How contagious is lyme disease?
Sunday, March 7th, 2010 at
7:02 am
I am currently looking for a baby sitter and found this woman who looks like a responsible and caring person. However, she has been having lyme disease for several years although she said she is managing well. What are the causes of chronic lyme disease? She lives in rural area and I just don’t want her to somehow bring the ticks to our house.
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Lyme’s Disease is in no way contagious. Lyme’s can only be contracted through the bite of a infected ticks. Deer ticks are the main carriers. They are brown with a small white spot on their abdomens.
The baby sitter mush of not noticed the bite or symptoms for a long time. In most case it is "cured" with antibiotics. But if left untreated will cause other system once permanent damage has set in. In both cases you can not contract the disease from a infected person. You don’t have any thing to worry about,. The ticks are only around from late fall to mid summer. Oh one more thing I bet she takes special care to notice any ticks.
Um… chances are she doesn’t still have the tick attached to her.
I realise you’re trying to be responsible, but that’s an insane overreaction.
Lyme disease is spread by tickbites almost exclusively.
I guarantee you your baby will not get it just because she’s there.
I mean, seriously? Silly question
Although Lyme can be passed to a person via blood transfusions, the most commonly known ways people get Lyme include:
Tick bite
Mosquito bite
From a man to his sexual partners through semen
From a woman to her unborn children in utero
Dogs, horses, cats, rats, mice all get sick with Lyme and pass it on to those who inhale the vapors of their infected feces. As you may imagine this method of transfer occurs most frequently among those who clean cat litter boxes and horse stables.