what are the chances of me getting lime disease if I touched a tick?
2006-07-23 12:12:14 · 6 answers · asked by Vahan 1 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Other - Diseases
You must be bitten
2006-07-23 12:16:16 · answer #1 · answered by BONE° 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you only "touched" the tick you don't have to worry about lime disease, but if you got bitten lime disease is not the only one of your problems.
You can get as many as 11 different diseases from a tick bite, some of them take up to two months to develop, and there is a disease name "tularemia" if I stand correct, that takes up to tow months to develop and may cause cardiac arrhythmia.
My advise is to seek your doctor and request a blood test, insist on it, because even doctors, they only think of lime disease when it comes to tick bite and have the tendency to forget the other very serious diseases these parasites can transmit.
2006-07-23 12:22:04 · answer #2 · answered by Virgo S 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lyme Disease is only transmitted by an infected tick, which has to bite you in order for fluids to be exchanged. If you touched a tick, there's NO CHANCE you have lyme disease.
2006-07-23 12:17:48 · answer #3 · answered by occasionallyrowdy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Slim, especially if it's not a deer tick and you removed it without the head still intact. BTW, it's spelled "Lyme"
If you think you might have Lyme, a bullseye mark will oftentimes appear at the area of the bite.
I would also think about building up my immune system, especially if you live in a high-Lyme area.
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2006-07-23 12:21:01 · answer #4 · answered by puz 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
None, unless the tick bit you. If you purposely touched the tick (for example, if you removed it from a pet or a backpack or something) you would know if it bit you. It would have to latch on to you (bite you) to transfer the bacteria into your body through your bloodstream.
2006-07-23 12:20:29 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It sounds such as you do, yet you by no skill recognize till you get your blood checked. Any well-being facility or walk in hospital does it. i have had Lyme and the more suitable you wait the more serious it receives.
2016-12-10 14:23:14 · answer #6 · answered by briana 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