Updated 26 June 2014.
Treatment of Lyme disease
Use of antibiotics properly, your provider health care can effectively treat your Lyme disease. Generally, treatment begins earlier post-infection, a rapid and complete recovery.
- Antibiotics such as doxycycline, amoxicillin or cefuroxime orally for a few weeks, can accelerate the healing of skin rash EM and usually avoid the following problems, such as arthritis or neurological symptoms.
- Doxycycline also effectively treat most other tick-borne diseases.
Doxycycline can stain the permanent teeth developing in the womb, when the Lyme disease occurs in children under 9 years old women, or are pregnant or breast-feeding, which are usually treated with small children or babies:
- Amoxicillin
- Cefuroxime
- Penicillin
Lyme arthritis
If you have Lyme arthritis, your doctor may be treated with oral antibiotics. If your arthritis is difficult you may ceftriaxone or penicillin are administered intravenously (into a vein). To relieve symptoms and promote healing, can also with your doctor:
- prescribe medications such as NSAIDs (non-steroidal anti-inflammatory)
- perform common aspiration (liquid design of affected joints)
- surgical removal of the inflamed mucosa of the affected joints
For most people, Lyme arthritis will disappear in a few weeks or months after treatment with antibiotics. In some countries, it may take years to disappear completely. Some people with Lyme disease can be cured with appropriate antibiotics untreated for a number of years of the disease. If the disease persists long enough, but it can lead to permanent damage to the joint structure.
Neurological problems
If you have any neurological symptoms, the doctor will probably treat him with intravenous antibiotics ceftriaxone once daily for a month or so. Most people recover completely.
Heart problems
Health care providers prefer to treat people with Lyme disease with heart symptoms with antibiotics such as penicillin or ceftriaxone intravenously for about two weeks. Persons with Lyme disease often heart problems in the long term.
Research on Lyme Disease
After treatment of Lyme disease, you can still muscle pain, neurological symptoms such as problems with memory and concentration, and fatigue.
- Researchers from the NIH-sponsored studies to determine the cause of these symptoms and the best way to treat.
Studies suggest that people who may suffer from chronic Lyme disease genetically predisposed to develop an autoimmune response that contributes to the symptoms.
- Researchers are studying the importance of this finding in detail.
Researchers are also the best time to find give antibiotics to the different signs and symptoms of Lyme disease.
Lyme disease can recur
Unfortunately, a bout with Lyme disease to prevent the disease does not return. The disease may affect more than once, if it is infected by the bacteria of the Lyme disease.
Additional Resources
NIH conducts and supports biomedical research to meet the challenges of Lyme disease. Scientists to better understand the immune response to Lyme disease in humans.
- For example, discover the mechanisms for the treatment-resistant Lyme arthritis responsible. A better understanding of the human immune response may lead to better tools for diagnosis and prognosis.
- For example, B. burgdorferi immune complex assay, a test in development, suggesting active Lyme disease is not the antibody tests currently used infection. Since Lyme disease is difficult to diagnose and sometimes not respond to treatment, researchers are trying to protect a vaccine for humans against infection. Vaccines work, partly by.'s Body to produce antibodies These molecules are tailored to particular made by a bacterium or a virus blocking protein. Frequently these proteins are found in the outer shell of the bacteria. If the antibodies against the invading microbes to bind, called other immune defenses to destroy.
The key to progress
Although Lyme disease presents many challenges, these are the challenges of medical research is well equipped to react. New information on the Lyme disease accumulate at a rapid pace, performed all over the world thanks to the scientific research.
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