Our 'May is Lyme Disease Awareness Month' theme this year is ``Get it Right, Treat the Bite!'' We encourage everyone to think about Lyme and tick borne diseases when they are first bitten by ticks and to seek preventative medical treatment immediately.
Lyme disease, Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, Ehrlichia, Bartonella, Mycoplasma, Anaplasma, Tularemia and a host of known and unknown infectious organisms can be found in ticks, so why wait?
After all, prevention is the best medicine!
Please share the simple message and the Get it Right, Treat the Bite website with your contacts and ask that they do the same.
With everyone's help we hope to reduce the suffering that comes with not being adequately treated in a timely and aggressive fashion.
The recommendations for removing a tick, the treatment of tick bites (prepared by a Lyme-literate physician), additional resources and measures that can be taken to reduce the risk of being bitten, can be printed directly from the easy to read and easy to navigate web site and shared with others, or be taken to a doctor's office to help educate the staff.
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Not everyone gets symptoms right away - I didn't get any symptoms for 10 weeks after the bite, then got sore neck and shoulders. So I agree - treat a known bite, just in case.
And best yet, have ample tick repellent on to prevent it from happening in the first place.
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