What Is Chronic Lyme Disease?
Chronic Lyme disease is a multi-system illness with a wide range of symptoms or signs that are either consistently or intermittently present for at least around six months. The illness is the result of an `ongoing infection by any of several members of the Borrelia burgdorferi bacteria. Chronic Lyme disease has two subcategories untreated chronic Lyme disease and that present in the setting of one or more courses of Chronic Lyme Disease Treatment.
What are the Symptoms of Chronic Lyme Disease?
Generally, the symptoms of Lyme disease syndrome resembles and occur in earlier stages. Diagnosis and Lyme disease Treatment play an important role in overall health improvement. An individual suffering from persistent symptoms often experience lingering episodes of:-
- Severe pain in large joints.
- Problems in Speech.
- Fatigue.
- Restless sleep.
- Aching muscles.
- Aching joints.
- Swelling in the knees, shoulders, elbows, and other large joints.
- Decreased short-term memory or ability to concentrate.
Treatment for Chronic Lyme Disease
Treating chronic Lyme disease can be quite tricky as its symptoms are common and can be easily ignored. The importance of diagnosis of Lyme disease from a Lyme Disease Specialist cannot be overemphasized. People suffering from this disease are treated with appropriate antibiotics in the early stages usually recover rapidly and completely.
Antibiotics are commonly used for oral treatment which includes cefuroxime, doxycycline, or cefuroxime axetil or amoxicillin. For patients suffering from certain neurological or cardiac forms of illness may require intravenous treatment with antibiotics such as ceftriaxone or penicillin. IMNVA’s Lyme Specialist Virginia emphasis on the right diagnosis of these diseases and treat the patients accordingly for optimum results.