Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., is undergoing a 21-day treatment of antibiotics for Lyme disease, the Associated Press reports.
Schumer told the wire service he thinks he contracted the disease from a tick that attached itself to his left leg while he conducted news conferences on dangerous dams in the Hudson Valley on May 7.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the symptoms of Lyme disease typically include a skin rash, fatigue, headaches and fever. If not treated, it can spread to the joints, the heart and nervous system.
Among the CDC's web resources on the disease are pages on:
* Prevention. * Symptoms. * Diagnosis. * Treatment.
Posted by lou (Member # 81) on :
And did his doctor use the IDSA guidelines on diagnosis, I wonder?
Must be nice to get treatment so quickly after the bite.
Posted by 3greatkids (Member # 3838) on :
The rest of us get the ole:
Wait and See
Good Luck Senator.
Posted by lou (Member # 81) on :
And what happened to the one dose of doxy and you are cured treatment?
Posted by sizzled (Member # 1357) on :
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Yeah...ONE dose!
Did he get a bull's eye rash???
Okay, I see he did get a bull's eye rash.
AND he gets 21 days of abx to PREVENT Lyme disease.
I do hope he doesn't get ill much later on and he gets a 'Fibromyalgia' or 'Chronic Fatigue Syndrome' dx!!! Or worse!!
[ 25. May 2007, 06:37 AM: Message edited by: sizzled ]
Posted by Areneli (Member # 6740) on :
I don't understand the present world.
Do you know that this, in general stupid story, have been republished within a few hours by 63 journals and magazines all over the US? And we have so much trouble to make one journal to publish something honest.
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