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blondemensan

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tick bite that won't heal
Posted: 07-16-08 09:57am

The solution for me was NEOSPORIN. The trick you have to open the sore up each time you apply it so that it can get in. This has healed mine in a week. I had a tick bite for 2 months it never got any better and was this big welt that itched constantly. The tea tree oil helped with itching but I wanted it gone. This is a miserable situation so good luck and I hope this helps.
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How I healed my tick bite
Posted: 07-16-08 10:03am

Nesporin. Open the bite up each time by taking off the scab or using a needle. Mine swelled up and itched for 2 months with no improvement until my husband got me to try this. It took about 2 weeks applying it twice a day, but it finally healed.
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Posted: 07-16-08 23:12pm

If it is Lymes disease, that will not help, but great news for any other kind of tick or bug bite.
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tick bite
Posted: 09-13-08 08:58am

Hi, I'm from Spring Hill TN and I was bitten about 4 months ago. The bite is still here and itching like crazy. I have a raised bump in the area I was bit. It is so annoying. I really need some help. Could this be that I'm allergic to ticks?
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leinad

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bug bites that won't heal
Posted: 09-18-08 21:31pm

I'm starting to wonder if we aren't talking about a new as yet unrecognized blood born pathogen transmitted by insect bites. My story: I'm 51 years old. I've played and worked outside all my life, and have been bitten many many times by various insects and they always healed quickly. Then about 5 or 6 years ago I got a tick bite. It lasted all that summer, all that fall and winter and was still around when the next spring rolled around. It was almost healed at that point but then I got more bites. These in turn lasted for about a year maybe a little longer. Anyway each year I've gotten more bites that have taken longer and longer to heal. Now my lower legs are looking poka dotted with little red spots. All this despite the fact that I really try to avoid being bitten. I've seen doctors, and even a dermatologist that all seam to brush my concern aside.
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JAAES

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Bug Bites Won't Go Away
Posted: 10-02-08 16:27pm

I also live in North Carolina. I have numerous bug bites on my right arm - mostly above the elbow and on the front of my arm. I have had the bites for several months. At first, I assumed they were from mosquitos. Nothing I do makes them go away. I have used neosporin, pink calamine lotion and rubbing alcohol. The calamine lotion stopped the itching and oozing but they didn't go away. The rubbing alcohol is drying up the bites. I put in on several times a day. The bites are still slightly red. I am going to try the tea tree oil as suggested in a previous post. I have no idea where these bites came from - I haven't been hiking, camping or any other obvious activity that I would have been bitten by fleas/ticks. I also don't understand why they are only on the upper part of one arm. If the bites were from fleas(from my dogs), I assumed the bites would be all over my body. Any ideas?
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Posted: 10-12-08 08:29am

Add me to the list. I got bitten two months ago (Florida) by an incredibly tiny tick that I had a heck of a time getting out. He'd only been latched on a couple of hours when I found him. He was so tiny, I have no way of knowing whether or not I got the head, and as hard as he hung on, I wouldn't be surprised if I didn't. But it didn't get infected and I've treated it almost every day with either Neosporin or Cortaid and today it was Benadryl gel because it just won't stop itching. The skin over the bite mark will regrow a very thin layer of skin, but anything will cause it to rupture and ooze (clear). I'm going nuts. I have to keep it bandaged all the time or I will claw my leg off.
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Mortie806

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Bad bite
Posted: 10-25-08 15:13pm

I live in upstate NY, I was at work about 3 days ago i was bite by some thing while i was working i didn't see what it was i thought a leg hair was pull out it wasn't a major pain. it under the back of my nee cap at first it was just a red dot now its swelled up and turned pretty hard, iv been keeping it clean, at this point it probably wouldn't be anymore pain, just to pop it. iv had spider bites before, and they didn't hurt like this it makes it difficult to walk or just stretch my leg, I'm gonna give it a few day then go to the doctor and if he says its OK ill give it some time.. good luck to others
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My three-month tick bite cured with alcohol
Posted: 11-07-08 14:59pm

My partner and I went canoeing in Costa Rica and camped in the jungle. We brought back more than pictures. We had tick bites that lasted several months. I tried alcohol as it had successfully cured my planter warts and foot rot years ago. I used 95% Everclear grain alcohol soaked in a cotton wad, covered it with a plastic film, and taped the edges of the plastic with white medical tape. This was to prevent evaporation of the volatile alcohol so that it had a chance to soak into the skin and kill any critters in there. I left this on the bite overnight, and removed it in the morning. I applied this treatment 5-10 times over a month, and voila, bites and itching be gone!
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