Is called “Lyme borreliosis»Why Justin Bieber was forced to suddenly stop his tour. The 28-year-old pop star announced on Instagram that he had been suffering from this rare infectious disease and chronic mononucleosis for some time, reasons why doctors forced him to stop on the eve of the concert he was supposed to have held in Toronto. .
Bieber has also announced the making of a documentary series that he will shortly publish on YouTube where he will see everything the artist is going through to fight and overcome his health problems. “It has been a difficult two years but I am receiving effective treatment that will help cure this hitherto incurable disease.”
Even the TV presenter Victoria Cabello recently said that a few years ago she was forced to lock herself in the house because of Lyme syndrome: «I couldn’t even walk, they thought I was crazy. Nobody believed me, I paid for being a woman ». In her case, it took a year and a half of ordeal – characterized by cognitive and motor problems – before the disease was correctly diagnosed.
What is Lyme disease and why is it so difficult to recognize it?
Lyme disease takes its name from the American town of the same name in which the first case was described in 1975. It is an infection, of bacterial origin, which mainly affects the skinthe jointsthe nervous system they internal organs, primarily the heart and brain. It can manifest as severe, persistent symptoms and, if left untreated, can become chronic. The pathogen, the Borreliais a kind of bacterium that is transmitted to humans through the bite of hard ticks such Ixodes and maybe even from Amblyomma And Dermacentor (dog ticks).
Therefore, laboratory tests are not always able to definitively confirm or exclude the disease the choice to initiate antibiotic treatment should be made on the basis of clinical diagnosis and anamnestic and epidemiological data.
What are the symptoms?
As reported by the EpiCentro platform, from the Istituto Superiore di Sanità, «the first symptoms of the disease can be intermittent and changing. The disease typically begins in the summer manifesting itself with a red spot that slowly expands. Within a few weeks (which can turn into months in some cases), they can develop early neurological disorders characterized by migrating arthralgia, myalgia, meningitis, polyneuritis, cutaneous lymphocytoma, myocarditis and atrioventricular conduction disturbances. Symptoms are fluctuating and can last for months to become chronic. The last stage of the disease months or years after infection is characterized by alterations affecting the musculoskeletal system (chronic arthritis), del central and peripheral nervous system (meningitis, encephalomyelitis, cerebellar ataxia, sensory-motor polyneuropathies, sleep and behavioral disorders), skin (chronic atrophic acrodermatitis) andcardiovascular system (myopericarditis, cardiomegaly) “. \
How is Lyme disease treated
In the United States they are available vaccines obtained with genetic engineering techniques, tested and effective and safe results on people aged between 15 and 70 years, residing in endemic areas of the country. However, these vaccines are not currently usable in Italy and in Europe, since only the pathogen is present in the US. B.burgdorferi sensu strictuwhile in Europe all the genospecies of Borrelie are present, which are distinct from each other from the antigenic point of view.
Antibiotic treatment of the disease is usually carried out with drugs such as doxycycline And clarithromycin more hydroxychloroquine.
Since the disease does not involve the development of immunity, the infection can be contracted several times over the course of a lifetime.
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