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Posted 8/10/2016 1:01 AM (GMT 0)
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Above is an attached image of a tiny dot on my foot (it's right above the bandage), it is very small to see, it's healed up a bit because I have been using a healing cream and bandage, but before it was a tiny red dot, it has been very itchy for about a week now, could this be a tick or a flea bite?
Posted 8/10/2016 2:27 AM (GMT 0)
That looks similar to flea bites I've had. Stoopid opossums in my yard. They may be eating all the ticks but created a flea infestation of biblical proportions.

The key with the EM rashes is that as the Bb microbe travels further through the skin, the bigger they grow. If they don't grow, likely not EM rash.

-p
Posted 8/10/2016 2:43 AM (GMT 0)
I will tell you this - I have no idea what it is but if I got a bite I would go and tell the doctor that I think it was a tick and have him put me on doxy ASAP. Just take a 30 day course of it and what will it hurt???

I think it is so much better to be safe than sorry.

Just my opinion and I am not a doctor at all.
Posted 8/10/2016 3:21 AM (GMT 0)
I left what i thought was a spider bite 12 yrs ago alone ..now i need a new everything
Posted 8/10/2016 3:37 AM (GMT 0)
I thought mine was flea bite.....

I wish I had of really looked at that bull's eye better. Mine was just a so-so bull's eye and I thought it had to look text book.

Live and learn the hard way.
Posted 8/10/2016 10:09 AM (GMT 0)
I will check that out, i heard fleas can give deadly diseases as well, so I'm over here freaking out about the bite, I think I got a few more as well, I'll have to look into this, I hate these bugs and I wish they would all just go away, leave us be, I'd rather take
My chances walking in a bad neighborhood than get bitten by these bugs and get disease (I know that sounds a bit much, but I'm just tired of all of them).
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