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00:00:00Last year it was five times more than
00:00:03usual. Why do we get sick more often? What
00:00:07will most effectively protect us from ticks, so that we can freely
00:00:10spend time in nature. And how
00:00:13to recognize Lyme disease? Lyme disease is
00:00:17a systemic infection caused by borrelia
00:00:21bacteria, affecting various
00:00:25organs, that is, the skin,
00:00:27heart, a, nervous system, joints
00:00:31and the main treatment, like for any bacterial
00:00:35infection, is antibacterial drugs, antibiotics.
00:00:38Lyme disease usually starts with
00:00:41a, approximately within a month after
00:00:45a tick bite, with a migratory erythema, which
00:00:48means there is a rash e, which
00:00:52expands from the center, grows, usually
00:00:56more than 5 cm in diameter and
00:00:59very clear boundaries, so we
00:01:02see it as one such rash usually at the site
00:01:06of the tick bite, but it can be somewhat distant from
00:01:09the tick bite site, a person may not see
00:01:13the tick, a, then they simply notice
00:01:16a spot, e and that could be
00:01:19a such
00:01:23an indication that one should check for Lyme
00:01:26disease
00:01:29at that time. At the same time, my well-being
00:01:31was worsening, you know, how those bad thoughts come,
00:01:35that it won't be like it was, that it means, maybe I will never feel
00:01:39as good as I used to, a
00:01:41maybe everything is falling apart
00:01:45and career is falling apart and health is falling apart and it seemed
00:01:49then, well, it was very
00:01:51scary, there was a lot
00:01:54of uncertainty.
00:02:02Although in Vaidas' case there was no typical rash,
00:02:06he eventually turned to a family doctor,
00:02:09who suspected that the performer was infected
00:02:13with Lyme disease, also called Borreliosis.
00:02:16Yes, this can happen. It can
00:02:19happen that Lyme disease manifests without migratory
00:02:22erythema. First, some other
00:02:26clinical symptom appears, it could be a...
00:02:30nervous system damage, it could be a
00:02:33spinal root pains, with sensory
00:02:37disorders, as well as various facial
00:02:39paralyses, also in rare cases there can be heart
00:02:43damage, a that is, various rhythm disorders
00:02:47are recorded on an electrocardiogram, and also
00:02:50joints can be affected, that is,
00:02:53arthritis called Lyme disease appears, and
00:02:56another common a manifestation
00:02:59is multiple migratory erythemas, so there can be more
00:03:03than one erythema in the body
00:03:05e and another thing, in rare rare
00:03:09cases the eyes
00:03:10are affected,
00:03:19that's the
00:03:21deception of this disease, Lyme
00:03:25disease, that it simply makes you feel
00:03:29like you haven't slept enough. Some are weak,
00:03:31exhausted, if you don't do a separate test for Lyme disease, but a general
00:03:35blood test, it won't show anything, a and
00:03:39or maybe it will even show that the blood is a little weak somewhere, maybe
00:03:42here, maybe the immune system, it's simply and
00:03:46very deceptive, that's why I'm talking
00:03:49about this, don't be lazy and check yourself,
00:03:53we in Lithuania, thank God, don't have any other
00:03:56scary beasts that can attack us or... biting
00:04:00spiders or so on, we are lucky to live here, but with us,
00:04:04I say, the only predator and the only one
00:04:07that can harm us the most is a small
00:04:10tick.
00:04:16Marius Čepulis, a naturalist who spends all year
00:04:20in forests and meadows, has only had Lyme disease
00:04:23once. The forest is good, moist,
00:04:26pleasant. If I were a tick, I would live here. How does he
00:04:30protect himself and what must be done if
00:04:33you notice an attached tick. And here is a forest
00:04:37tick, and it's waiting for you by the road,
00:04:40and it can have Lyme,
00:04:43Lyme, or it
00:04:45might not.
