Hello! My name is logina, I'm a medical consultant and I will help you understand about your disease! First of all I will ask you some questions.
Where did you go the last week? What did you do? What did you eat?
I went hiking, went to a birthday party and stayed home for the rest of the week. I ate hot-dogs in the hiking trip and cake on the birthday and the rest I ordered fast food.
There is a possibility that you got bitten by an infected tick when you went hiking but don't worry we will treat you very soon.
Can you tell me what your symptoms are?
My symptoms are fever, headache and skin rash but they are not serious and I only had them for a day
That means that we can still help you get rid of the disease. To prevent this from happening again, next time you go hiking, wear boots, long sleeved shirts and pants and there are more ways to prevent you from getting Lyme disease, it's on this paper.
- instead of going in grassy areas you could stay on the trail-wear boots, long sleeved shirt and long pants and wear light-colored clothing to help you see ticks more easily -use an insect repellent-after you go home shower and wash your hair to wash any ticks off.