Lyme disease come from the bite of an infected tick with the Borrelia burgdorferi bacteria.It’s probably the most common disease spread by ticks in the US.It was first discovered in a small town in the USA,called Lyme in 1975.

Mostly of the lyme disease reports were from the US,especially from the east coastal states,north coastal states and northern California,Connecticut,Rhode Island,New York,New Jersey,Delaware,Pennsylvania,Maryland and Wisconsin.

The black-legged tick spreades lyme in northeastern US and The Great Lakes Region.Black-legged ticks live in woods and places with grass,yards for example.In the Pacific there is the western-black legged tick who spreads lyme disease.

These ticks become infected because they’re eating from infected animals such as mice,chipmunks.

This tick ussualy lives 2 years and feeds only 3 times:once as a larvae,once as a nymph and once as an adult.

By their opinion,doctors suggest that lyme disease has three stages:early lyme disease,early disseminated lyme disease and late lyme disease.

Early lyme disease is the first stage of this illnes.This stage developes many symptomes such as:fatigue,chills,fever,headache,muscle and joint pain,swollen lymph nodes,tiredness and erythema migrants.

Erythema migrans is one of the first symptoms of lyme disease and it’s consisted of a circular skin rash that grows regularly.This skin rash can appear from 1 day to 1 month since the bite of the infected tick,but it usually appears in 7 days since the bite and has a 2 inches diameter.After it enlarges,the rash appears as a large „bulls-eye”.The rash is usually worm but it’s not painfully.Erythema migrans doesn’t appear on every patient who suffers from lyme disease.The patient recognises the disease when is on it’s second or third stage.

To prevent lyme disease people should protect themselves from tick bites,they shoyld remove imediatly any attached tick on their skin and get early treatment.Antibiotic treatment is adviced because untreated lyme disease can leave severe health problems on the future.Antibiotic treatment should last from 3 to 4 weeks.The problem is that a prevent method wasn’t discovered yet.It’s being worked at a vaccine,but all the doctors suggest that the best method to prevent the infection with lyme disease is to avoid exposure to ticks.People should not stay in places with wild mice,dead or alive,avoid woods with thick ground cover.There are suggestions regarding clothing.

Doctors suggest that people when are working in the garden to wear long clothes to protect their skin and to prevent an infected tick to come in contact with the skin.Insecticid is a good way to prevent ticks coming near a person or inhabited areas.After getting inside the house people should always check theirselves for tick.Ticks usually stay behind the knees,between the fingers and toes,under the arms,in the ears,behind the ears and on the neck.