A 36-year-old member asked:
How long does it take for tick bite to actually cause lyme disease?
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Dr. William Lagesanswered
Internal Medicine - Rheumatology 70 years experience
Days to months: It takes just days for a bite from the deer tick to result in sin lesions, but weeks to months to develop arthritis or neurological disorders.
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A 32-year-old male asked:
Which tick can cause Lyme Disease? Dog fleas?
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Dr. Stephen Scholandanswered
Infectious Disease 25 years experience
Deer ticks - Ixodes: Certain ticks are associated with certain diseases. For Lyme disease, classically the 'deer tick' is described- Ixodes scapularis. Deer ticks go through several stages in their life cycle-and the nymphs or younger ones can be extremely small-maybe as big as a pin head. The adults are easier to spot. Dog ticks are larger and are associated with different tick-borne diseases. Good to take precaution
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A 16-year-old female asked:
Does a second tick have to bite for Lyme disease to reoccur
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Dr. Joseph Bouvieranswered
Pediatrics 27 years experience
See below: Yes. Once lyme disease has been treated with the proper meds, the disease is cured. To get the disease again, another tick would have to bite and transmit the disease.
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