Hi all.

One of my collies had a tick just above her eye of all places, the other day. We removed it in the way we always do, by squeezing, twisting and pulling.
However, she's now developed a small red lump where the tick was.

The vet cam out two days ago, to give my pups their parvos, so I got her to check the collies eye. She said nothing had been left from the tick and this was an allergic reaction. She gave me some fucithalmic (sp) cream/drops.

Anyone ever had this problem before?

I live right out in the country, so ticks are a common occurrence, but i've never known this to happen.

Thanks

Lisa

Ask your vet to treat the dog for lymes disease. It may not be. but it does no harm to treat it anyway.
Mick

Funny...my vets are adamant with me that ticks don't cause any reaction in dogs but I know when Miranda has one on her - if the dogs have been walked in areas I know there's a tick population - because she scratches rampantly and I can usually find one on her...the scratching then subsides after it's been removed. BUT they aren't supposed to "cause any reactions" and that's a vets opinion and they are always right aren't they????? ;)

Charlie got a tick while we were camping a few weeks ago - we frontlined him when we got back, and he seemed fine but then a few days later he developed the most ENORMOUS lump where it had been on his ear. vet siad that he thought it was an allergic reaction to the bite and just left it. Hasn't seemed to bother charlie in the slightest, despite how big it is, and its slowly but surely going down of its own accord.

Hi
When Poppy had a tick....(much to my horror..never seen one before!)..we managed to get the whole thing off with a tick remover, but it left a lump and a bald patch. Lump went down after a couple of days...I put tea tree cream and arnica cream on it, and the bald patch regrew in a few weeks.
Poppy's was just above her eye, too.

Sami

Ticks quite often leave lumps on my dogs. Sometimes quite a bit one and sometimes not. I'm treating my eldest pointer for a tick reaction with camrosa ointment which is doing the trick.

My other pointer had a really bad reaction and was quite ill for a couple of days but she didn't have the hard lump.

Helen

I was walking in the field one day between my sheep and I felt something pinch my arm. I saw this black thing on my arm and smacked it off. Boy did it hurt. I looked down at the floor and saw this tiny tick. I never thought any more about it. The next day my arm swelled up and I went to the doctors and he told me to have piriton. So that was that. A month later I kept getting muscle pain in the back of my legs, and I had no energy. I was getting sicker. I had headaches, and my mother made me go to the doctors. He asked me if I had ever been biten by a tick. I said, that I had been a month previous. He told me he wanted blood tests done and gave me anti-biotics. It turned out I had Lymes disease in the early stages. So watch out everyone. You think it cant happen to you but it can do. It took me 6 months to start feeling better again. I think if it was not for the second doctor the other one would not have diagnosed it. As the second doctor had spent several years in Africa and he said they see it all the time, so picked up on it straight away. My first doctor dismissed me, and I felt I had really wasted his time so did not want to go back again.
Good job I did though.
Nutkin

We have to deal with Ticks on a regular basis. You have to take care because often the head can stay under the skin. It was an old trick in Africa that you lite a match, blew it out and quickly pushed it into the tick ( suitable only for large ones that have already drawn blood ) and the tick releases it's hold instantly.
I see small red marks often when the tick has been taken out by hand but it clears quickly. We use tick powder that seems to do the trick, always look between and under the claws and in the ears. In the ears on the 'flap' there is a small area that has, how can I put it(?), a double leaf of skin, ticks always seem to get inside this area.