Co-infection with other tick diseases can result in overlapping symptoms, a more severe illness, and a longer recovery than either disease alone. Illness may last weeks to months and recovery can take many months. Complications such as acute respiratory failure, heart failure, and kidney failure have been associated with severe anemia and high levels of infection. Nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pain, cough, shortness of breath, weight loss, dark urine, and enlarged spleen also may occur. Symptoms of babesiosis include fever, fatigue, chills, sweats, headache, and muscle pain beginning 1-6 weeks after the tick bite. The greatest incidence of severe disease occurs in those older than 40 years of age. The disease can be severe or fatal in the elderly, the immune suppressed (HIV infection or use of immunosuppressive drugs), and people without spleens. Infection often is accompanied by no symptoms or only mild flu-like symptoms in healthy children and younger adults. These flu-like symptoms may occasionally occur in the absence of an identified rash and be identified as ‘summer flu.’ Respiratory or gastrointestinal complaints may occur, but are infrequent.īabesiosis can range from mild flu-like illness to a severe life-threatening disease. Mild nonspecific systemic symptoms may be associated with or without a rash and include fatigue, muscle and joint pain, headache, fever, chills, and stiff neck. The major signs and symptoms provided below do not cover all those associated with infection. Late manifestations become apparent months or years after infection. Symptoms that occur within days or weeks following the tick bite reflect localized or early-disseminated infection. Lyme disease is a multisystem disorder with diverse cutaneous, arthritic, neurologic, cardiac, and occasional ocular manifestations. Its not just about Lyme Disease anymore! Lyme Disease
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