On the occasion of World Lyme Day, which is celebrated this year on 1 May, in this article we will try to solve all the doubts about the pathology in order to answer the question: what is Lyme disease? Lyme disease syndrome that so many users ask us on a recurring basis.

What is Lyme disease?

The answer to the question what is Lyme syndrome is relatively straightforward. Lyme disease is, in concrete terms, a infectious and multi-organ pathology which is transmitted by tick bite, mosquito, flea or other insects infected with the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi. We see that in this disease there are several living organisms that transmit the disease and we remember that it is the same as the Lyme diseaseas mentioned in the introduction.

Symptoms of Lyme syndrome in humans

The main symptoms of Lyme disease are the erythema migransThe symptoms include headache, neck and throat pain, other muscle and joint pain, fever and chills, fatigue and loss of appetite, swollen glands, neurological and cardiac problems, visual disturbances and liver problems. These symptoms vary greatly depending on when the disease is detected and, of course, on the physiological conditions of the individual. It should also be noted that when Lyme syndrome is known as The Great Imitator.

Professional diagnosis and treatment of Lyme disease

At Biosalud Day Hospital we have many years of experience in the treatment of Lyme disease, to which we apply innovative scientific techniques that have made us a reference centre throughout the continent for the treatment of Lyme disease. diagnosis and their subsequent treatment.

The detection of the disease is done with the Lymecheck test and once we have a positive diagnosis, then we apply biological medicine or natural anti-infective treatments, sometimes combined with antibiotics. It depends very much on the case and on the patient, because the treatment of Lyme disease is designed on an ad hoc basis.