My 4 year old son had a squshy tick in his head!!

[monarc23]

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it deffinatly wasnt a deer tick, by the way she discribed it deer ticks are itty bitty even when full of blood...the one in the picture above is a deer tick on me just the other day full of blood.

Here is a picture of many female Deer ticks. They can vary a lot by color,etc. The females are also much larger than male.
http://webpages.charter.net/balplanman/_MicPix/Ticks/DeerTickFemales.jpg

Here is a male female mating, see size difference. http://webpages.charter.net/balplanman/_MicPix/Ticks/TickMating.jpg

Just be careful and keep an eye out.

what i thinks odd about those is even the dog ticks on that look nothing like the dog ticks here in PA. That's really odd. I'm totally not disagreeing with you, however im going to find some pictures of what dog ticks and deer ticks look like here in PA which is completely different from how those above look (on that website).

 

[GopherBoyFarms]

i have seen one that sounded like that once...it was when I lived in Iowa, and it was on a dog, it was the size of a quarter and the same color as the dogs skin. It was the grossest thing I ever saw, when I touched it to see what it was (had never seen a tick before) the little legs started moving and all these little tiny ticks came out of it and it looked like they came out of the hole the tick had made in the dog.
Ick, now my skin is crawling.

 

[monarc23]

This is interesting....could your son have been latched on by one like this???

http://www.ento.psu.edu/ImageGallery/Images/Groundhog_Tick01adu.jpg


this is a groundhog tick...i've seen these on my moms cat as well...i completely forgot about these ones as we noramlly see the yucky grey dog ticks LOL!

and if so, it's not known to cause any problems in humans

 

[monarc23]

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ya know what ...im freaked otu now s6bee.....this is a fully engorged deer tick.....it's a tannish color....i see why you said what you said now!! EEK!

http://www.catnmore.com/images/I_pacificus1.jpg

thank you for bringing that to MY attention i thought I knew about what they all looked like! I guess not!

 

[Lunachick]

why oh why did I latch on to this topic, I always check out the closed threads, but ticks are worse.

I hope you don't have a problem with that hitchhiker.....don't even get me started on worms....

 

[monarc23]

heres what the dog ticks in PA look like when fullof blood that gross grey color: http://farm1.static.flickr.com/41/125823585_6b696aca43.jpg


but i just found too that theres "brown dog ticks"

and here they are full of blood: http://www.entomology.cornell.edu/public/IthacaCampus/ExtOutreach/Medical/TickBioFS/pageBodySections/03/pageBodySections/00/pageBodySections/0/imageSet/0/image/rhipicephalussanguineus-www.jpg


i am now annoyed how many different types and shades there are that makes it scarier to ID what's bitten you, or afamily member or a dog....because dogs can get lymes disease just as easily as you (a person) can.

 

[Lunachick]

Ack! I looked....again !

 

[monarc23]

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hehe thanks for the giggle

 

[baldie]

OMG!! All these pics are really freaking me out. I barely sleep as it is, and now I am not going to sleep at all. All I can really do is watch him. I have taken his temp so many times today already. Not to mention the amount of times I looked at the bite. It all happened so fast. I wish I had time to tell the hubby not to flush it, but we were all in such a panic. I will have to watch him. This is soo scary, I am more scared now. The Dr. told me not to panic and to just watch the area, etc. But now I am really freaked out. He's only 4 yrs old.

 

[texaschickmama]

I'm sorry for your little boy. I hope he wasn't too scared. Those type of ticks are very common here. They start out small and as they fill with blood, they expand like a balloon. I love finding them because when you step on them, the blood squirts a long ways. Those kind are easy to remove, it's the little ones that get you. Hope everyone is okay after this tick episode.