To think this is just a heat rash? (Pic included)

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Hi - so I'm currently in Asia for work and won't be back until Monday... No chance of a doctor until then unless I go through a right old insurance faff so I wanted to canvas opinions on something DH is convinced is a lot worse than I think it is...

I had an insect bite on the inside of my knee a couple of weeks ago. I got it in the UK.It's since cleared up and I haven't seen anything there for a few days. However, yesterday I noticed a very very itchy rash in a circle around the healed area. I'd been wearing trousers all day and had been quite hot so I think this is a heat rash and that the only reason the bit in the middle isn't covered is that it's only just healed. Nothing major. It responds to hydrocortisone cream which is helpful. No other symptoms at all.

DH is convinced it's an infection and wants me to find a doctor asap. I think he's worried about malaria or Lyme disease or something equally OTT. He's a bit of a worry wart so I've ignored him so at but the rash has got darker today... haven't told him...

Surely I'm right though aren't I... just a heat rash? Or at least something equally innocuous? Please vindicate me!

I'm with your husband.

It looks very similar to a bullseye rash. May be nothing, I wouldn't risk it.

I'd want that looked at OP, sorry 😐

I'm with your DH on this one I think you need to get that checked out a heat rash doesn't look like that.

When any of us have had heat rash, they've been little spots like pimples, over a wider area then that.

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That doesn't look like any hear rash I've had. It looks quite raised and painful. I'd we a doctor.

My heat rash doesn't look like that. What's a bullseye rash?

Are you in Asia on business & therefore in a hotel? Can you ask the hotel to arrange an appointment with a doctor? That facility is always listed in those folders in the hotel room.

Failing that can a colleague of hotel reception give you a contact for a gp equivalent doc? I've been whilst in Singapore & Thailand in my lunchtime, they tend to have loads of appointments and drop in times, so an easier prospect than trying to visit a gp in the U.K.!

Nope. Not a heat rash. Classic bulls eye rash. You need to a doctor.

www.lymediseaseaction.org.uk/about-lyme/rashes/

A bullseye rash comes from a tick bite, and is a symptom of Lyme disease.

It’s not heat rash. I get heat rash. It’s Lyme disease maybe? Needs antibiotics quickly.

That is not a heat rash!!

The knock on effect of Lyme disease can be awful. Don’t leave it

Medic here. Def not a heat rash. You def need to get seen it could be Lyme (may not be but could be

DOCTOR!

Oh shit ok! Thanks all. I'll go to a doctor today!!

I'm more annoyed that DH was right!!

How are you OP?

That is NOT a heat rash. Get to a doctor.

Any update op?

Lyme disease is endemic in some parts if Asia, not all. But ticks can carry all sorts of diseases you REALLY don't want. I'd see a doctor, or if you really can't get to one you can go to a pharmacy as a lot of Asian countries will sell antibiotics over the counter.

Just realised you got the bite in the UK. In that case Lyme is a genuine possibility,sorry!

I’m glad you are getting that seen to.

Update: so I found an English speaking doctor after a right old faff... he took a look and looked a bit confused for a while - kept asking if I had a fever. I had to keep repeating - "it's 32 degrees... no fever, I'm just hot!"...

he ended giving me 5 days worth of antibiotics, antihistamines and some sort of hydrocortisone cream that's stronger than the over the counter stuff.

He kept saying it's not serious but the three types of tablet and the cream suggest otherwise?

I'll pop to my GP when I'm back on Monday. DH being smug. Thanks all!

Good stuff, sounds like you're covered til you get home at the very least. Hope the smugness is bearable, I hate it when my DH is right too