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

1. 7 Myths About Lyme Disease You Might Not Have Heard Before! Dr. Peter Dobie

2. 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.

3. Myth #1 – All Ticks Can Cause Lyme Disease • 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 Borreliaburgdorferi.

4. Myth #2 – If Someone Is Bitten By Infected Tick, He Or She Will Be Infected By Lyme Disease • Remember, a tick bite doesn’t 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 host’s body for a period of time. In case the tick is infected, then for as long as it’s attached to the body, it will suck and transmit the bacteria.

5. Myth#3 – The Most Ideal Approaches To Expel Ticks Are To Suffocate Or Burn Them • 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 isn’t detached to its remaining body or remains stuck to the person’s body.

6. Myth#4 – Bullseye Rash Is The Best Way To Diagnose Lyme Disease • Remember, it’s 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.

7. Myth#5 – Testing A Tick Can Tell If You Have Lyme Disease Or Not • Even if an expert gets the tick tested and it’s found to be harbouring the Lyme bacteria, it’s 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.

8. Myth #6 – You Won’t Get Infected Again with Lyme disease, If You Have Been Infected by It Before. • Studies have clearly suggested that there’s 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.

9. Myth #7 – Lyme Disease can't be cured • 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.

10. 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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