Lyme disease can be complicated to diagnose in its early stages as symptoms can vary commonly from person to person and look like the flu and other ailments. The disease can cause a trait rash that can start at the bite site, or appear somewhere else. It can appear three to 30 days after a tick bite or not at all. Other general symptoms consist of fever, chills, headaches, muscle aches, stiff neck, joint pain and low energy. The blood test for Lyme disease can be unenthusiastic in the early stages of the infection. Only about 30 percent of patients with Lyme disease remember the tick bite.
Lyme disease can be treated efficiently with antibiotics, mainly if treated early. If left untreated, the sickness can cause arthritis, heart problems, muscle fault, loss of memory or Bell's palsy, a paralysis and drooping of the facial muscles.Ehrlichiosis is another familiar disease also carry by deer ticks, but is much less common than Lyme disease. Its most normal symptoms include a sudden high fever, fatigue, severe headaches and muscle aches and, at times, a rash.
Symptoms usually become visible one to two weeks after a tick bite and differ from mild, self-limiting sickness to severe or hardly ever life-threatening disease. In severe cases, patients can increase low blood cell counts and kidney crash. Ehrlichiosis is complicated to diagnose, even when it is severe, because it resembles so various other diseases. Like Lyme disease, ehrlichiosis can be treating with antibiotics. About 600 cases of ehrlichiosis have been established nationwide, but no one knows how many cases have gone untouched or misdiagnosed.
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