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Families of children with confirmed Lyme neuroborreliosis are justly concerned about possible long-term sequelae. Many parents of children without a definitive diagnosis of Lyme disease also worry that nonspecific symptoms (including headache, fatigue, and learning problems) are related to undiagnosed neuroborreliosis. To evaluate the frequency of persistent symptoms, investigators in Sweden followed 84 children (age range, 2–14 years) with confirmed Lyme neuroborreliosis for a median of 5 years after diagnosis and compared them with 84 randomly selected children without Lyme disease.
At initial presentation with Lyme neuroborreliosis, symptoms specific to the nervous system were facial palsy (63%); headache (55%); neck pain (29%); vertigo (…