Lymes disease treatment should be provided early to stop it becoming advanced & possibly chronic if its isn't treated early the symptoms can remain dormant sometimes disapearing for days, weeks, months even years before ther reappear.

Seeking advice from specialists or your Doctor is vital whether its for alternative, conventional or natural  treatments. Look out for symptoms that can include aching and swollen joints, chest pains, headaches and flu like symptoms.

Remember that dogs can also be infected with the disease and will need urgent vetinary inervention. Check out our section on canine lyme disease for more information on this.

The above picture is of a lyme disease rash that has a co-infection of erhlichiosis.

We should mention that the proper name is actually Lyme Disease, but due to it being mispronounced so regularly for the benefit of this page we will use 'Lymes'.

• However, as we constantly mention you don't have to get the bullseye rash to have lyme disease as it sometimes only appears in as little as 30% of cases.

• Another misconception is the common belief that ticks need to be attached and sucking blood for 23-48 hours for you to catch the disease. We we recently discovered a s case where a person had developed lyme disease after a tick was attached and sucking blood for a as little as 2 hours!

• Lymes disease treatment normally consists of being prescribed a course of antibiotics - one of the most common medications is a prescription of 500 mg of Doxycycline (known as Vibramycin.) This wont be prescribed for children though

• Another antibiotic is amoxicillan (known as Amoxil.)

• Another common antibiotic that may be prescribed is Cephalosporin.

Of course it is always better to prevent getting the disease rather than having to treat it. Below we have listed some tips to avoid getting a tick bite.

Some pesticides can be sprayed on the yard to kill ticks include the following...