7 Myths About Lyme Disease You Might Not Have Heard Before!

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7 Myths About Lyme Disease You Might Not Have
Heard Before!
Dr. Peter Dobie
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Lyme disease cases are rising at an alarming rate
in Australia. However, most people are completely
unaware of this chronic and painful disease. Have
a look at some myths and the real facts about
Lyme disease.
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• Myth 1 All Ticks Can Cause Lyme Disease
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• No, the only ticks that can cause Lyme disease
  are known as deer ticks or black-legged ticks.
  Just around 30 and 60 of those ticks might be
  carrying the bacteria, called that causes Lyme
  disease. This bacterium is known as Borrelia
  burgdorferi.

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• Myth 2 If Someone Is Bitten By Infected Tick,
  He Or She Will Be Infected By Lyme Disease
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• Remember, a tick bite doesnt occur quickly in a
  few seconds like a bee or mosquito sting. When
  the tick reaches the body of a person, it gets
  stuck on the skin and start sucking blood from
  the hosts body for a period of time. In case the
  tick is infected, then for as long as its
  attached to the body, it will suck and transmit
  the bacteria.

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• Myth3 The Most Ideal Approaches To Expel Ticks
  Are To Suffocate Or Burn Them
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• Experts state that burning a tick with fire, or
  attempting to choke out it with nail polish,
  petroleum jelly or gasoline, or other similar
  techniques won't be as helpful as delicately
  pulling the tick far from the skin quite
  carefully so as to make sure that the tick's
  mouth area isnt detached to its remaining body
  or remains stuck to the persons body.

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• Myth4 Bullseye Rash Is The Best Way To
  Diagnose Lyme Disease
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• Remember, its possible that not everybody who
  has been bitten by an infected tick gets a
  bullseye rash, yet they may have become infected
  from the illness, and will develop the other
  common symptoms of this disease.

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• Myth5 Testing A Tick Can Tell If You Have Lyme
  Disease Or Not
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• Even if an expert gets the tick tested and its
  found to be harbouring the Lyme bacteria, its
  not necessary that the tick has transmitted the
  bacteria to any person it may have bitten. So,
  testing a tick won't be an exact sign of whether
  somebody it has bitten is affected by this
  illness or not.

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• Myth 6 You Wont Get Infected Again with Lyme
  disease, If You Have Been Infected by It Before.
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• Studies have clearly suggested that theres no
  limit to the number of times a person can get
  affected by Lyme disease. So, you need to be
  careful even you if have suffered from this
  illness a few years back.

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• Myth 7 Lyme Disease can't be cured
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• You should know that the early stages of this
  illness when caught within the first 1 or 3 moths
  are the getting infected by the tick bite, are
  really treatable with proper medications
  authorised by an expert doctor.

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If the illness is detected early the bacteria can
be killed easily by medications and the person
will be cured. For later stages of Lyme disease,
you need to visit an expert doctor in Sydney,
Australia. Cases of Lyme disease in Australia are
becoming more common. Visit an experienced doctor
today, if you think that you have developed
symptoms of Lyme disease.
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