Tick Bite.

[Tilly2]

Last week, I found a tick embedded into the skin just below my clavicle. I removed the tick with a tick removal gadget and washed the area well with disinfectant soap.

I applied tea tree cream and thought no more about it, apart from the occasional shudder.

The site of the bite is still very sore and the redness, which had disappeared is back. Literally, it hurts if I touch that area and there is a lump underneath the redness.

Shall I just continue to apply the tea tree cream? It's been over a week now and it doesn't seem to be disappearing.

[Apc2604]

Just wondering now whether Tilly and I crossed paths. Friday nights in the Kings Arms - a great start to the weekend! And Pasta, DAHS was just like St Trinians back then. A dragon of a headmistress and so many rules that we broke them all. I was there for two years, having moved up from Wimbledon. I can imagine you now Tilly walking down the embankment with the dog! Good luck with the tick bite.

[Tilly2]

Where in Bedford did you live APC?

[Apc2604]

Bromham

[Apc2604]

Which was a smallish village back then in 1962!

[Barmaid]

I'm inclined to agree with APG.

I think it's possible you may have left part of the mandible in you. And trust me, they still live.

Not everyone gets a rash with Lymes. I think it's about 70% that do. Other symptoms are flu like, or lethargy and tiredness, fever shivers, muscle or joint pain. If in any doubt at all get an appointment and get some antibiotics.

[Peter Pedant]

oh, there is doubt - get an appt and get tetracycline

if I were appearing before Barmaid QC sitting as recorder of (funnyplace) - I would intone ponderously

"Your majesty and tris-megistee(*) - Lyme must be excluded"

(*) O thrice great goddess ! - usual opening of prayers to goddesses in ptolemaic egypt ....

[woofgang]

I agree, rash or not I would want Lyme excluded and not mess about.

[Tilly2]

I can't get to see a doctor. The surgery are not offering appointments.

[eve1974]

Ergh! Ticks are disgusting. They give me the creeps. I grew up in South Africa surrounded by bush and ticks were an almost daily occurrence !!

I reckon that it’s simply an infected bite - but perhaps try get a telephone appt with ur gp?

Ticks don’t have heads (Even tho they look as tho they do). Instead it’s a group of mouthpieces that work together to find the best feeding positions and draw blood. A tick can continue to squirm after the mouthpiece is pulled off. Maybe that’s why you thought you had it all.

[woofgang]

have you said you are worried about Lyme Disease? What does the surgery suggest that you should do?

[Peter Pedant]

go to cas and tell the troof
you cant get to see a doctor and you think you may have lyme ....

[Barmaid]

There is a difference between a bite that has become infected and a bite from a tick infected with Lyme.

Here is what NHS says

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/lyme-disease/

I've been bitten 3 times this year. I just (as Sqad would say) monitor the situation.

[ladybirder]

Morning Tilly, how is your tick bite today, any better?

[Tilly2]

Hi, LB, Thanks for asking.

The redness has spread slightly but the bite itself seems to be gathering a head. I have slapped some tea tree oil on a plaster and have got it covered. It's still painful but I guess it will be like that until the infection has cleared.

[AuntPollyGrey]

Tilly if there is something in there you need to get it out. Why not just pop it for goodness sake?

[Tilly2]

APG, it says on the NHS website not to squeeze the bite.

[ladybirder]

Sorry you're still suffering Tilly. I'm lucky never to have come into contact with one of the wretched things but I'm learning from your experience - so thanks for that;-)
If it ever happens to me I shan't attempt to remove, I'll go straight to a chemist and let them do it.

[MartinMillar]

I would have popped that *** by now I wouldn’t have been able to resist

[Tilly2]

I'm not actually suffering, Lb. It's just irksome and it only hurts if I actually touch it.

Martin, :-)

[AuntPollyGrey]

Me neither if their is crap in the wound it needs getting out, I don't care what the NHS site says.

Tilly Once its clean you can put antiseptic on it -whats the point of putting antiseptic on when its full of pus?