It gets bigger over several days and may feel warm. It is usually not painful or itchy. As it starts to get better, parts of it may fade. Sometimes this makes the rash look like a "bull's-eye. The symptoms may include Severe headaches and neck stiffness Additional EM rashes on other areas of your body Facial palsy, which is a weakness in your facial muscles.
It can cause drooping on one or both sides of your face. Arthritis with severe joint pain and swelling, especially in your knees and other large joints Pain that comes and goes in your tendons, muscles, joints, and bones Heart palpitations, which are feelings that your heart is skipping a beat, fluttering, pounding, or beating too hard or too fast An irregular heart beat Lyme carditis Episodes of dizziness or shortness of breath Inflammation of the brain and spinal cord Nerve pain Shooting pains, numbness, or tingling in the hands or feet How is Lyme disease diagnosed?
To make a diagnosis, your health care provider will consider Your symptoms How likely it is that you were exposed to infected blacklegged ticks The possibility that other illnesses may cause similar symptoms Results of any lab tests Most Lyme disease tests check for antibodies made by the body in response to infection.
What are the treatments for Lyme disease? Can Lyme disease be prevented? To prevent Lyme disease, you should lower your risk of getting a tick bite: Avoid areas where ticks live, such as grassy, brushy, or wooded areas. If you are hiking, walk in the center of the trail to avoid brush and grass. Also tuck your shirt into your pants and your pant legs into your socks.
Check yourself, your children, and your pets daily for ticks. Carefully remove any ticks you find. Take a shower and wash and dry your clothes at high temperatures after being outdoors Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Start Here. Diagnosis and Tests. Section Navigation. Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Syndicate. Minus Related Pages. Signs and Symptoms of Untreated Lyme Disease. Diagnosis and Testing. Data and Statistics. Preventing Tick Bites. Tick Removal and Testing. You should know how to remove a tick just in case one lands on you or a friend.
To be safe, remove the tick as soon as possible. Note: Don't use petroleum jelly or a lit match to kill a tick. They won't get the tick off your skin quickly enough, and may just cause it to burrow deeper into your skin. Larger text size Large text size Regular text size. What Is Lyme Disease? Not everyone with Lyme has all of these, though: A circular rash at the site of the tick bite, typically within 1—2 weeks of infection, often is the first sign of infection.
It's considered typical of Lyme disease, but many people never get one. Symptoms of the initial illness may go away on their own. But in some people, the infection spreads to other parts of the body.
Symptoms of this stage usually start several weeks after the tick bite, even in those who didn't have the rash. A person may feel very tired and unwell, or have more areas of rash that aren't at the site of the bite. Lyme disease can affect the heart. This can lead to an irregular heart rhythm, which can cause dizziness or heart palpitations. It can also spread to the nervous system, causing facial paralysis Bell's palsy or meningitis. The last stage of Lyme disease happens if the early stages weren't found or treated.
Symptoms can begin anytime from weeks to years after an infectious tick bite. In kids and teens, this is almost always in the form of arthritis, with swelling and tenderness, particularly in the knees or other large joints. When Should I Call the Doctor? How Is Lyme Disease Treated? This is known as post-infectious Lyme disease. It's not clear exactly why this happens. It's likely to be related to overactivity of your immune system rather than continued infection. If a tick bites an animal carrying the bacteria that cause Lyme disease, the tick can become infected.
The tick can then transfer the bacteria to a human by biting them. Ticks can be found in any areas with deep or overgrown plants where they have access to animals to feed on. Ticks don't jump or fly. They climb on to your clothes or skin if you brush against something they're on. They then bite into the skin and start to feed on your blood. Generally, you're more likely to become infected if the tick is attached to your skin for more than 24 hours. Ticks are very small and their bites are not painful, so you may not realise you have one attached to your skin.
There are a high number of ticks in the Scottish Highlands. It's thought only a small proportion of ticks carry the bacteria that cause Lyme disease. Being bitten doesn't mean you'll definitely be infected. However, it's important to be aware of the risk and speak to a GP if you start to feel unwell. Diagnosing Lyme disease is often difficult as many of the symptoms are similar to other conditions.
There are 2 kinds of blood test use to diagnose Lyme disease. The tests are not always accurate in the early stages of Lyme disease.
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