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Healthy Living: Lyme disease
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Lyme disease mimics many other diseases, making it hard for clinicians to diagnosis quickly.
Within the first two weeks of Lyme disease, symptoms can include a bulls-eye rash and flu-like symptoms.
Guidelines for treatment depend on a positive test. The treatment varies. It begins with oral antibiotics, and if the patient becomes chronic, intravenous antibiotic treatment can be prescribed, but not all professionals agree.
Find out more in this edition of “Healthy Living" in the video above.