In the diagnosis of Lyme Disease human erythema is the main diagnostic feature: if it is found to confirm the diagnosis, then there are no additional studies carried out.In the case of animals detection of erythema migrans may be difficult to wool, so the main method of diagnosis of dogs, cats and other animals can be considered only laboratory diagnosis The most characteristic feature of the Lyme Disease is arthritis, which usually occurs only in the second stage of the disease, usually several months after the tick bite, and then, sometimes for several years, attacks of illness alternate with long periods of remission.
The diagnosis of Lyme Disease is placed on a combination of several factors: clinical symptoms, positive serological reactions, the presence of a tick bite, the exclusion of other diagnoses.Susceptibility to spirochetes of dogs is very high. Spirochetes or their DNA is regularly found in the tissues of dogs infected in nature, and in the laboratory. Demonstrated experimentally the ability of dogs to keep germs of this disease and serve as a source of infection for ticks feeding on them.
In most of cases Lyme Disease is treatable with antibiotics. Effective drugs are penicillins, cephalosporins, tetracyclines, amoxicillin. Should be conducted pathogenetic therapy. Often to the complete destruction of the pathogen it is necessary long-term antibiotics appointment – up to 4 weeks. While signs of Lyme arthritis often used non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs.Often on the background of treatment with antibiotics is observed expressed aggravation of symptoms, as in the treatment of other spirochetosis. These phenomena are due to the massive loss of spirochetes and the release of endotoxins into the blood.
Transmission of the infection is possible through the bite of the tick, although not ruled out the possibility of infection and in contact with feces of mites on the skin, followed by rubbing them with scratching. As the main symptoms of Lyme disease can be observed weakness, fatigue, fever, headaches, muscle pain migrating characteristic of skin rash, fatigue and dizziness. More severe manifestations of Lyme disease is damage of the nervous system and heart.
Lyme disease is diagnosed on the basis of epidemiological history, according to season, as well as the clinical picture: the appearance of erythema migrans annular. In a subsequent skin lesions join neurological, joint and cardiac symptoms. It should be noted that some patients do not notice or forget that the tick removed from the skin. In these cases, the diagnostic significance for clinical stages of disease as well as while laboratory examinations.