Lyme Disease?
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Alarm at sharp rise in tick disease
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British hotspots are Thetford forest in Norfolk, the New Forest in Hampshire, the Lake District, the Yorkshire Moors, the Scottish Highlands and the uplands of Wales.
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Many people may be carrying the antibody after a tick bite years ago, but showing no symptoms. In those cases the full-blown disease can be triggered by another illness or severe stress.
It causes a rash and stiffness in the joints and, left unchecked, it can affect the central nervous system, causing tingling in hands and feet, or facial palsy. In the worst cases the disease can also affect the heart, liver and spleen and even lead to encephalitis, which can kill. Depression and chronic fatigue grip many patients and ruins their lives.
The symptoms are not identical for every sufferer though — Lyme disease imitates other diseases, which makes it difficult to diagnose.
- The Times, Monday May 30th. Left out on the kitchen table when I got home.
Here's one for Prill and Jim. Patient W spent 18 months or so suffering from chronic fatigue syndrome. Stiff joints and impaired balance were also frequent. Patient W was tested near the start of this period for various possible causes including glandular fever and diabtetes, but all tests came up clear. Glandular fever became the accepted cause because after about 2 weeks, for some reason unknown to the author, it no longer shows up in blood tests. However there was no obvious contagious person who then suffered from glandular fever that might have infected Patient W, as might have been expected.
Since the age of two Patient W has been visiting the Scottish Higlands for an average of a week per year and can recall having a tick removed with the traditional just-extinguished match at least twice.
Conclusions please. Bonus marks for use of technical language and/or Latin names. Oh yeah, I get tingly feet too.
Alarm at sharp rise in tick disease
...
British hotspots are Thetford forest in Norfolk, the New Forest in Hampshire, the Lake District, the Yorkshire Moors, the Scottish Highlands and the uplands of Wales.
...
Many people may be carrying the antibody after a tick bite years ago, but showing no symptoms. In those cases the full-blown disease can be triggered by another illness or severe stress.
It causes a rash and stiffness in the joints and, left unchecked, it can affect the central nervous system, causing tingling in hands and feet, or facial palsy. In the worst cases the disease can also affect the heart, liver and spleen and even lead to encephalitis, which can kill. Depression and chronic fatigue grip many patients and ruins their lives.
The symptoms are not identical for every sufferer though — Lyme disease imitates other diseases, which makes it difficult to diagnose.
- The Times, Monday May 30th. Left out on the kitchen table when I got home.
Here's one for Prill and Jim. Patient W spent 18 months or so suffering from chronic fatigue syndrome. Stiff joints and impaired balance were also frequent. Patient W was tested near the start of this period for various possible causes including glandular fever and diabtetes, but all tests came up clear. Glandular fever became the accepted cause because after about 2 weeks, for some reason unknown to the author, it no longer shows up in blood tests. However there was no obvious contagious person who then suffered from glandular fever that might have infected Patient W, as might have been expected.
Since the age of two Patient W has been visiting the Scottish Higlands for an average of a week per year and can recall having a tick removed with the traditional just-extinguished match at least twice.
Conclusions please. Bonus marks for use of technical language and/or Latin names. Oh yeah, I get tingly feet too.
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