From:
Debra Rodvelt
Date: 2003-04-29 01:51:25 UTC
Subject: tiny scabs/bumps
To: elcross@vt.edu
Cc: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-Id: <16238E8A-79E5-11D7-A7CE-003065E566BA@kc.rr.com>
From what I can see in the picture, those look like tiny ticks. I have
one little girl who escaped out three different windows on separate
occasions early last summer. Each time she came back in, she was
covered with ticks. Only a few of them were dark as you'd expect a
tick to be. Most were tiny and yellowish, or almost clear.
From the Lyme Disease Foundation's website:
http://www.lyme.org/index2.html
this picture shows several ticks and most of them are little yellow
bumps.
This is another good picture of a nymph tick next to an adult.
http://medent.usyd.edu.au/photos/ixodes_holofemnymp.jpg
I don't know what the other scabs would be from, unless he did scrape
against something that caused it.
However, with my experience from last year...that cream won't do
anything for you. You need to use a sterile pair of tweezers to
carefully pull each individual tick out, then swab the area with
alcohol, and then apply the anti-biotic ointment. And be sure to check
him carefully a couple of times a day for at least a week. You might
think you have them all, but check the next day and there will be more.
Some of them will even start to darken up the longer they are attached.
Good luck!