Acari

[psocoptera]

Okay, I had to look that one up. (I guess I could have just said Arachnids, but then you would have thought I was talking about spiders.) Quentin got a tick bite at alum weekend! Not engorged, probably on less than 24 hours, so we are optimistic for no Lyme. But seriously, enough with the arthropods already. ::thinks about it:: That's just asking for worms or leeches or something, isn't it. Sigh.

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[mightyinkas.livejournal.com]

I've had tons of tick bites (it's Florida), and never gotten Lyme. Fingers crossed!

Leeches aren't too bad... I guess? Better than any kind of biting vertebrates.

[psocoptera.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately the Lyme rate is higher in PA where this took place... but yeah, fingers crossed.

Biting vertebrates would also be bad.

[mightyinkas.livejournal.com]

Really! I'm so used to the evil insects all being down here... Why is that, I wonder?

[cereph.livejournal.com]

I don't know what they would do since he is such a little kid, but when I though I had a tick bite (after being in Maine), I went to the doctor and they gave me some prescription that if taken within a certain (can't remember) time period, will prevent Lyme.

[cereph.livejournal.com]

I checked wikipedia, I was given one (large?) dose of doxycycline, and apparently kids are given amoxicillin.

[psocoptera.livejournal.com]

I took him to the ped immediately (well, the next day, we found the tick on Sun and I took him in Mon). She thought there was a good chance the tick had not fed long enough for transmission to occur, and opted for "watch closely", which - do I think she should have preemptively given him something? I don't know, but she's a pediatrician in a Lyme-endemic area, I hope she knows what she's doing?