Tick bite - GP has said to go to walk in centre but won't explain

[IHeartKingThistle]

I found a tick on my leg and took it off about an hour ago. I think it must have been on there since Monday evening. Gross I know but it must have been tiny when it attached itself. I opened a chat on the GP app thing and they've said to go to a walk in centre 40 mins away. I've asked whether it's precautionary or if it's to get antibiotics but they just sent me the same message. I really don't want to go if it's just precautionary - can anyone shed any light?

Glad the hospital saw sense op.

They really shouldn't be awful. It's generally doxycycline, the same antibiotic that's taken for malaria prophylaxis (and which I'm taking now, for about the tenth time, for that reason). Apart from needing to be sun aware, it's an 'easy' antibiotic to take for the vast majority of people. I've never heard of a bad redaction.

...and of course you can go out in the sun. Most people talking doxy are doing so because they're traveling in tropical areas of the world. You just have to be particularly sensible about hat wearing etc.

It's 28 degrees and full sun where I am at the moment. Doxy hasn't cramped my style at all.

I thought they’d say that. Defo keep watch for symptoms though if it was on for more than a day.

Dunno where you lot getting antibiotics for every tick bite live but that can't be the NHS! We get bitten by ticks all the time as we live in a forest. If they're still moving when you get them out then you know you got it all, and the risk of Lyme is very small. I keep them in sellotape for a while just in case they need to be tested later on but it's never been necessary. You can't possibly take antibiotics every time

Just do what the GP says otherwise why are you bothering even asking them

We live in an area where either me, Dh, DD or the dog had a tick every week! Going to A&E is absolutely not necessary and a total waste of recourses.

DDs and DH returned from Scout camp (in Germany) on Monday and I followed the instructions to check and remove carefully... Two of the three had one.

This is the NHS website. And it says you don’t need to go unless you have symptoms or a rash.

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/lyme-disease/

She did. The dr told her to go to A&E. They sent her away.

I will keep it simple go!!!

I don’t know if I live in a particularly bad area, but we have posters up urging people to seek advice for all tick bites, and some of the guys on my farm have been given ABX prophylactically, though a couple had the rash and one felt really unwell. It had been on his back a while, though.

I hate the little fuckers so take no risks with bare skin at peak times. I live on a farm and with the deer and animals, they rain down off the dogs at certain times of the year (dead, we keep the dogs fully treated).

My dad got bitten, had no symptoms at first, but down the line had some and it took a while to trace it back to the tick bite. He’s got some longer term grief from it.

Vile little things. I’d rather get bitten by a horsefly.