Signs & Symptoms Associated With

Lyme Disease in Children

Continued- Part 2

• Irritability/depression (94%)
• Short-term memory problems (94%)
• Schoolwork deterioration (94%)
• Myalgias (88%)
• Brain fog (88%)
• Neck pain (88%)
• Insomnia (82%)
• Distractibility (82%)
• Word-finding problems (82%)
• Severe flu (80%)
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• Arthritis (38%)
• Moderate to severe sensory hyperacusis to sound (58%)
• Moderate to severe sensory hyperacusis to light (74%)
• Insomnia (77%)
• Word-finding problems (79%)
• Radicular pains (56%)
• Persistent neuropsychiatric complaints
• Difficulty with learning and focusing attention
• Interpersonal problems
• Anhedonia
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• Ineffectiveness
• Negative mood
• Negative self-esteem
• Anxiety
• Conduct problems
• Learning problems
• Psychosomatic
• Impulsivity
• Hyperactivity
• Withdrawn
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• Somatic complaints
• Anxious/depressed
• Social problems
• Thought problems
• Attention problems
• Delinquent behavior
• Aggressive behavior
• Internalization
• Externalization
• Eye and ear disease
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• Encephalomyelitis
• Cardiomyopathy
• Uveitis
• Keratitis
• Meningitis
• Myopericarditis
• A V -block
• Conjunctivitis
• Radiculoneuritis
• Episodic arthritis
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• 1,050
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• Chronic arthritis
• Lethargy
• Irritability
• Stiffness of the neck
• Keratitis
• Iridocyclitis
• Uveitisintermedia
• Acrodermatitis chronica atrophicans
• Borrelial lymphocytoma usually found at earlobes, nipples or testicular sacks
• Summer flu
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• Many patients will not recall a tick bite
• Patients may or may not have had erythema chronicum migrans
• Lymphocytic meningitis
• Cranial nerve palsies (most commonly Bell's palsy)
• Decreased sensation
• Weakness
• Absent reflexes
• Cardiac symptoms
• Weakness
• Fatigue
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• Palpitations
• Varying degrees of atrioventricular block
• Mild pericarditis or myocarditis
• Arthritis
• Regional or generalized adenopathy
• Conjunctivitis
• Iritis
• Hepatitis
• Microscopic hematuria or proteinuria
• Subacute encephalopathy
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• Axonal polyneuropathy
• Leukoencephalopathy
• Involvement of the optic nerve
• Inflammation
• Increased intracranial pressure
• Optic nerve abnormalities
• Decreased vision months after disease onset attributable to optic neuritis
• Lyme arthritis in child with HIV
• Acute peripheral facial palsy
• Myalgias
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• Arthralgias
• Chills
• Abdominal pain
• Dyspnea (difficult or labored breathing)
• Cough
• Nasal congestion
• Sore throat
• Probability of a false-positive result is low
• Acute loss of neurological functions
• Increased intracranial pressure
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• 1,100
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• Early neuroborreliosis
• Chronic neuroborreliosis
• Miscellaneous disorders
• Meningitis
• Cranial or peripheral neuropathies
• Radiculalgia
• Encephalitis
• Myelitis
• Neuropathies
• Polyneuropathies
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• Encephalopathies
• Encephalomyelitis
• Vasculitis
• Autoimmunology processes
• Acute arthritis
• Benign cutaneous lymphocytoma
• Chronic symptoms in 21%
• Visual symptoms
• No light perception
• Eye disc swelling
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• Focal demyelinating lesions in the brain
• Non-malignant cutaneous lymphocytoma
• Central vestibular syndrome with a hyperalgesic meningoradicular reaction
• Peripheral radicular involvement and intense pain in lower limb
• Ocular disorders
• Diplopias
• Bilateral conjunctivitis complicated by kerato-uveitis
• Bilateral complete cecitis
• After single tick bite the disease developed
• Different organs and systems were involved
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• Cardiac involvement
• Other neurologic symptoms
• Other musculo- skeletal symptoms
• Large effusion of knee joint 5 yrs. after tick bite
• Chronic form of neuroborreliosis with non-specific symptoms
• Long standing symptoms of severe weight loss and chronic headache
• Seizures
• Failure to thrive
• Acute hemiparesis as a result of cerebral ischaemic infarction
• Cerebrovascular course of neuroborreliosis
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• Mono- or oligoarthritis with polyarticular arthralgias
• Opsoclonus-myoclonus
• Parainfectious process
• Paraneoplastic syndrome in association with neuroblastoma
• Cardiovascular
• Nonspecific symptoms
• Malaise
• Fatigue
• Headache
• Myalgia
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• 1,150
• 
  
• Arthralgia
• Morphea- PCR Confirmed
• Lichen sclerosus- PCR Confirmed
• Satellite cutaneous lesions- 16%
• Altered lymphocyte phenotypes and NK cells
• Isolated trochlear palsy
• Pseudotumor (zemel letter)
• Bilateral sensorineural hearing loss
• Spastic paraparesis
• Intense, lancinating, radicular pain- especially at night
• Endophtalmitis
• Episcleritis
• Acrodermatitis chronica atrophicans
• 1,162

PART 2

https://sites.google.com/view/symptoms-of-lyme/childrens-symptoms/childrens-symptoms-part-2?authuser=0

PART 3 IS HERE

https://sites.google.com/view/symptoms-of-lyme/childrens-symptoms/childrens-symptoms-part-3?authuser=0

PART 4 IS HERE

https://sites.google.com/view/symptoms-of-lyme/childrens-symptoms/symptom-descriptions-children

PART 5 IS HERE

https://sites.google.com/view/symptoms-of-lyme/childrens-symptoms/childrens-symptom-statements

Last Updated- April 2019

Lucy Barnes

AfterTheBite@gmail.com