Lyme Disease
This photo shows the site of a bite of a tic and the "ring" formed around it. This is a sign of Lyme disease.Symptoms
The first sign of infection is usually a circular rash called erythema migrans or EM. This rash occurs in approximately 70-80% of infected persons and begins at the site of a tick bite after a delay of 3-30 days. A distinctive feature of the rash is that it gradually expands over a period of several days, reaching up to 12 inches (30 cm) across. The center of the rash may clear as it enlarges, resulting in a bull's-eye appearance.Some patients develop additional EM lesions in other areas of the body after several days. Patients also experience symptoms of fatigue, chills, fever, headache, and muscle and joint aches, and swollen lymph nodes.
Body parts effected
Loss of muscle tone on one or both sides of the face (called facial or "Bell's palsy), severe headaches and neck stiffness due to meningitis, shooting pains that may interfere with sleep, heart palpitations and dizziness due to changes in heartbeat, and pain that moves from joint to joint.
( I had this disease three summers ago and i fugued it would be interesting to learn more about it. I had a similar ring located on my right scapular region and it took up most of my entire back. It was caught in the early stage so it wasn't too much of a harm to me and, it was quickly cured.)
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To establish infection, however, the bacterium, Borrelia burgorfei, also must acquire a number of essential nutrients, including metals like manganese from its mammalian and tick hosts. this affects homeostasis by unbalencing the ratio of nutrients in th body.
This Disease can disrupt your normal body, because it can give you chills and fever resulting in a unbalanced body temperature causing your other body parts not to function correctly. For example your bones!!
Lyme Disease can affect homeostasis because it decreases your muscle tone. This interferes with necessary life functions such as movement.
This disease affects movement of the body since pain occurs between each joint. It can also interrupt sleeping habits since it interferes with your body causing pain causing lack of sleep.
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