Intravenous Antibiotics Injection for Lyme Disease Patients

Lyme disease is an infectious disease caused by the Borrelia bacterium which is spread by ticks. The most common sign of infection is an expanding area of redness on the skin, known as erythema migrants, that shows up at the site of the tick bite about a week after its occurrence.

During the first stages of Lyme disease, people who receive appropriate antibiotics usually get a complete and fast recovery. Throughout the early stages, antibiotics are usually taken orally. These antibiotics include doxycycline, amoxicillin, or cefuroxime axetil. Yet, people with certain neurological or cardiac forms of the illness may require Intravenous Treatment (IV) with antibiotics such as ceftriaxone or penicillin.

The antibiotic is administered through a small narrow flexible tube called a catheter or IV line, which is inserted into a vein using a needle. The needle is removed and the IV line is left in place and secured by a dressing. There are different types of IV lines available and the one chosen for the treatment will depend on the patient’s veins and how long they will need antibiotics.

Typical IV therapy consists of a 2- to the 4-week course. The patient undergoes a daily antibiotics injection, which has been proven to be very effective. However, for some patients, it can be a bit long and discomforting process. A daily injection can represent a nightmare for those patients whose veins are hard to visualize.

Thus, a vein finder is strongly recommended for physicians. The FDA Portable Vein Detector SIFVEIN-5.2 is the perfect device here since it provides significant help for patients of all ages and untangles the IV access complexities, such as obesity, swollen tissue, hairy skin, dark skin, hypovolemia, etc.

The vein detector assists medical professionals to locate and find veins quickly and accurately during IV access, increasing the success rate of the procedure. It relieves nurses’ work pressure, reduces the patient’s pain and fear, and improves the quality of medical services.

Another prominent advantage of the SIFVEIN-5.2 is that it offers patients the ability to receive their own treatments from home by themselves. Because of the extensive outbreak of epidemic diseases, particularly the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), hospitals and medical facilities are not now truly safe havens for recovery and rehabilitation.

Unfortunately, many hospitals in some infected countries have turned into a breeding ground for Hospital Acquired Infections. Vein viewers are easy to use and allow patients to detect their own veins and easily do the antibiotic injections (if they’re well trained to do so). They save users’ time and the alternate constant need to visit a medical facility.

Disclaimer: Although the information we provide is used by different doctors and medical staff to perform their procedures and clinical applications, the information contained in this article is for consideration only. SIFVEINFINDER is not responsible neither for the misuse of the device nor for the wrong or random generalizability of the device in all clinical applications or procedures mentioned in our articles. Users must have the proper training and skills to perform the procedure with each vein finder device.

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