DS (2.5) developed bullseye rash just over a week ago (I think). I didn't think anything of it and then something switched on in my brain and I took him to dr on Monday.
Dr didn't seem too sure about it...TBH she didn't seem to know very much about Lymes. Said it might be ringworm. To keep an eye on it and come back if it didn't go down.
As I didn't know this dr. at all, I took DS back to see my normal dr. who I've known for years. This was yesterday. I showed him photos of the rash (since by this time it had faded quite a bit), and he examined what was left of the rash. He said it did look like a Lymes rash, that it definitely wasn't ringworm. And he prescribed 2 weeks of Zinnat (Cefuroxim).
I am trying to think of when DS might have been bitten. He was taken to Whipsnade zoo in early June this year and I know they have deer there. So it could well have been there. He rolled around in the grass.
I am now in total panic that I haven't caught this early enough. That maybe the rash didn't appear in the first stage of the illness and it's just now reappearing (Googling tells me rash can come and go).
I am beside myself with worry.
Are there instances of people who don't treat Lyme early and who don't go on to develop life-long debilitating symptoms?
Any recommendations on what steps I can or ought to take next? Thank you.
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In a blind panic about toddler Lyme's disease
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Magaloofah · 19/08/2017 15:02
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