Dr. Maura Finn

You know, they'll have kind of maybe flu-like symptoms.

They may have this particular rash.

It's called erythema migrans.

It's like a bullseye rash, which expands from a centre point and expands out.

And it can last for days or weeks even.

The symptoms may not present up until maybe even 30 days after they have the tick bite has bitten.

But some people can have very debilitating symptoms from it and long lasting symptoms.

It's unusual.

It's rare, but it can happen.

These long symptoms from Lyme disease and they're

There can be neurological symptoms, there can be arthritic symptoms, it can even affect your heart, fatigue, lots and lots of kind of like vague symptoms that are quite debilitating for the people involved.

But thankfully, that's quite rare.

Well, I suppose the sensible thing is to kind of cover up as much as you can.

You know, I said about in between your toes, you know, footwear.

And we all like to kind of go barefoot in the sand dunes and stuff like that.

But just be careful and go looking for them.

That's probably the most important thing is always check yourself.

But kind of footwear, tuck your trousers into your socks.

And for children, like so you can imagine for adults, it'll be legs and arms.

That'll probably be more likely to have a bite.