1. Lyme Disease & Poisonous Plants
Outdoor Safety Unit
September 19, 2018
Source: Center for Disease Control and Prevention

2. Prevalence
DVBID: Statistics | CDC Lyme Disease

3. Learn about Lyme Disease!
Cause:
Lyme disease is caused by the bacterium Borrelia
Transmitted:
It is transmitted to humans by the bite of infected blacklegged TICKS.

4. Symptoms Symptoms: Changes in heart beat Fever Dizziness Headache
Neck Stiffness
Fatigue
Skin Rash
Loss of Muscle Tone in one or both sides of face
Bell’s Palsy
Changes in heart beat
Dizziness
Shooting pains that interfere with sleep
Pain in Joints
Swelling in Joints

5. Skin Rash
Lyme disease patients who are diagnosed early and receive proper antibiotic treatment usually recover rapidly and completely. A key component of early diagnosis is recognition of the characteristic Lyme disease rash called Erythema Migrans.
This rash often takes a bull's-eye appearances and is observed in about 80% of Lyme disease patients. Multiple Erythema MigransSingle Erythema Migrans with Central ClearingSingle Erythema Migrans lacking Central Clearing

6. Erytheme Migrans

7. Symptoms
The Lyme disease bacterium can infect several parts of the body, producing different symptoms at different times.
Not all patients with Lyme disease will have all symptoms.
Untreated, the infection may spread to other parts of the body within a few days to weeks, producing an array of discrete symptoms

8. Diagnosis Detect Symptoms History of possible exposure to Ticks
Laboratory Test
***Realize that other diseases have similar side effects.***
DVBID: Diagnosis | CDC Lyme Disease

9. Treatment See a Physician Immediately
The longer you wait the more severe the disease becomes
Few weeks of antibiotics by mouth usually cures the disease
Doxycycline
Amoxicillin
Cefuroxime Axetil.
Studies of women infected during pregnancy have found that there are no negative effects on the fetus if the mother receives appropriate antibiotic treatment for her Lyme disease
Intravenous Antibiotics
Later Stage

10. Prevention Deet No Vaccine Spray Repellent Negative: Carcinogen
There was a vaccine on the market but it was only 40-80% effective so they took it off the market.

11. Studies of women infected during pregnancy have found that there are no negative effects on the fetus if the mother receives appropriate antibiotic treatment for her Lyme disease

12. Poison Ivy Looks Vine Loves to grow in poor soil Spring: Red and Shiny
Summer: Green and not shiny
Three leafed
Not symmetrically teethed on the leaves
Vine
Can grow up a tree
Loves to grow in poor soil

14. How do you get Poison Ivy?
From any part of the plant
Leaf, Stem, Root,
Allergic Reaction
From the oil of the plant
Once you wash the area and disinfect the oil it is no longer transmittable.

15. What happens?
Rash
Blisters
Oozing
Treatments
Cream
Time
See physician

16. Wild Parsnip
The plant spreads very easily
Looks:

17. What Happens?
Toxic Sap reacts with the sun and forms burning, uncomfortable blisters.
Sunlight is the reactor
No treatment – best treatment is prevention
Cream
Blisters can last a long time

18. Prevention to Poisonous Plants
Clothing
Knowledgeable on what they are
Do not come in contact with them.