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There has been controversy over how to treat people with the tick-borne bacterial disease, in particular whether extended antibiotic treatment fights symptoms that remain after standard initial antibiotics.
The Lyme disease bacterium is spread to people by the bite of infected ticks. Symptoms can include fever, headache, fatigue and a round red skin rash. If left untreated, the infection can spread to joints, the heart and brain.
The disease also can cause cognitive problems like memory loss, problems in concentrating, and changes in mood and sleeping habits, as well as temporary facial paralysis.
The new research, published in the journal Neurology, provided a mixed picture of extended intravenous treatment with antibiotics.
The researchers screened 3,368 Lyme disease patients to select 37 with moderate cognitive impairment and significant levels of fatigue, pain and impaired physical functioning. All previously had taken antibiotics.
Some of the patients were given another 10 weeks of intravenous treatment with the antibiotic ceftriaxone. The others were given a placebo.
Those getting the antibiotic had improvements in their symptoms compared to the placebo group, the study found, but the improvement in cognitive symptoms dissipated after the treatment ended.
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