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Glossary for Lyme disease

ADHD: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a mental and behavioral disorder characterized by behavioral problems such as hyperactivity, inattention, concentration difficulty, and other mental symptoms. Typically, ADHD and associated hyperactivity is known as a childhood disorder, although ADD/ADHD in adults is known to be under-diagnosed. It is distinguished from Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) which has a reduced focus on hyperactivity type symptoms.
Acute rheumatic fever: Bacterial joint infection with risk of heart complications.
Alzheimer's Disease: Dementia-causing brain disease mostly in seniors and the elderly.
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: A motor neuron disease involving progressive degeneration and eventual destruction of the function of nerves that control voluntary movement.
Angina: A special type of chest pain.
Arthritis: General name for any type of joint inflammation, but often means age-related osteoarthritis.
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: Behavioral disorder with hyperactivity and/or inattention.
Babesiosis: A parastic infection by a particular protozoa (Babesia) which is transmitted through tick bites. The disease produces symptoms similar to malaria.
Bacterial diseases: Diseases caused by a bacterial infection
Bell's Palsy: A usually temporary facial nerve disorder where a part or all of the face becomes suddenly paralysed.
Bonnemann-Meinecke-Reich syndrome: A rare disorder characterized mainly by growth problems, vision problems and brain disease.
Borreliosis: An infectious bacterial disorder that is transmitted by ticks and causes skin rashes joint swelling and other symptoms similar to the flu.
Brain cancer: Cancer of the brain.
Cellulitis: Inflammation of skin or subcutaneous tissues.
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: Severe chronic fatigue disorder often following infection.
Cold & Flu:
Concentration difficulty: Reduced concentration ability or lack of concentration
Conjunctivitis: Contagious eye infection
Depression: Various syndromes with excessive anxiety, phobias, or fear.
Dermatitis: General name for any type of skin inflammation.
Dysthymia/seasonal depression disorder, PND:
Ehrlichiosis: Bacterial tick-borne disease
Encephalitis: Dangerous infection of the brain
Encephalomyelitis: Inflammation of the brain and spinal cord.
Epstein-Barr virus: Common virus causing mononucleosis
Erythema chronicum migrans: The first stage of Lyme disease which is transmitted by the bite of the Ixodid tick. The first stage involves a skin rash with systemic symptoms also often occurring.
Erythema multiforme: An allergic inflammatory skin disorder which has a variety of causes and results in skin and mucous membrane lesions that affect mainly the hands, forearms, feet, mouth nose and genitals.
Eye inflammation: Inflammation of the orbit of the eye
Fatigue: Excessive tiredness or weakness.
Fibromyalgia: A difficult to diagnose condition affecting the muscles and/or joints
Flu: Very common viral respiratory infection.
Flu-like symptoms: Symptoms similar to flu including fever
Granuloma annulare: A harmless skin disease characterized by raised, bumpy, ring-shaped skin lesions.
HIV/AIDS: HIV is a sexually transmitted virus and AIDS is the progressive immune failure that HIV causes.
Heart damage: Any damage that occurs to the heart
Heart disease: Any of various heart conditions.
Heart enlargement: Increased thickness of muscular walls of heart causing an abnormally large sized heart
Heart failure: Slow failure of the heart (cardiac insufficiency).
Heart inflammation: Where there is inflammation of the muscle or lining of the heart
Heart symptoms: Symptoms affecting the heart
Hepatitis: Any type of liver inflammation or infection.
Infectious arthritis: A rare condition where arthritis occurs as a result of joint infection by a bacteria, virus or fungus. Symptoms vary according to the infection type.
Irregular heart rhythm:
Joint pain: Pain affecting the joints
Joint symptoms: Symptoms affecting the joints.
Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis: Chronic arthritis affecting children and teens
Lupus: Autoimmune disease with numerous effects on various organs and linings.
Lyme disease: Lyme disease is an emerging infectious disease caused by at least three species of bacteria belonging to the genus Borrelia.
