These small sesame sized ticks can spread disease to humans and animals through tick bites causing symptoms like fever, headache, joint swelling, rash, body aches, weakness, chills and temporary paralysis. These ticks feed on the blood of rats, deer, cats, dogs, horses and humans, by attaching to the host and swelling to many times then their normal size. For a tick to pass the infection, it should be infected itself.



To avoid the infection follow certain simple common sense precautions like -

• Wear light colored clothes when you are out in the woods or doing yard work, simply because these brown colored or blacklegged ticks can be easily spotted on white or pastel colored clothes and socks. Wear long sleeves pants and shirt, a hat and gloves to protect all the areas.

• Tuck in your clothes so that there is less skin exposure for example tuck your shirt in the pant, your pant in to socks and apply a duct tape on the overlapped area to prevent tick bites.

• A tick repellent spray containing diethyltoluamine or DEET can be used on the exposed skin area, except face.
  
  
  
  If you spot a tick on your body then don't kill it on your skin. Take a pair of tweezers and grasp it on its mouth and pull it straight back with steady force without jerking.

• Immediately after you reach home remove all your clothes, take a shower and check for any ticks.
  
  
  
  Wash all the clothes in hot water and dry them after you finish your outdoor activities.

Despite taking all these precautions you have got the infection then the following Lyme disease natural cures can be followed along with the Lyme disease treatment.

Patience - Being patient is very important, as the medications will take some time to work depending on which stage of Lyme disease you are in.



Take all the medications on time, even if you start feeling better and finish the antibiotic course.

Joint pain relief - Any muscle pain or aching joint discomfort can be eased by application of hot moist heat. Wrap a hot towel around the paining joint or muscle and leave it there until you feel relieved.



If you have all over body aches then hot moist heat of a steam room may be very relieving. This is one of the best Lyme disease home remedies to fight joint and body pain.

Eat well - Good nutrition is very important when you have Lyme disease as it will help in your body's healing process. A low fat diet which emphasizes on fresh fruits, vegetables, whole grains, cereals and its products and beans can be very helpful.

-->Lyme disease is an infection caused by a bacterium spirochete by western blacklegged ticks and deer ticks.



These small sesame sized ticks can spread disease to humans and animals through tick bites causing symptoms like fever, headache, joint swelling, rash, body aches, weakness, chills and temporary paralysis. These ticks feed on the blood of rats, deer, cats, dogs, horses and humans, by attaching to the host and swelling to many times then their normal size. For a tick to pass the infection, it should be infected itself.



To avoid the infection follow certain simple common sense precautions like -

• Wear light colored clothes when you are out in the woods or doing yard work, simply because these brown colored or blacklegged ticks can be easily spotted on white or pastel colored clothes and socks. Wear long sleeves pants and shirt, a hat and gloves to protect all the areas.

• Tuck in your clothes so that there is less skin exposure for example tuck your shirt in the pant, your pant in to socks and apply a duct tape on the overlapped area to prevent tick bites.

• A tick repellent spray containing diethyltoluamine or DEET can be used on the exposed skin area, except face.
  
  
  
  If you spot a tick on your body then don't kill it on your skin. Take a pair of tweezers and grasp it on its mouth and pull it straight back with steady force without jerking.

• Immediately after you reach home remove all your clothes, take a shower and check for any ticks.
  
  
  
  Wash all the clothes in hot water and dry them after you finish your outdoor activities.

Despite taking all these precautions you have got the infection then the following Lyme disease natural cures can be followed along with the Lyme disease treatment.

Patience - Being patient is very important, as the medications will take some time to work depending on which stage of Lyme disease you are in.



Take all the medications on time, even if you start feeling better and finish the antibiotic course.

Joint pain relief - Any muscle pain or aching joint discomfort can be eased by application of hot moist heat. Wrap a hot towel around the paining joint or muscle and leave it there until you feel relieved.



If you have all over body aches then hot moist heat of a steam room may be very relieving. This is one of the best Lyme disease home remedies to fight joint and body pain.

Eat well - Good nutrition is very important when you have Lyme disease as it will help in your body's healing process. A low fat diet which emphasizes on fresh fruits, vegetables, whole grains, cereals and its products and beans can be very helpful.