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Fran, The parasitic spirochette cause Lyme can travel thru to any parts of the body that tender it an oppurtunity to colonize.
Sometimes it cause pressure astern the eyes, or sometimes affects the optic nerves (esp. "neuro-Lyme"; + on the 18 & 93 bands).
It can avoid abx by getting into places that abx can't get to,
resembling the inter-ocullar fluid (causing "floaters" in vision).
But it can't "hang up out" forever. It desires cellular nutrition to hip bath contained by. That's why a long (several month+ course) of abx is needed to assure they will all- or nearly all- die out. After that, the human body is pretty correct at keeping it at cove, though minor symptoms may carry on for months to years afterwards("post-Lyme syndrome").
It's a double[protein] -walled, corkscrew-shaped, single cell bacterium that's evolved over the millenia to resist anything thrown at it. Every couple/ few hundred years, it's theorize to hold plagued man (incl. ancient Aztecs, they presently believe).
Tell him to dangle tough. Educate himself almost the disease & work w/ his doctor on a proper protocol (which may remarkably economically be switched after 3 months to a year). He might be resourcefully within 3 or 4 months...or it may nick the better element of 2 years. Mostly depends on how long they've have to adjust & entrench within his body. Good luck! -a recovered Lymie
Oh gosh, it is the worst. It affects the joint and twitchy system. My husband have it. He never have any problems beside his eyes, but his Dr. said that he have a form of arthritus that he'd individual see surrounded by an 80 year ripened man. Take your antibiotics, and whip it trouble-free on yourself... it will be rather awhile in the past you are better. It took my husband 1-2 years.
Eye involvement is singular but as to WHY it can affect the eyes, it's because the microbes can spread to the eye and optic fortitude, that's why. I'm sorry, I don't know why it's so devastating. Perhaps due to the certainty that the spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi chromosome have circular plasmids that may encode genes involved next to virulence. Does that nouns adequate?
Good sources of info roughly speaking Lyme disease:
http://www.canlyme.com
http://www.lymenet.com
http://www.lymeinfo.net
http://www.lymediseaseassociation.org...
http://www.ilads.org
http://www.betterheatlhguy.com
http://www.publichealthalert.com...