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[00:00:00] Last year it was five times more than
[00:00:03] usual. Why do we get sick more often? What
[00:00:07] will most effectively protect us from ticks, so that we can freely
[00:00:10] spend time in nature. And how
[00:00:13] to recognize Lyme disease? Lyme disease is
[00:00:17] a systemic infection caused by borrelia
[00:00:21] bacteria, affecting various
[00:00:25] organs, that is, the skin,
[00:00:27] heart, a, nervous system, joints
[00:00:31] and the main treatment, like for any bacterial
[00:00:35] infection, is antibacterial drugs, antibiotics.
[00:00:38] Lyme disease usually starts with
[00:00:41] a, approximately within a month after
[00:00:45] a tick bite, with a migratory erythema, which
[00:00:48] means there is a rash e, which
[00:00:52] expands from the center, grows, usually
[00:00:56] more than 5 cm in diameter and
[00:00:59] very clear boundaries, so we
[00:01:02] see it as one such rash usually at the site
[00:01:06] of the tick bite, but it can be somewhat distant from
[00:01:09] the tick bite site, a person may not see
[00:01:13] the tick, a, then they simply notice
[00:01:16] a spot, e and that could be
[00:01:19] a such
[00:01:23] an indication that one should check for Lyme
[00:01:26] disease
[00:01:29] at that time. At the same time, my well-being
[00:01:31] was worsening, you know, how those bad thoughts come,
[00:01:35] that it won't be like it was, that it means, maybe I will never feel
[00:01:39] as good as I used to, a
[00:01:41] maybe everything is falling apart
[00:01:45] and career is falling apart and health is falling apart and it seemed
[00:01:49] then, well, it was very
[00:01:51] scary, there was a lot
[00:01:54] of uncertainty.
[00:02:02] Although in Vaidas' case there was no typical rash,
[00:02:06] he eventually turned to a family doctor,
[00:02:09] who suspected that the performer was infected
[00:02:13] with Lyme disease, also called Borreliosis.
[00:02:16] Yes, this can happen. It can
[00:02:19] happen that Lyme disease manifests without migratory
[00:02:22] erythema. First, some other
[00:02:26] clinical symptom appears, it could be a...
[00:02:30] nervous system damage, it could be a
[00:02:33] spinal root pains, with sensory
[00:02:37] disorders, as well as various facial
[00:02:39] paralyses, also in rare cases there can be heart
[00:02:43] damage, a that is, various rhythm disorders
[00:02:47] are recorded on an electrocardiogram, and also
[00:02:50] joints can be affected, that is,
[00:02:53] arthritis called Lyme disease appears, and
[00:02:56] another common a manifestation
[00:02:59] is multiple migratory erythemas, so there can be more
[00:03:03] than one erythema in the body
[00:03:05] e and another thing, in rare rare
[00:03:09] cases the eyes
[00:03:10] are affected,
[00:03:19] that's the
[00:03:21] deception of this disease, Lyme
[00:03:25] disease, that it simply makes you feel
[00:03:29] like you haven't slept enough. Some are weak,
[00:03:31] exhausted, if you don't do a separate test for Lyme disease, but a general
[00:03:35] blood test, it won't show anything, a and
[00:03:39] or maybe it will even show that the blood is a little weak somewhere, maybe
[00:03:42] here, maybe the immune system, it's simply and
[00:03:46] very deceptive, that's why I'm talking
[00:03:49] about this, don't be lazy and check yourself,
[00:03:53] we in Lithuania, thank God, don't have any other
[00:03:56] scary beasts that can attack us or... biting
[00:04:00] spiders or so on, we are lucky to live here, but with us,
[00:04:04] I say, the only predator and the only one
[00:04:07] that can harm us the most is a small
[00:04:10] tick.
[00:04:16] Marius Čepulis, a naturalist who spends all year
[00:04:20] in forests and meadows, has only had Lyme disease
[00:04:23] once. The forest is good, moist,
[00:04:26] pleasant. If I were a tick, I would live here. How does he
[00:04:30] protect himself and what must be done if
[00:04:33] you notice an attached tick. And here is a forest
[00:04:37] tick, and it's waiting for you by the road,
[00:04:40] and it can have Lyme,
[00:04:43] Lyme, or it
[00:04:45] might not.
