WHAT IS LYME DISEASE?

What is Lyme disease?
Lyme disease is an infection caused by a bacteria known as Borrelia.
The bacteria, a spirochete, is transmitted when an individual is bitten by a vector e.g. Tick.

Symptoms of Lyme disease?

Early Stages

• Flu like symptoms such as headache, fever, muscle soreness & unexplained fatigue.
• Fewer than 50% of people with Lyme Disease develop the “bulls-eye” (or Erthema Migrans) rash

Late (chronic) stages of Lyme disease

• Head, face and neck:
• Unexplained hair loss
• Headache, mild or severe, Seizures
• Pressure in head, white matter lesions in brain (MRI)
• Facial paralysis (Bell’s Palsy, Homer’s syndrome)
• Tingling of nose, (tip of) tongue, cheek or facial flushing
• Stiff or painful neck
• Twitching of facial or other muscle
• Jaw pain or stiffness