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Infectious Diseases |
Is it easy to miss Lyme disease?01/03/2005 |
My healthy young daughter was a camp counselor in MN for a summer and went straight to college from there. A month or so later she "had the flu", then she got a bout of Mononucleosis that lasted 9 months, she rested a lot over the summer, went back to school and got sick again. They are calling it a super virus, but I wonder if I should have her tested for Lyme disease. They ruled out a relapse of mono, now her spleen is enlarged and she is exhausted and achy most of the time. It`s been over a year and she just isn`t better, she`s losing the fight mode.
Lyme disease is caused by a bacteria which is transmitted to humans by ticks. There are lyme-carrying ticks in Minnesota. A good resource can be found at the following website:
www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvbid/lyme/
Lyme testing is not always reliable (there can be false positive tests) so I would suggest you discuss this with your daughter's physician.
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Peter Grubbs, MD Assistant Professor College of Medicine University of Cincinnati |
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