Now more than ever, it’s important to be prepared.
How to Safely Remove a TickDifferent kinds of ticks carry different pathogens, so you’ll want to figure out the species that bit you. Mather’ssupplies photos to help you determine the type of tick and how long it might have been attached . Mather encourages you to take a photo of the tick and submit it to his resource center, which monitors tick activity.that was attached to your skin for two days or more, you have a high risk of contracting Lyme disease, says Mather.
Unfortunately, the bacteria the tick can inject into your bloodstream is clever, too. “Lyme bacteria is highly evolved to evade our immune system’s detection,” says John Aucott, M.D., an infectious disease specialist and assistant professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. When it enters the body, it folds itself up, origami-style, so the immune system doesn’t even know it’s there for about two weeks.
Or if you’re a runner, you may think you’re simply overtraining. “I’ve had athletic patients, runners and Nordic skiers, who thought their fatigue and aches were due to periods of hard training, but they were really suffering from Lyme,” says Bill Roberts, M.D., a sports-medicine physician at the University of Minnesota.
So suppose you do get the rash, and you do recall a tick bite. You might think it’s obvious that you have Lyme. But getting an official diagnosis is rarely that straightforward. In fact, there is no definitive diagnostic test for the infection—no method by which a doctor can detect the presence of the bacteria in a person’s body. Instead, theis indirect—meaning, it looks for the presence of Lyme-specific antibodies fighting the bacteria.
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