A tick in your skin?

You can have a tick bite anywhere on your body. Ticks like warm and moist places. So they are mostly in your armpits, groins, hollows of the knees and buttocks. In children, they are also often on the head, neck and behind the ears.

If you do not remove the tick from your skin, the tick will let go on its own after a few days. A tick in your skin gives you a small chance of catching a disease.

If you have been outside, check for ticks:

• Check your whole body. Don't forget your armpits, groin, hollows of the knees and buttock.
• In children, also look carefully on the head and behind the ears. And on the neck where the hairs start.

Do you or your child have a tick?

• Then remove the tick immediately with pointed tweezers.
• Then clean the wound with alcohol.
• Write down the date and location of the body.
• Check the rest of your body to see if you have any more ticks.

When to call the GP?

In the cases below, it is important to call the GP or GP clinic:

• It does not succeed in taking out the tick.
• The tick has already been in your skin for 24 hours or more when you remove it.
• You get a red or bluish spot or ring on the spot where the tick was, which grows larger in a few days.
• You get a red or bluish spot or ring somewhere on your body that gets bigger.
• You feel sick, with fever, headache, muscle aches and fatigue.
• You get 1 or more thick and painful joints.
• You get pain, tingling or less strength in your arm, leg or trunk.
• You suddenly see double.
• One half of your face is suddenly paralysed.