00:04:48Not all ticks get Lyme, yes, many of them do, but
00:04:52not all, so it just didn't happen to me with that tick, I guess
00:04:55I managed to pull it out, because with Lyme disease, it's like the bacteria,
00:04:59for example, the virus from saliva doesn't enter the bloodstream immediately, there
00:05:03has to be some incubation period, some say 12 hours, others
00:05:0624 hours, but roughly some
00:05:09time, so if you notice the tick earlier and
00:05:13pull it out, your chances of getting Lyme disease are very
00:05:16small, very small, so the most important thing is to check yourself every
00:05:20time you come back from the forest, check yourself carefully,
00:05:23yeah, you'll see a big tick right away, but those damn
00:05:26small nymphs and larvae, well, nymphs probably bite less often than
00:05:30larvae, so it's harder to see them, and that's
00:05:34usually where I get them,
00:05:38so first of all, chemical means, that is, sprays, they really work
00:05:41on ticks. Also dogs
00:05:44for example, all people give them medicine, and spray them, and put collars with scents
00:05:48on them, and they have far fewer ticks, because ticks react to those things,
00:05:51so sprays work, then pants, lighter
00:05:55clothes, black ticks, dark ticks are easier to see on them,
00:05:59much easier to see, then clothes that are
00:06:02slippery, so that it's harder for the tick to cling, so walking
00:06:05in the forest with fur pants is not the best
00:06:09idea, probably in life, and then just tuck
00:06:12your pants into your socks, then rubber boots, again, at such
00:06:16a height, ticks don't cling to those boots and fall off, ticks
00:06:20don't jump from trees, ticks are not high on bushes,
00:06:23they're not there, they have nothing to do there, they are on
00:06:27grass or on some half-meter-high bush,
00:06:30so that's where they jump onto us, well,
00:06:33and check yourself, the most important
00:06:37thing is to check yourself and of course not to risk and get vaccinated against
00:06:40encephalitis, in the case of Lyme disease. "monitor your
00:06:43health after a tick bite, see how you
00:06:45feel."
00:06:49Although he was treated with antibiotics, Vaidotas did not feel
00:06:53a significant improvement for a long time. He lost almost 20
00:06:56kg, his strength returned slowly, and his
00:07:00performance in the Eurovision
00:07:02selection was also hanging by a thread.
00:07:06When my whole health deteriorated after
00:07:09the entire course of treatment, then there was also no. maybe
00:07:12yes, and at the same time we were also participating in the Eurovision
00:07:15selection, so I literally lay in bed, because
00:07:18for the last
00:07:22lay in bed most of the time, 90%,
00:07:25I just got up and went on stage,
00:07:29I didn't tell many people about it, because a
00:07:32why?
00:07:46In Lyme disease, the infected human body produces
00:07:50antibodies, first of the GM class, then
00:07:53of the GG class. One of them shows the acute stage of the disease,
00:07:57the other that we had it earlier. After receiving the
00:08:00test results, let's not self-diagnose,
00:08:03because even a positive antibody test
00:08:06sometimes does not mean that we are currently
00:08:09infected. It is necessary to consult a specialist.
00:08:13In reality, one should always perform both
00:08:16those tests, both M and G class, e,
00:08:20because one, either M or G, cannot answer
00:08:23the question, are we infected just now or
00:08:27were we infected, so e actually
00:08:30first the immunoglobulin M indicator starts
00:08:33to rise, later G is formed,
00:08:36but a if only M appears
00:08:39and G does not form, for example. after six to eight
00:08:43weeks we are talking about a false
00:08:46positive result and perhaps there is no Lyme disease
00:08:50here at all, therefore the G class is always very
00:08:53important in diagnosing
00:08:57Lyme disease, without a G class, a
00:09:01we do not diagnose Lyme disease,
00:09:04although neglected Lyme disease can cause irreversible
00:09:08health changes, according to naturalists
00:09:11one should not fear too much, it is
00:09:14important to know what to avoid. The meadow tick is more likely
00:09:17to transmit babesiosis, which is a protozoan,
00:09:20Babesia, the forest taiga tick mostly transmits
00:09:23encephalitis and Lyme, that is, Lyme bacteria prefer
00:09:26to be with this tick and it transmits more and
00:09:30we get sick more often, so that's why when
00:09:32m if you don't want to get
00:09:36these diseases, then you should
00:09:39protect yourself from meadows, forests, forest edges.
