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BTEC APPLIED SCIENCE: Unit 12C Treatments of infectious and non-infectious diseases
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12C: UNDERSTAND HOWINFECTIOUS
DISEASESCAN BE
TREATED AND MANAGED
16/02/2022
ELIEAH LANE REYES
, 12C- Understand how infectious diseases can be
treated and managed
Lyme Disease is a disease caused by bacteria
called bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi, it goes
to the host of immune system and invade it,
the infection widely spread through the
bloodstream and prolonged in body. The
indirectly transmission (vector) of this to
human is caused by an infected blacklegged
tick, the tick could have the infection by
feeding off mice or deer, if the infection stays
more than 2 days it may transmit to human
by biting them, people mostly doesn’t notice
or remember being bitten by ticks because it
doesn’t hurt or feel anything if they bite you
unless it becomes itchy and swells up.
The method of treatment for Lyme disease in
early stage, it takes 10-14 days course to
destroy the infection, most common is
Antibiotics, it goes into the target bacteria
through circulation, and it stops the mutation
of the bacteria or the bacterial cell walls are
ruptured, and bacteria are eliminated. There
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