I’d definitely keep an eye on it,I got bit in July and the tick was only on me for a few minutes,I thought nothing of it,fast forward to the end of September and I was trimming roads at the club and got bit on my side by what I assume was a spider,after a week or so it got infected and I was running fever at night and not feeling good and started breaking out in red spots,I went to the Dr to show him the spider bite on my side amd he asked me when I went to see him with the spider bite if I had been bitten by a tick too,I told him I was bitten 6 weeks earlier but the tick was only on me for a few minutes at the most,he ran a Lyme test and Rocky Mountain spotted fever test and guess what,the test came back positive for both,I had to take 21 days of doxycycline and something else to get rid of it,if the bite is itching or you start running fever go get checked out for sure.
Tick has to be on you 24hrs before it can give you anything.it has to go through a feeding cycle which takes 24hrs then it regurgitates into your blood stream after feeding cycle.thats when you can contract something from a tick.you must have already had Lyme disease and didn't know it it.alot of people do
