What is it and the disease phases

Lyme is an infectious disease contracted by a tick, mosquito, louse, or another infected insect bite. Although, the origin is anterior. No defined until 1975 after investigating the high number of cases of rheumatoid arthritis in children in Old Lyme, United States.

Investigators concluded that the infection was contracted through the bacteria Borrelia burgdorferi, transmitted by a tick ixodes bite. Since then, we have learned much more about this complex disease. Nevertheless, the investigation doesn´t advance at the speed the disease does; Lyme is the first disease transmitted by a vector in the United States. Its incidence in Europe is growing.

There is unanimity considering that tick proliferation is related to climate change: Soft temperatures enlarge the reproduction periods of this arthropod. The bird migrations transfer it through Europe as they have never done before.

The human being lives in an increasingly toxic environment. It is full of chemicals, radiation, and constant overcharges to the immune system, leading to a less efficient defensive system, facilitating that these infections reactivate and convert into an epigenetic disease, with various symptoms like a genetic variety of people. The reason why the diagnosis is so complex.

However, the real danger is in the proper infection and the disease complexity. Lyme sick people face a difficult path with no answers. The medical community is not habituated with this disease. The interest in advancing knowing better from it is just something that occurs to a few professionals.

The name by which Lyme is known speaks of its elusiveness to diagnosis: “the great mimic”. The symptoms are similar to other diseases, from arthritis to depression. Many patients receive Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, fibromyalgia, or multiple sclerosis without treatment being efficacious. The delay in obtaining a diagnosis is fatal for those suffering from this pathology. If not treated with antibiotics in the Early Lyme first phase, the infection runs through the organism resulting in a Multisystemic Infection Syndrome, known as Chronic Lyme.

Lyme frequently produces an autoimmune situation rarely treated with immunosuppressants. Imagine what occurs when an organism with various active chronic infections receives an immunosuppressant. The patient worsens. It is already a suspect sign that it can be Lyme. We have to visit an expert.