Wood Tick Bite
These diseases can be serious.
Wood tick bite. A tick can give you a lot of different diseases but you might not even know that one bit you. Ticks need to be removed quickly. You have trouble walking or moving your legs.
Tick bites typically dont swell up to the size of a spider bite or a mosquito bite and dont take on a distinctive red color. In most cases tick bites go unnoticed. Tick Lab at The University of Maine.
Return to the emergency department if. Tick bites normally occur during the summer season. If you are concerned about symptoms or a rash take a picture of the rash and contact your physician.
Most tick bites are not dangerous but ticks can pass disease or infection when they bite. Unlike a deer tick bite a wood tick bite wont cause the classic bullseye rash. A tick bite can cause many different tick-borne infections.
Tick bites occur most often during early spring to late summer and in areas where there are many wild animals and birds. Ticks are mostly found outdoors in woody areas on the grass leaves trees and shrubs. But some ticks transmit bacteria that cause illnesses including Lyme disease and Rocky Mountain spotted fever.
These symptoms usually go away within 24 to 36. Information on ticks and tickborne disease. If you have a tick bite watch for an expanding red rash or lesion at the site of the tick bite or an unexplained feverish achy fatiguing illness within 1 to 4 weeks after the tick bite.