00:09:42Especially forest edges are that zone, clearings are another
00:09:46zone and then
00:09:47parks paths where
00:09:51animals walk, where there are no animals, there are no ticks, where
00:09:55there are no animals, there are no ticks, by the way, since the disease
00:09:58is widespread, there are also many myths associated
00:10:02with it, there are several myths,
00:10:05one of them is that if a tick bites
00:10:09you, you run to get checked for Lyme, but that's
00:10:11not really how it should be. If you really want to, as I say,
00:10:15then go after a month and a half, definitely not
00:10:19immediately. If you're really very
00:10:22worried and so on, well, two months. Some time
00:10:26should pass, but really, really not after two weeks,
00:10:29nothing is there, no titers are elevated. Another
00:10:33thing,
00:10:35a, that even when checking a person's health,
00:10:38employers or someone add a Lyme disease
00:10:42test to the general tests for weakness
00:10:45and fatigue. These are not the main symptoms
00:10:49of Lyme disease. Yes, they can be alongside target
00:10:52organ damage, but just with weakness,
00:10:55fatigue, well, check your vitamin D,
00:10:59check your iron in a person, these are more
00:11:02frequent problems than Lyme disease, in
00:11:05fact, e another thing I don't like is that
00:11:09people run and take a pulled-out tick
00:11:12for testing, which is completely uninformative and
00:11:14not recommended, well, and there are also cases
00:11:18when we get a positive immunoglobulin M and the family doctor
00:11:22gets scared that it's Lyme disease, and gives antibiotics three or four
00:11:25times, checks blood tests and again that M
00:11:29is positive and again the person gets antibiotics, a person comes
00:11:32to me and says: doctor,
00:11:36my stomach is eaten away, everything
00:11:38is bad, so this Lyme disease, I won't recover, I say, you've never
00:11:42had Lyme disease in your life, because your
00:11:46immunoglobulin G was never positive, the person leaves
00:11:49speechless, so that's
00:11:52what I would like not to happen. But that there wouldn't be
00:11:56such cases where a person has been treated five times and is convinced
00:12:00that they have Lyme disease, I simply feel sorry
00:12:02for the person.
00:12:09After antibiotics, Vaidotas had to restore the health
00:12:13of his gut and entire body. What helped
00:12:16him most effectively? I didn't show that weakness, I simply
00:12:20did exercises to strengthen myself, because I
00:12:23really... "I really wanted to get back
00:12:27to health and I really wanted
00:12:30to live,
00:12:34I would advise people who want to restore their health
00:12:38to simply start moving in one way or another, go
00:12:41for a walk, at least at first, cover certain
00:12:43distances, another thing, really pay attention to your
00:12:47diet, what you eat, how you eat, what your body needs, because
00:12:51diet is the fuel you put into your body,
00:12:55so if the fuel is of good quality, then the body recovers
00:12:59quickly,
00:13:02and one more thing, think positively, that is also very
00:13:06important, don't blame yourself for not doing everything at once or that something
00:13:09isn't working out for you, but say, okay, I'm getting better little by little,
00:13:13step by step. One more thing I wanted
00:13:17to emphasize is about the
00:13:20duration of
00:13:22antibiotic use, because
00:13:26it's like a folk belief that Lyme
00:13:29disease, even there was a patient, my neighbor was prescribed
00:13:3221 days, but my family doctor
00:13:36prescribed only 10 days, so she came to me, an
00:13:39infectious disease specialist, to see what was true, so
00:13:43I say, you know, your family doctor is very right in this case,
00:13:47because for migratory erythema, antibiotics should not
00:13:50be prescribed for more than 14 days, that is, shortened courses, from 10
00:13:54to... 14 days, so really, the first phase does not need to be treated
00:13:58for 21 or even a month, no, studies
00:14:01have been done, scientists have shown that borrelia
00:14:04are killed after so many days, so 14
00:14:08days is enough
00:14:09at most.
00:14:17Vaidotas does not eat meat, so he got proteins
00:14:20and vitamins to restore his body from plant-based
00:14:23foods. "Various lentils,
00:14:27beets, good for the blood, various leafy
00:14:31salads, that is, but you just need to eat
00:14:34everything together and have a very colorful diet during the day,
00:14:37and it's even very nice, there's even a
00:14:41saying that you have to collect at least
00:14:43five colors
00:14:46in your food per day, so you try, that's possible, it's a very simple,
00:14:50very simplified
00:14:53option, so that there's green and yellow, and red
00:14:56and well, there's some
00:15:00purple, colorful candies
00:15:03don't count.
00:15:06By the way, sometimes Lyme disease can go
00:15:09away on its own, but doctors warn
00:15:12that in such a case there is a risk
00:15:15that the bacteria remained somewhere in the body and can
00:15:18cause harm, so treatment is necessary.
00:15:22I can reassure you that Lyme disease
00:15:25is a curable disease, so when symptoms
00:15:28appear, we prescribe antibacterial treatment and
00:15:31the person recovers, so you shouldn't be afraid of
00:15:35waiting for something to happen and so on, you'll get sick,
00:15:39we'll cure you.
00:15:46Life with excellent well-being is
00:15:49wonderful, I would say, then you can do everything, love
00:15:53the whole world and the world will love you.
00:16:11Ticks are an inalienable part of Lithuanian nature, but this
00:16:15does not mean that we cannot enjoy its pleasures.
00:16:18Let's pay attention to the recommendations and preventive measures provided
00:16:22by experts, which can reduce the risk
00:16:26of Lyme disease or tick-borne