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May is Lyme Disease awareness month and I just wanted to add something many people still don't know. Lyme Disease can become a serious illness that has killed and has been misdiagnosed, or undiagnosed for months to years. Please learn the symptoms. It can become a hard to cure chronic illness when it is missed. This is also how it has killed, be aware. It gets into vital organs needed to sustain life when left to fester for months or years. I am one of many.
Be careful removing ticks. Never use anything but tweezers. I used alcohol, thinking it might be a black head. This is how tini a tick can be and is why they are sometimes missed.
I wasn't sure if it was a tick because I knew very little about them. But I remembered a friend telling me alcohol could get a tick out. Big Mistake, it does get the tick off, but it aggitates the tick and makes them regurgitate the contents of its stomach passing on lyme disease and co-infections.
I was at the park a few days ago, when I saw a mother with her little one crawling in the grass. Please never put a baby down in the grass ticks can attach themselves to you and your little ones. Prevention is the best protection. When Lyme disease enters its late stage it is very difficult to treat and cure.
Our MD's and specialist like Neurologist, Reumotologist, even infectious disease specialist aren't treating it long enought or correctly some don't even know about co-infections. They tend not to use high enought doses of antibiotics. At this point you need to find and LLMD. The Spirocheets can change shape to avoid being erradicated. They become a strong bug and need certain anibiotics to kill them at this point. They also get deep into tissue, the brain, and organs. Antibiotics specific for crossing the blood brain barrier are needed. Most MD's don't know this.
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