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Systemübersicht (Lyme-Borreliose)


infectious risk

  • tick bite
  • erythema migrans

 

 

general symptoms

  • flu-like complaints
  • feeling of chronic sickness
  • fatigue
  • sleepiness
  • reduced power
  • fever
  • skills
  • sweating
  • nightsweat
  • sore throat
  • headache
  • neck rigidity
  • chest pain
  • palpitations
  • loss of weight
  • gain of weight
  • swelling of lymph nodes
  • sexual dysfunction
  • alcohol intolerance
  • exercerbation of complaints following other infections


chronic lyme-neuroborreliosis

  • paresis
  • hypaesthesia
  • paraesthesia
  • muscle twitching
  • spontaneous movements
  • tremor
  • impaired hearing
  • noise hypersensitivity
  • tinnitus
  • disturbed taste
  • disturbed smelling
  • disturbed speech
  • (dysphasia)
  • disturbed writing
  • (dysgraphia)
  • disturbed reading
  • polyneuropathy
  • (pain, tumbness and paraesthesia of extremities)
  • sensory deficit


damage of cranial nerves

  • facial paresis
  • optic neuritis
  • visual disturbance
  • partial defects of visual fields
  • paresis of ocular muscles
  • double picture
  • strabism
  • pain, tingling and numbness of the face
  • dizziness
  • hearing loss
  • loss of taste and smelling
  • aching tongue
  • unpaired tongue movement
  • weakness on lifting head or shoulders


nervous system

  • acute lyme-neuroborreliosis:
    • severe stage of disease with neurological deficits (paresis, sensory deficits, involvement of cranial nerves, especially facial nerve)
    • optic neuritis (impaired vision, blindness)


impaired brain function (encephalopathy)

  • impaired concentration
  • impaired memory
  • sleep disorders
  • irritability
  • mood disorders
  • depression
  • dizziness (frocked)
  • impaired speech
  • impaired writing
  • impaired reading
  • impaired thinking

 

musculo skelettal system

  • inflammation of joints
  • (monarthritis, migratory polyarthritis)
  • joint pain
  • (migratory arthralgias of large and small joints)
  • stiffness of joints
  • muscular pain
  • bursitis
  • damage of tendons
  • (tendopathy, enthesiopathy)
  • heel pain
  • skin bone pain
  • foot sole pain
  • pain of Achilles-tendon
  • carpal tunnel syndrome
  • epicondylitis
  • back pain
  • chest or body pain
  • spine bone pain


heart

  • involvement of the heart muscle
  • myocarditis
  • impaired conduction
  • chronic cardiomyopathy
  • (dilatative cardiomyopathy)
  • pericarditis


skin

  • erythema migrans (EM)
  • recurrent EM
  • multiple EM
  • lymphocytoma (benign)
  • (in combination with EM or instead of EM)
  • acrodermatitis chronica atrophicans (ACA)
  • (early stage, late stage)
  • fibroma with ACA
  • papulo-squamous lesions
  • morphea
  • (circumscribed ivory-colored, hardened skin)
  • timbling or burning pain of the skin
  • itching (pruritus)

 

 

eye

  • blurred vision
  • double image
  • eye pain
  • other diseases of the eye
  • uveitis
  • retinal vasculitis
  • neuro-ophthalmological disturbances
  • paresis of ocular muscles
  • periorbital edema
  • orbital myositis
  • conjunctivitis
  • keratitis
  • iritis
  • inflammation of the retina
  • (retinitis)
  • blurring vision and foreign bodies due to
  • infection of the vitreous
  • visual fields defects


abdominal complaints

  • dyspeptic syndrome
  • nausea
  • diarrhea
  • stomach pain
  • belly pain
  • constipation


other complaints

  • jaw pain
  • sinusitis