Here's something you don't see every day

Had a kid present with eye irritation & redness x3 days. He thought it might be a wood chip. Nope, it was a deer tick embedded in his eye, just lateral of the pupil. Sent to the opthamologist that day for extraction.

Gotta love those zebras.

Next......

[Always_Learning, BSN, RN]

Oh. My.

[nursemichelle80, BSN, RN]

Oh my gosh!!! My boyfriend had one on his back after working in a wooded area. It was HARD to get off his skin. I can only imagine how awful it would be in the eye!! Poor kid

[mmm cdiff]

Aaaaaagh!!!

[Isabelle49]

Aaaargh! He couldn't see that tic!?

[LPNnowRN]

Makes me all crawly just reading about it!!!!

[Anna Flaxis, BSN, RN]

Ew...

[dthfytr, ADN, LPN, RN, EMT-B, EMT-I]

That'll teach him to look that close at a deer!

[MassED, BSN, RN]

in that same vein...

had a man come in who had been working under his home, renovating - very very old home. Came in with "rash" - turned out there were WELL over 100 ticks all over him. So small they appeared as freckles, until closer inspection revealed these freckles had legs that were wiggling....

A W E S O M E.

Not so much.

[Amanda.RN]

My eyes are watering just thinking about it. Ouch!!

[crb613, BSN, RN]

When my husband was at home he, his dad, and brother use to coon hunt a lot.....his mom said they would have deer ticks all over them....she would have them shower using Rid....the head lice stuff.....worked for them!

[Stcroix, ASN, RN]

No rotenone eye drops?