[00:04:48] Not all ticks get Lyme, yes, many of them do, but
[00:04:52] not all, so it just didn't happen to me with that tick, I guess
[00:04:55] I managed to pull it out, because with Lyme disease, it's like the bacteria,
[00:04:59] for example, the virus from saliva doesn't enter the bloodstream immediately, there
[00:05:03] has to be some incubation period, some say 12 hours, others
[00:05:06] 24 hours, but roughly some
[00:05:09] time, so if you notice the tick earlier and
[00:05:13] pull it out, your chances of getting Lyme disease are very
[00:05:16] small, very small, so the most important thing is to check yourself every
[00:05:20] time you come back from the forest, check yourself carefully,
[00:05:23] yeah, you'll see a big tick right away, but those damn
[00:05:26] small nymphs and larvae, well, nymphs probably bite less often than
[00:05:30] larvae, so it's harder to see them, and that's
[00:05:34] usually where I get them,
[00:05:38] so first of all, chemical means, that is, sprays, they really work
[00:05:41] on ticks. Also dogs
[00:05:44] for example, all people give them medicine, and spray them, and put collars with scents
[00:05:48] on them, and they have far fewer ticks, because ticks react to those things,
[00:05:51] so sprays work, then pants, lighter
[00:05:55] clothes, black ticks, dark ticks are easier to see on them,
[00:05:59] much easier to see, then clothes that are
[00:06:02] slippery, so that it's harder for the tick to cling, so walking
[00:06:05] in the forest with fur pants is not the best
[00:06:09] idea, probably in life, and then just tuck
[00:06:12] your pants into your socks, then rubber boots, again, at such
[00:06:16] a height, ticks don't cling to those boots and fall off, ticks
[00:06:20] don't jump from trees, ticks are not high on bushes,
[00:06:23] they're not there, they have nothing to do there, they are on
[00:06:27] grass or on some half-meter-high bush,
[00:06:30] so that's where they jump onto us, well,
[00:06:33] and check yourself, the most important
[00:06:37] thing is to check yourself and of course not to risk and get vaccinated against
[00:06:40] encephalitis, in the case of Lyme disease. "monitor your
[00:06:43] health after a tick bite, see how you
[00:06:45] feel."
[00:06:49] Although he was treated with antibiotics, Vaidotas did not feel
[00:06:53] a significant improvement for a long time. He lost almost 20
[00:06:56] kg, his strength returned slowly, and his
[00:07:00] performance in the Eurovision
[00:07:02] selection was also hanging by a thread.
[00:07:06] When my whole health deteriorated after
[00:07:09] the entire course of treatment, then there was also no. maybe
[00:07:12] yes, and at the same time we were also participating in the Eurovision
[00:07:15] selection, so I literally lay in bed, because
[00:07:18] for the last
[00:07:22] lay in bed most of the time, 90%,
[00:07:25] I just got up and went on stage,
[00:07:29] I didn't tell many people about it, because a
[00:07:32] why?
[00:07:46] In Lyme disease, the infected human body produces
[00:07:50] antibodies, first of the GM class, then
[00:07:53] of the GG class. One of them shows the acute stage of the disease,
[00:07:57] the other that we had it earlier. After receiving the
[00:08:00] test results, let's not self-diagnose,
[00:08:03] because even a positive antibody test
[00:08:06] sometimes does not mean that we are currently
[00:08:09] infected. It is necessary to consult a specialist.
[00:08:13] In reality, one should always perform both
[00:08:16] those tests, both M and G class, e,
[00:08:20] because one, either M or G, cannot answer
[00:08:23] the question, are we infected just now or
[00:08:27] were we infected, so e actually
[00:08:30] first the immunoglobulin M indicator starts
[00:08:33] to rise, later G is formed,
[00:08:36] but a if only M appears
[00:08:39] and G does not form, for example. after six to eight
[00:08:43] weeks we are talking about a false
[00:08:46] positive result and perhaps there is no Lyme disease
[00:08:50] here at all, therefore the G class is always very
[00:08:53] important in diagnosing
[00:08:57] Lyme disease, without a G class, a
[00:09:01] we do not diagnose Lyme disease,
[00:09:04] although neglected Lyme disease can cause irreversible
[00:09:08] health changes, according to naturalists
[00:09:11] one should not fear too much, it is
[00:09:14] important to know what to avoid. The meadow tick is more likely
[00:09:17] to transmit babesiosis, which is a protozoan,
[00:09:20] Babesia, the forest taiga tick mostly transmits
[00:09:23] encephalitis and Lyme, that is, Lyme bacteria prefer
[00:09:26] to be with this tick and it transmits more and
[00:09:30] we get sick more often, so that's why when
[00:09:32] m if you don't want to get
[00:09:36] these diseases, then you should
[00:09:39] protect yourself from meadows, forests, forest edges.
