Research Paper On Lyme Disease

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Janell Dilcher Professor Spollen English 151 June 24, 2012 Lyme’s Disease Did you ever wonder what Lyme’s disease is? Lyme’s disease is one of the fastest growing infectious diseases in the United States. It is an infection caused by Borrelia burgdorferi, a type of bacterium called a spirochete that is carried by deer ticks. In just one single bite you can be affected if the tick that bit you is a carrier of Lyme’s disease. There are three stages of Lyme’s disease and the symptoms vary between the stages. You can get treatment but sometimes that doesn’t always work. While reading this you’re going to learn the signs, symptoms, treatment, and prevention of getting Lyme’s disease. There are three distinct stages of Lyme’s disease which have their own symptoms for each one. The first stage of Lyme’s…show more content…
There may be an outer ring of brighter redness and a central area of clearing leading to a bull’s eye appearance. This rash is called Erythema migran pertaining to a “bull’s eye”. The symptoms to this stage are general fatigue, muscle and joint stiffness, swollen lymph nodes, and headaches. Stage 2 is called early disseminated infection which is a few days to weeks after the initial bite and the disease starts to spread to through the bloodstream. It will develop at sites across the body that bears no relation to the tick bite. Discrete symptoms are pain in the muscles joints and tendons, heart palpitations and dizziness caused by changes in heartbeat. Stage 3 is called the late persistent infection which takes the same amount of time as the second stage but it affects the heart, causing inflammation of the heart muscle. Results in abnormal heart rhythms, and heart failure, it also can develop in the central nervous system and cause facial paralysis, meningitis, and

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