So recently Nate had a bug bite that looked like the usual mosquito bite. Several of us in our fam have a fun reaction to mosquito bites with lots of swelling around the site for several days. I was informed by a doctor that usually the swelling reaction decreases over the course of the summer as you get bitten more and more but we have yet to see that! We must have sweet blood or something.
Anyway, after 2 weeks with this bite, Nate woke up with it looking like this. The center was not swollen but there was a swollen, itchy, red ring around it. After googling this and finding references to Lyme Disease (which was actually shocking) I decided to take him to the doctor. The doc gave him a usual round of antibiotics to take for 10 days and reassured me that the risk for Lyme is very small here in Idaho. Fun family life adventures~
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