Doxycycline dosage for tick bite
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doryx
Within minutes I got this rash which after few hours turned into bulls-eye rash.I visited the doctor after 25 hrs of bite, who put me on Doxycycline antibiotic.
I read somewhere :
"The risk of developing Lyme disease after being bitten by a tick is only about 1% to 3%. On top of that, it takes at least 24 to 48 hours for the tick to transmit the bacteria that cause Lyme disease. "
The tick was on me for maybe 1 hr or may be max 4 hrs. before I noticed it and removed it completely.
If you could get an antibiotic, doxycycline and take it for at least a month you should be ok. My ex husband was a golf course superintendent. He was bit often but would get doxy and take it and be ok.
Glad to "see" you again. Sorry to hear about yet another tick. Gaaahhhh! Makes you wonder how in the world it got on you. Just shows you don't have to walk through tall grass or go camping to get one. (I got mine as a tourist at a Wild Animal Park.)
How are you feeling theses day? Still have symptoms? You'll definitely want antibiotics for this tick bite.
I don't know enough about testing to answer your question specifically, but I suspect that there are no absolute cut-offs for when IgM and IgG time frames begin and end, and it may be different in different people.
The ticks are so tiny that they are very hard to see, and many people never see the -- I didn't see the first tick that bit me.
I think Igenex labs is the place that gives the +, ++, etc. results.
I was bitten by a deer tick 5 days ago. Unfortunately it was latched on for two days until i found it. The day i found it i was starting to having slightly achy knees. No EM rash was present, at least that i caught. aches randomly popped up until today (7/30) When they persisted all day. I woke up feeling oddly foggy with a small headache, similar to when i have a hangover but i had zero alcohol the day before.
Do you know what the bacterial infection was? What abx did you take? It could be a neurological issue, a reaction to the antibiotics, or perhaps even Lyme Disease. Acute Lyme Disease needs a month of antibiotics...even a week of "strong" abx is not enough to kill it. Do you remember a tick bite or a red rash or something that looked like a spider bite?
Early Lyme
ILADS doctors are likely to recommend more aggressive and longer antibiotic treatment for patients. They may, for instance, treat “high risk” tick bites where the tick came from an endemic area, was attached a long time, and was removed improperly. They may treat a Lyme rash for a longer period of time than the IDSA recommends, to ensure that the disease does not progress. They are unlikely to withhold treatment pending laboratory test results.
Couple days later felt drained, body aches, muscle pain similar to flu so I went back to doctors who suggested I get tested for lyme and to fake 200mg of doxycycline for week unless test comes back positive and will prescribe another week. My concern is bit of the tick still inside me and I'm worried it could still be releasing toxins into the blood. It's so deep I can't get to it. Should I see about getting this removed?
I am very paranoid, and I had no symptoms for the syphilis, BUT, I do remember a small tick biting me in 7eleven about 3 weeks ago. I was about to pay when I felt a small bite on my upper arm(shoulder). I remember seeing an insect which was about 3-4mm big. I also remember that its backside was inflated like a blister filled with blood and I just flicked it off. Is this the kind that causes Lyme disease. I've read on the internet that it takes about 36 hours of attachment to get infected.
a 2001 article in the New England Journal of Medicine suggested that treatment with a single dose of 200 mg of doxycycline within 72 hours of removing a tick can prevent the development of Lyme disease"
Original source
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM200107123450201
(naturally it wouldn't prevent any of the co-infections--but...........
The IDSA (well, actually just Gary Wormser) recommends a single dose of Doxy for a very recent tick bite. Unfortunately, this is primarily his opinion and no proper studies have been done to know if this is a reliable way to prevent Lyme. Since you had an embedded tick for three days a week ago, the single (or in your case, double) dose is probably useless if you indeed have Lyme.
If you were traveling outside of the country and you were taking a medicine called doxycycline for malaria prophylaxis, you would also gain benefit from decreasing the chances of acquiring a tick-borne illness.
4. If you do find a tick attached to you, be careful when you remove the tick. Do not allow the tick's head to remain attached or embedded in your skin.
Was in NJ this past weekend and had a tick bite on Saturday. Didn't find the tick until the evening and it was on there probably at least 11 hours. Actually it looks like there was two but only one tick was still on in the evening. Where that tick was developed a large red rash yesterday (Monday) and this morning (Tuesday) looks like this
http://i1342.photobucket.com/albums/o767/anonymous4488/tick%20bite/063_zpscb432ae1.jpg
For reference, this was it yesterday afternoon
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Good question. Keep the tick, put it in a clean pill bottle or a zip-baggie, and be sure to wash your hands w soap really well as well as the bite site.
If there's an urgent care, you could try that, or if they blow you off or there's not one, can't hurt to call the doc. Sooner in my mind is always better, but I've read that it takes a while for the tick to do its dirty work ... however, I'm not real trustful of statements like that.
There are several places you can send your tick. The following documents will help you husband advocate for himself.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyme_disease
http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/508667
http://www.ilads.org/guidelines.html click on guidelines.
If these websites get blocked out send me a personal message and I will re-send them to you!
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