To think this could be lymes disease

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My daughter came home from nursery about three weeks ago with a very nasty insect bite on her leg. It was a big red swollen patch with a blood blister in the middle. It got quite nasty a week later oozing pus as well so I took her to the doctors thinking she was picking it and it was infected. We were given a cream and when the bite died down a bit, formed a scab I stopped applying the cream. We put a plaster on it to stop her picking it. I removed the plaster last night and a bullseye rash has formed around it. Is this lymes disease? I had a fear from the beginning this was a tick bite. I have rung the doctors this morning and they've put me on a triage list and asked me to send a picture.

You were bloody right!! Thank you so much! The doctor has changed the prescription and sent it to our pharmacy for me to pick up. Amoxicillin three times a day for 21 days. I am so grateful for the advice given here.

I have Lyme so speaking from experience. Please go back and get a longer prescription I had 4 weeks it only being caught at neurological stage but 2 weeks the old “standard “doesn’t seem enough even at this stage and for a child. I haven’t checked the nice guidelines but concur with others

Sorry cross posted glad you have got a rethink. GPS are blooody clueless. And by the way agree there is a much later active season due to our changing weather and temps. I got mine in an unseasonal November.
Please keep a close eye on your daughter over the next few weeks for 2nd stage symptoms. Particularly flu like , I recall I didn’t have much of a temperature but did have very aching limbs so watch out for lethargy and unwillingness to move around if these occur please go back to GP and get an extension of at least another week.

Not everyone has flulike symptoms, and the blood tests are extremely unreliable and controversial. The NHS is not good with Lyme disease- the US and Germany have more understanding and experience.

Can not believe that some strangers on the internet are able to better treat a medical problem than a doctor!!! And people go on about how great the NHS is. What a joke. Hope your daughter is ok OP

Can not believe that some strangers on the internet are able to better treat a medical problem than a doctor!!! And people go on about how great the NHS is. What a joke. Hope your daughter is ok OP thanks

Speaking as a GP, it just comes up so very rarely that doctors aren’t very knowledgeable about it. I’ve been practising for 30 years and have had one case in that time (albeit we’re in London so I suppose not a hotspot).

There is a NHS online course with credits on Lyme Disease that I recommend all GPs take - I used it to equip myself when I had my first ever suspected Lyme disease patient last year.

That’s great news OP and am really pleased your GP changed your prescription!

I will definitely keep an eye on her. She seems fine at the moment, no more bolshy than normal!

Ringworm perhaps? My kids and I had it in the past, and it is fairly common.

No, it's nothing like ringworm, and it started with a big single insect bite. I've seen ringworm before.

Gp sent me away twice with a rash like that. Got a phone call a few days later to go in as he'd looked it up some more and realised it could have been lymes and gave me 3 weeks of antibiotics. Surely doctors need more training on this if they're missing it like this?

Henevieve I think GPs do an amazing and very difficult job so no GP bashing from me, but it is scary to think these things are being missed. I don’t know what the answer is. When I’ve been to the GP, they’ve often looked up the recommended treatment and dose on their computer- I had a friend who was horrified by that and said they should just know it- but actually I was fine with it, they literally can’t hold everything in their head and I’d rather they could access the most up to date evidence based advice. It would be good if there was an easy system to do something similar here though- this GP was obviously treating for suspected Lyme, but how did he/she decide on that antibiotic and course length? Is there no way they could have looked up the same evidence based guidance as I did (in 30 seconds?). It just seems so hit and miss.

I get that GPs may not see many cases of Lymes but how hard is it to call up and read the NICE guidance on treatment?

Just goes to show you can't blindly trust your doctor. I'll be looking up guidelines myself in future and double checking their advice.

Some doctors don’t prescribe antibiotics but make sure she gets them and donyour research, some people need a longer course than the nhs prescribed. The nhs is behind the times with Lyme although getting better

have you spoken to the nursery? If you think she picked this up there, then they should be taking precautions (not going in long grass, recommending long trousers etc) and warning parents to be on the look-out - they may not all be as clued up as you.

I was thinking of speaking to the nursery Monday when DD goes back. They should probably check children when they come back in from the garden. They've also just opened a forest nursery in the grounds where children will spend the majority of the time out in the big park.

You absolutely should tell the nursery. They should send a letter home advising children wear long sleeved tops and leggings tucked in to socks.

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