How to Recognize Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever

Exactly what is Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever? Here are the signs and symptoms of the illness, and the treatments you can get for it.

Difficulty: Moderate

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• careful knowledge to recognize it early
• knowing doctors

1. One of the most reported and deadliest of the illnesses from rickettsia rickettsii, a bacteria that is spread through ticks, Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever is an infectious disease. With its sudden onset of non-descript signs and symptoms, it can be hard to figure out while in its early stages.

2. Symptoms of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever
   After the bite from a tick, there can be up to a two week period of what is termed “incubation” where there are no symptoms in the one that was bitten. Symptoms tend to start slowly and build to a plateau and then taper off. Early symptoms include:
   • Little or no appetite
   • Muscle aches and pains
   • Bad headache
   • Nausea and vomiting
   • Fever

3. Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever Rash
   After the first few symptoms appear like headache and nausea, there are some more symptoms that are typical. These are seen as the fever, rash, and tick bite being prominent symptoms instead of the aforementioned list of symptoms. These later symptoms include:
   • Joint and stomach pain
   • Maculopapular rash or a bumpy rash
   • Petechial rash or a smaller dotted rash that isn’t raised
   Both of the rashes start at the extremities and work their way to the center of the person. It will typically start as the bumpy rash and lead into the petechial rash, within 5 days of the fever. The petechial rash will only be seen in about half of all patients that come in to a clinic with Rocky Mountain spotted fever. 10% will not even get the bumpy rash that is called the maculopapular rash.

4. Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever Treatments
   Most of the treatments for Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever are antibiotic based. If used immediately and without any delays, quick work of the fever can be done. The more wait time and the more ill the patient, the longer the course of tetracycline antibiotics. Antibiotics that are usually prescribed for Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever are doxycycline and chloramphenicol. Doxycycline is the more preferred treatment as it has less side effects than the chloramphenicol. Usual dosing of doxycycline is 100 milligrams every 12 hours for adults. The treatment will continue a few days after the fever goes to make sure that the condition is thoroughly treated. If the tetracycline antibiotics do not work, a case may be made that the patient does not have Rocky Mountain Spotted fever and has some other rash/fever condition.

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