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Wife has a black dot on her shin surrounded by redness, and painful. assume insect bite, do you think? how to treat it?
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Rash: Better to have it seen. It may be a spider bite or it may have become infected. Most bites are itchy, not painful. All the best.
Answered 6/17/2021
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