Tick Bite.

Tilly2 | 11:52 Fri 09th Oct 2020 | Body & Soul

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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.

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AuntPollyGrey

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// I don't have a rash, Sqad, but do have something that looks like an infected spot.// With the caveat that I'm not a doctor and a bit 'gung-ho' I would place a comfortably warm wet cloth on the area for around 10 minutes then give it a squeeze. If anything comes out, then clean thoroughly and apply an antiseptic cream and a bandage covering if you can. If after a...

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gness

You'd think so, Tilly but no...it was a very smooth breast stroke considering how many legs they have. I was quite envious.

Tilly2

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What did you do with it after you'd watched it doing the breast stroke?

Mine went down the plug hole.

gness

Flushed it away, Tilly. Spent a lot of my childhood in a part of Ireland where ticks were prevalent. I was taught early how to deal with them because I could go wandering with half a dozen cousins and I'd be the only one to come home with ticks...must be because I'm so hot blooded... ;-)

Tilly2

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...or you were the only one wearing hot pants.

gness

Looking back at photos of the fifties, Tilly skirts or dresses with a big bow in my hair!