You know those red rings around bug bites do you get them with mosquito bites and should I be worried.

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Another day another health issue with ds 4. Mosquitos have a thing for ds we had had a few quite days with the cooler weather and I thought that was that.
Woke up today having been bitten over night again in a few places on his legs. Didn't take much notice they don't bother him too much just an oh he's been bitten again.

Went to give him a hug on the sofa just now and he has one I don't think was there this morning but it has a larger red ring around it. Has anyone had this? I am waiting for the doc to get back to me but wondered if mumsnet might help in the meantime

Can you post photo?
Could be Lymes of course

It's ticks you need to worry about the ring. I think you'd have seen a tick attached, most likely. Has he been in long grass or woodland?

Sounds like a bite from a tick with Lyme's Disease. Good work spotting it, he needs a blood test to confirm then antibiotics.

It looks faint here where as in real life it's a touch darker

Mine always go like that

He has had quite a few bites recently and this is the first time it's happened. So do you think it's just a particularly irritating mosquito bite?

Doesn't look like Lymes to me

Most unlikely to be Lyme disease.

Mosquitoes don't so much suck blood as puncture the skin and inject an anti-clotting agent so the victim's own blood pressure pumps the disgusting little creature's food out. The red lump & itching is the body's way of dealing with the anti-clotting agent, what's called a histamine reaction. They come in many shapes and sizes.

Probably gone by Monday.

I've had mosi and other insect bites that look like that tho

Take an anti histamine and see what happens.

It looks like the bulls eye rash you get with Lyme disease.
Have you been anywhere that mat attract ticks at all?

That just looks like it's irritated to me. With Lyme disease there's a white ring inside the pink ring, so it looks like a target.

It doesn't look like a Lyme rash.

Spoke to doc Lyme rash wouldn't appear so quickly and he thinks if it is a touch infected it will clear up on its own.
Thank you mumsnet collective for helping me keep my head together once again.

I'm currently covered in mosquito bites that look just like that

Could it be a flea bite? (Sorry)

Any bites I get go like that. Antihistamines usually help.

No worries @misscockerspaniel. I've thought flea bites and bed bugs and random bity bugs you might find in an overgrown garden but pattern , size and time of biting plus healing time and itch factor factored in and we are looking at mosquitos. Bloody things.

That's a normal reaction to a mosquito bite round here. A touch of hydrocortisone will help if it's really swollen.

@Leavesorange

It looks nothing like a bullseye rash.

Looks like a mossie bite to be. Draw a ring around the inflamed bit, if the inflammation spreads go back to the doc.