One of the young ladies that was there developed a rash on her stomach during the trip where she had been bitten the previous week by a tick.

My son described it as "a bump where the tick bit her with a rash around it that looked like poison oak." He said it was about four inches in size.

We found out tonight that the girls mother took her to the doc on Friday and he told her there was "nothing to worry about". He told them that is was "COMMON for MOST people to develope a rash from a tick bite and it would go away on its own in a few days"!!! .....Sent them home with no meds.

I have made copies of info I have on tick borne diseases to send to this child's mom tomorrow. I hope this will encourage her to re-think that doctors "opinion" and carry her daughter somewhere else.

Why would a doctor not at least prescribe Doxy in a case like this, if nothing else but precautionary?

I am completely perplexed by a diagnosis like this......
 

Good thing you are around to let her know that she must be treated soon!

We are responsible for the light that is shone on the disease. Patients are the best lyme activists.

Anyway, hope she recovers real soon!