Lyme disease has been a big news story here just recently as the founder of Phones4U and his whole family apparently all have Lyme disease and his son has been particularly badly affected. I thought once you got the bullseye rash it was all a bit too late? My daughter still gets nerve pain where the tick was on her back.
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In Sweden you can possibly get Lyme disease or the meningitis disease (TBE - don't know if you call it that too?) from ticks. Fortunately, mosts ticks don't carry the diseases, but in certain areas of Sweden TBE is quite common and vaccination is recommended if you live/spend a lot of time there. Otherwise, the recommendation is as I described it before. You wait and watch the bite carefully for a week. You usually get a redness around the tick bite, and some itching, but if it doesn't go away after about a week you should see a doctor. Or, like I wrote above, if the redness is greater than 5 centimeters in diameter. If I called the doctor's today and told them that I removed a tiny tick from the back of my thigh two days ago, and that it was a little red and itchy still, they would tell me to call them again in a few days if it didn't improve. I showed the bite to my mom today and she said that it looked exactly like hers did in the beginning. She was bit a few weeks ago and can still tell where the bite was (a slightly raised area).
Ticks suck...
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