[00:09:42] Especially forest edges are that zone, clearings are another
[00:09:46] zone and then
[00:09:47] parks paths where
[00:09:51] animals walk, where there are no animals, there are no ticks, where
[00:09:55] there are no animals, there are no ticks, by the way, since the disease
[00:09:58] is widespread, there are also many myths associated
[00:10:02] with it, there are several myths,
[00:10:05] one of them is that if a tick bites
[00:10:09] you, you run to get checked for Lyme, but that's
[00:10:11] not really how it should be. If you really want to, as I say,
[00:10:15] then go after a month and a half, definitely not
[00:10:19] immediately. If you're really very
[00:10:22] worried and so on, well, two months. Some time
[00:10:26] should pass, but really, really not after two weeks,
[00:10:29] nothing is there, no titers are elevated. Another
[00:10:33] thing,
[00:10:35] a, that even when checking a person's health,
[00:10:38] employers or someone add a Lyme disease
[00:10:42] test to the general tests for weakness
[00:10:45] and fatigue. These are not the main symptoms
[00:10:49] of Lyme disease. Yes, they can be alongside target
[00:10:52] organ damage, but just with weakness,
[00:10:55] fatigue, well, check your vitamin D,
[00:10:59] check your iron in a person, these are more
[00:11:02] frequent problems than Lyme disease, in
[00:11:05] fact, e another thing I don't like is that
[00:11:09] people run and take a pulled-out tick
[00:11:12] for testing, which is completely uninformative and
[00:11:14] not recommended, well, and there are also cases
[00:11:18] when we get a positive immunoglobulin M and the family doctor
[00:11:22] gets scared that it's Lyme disease, and gives antibiotics three or four
[00:11:25] times, checks blood tests and again that M
[00:11:29] is positive and again the person gets antibiotics, a person comes
[00:11:32] to me and says: doctor,
[00:11:36] my stomach is eaten away, everything
[00:11:38] is bad, so this Lyme disease, I won't recover, I say, you've never
[00:11:42] had Lyme disease in your life, because your
[00:11:46] immunoglobulin G was never positive, the person leaves
[00:11:49] speechless, so that's
[00:11:52] what I would like not to happen. But that there wouldn't be
[00:11:56] such cases where a person has been treated five times and is convinced
[00:12:00] that they have Lyme disease, I simply feel sorry
[00:12:02] for the person.
[00:12:09] After antibiotics, Vaidotas had to restore the health
[00:12:13] of his gut and entire body. What helped
[00:12:16] him most effectively? I didn't show that weakness, I simply
[00:12:20] did exercises to strengthen myself, because I
[00:12:23] really... "I really wanted to get back
[00:12:27] to health and I really wanted
[00:12:30] to live,
[00:12:34] I would advise people who want to restore their health
[00:12:38] to simply start moving in one way or another, go
[00:12:41] for a walk, at least at first, cover certain
[00:12:43] distances, another thing, really pay attention to your
[00:12:47] diet, what you eat, how you eat, what your body needs, because
[00:12:51] diet is the fuel you put into your body,
[00:12:55] so if the fuel is of good quality, then the body recovers
[00:12:59] quickly,
[00:13:02] and one more thing, think positively, that is also very
[00:13:06] important, don't blame yourself for not doing everything at once or that something
[00:13:09] isn't working out for you, but say, okay, I'm getting better little by little,
[00:13:13] step by step. One more thing I wanted
[00:13:17] to emphasize is about the
[00:13:20] duration of
[00:13:22] antibiotic use, because
[00:13:26] it's like a folk belief that Lyme
[00:13:29] disease, even there was a patient, my neighbor was prescribed
[00:13:32] 21 days, but my family doctor
[00:13:36] prescribed only 10 days, so she came to me, an
[00:13:39] infectious disease specialist, to see what was true, so
[00:13:43] I say, you know, your family doctor is very right in this case,
[00:13:47] because for migratory erythema, antibiotics should not
[00:13:50] be prescribed for more than 14 days, that is, shortened courses, from 10
[00:13:54] to... 14 days, so really, the first phase does not need to be treated
[00:13:58] for 21 or even a month, no, studies
[00:14:01] have been done, scientists have shown that borrelia
[00:14:04] are killed after so many days, so 14
[00:14:08] days is enough
[00:14:09] at most.
[00:14:17] Vaidotas does not eat meat, so he got proteins
[00:14:20] and vitamins to restore his body from plant-based
[00:14:23] foods. "Various lentils,
[00:14:27] beets, good for the blood, various leafy
[00:14:31] salads, that is, but you just need to eat
[00:14:34] everything together and have a very colorful diet during the day,
[00:14:37] and it's even very nice, there's even a
[00:14:41] saying that you have to collect at least
[00:14:43] five colors
[00:14:46] in your food per day, so you try, that's possible, it's a very simple,
[00:14:50] very simplified
[00:14:53] option, so that there's green and yellow, and red
[00:14:56] and well, there's some
[00:15:00] purple, colorful candies
[00:15:03] don't count.
[00:15:06] By the way, sometimes Lyme disease can go
[00:15:09] away on its own, but doctors warn
[00:15:12] that in such a case there is a risk
[00:15:15] that the bacteria remained somewhere in the body and can
[00:15:18] cause harm, so treatment is necessary.
[00:15:22] I can reassure you that Lyme disease
[00:15:25] is a curable disease, so when symptoms
[00:15:28] appear, we prescribe antibacterial treatment and
[00:15:31] the person recovers, so you shouldn't be afraid of
[00:15:35] waiting for something to happen and so on, you'll get sick,
[00:15:39] we'll cure you.
[00:15:46] Life with excellent well-being is
[00:15:49] wonderful, I would say, then you can do everything, love
[00:15:53] the whole world and the world will love you.
[00:16:11] Ticks are an inalienable part of Lithuanian nature, but this
[00:16:15] does not mean that we cannot enjoy its pleasures.
[00:16:18] Let's pay attention to the recommendations and preventive measures provided
[00:16:22] by experts, which can reduce the risk
[00:16:26] of Lyme disease or tick-borne