4 year old, tick bite/Lyme symptoms

[harverina]

Hi everyone,
My little girl is 4. Last weekend we were glamping and spent a lot of time in the woods and going for walks in the fields, as well as generally being outdoors. We arrived home on Sunday evening and DD went to the childminder on Monday as usual. On Monday afternoon she showed our CM her hand and there was a tick on her hand, in between her fingers. It was pretty small. We removed it with a tick remover.

There has been. I dash/no bullseye mark. However, today she has complained of a sore head, sore tummy and sore legs. She had a huge sleep this afternoon too. We were at a neighbours BBQ and had to come home as she was miserable. Since then she ate some weetabix, had some haribo and a big drink, and then was violently sick.

I’ve called NHS 24 and am currently waiting for them to call back.

DH is saying to wait and see what they say. I feel we should insist on her being seen and ask for antiobiotics. I know that Lynes disease is fairly uncommon but is on the increase.

She started school this week and is tired from that (we are in Scotland) but she has never complained of a sore head before or sore legs really.

Just looking for some advice please if poss?

Have attached a pic of the tick. Have no way of know how long it was on her. She’d had a bath the night before we saw it but I didn’t notice it. The tick is on kitchen paper so you can see how small it is compared to tjenlittle dots of the paper.

Sorry I should have checked my post - no rash and no sign of a bullseye mark

NHS website says see your doctor if bitten by a tick and have rash OR flu-like symptoms. Not everyone gets the rash.

www.nhs.uk/conditions/Lyme-disease/

Yes. Ask for an OOH appointment. Either the gp will help you spot what else might be wrong with her or she’ll give you antibiotics in case of Lyme.

Should I insist on antibiotics? I’ve read that Gp’s often aren’t up to speed with it because in some areas it doesn’t present very often

My DD and I were prescribed Amoxicillin and Doxycycline respectively last year as a precautionary measure after picking up ticks in a borderline Lyme's area. We'd spotted them pretty much straight away, and removed them successfully, but both came down with flu like symptoms after a couple of days. Our GP followed best practice guidelines and prescribed antibiotics without a rash being present. We usually try to avoid antibiotics at all costs, but this was a special circumstance. Having lived in an area riddled with Lyme's Disease and knowing a couple of people who have become very ill as a result of it, I think it is worth being super cautious.

If it was me I'd take her and ask for antibiotics. Lyme is rare even after being taken and it's likely that her symptoms are not related but Lyme is very much a case of better safe than sorry.

You need to get antibiotics ASAP at out of hours!

Get antibiotics! Me and son are on them now after a tick bite. If first GP doesn't give them I'd see another one, one we saw said it wasn't lymes and sent me away (even tho we had bullseye rash) but then called me back in later that day and said he'd looked it up and was Lymes so put us on antibiotics.

Hi everyone and thanks for the replies. We took her to the GP and she has tonsillitis 😢 and Ha’s been prescribed amoxicillin