Clarify the Role of Antibiotics for Lyme Disease
May 2021
You'll get questions about tick bites and Lyme disease...as warm weather draws people outdoors.
Continue to emphasize prevention...wearing protective clothing, using tick repellent, and checking for ticks after being outdoors.
Save antibiotic prophylaxis for high-risk bites...when patients have a deer tick attached for more than 36 hours and have been in an area where the rate of infected ticks is higher than 20%.
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