as the erythema migrans. Next is flu-like symptoms, which are the self-explanatory fever, chills, fatigue, body aches and headaches (“Lyme Disease”). …show more content…
When you look at the epidemiology reported by the number of cases reported by states and think about the area associated with the reports, it will explain why the incidence rate for that area is so high. For the population, the top five states as it regards to incidence rate would be the following states: number one would be Maine with an incidence rate of 87.9, number two would be Vermont with an incidence rate of 70.5, number three would be Massachusetts with an incidence rate of 54.1, number four would be Rhode Island with an incidence rate of 54 and fifth and finally is Pennsylvania with an incidence rate of 50.6. That is how much the population gets infected by Lyme’s disease (“Data and …show more content…
Are there medications to treat the disease and what are they and what happens after the treatment is finished? For the first question, are there medications to treat the disease and what are they, the answer is yes there are medications to treat the disease. They are given in three periods that depend on when the disease was found and diagnosed. Those three periods are the following: early localized Lyme’s disease, early disseminated and late persistent infection and finally post-Lyme disease syndrome. For early localized Lyme disease treatment there are three forms of medication given and they are Doxycycline 100 mg bid or amoxicillin 500 mg tid for 14 days. The Doxycycline should be avoided in children less than the age of eight years of age and it should also be avoided in pregnant females. (“ClinicalKey”) (“Result Filters”) The next medication given for early localized Lyme disease is for alternative treatments. The medication given is Cefuroxime Axetil 500 mg bid for 14 to 21 days, Azithromycin 500 mg PO for seven to ten days, but should not be given as a first-line agent. (“ClinicalKey”) (“Result
Lyme’s disease is a transmitted disease from ticks, once the tick bites you, a small red bite mark will appear. A normal bite will disappear in a couple of days and does not indicate that you have Lyme’s disease. If that bite mark does not disappear and you get the following symptoms at first, you might have Lyme’s disease.
The symptoms of Lyme disease are: a rash and flu-like symptoms. For the rash, three to thirty days after the bite that is considered infective, will have an expanding red area around the bite that area will expand out twelve inches across. This is known as the erythema migrans. Next is flu-like symptoms, which are the self-explanatory fever, chills, fatigue, body aches and headaches (“Lyme Disease”). …show more content…
When you look at the epidemiology reported by the number of cases reported by states and think about the area associated with the reports, it will explain why the incidence rate for that area is so high. For the population, the top five states as it regards to incidence rate would be the following states: number one would be Maine with an incidence rate of 87.9, number two would be Vermont with an incidence rate of 70.5, number three would be Massachusetts with an incidence rate of 54.1, number four would be Rhode Island with an incidence rate of 54 and fifth and finally is Pennsylvania with an incidence rate of 50.6. That is how much the population gets infected by Lyme’s disease (“Data and …show more content…
Are there medications to treat the disease and what are they and what happens after the treatment is finished? For the first question, are there medications to treat the disease and what are they, the answer is yes there are medications to treat the disease. They are given in three periods that depend on when the disease was found and diagnosed. Those three periods are the following: early localized Lyme’s disease, early disseminated and late persistent infection and finally post-Lyme disease syndrome. For early localized Lyme disease treatment there are three forms of medication given and they are Doxycycline 100 mg bid or amoxicillin 500 mg tid for 14 days. The Doxycycline should be avoided in children less than the age of eight years of age and it should also be avoided in pregnant females. (“ClinicalKey”) (“Result Filters”) The next medication given for early localized Lyme disease is for alternative treatments. The medication given is Cefuroxime Axetil 500 mg bid for 14 to 21 days, Azithromycin 500 mg PO for seven to ten days, but should not be given as a first-line agent. (“ClinicalKey”) (“Result