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Early diagnosis and proper antibiotic treatment of Lyme disease is important and can help prevent late Lyme disease. These are the standard treatment for early stage Lyme disease. These usually include doxycycline for adults and children older than 8, or amoxicillin or cefuroxime for adults, younger children, and pregnant or breast-feeding women. A 14 to 21 day course of antibiotics is usually recommended, but some studies suggest that courses lasting 10 to 14 days are equally effective. If the disease involves the central nervous system, your doctor might recommend treatment with an intravenous antibiotic for 14 to 28 days. This is effective in eliminating infection, although it may take you some time to recover from your symptoms. However, intravenous antibiotics can cause various side effects, including a lower white blood cell count, mild to severe diarrhea, or colonization or infection with other antibiotic-resistant organisms unrelated to Lyme. And sometimes even after treatment, a small number of people still have some symptoms, such as muscle aches and fatigue. The cause of these continuing symptoms, known as post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome, is unknown, and treating with more antibiotics doesn't help.

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CDC currently recommends a two-step testing process for Lyme disease. Both steps are required and can be done using the same blood sample. If this first step is negative, no further testing is recommended. If the first step is positive or indeterminate, the second step should be performed. The overall result is positive only when the first test is positive and the second test is positive. Most Lyme disease tests are designed to detect antibodies made by the body in response to infection. Antibodies can take several weeks to develop, so patients may test negative if infected only recently. Antibodies normally persist in the blood for months or even years after the infection is gone; therefore, the test cannot be used to determine cure.

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Mice, squirrels, ticks, and humans can get Lyme disease. Lyme disease is transmitted to humans through the bites of those listed above. Lyme disease isn't passed to humans from another human being. Humans can only contact Lyme disease through animals and species. However if a woman is pregnant and she has come in contact with Lyme disease it may lead to infection of the placenta and possibly stillbirth. However, again, no negative affects have been found when the mother receives appropriate antibiotic treatment. Now as far as blood to blood from one human to the next, although there hasn't been any cases that Lyme disease can be linked to blood transfusion; scientists have discovered that Lyme disease bacteria can live in the blood that is stored for blood donation.

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The best way to prevent Lyme disease is to stay clear of areas where deer ticks live, especially wooded bushy long grass areas. Other ways you can prevent getting Lyme disease is by covering complete up when you are in wooded long grass areas. Also some insect repellent can help fight against ticks and keep them away. If you have a outside pet its also safe to check them for ticks and to keep them clear of ticks. Before coming indoor always double check your clothing, once clothing is clear, then take a shower and check your body for ticks. Some places ticks are typically located is under the armpit, around or in the ear, inside the belly button, and in or around the hair. If you spot a tick on yourself, your kids, or your pet remove it immediately making sure that the head is still attached to the tick's body.

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Depending on the stage of which the infection is in, if Lyme disease is left untreated it can produce a wide range of symptoms. Some symptoms are flu like symptoms. symptoms includes fever, chills, headaches, feeling fatigue, swollen lymph nodes, and muscle and joint aches. Other symptoms that occur are erythema migrans rash. This rash shows up in about 80% of infected people. The erythema rash is one of the main give away for Lyme disease. The rash can even grow up to 12inches or more across. Later symptoms can even occur months after the tick bite includes but limited to facial palsy, nerve pain and numbness or tingling of the hands or feet.

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Lyme disease is the most frequently seen vector-borne disease in the United States. It is a tick-borne illness that is caused by the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi and mayonii. Lyme disease can be transmitted to humans through the bite of an infected deer tick. It is diagnosed based off of symptoms, physical findings and if one has possibly been exposed to infected ticks.