Avoiding known tick-infested areas obviously can prevent transmission of Lyme disease. Antibiotics are the primary lyme disease treatment; the most appropriate antibiotic treatment depends upon the patient and the stage of the disease. Patients with cardiac atrioventricular block can be treated with doxycycline or amoxicillin if the PR interval is < 0.3 s. For those patients with more severe cardiac involvement, intravenous ceftriaxone or penicillin should be considered.
Lyme disease can be hard to diagnose because you may not have noticed a tick bite. Also, many of its symptoms are like those of the flu and other diseases. Lyme disease is not contagious, so it can't be transmitted from person to person. But people can get it more than once from ticks that live on deer, in the woods, or travel on pets.
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