Dog Tick

[butterflymom]

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Edited October 5, 2015 by tampicc

[eljomom]

Hi TAmmy-

Saw your post on the pandas forum, but thought i'd reply here. I may get some rotten tomatoes thrown at me, but I would not worry about the tic. If it was crawling around still, then it likely hadn't embedded, and once it does, it usually does not just "drop off" until it is "full." That being said, I don't know if it could have just "bitten" your daughter and moved on. Do tics do that? I thought they needed to be embedded for a bit to transmit diseases. I would clean it off, maybe some neosporin on it...sounds kind of blase, but that's more than I would do, and my kids get tics (deer tics, and yours sounds like a dog tick) quite often. Probably going to regret not taking Lyme further, and might still pursue more testing once we have funds again

 

Hello everyone,

 

My daughter just started screaming from the swingset that a bug was on her neck. I lifted her hair, and there was a tick scrambling around on her skin! I knocked it off, but was not able to collect it, as I lost it in the grass. I believe it was large for a tick, the size of a lentil or split pea. It was brown with a cream or lighter brown marking on the back. From looking at pictures, I think it was a dog tick. My daughter has a tiny red dot on her neck, which I rubbed with alcohol. I had no idea we had ticks in our yard. Any advice about treating the spot, and getting rid of ticks in my yard?

 

Do Dog ticks ever transmit lyme or coinfections? I found online that they most often transmit Rocky Mntn Spotted Fever.

 

Thanks,

 

Tammy

[Suzan]

I trust this source:

http://www.canlyme.com/ticks.html

 

I'd be on the look out for any rashes or changes in behavior I guess. If it looks like it bit her, and you are concened, maybe a call to a lyme doc to see if you should take any action? I don't really know what is best. Scary though to see such a big one on your dd!

 

Susan

[butterflymom]

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Edited October 5, 2015 by tampicc

[sf_mom]

You can send the TIC off to Igenex for testing to see if positive.

 

-Wendy