Expert: Prevention Key to Avoiding Lyme Disease
Lowering exposure to blacklegged or deer ticks that carry the disease is one sure-fire way of not becoming infected.
A change in clothing, some bug spray and avoiding wooded areas are some preventative measures one can take to avoid being bitten by a tick that could be carrying Lyme disease, an expert at the University of South Carolina said Thursday. Mark M. Macauda, research associate in the Department of Health Promotion, Education, and Behavior at USC’s Arnold School of Public Health, said the key to preventing Lyme disease –- a disease that has recently come to the forefront after Rep. Joe Wilson contracted it, according to staff -– is to eliminate or reduce exposure to areas where deer ticks could bite you. “Really the only way to get Lyme disease is to be bitten by a deer tick. It cannot be passed person-to-person,” Macauda said. “If you're …
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Nicole
9:11 am on Saturday, August 27, 2011
Don't look to the CDC or IDSA for correct info. This is a political disease and a fight is going on for correct info and treatment. Currently, patients are losing because misinformation abounds and insurance companies are denying treatment based on IDSA guidelines which are incorrect. We need the little press that Lyme gets to contain accurate information so people don't have to continue to … more ›