Beware of Lyme Diseases Which Transmitted by Your Pets

Lyme Diseases is one type of infectious disease for human and animal with intermediate (vector) in the form of flea. The disease is named Lyme from the word of Old Lyme, one of the cities in Connecticut where the case was discovered. The disease is caused by Borrelia Burgdoferi, bacteria from the class of Spirochetes, and widely diffused by the Ixodes Scapularis flea. The fleas are commonly suck the blood of birds, pets, wild animals, and also human.

The early symptom of the disease with the appearance of large red spot on the skin, commonly occur on the thigh, buttocks, area which covered by shorts or armpits. These spots will be widened until a diameter of 15cm. The other physical symptoms such as fatigue, chills and fever, headache, neck stiffness, and pains in muscle and joint, back pain, nausea and vomiting, pain throat, the swollen of lymph nodes and enlarged spleen. Although all the symptoms are intermittent, but malaise and fatigue may persists for weeks.

This disease can lead to the long-term for patients, within few months after infected, will be occur the nerve dysfunction in approximately 15% of patients. But however, the disease can be cured at all. The most common problem is brain lining infection (meningitis), which causes the neck stiffness, headache, facial nerve inflammation, and half facial paralysis. The paralysis also can occur in other area. In 8% of patients, occurring the cardiac abnormalities (arrhythmias and perricarditis). Pericarditis can cause chest pain.

Prevention Ways to The Pets

1. If the pets are infected to the bacteria, will show the loss of appetite, lethargy and fever. So, check your pets to your veterinarian because there is a vaccine that available to treat the Lyme Diseases for dogs but not available for cats.

2. Familiarize your pets to be checked every day from fleas. Other way to prevent the Lyme Diseases for cat is to spray them with parasites spray with permethrin regularly.

3. Lifting the fleas from your pets with tweezers. Use the circular motion to lift the fleas and avoid the jerking movements. The jerking movements can leave the flea’s head in your pet’s skin layers and can cause abscesses.

4. Bathing your dog after walk in the yard, use the medicated shampoo which formulated to kill and remove fleas. Brush your dog’s fur with a wire brush to remove and expose the flea. Remove the fleas that you find immediately. Avoid direct contact with the flea. Use a rubber glove to protect your hands. Clean your dog everyday to remove the flea which likes to hide under the fur.

5. Avoiding the area which the fleas get to thrive is the best way to avoid the Lyme Diseases to your pets.

Handling Ways for Human Who Infected By Lyme Diseases

 

Although all stages of Lyme Diseases give responds to anthibiotics, but the treatment in the early stage is the best to help preventing complications. Anthibiotics such as doxycycline, amoxicillin, penicillin or erythromycin can be given orally (by mouth) during the early stage of the diseases. Giving intravenously (through a vein) do to the patients in advance stage disease, severe or persistent. Anthibiotics can also reduce arthritis, although required the treatment for more than 3 weeks. To reduce pain in the swollen joints can be given aspirin or non-steroidal of anti-inflammatory medicine.

The liquid which collected in joints can be drained or removed and the patients can be helped by a crutch.