Memory symptoms: Symptoms related to memory ability such as forgetfulness.
Meningitis: Dangerous infection of the membranes surrounding the brain.
Mesothelioma: Type of lung cancer associated with asbestos.
Migraine: Chronic recurring headaches with or without a preceding aura.
Miscarriage: Loss of fetus without human interference
Mononeuritis multiplex: A rare neurological condition where nerve damage occurs at more than one site. Nerve damage can result from conditions such as diabetes mellitus, cancer, rheumatoid arthritis and blood vessel diseases.
Mononucleosis: Common infectious virus.
Mosquito-borne diseases: Diseases that are carried by the mosquito
Multiple Sclerosis: Autoimmune attack on spinal nerves causing diverse and varying neural problems.
Muscle aches: Aches affecting one or more muscles
Myocarditis: Inflammation of the myocardium (muscle walls of the heart)
Neuritis: Inflammation of a nerve.
Optic neuritis: Optic nerve inflammation
Osteoarthritis: Osteoarthritis is a chronic condition characterised by mechanical disrturbances due to degradation of joints. It is the most common form of arthritis, and the leading cause of chronic disability.
Over-diagnosed conditions: Any condition that is diagnosed to excess even though the patient may not have the condition
Pain Disorder: Somatoform disorder causing pain
Parkinson's Disease: Degenerative brain condition characterised by tremor.
Parvovirus: A family of viruses that contain the human parvo virus B19
Pericarditis: Inflammation of the membrane surrounding the heart
Possibly Autoimmune Diseases: Diseases that may be autoimmune or have an autoimmune subtype, but it is unclear or controversial.
Pregnancy symptoms: Symptoms related to pregnancy.
Rash: A reaction to the exposure of the skin to an allergen
Relapsing fever: Tick-borne disease with symptoms that resolve and then relapse
Rheumatic fever: An inflammatory disorder that can occur as a complication of untreated streptococcal bacterial infection such as strep throat or scarlet fever. The condition may affect the brain, skin, heart and joints.
Rheumatoid arthritis: Autoimmune form of arthritis usually in teens or young adults.
Rocky Mountain spotted fever: A bacterial disease caused by Rickettsia rickettsii and transmitted by ticks. The condition causes fever and a characteristic rash and may be fatal in severe or untreated cases.
STARI: Bacterial infection and skin rash due to illness from a tick bite
Sarcoidosis: Rare autoimmune disease usually affecting the lungs.
Schizophrenia: Psychiatric disorder with delusional beliefs and hallucinations.
Severe fatigue: A condition which is characterized by severe tiredness and fatigue
Spider Bites: A puncture wound caused by a spider that may involve the release of noxious substances or bacteria.
Stillbirth: Where a woman delivers a child who is dead
Systemic Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis: Onset of JRA with fevers and systemic symptoms
Tick bite: When an individual is bitten by a tick
Tick-borne diseases: Any disease that is transferred to humans by the tick
Transient osteoporosis of the hip: Focal pain conditions in the hip often interchangeably termedreflex sympathetic dystrophyor transient osteoporosis.
Trigeminal neuralgia: Trigeminal neuralgia is a very painful inflammation of the nerve (trigeminal nerve) that delivers sensations to the face and "surface" of the eye.
Type A influenza subtype H1: The H1 subtype of influenza is a strain of the type A influenza virus that can cause cause serious illness and result in pandemics. Influenza is viral respiratory infection. The virus is very contagious and can cause severe illness especially in patients who are very young or old or have some other medical condition as well. The severity of symptoms can vary but usually involves respiratory and constitutional (e.g. headache, aching muscles) symptoms. The influenza virus can mutate and produce different strains though the symptoms are the same. This frequent mutation means that people need regular vaccinations to ensure they are protected against new strains as they arise.
Urticaria: A vascular reaction of the upper dermis that is marked by elevated patches
Vague symptoms: Vague, unclear, mild or non-specific symptoms
Viral meningitis: Viral meningitis refers to meningitis caused by a viral infection