Lyme Disease

Lyme disease is caused when you get bit by an infected tick. You know you have Lyme disease when you have a redness in the skin that often looks like a bullseye. Then you feel fatigue, muscle and joint stiffness, swollen glands, and headache. Many people think its the flu but really it is Lyme Disease.

Lyme disease gets its name from Lyme, Connecticut. A bunch of mothers found out their kids all were diagnosed with Rheumatoid Arthritis. The mothers thought that was sort of weird and they checked into it. Eventually reserachers found out the kids were being made sick by bacteria from tick bite.

Lyme disease its an awful disease. I have a friend who has it and it makes you sick like cancer. It makes you want to die and its like torture. If you don't get treatment early enough it can stay with you its a horrible disease. So watch out for ticks, especially deer ticks which is the most comment tick to catch it from.

ps: be careful watch out and every time you go in the woods check yourself for ticks.