The bullseye rash can affect children in childhood & adults if they are unlucky to get bitten by a deer tick. On this page we have provided some photos of common types of bullseye skin rashes.


Although the pictures on this page are of tick bite rashes you actually don't always get a bullseye rash when suffering from lyme disease, remember that lyme disease is caused by the borrelia bacteria and is not a viral condition.

It is important to remember that in many cases you may only get the common flu like symptoms without rashes appearing on your neck, underarm, on the face, legs, groin, under the breasts or elsewhere.

If you think that you are suffering from any worrying symptoms you may have suffered an allergic reaction known as anaphylaxis which will of course need urgent medical attention.

You can see from the skin rash photos above that the bullseye rash can appear anywhere on the body, on the buttocks, legs, face, underarm, on the breasts, back, groin basically anywhere. However, the rash does not always affect the area around the bite and can appear in more than one place on the body at a time.

Also as previously mentioned it is a common misconception that the rash will always appear when you have lyme disease. This simply isn't the case and you can have all of the symptoms of lyme disease without the dreaded rash, for your own knowledge the rash will only appear in about 30% of lyme disease cases.

However if a rash does appear then it is estimated that a person is about 70% - 90% more likely to contract lyme disease.

The scientific name for the rash is Erythema Chronicum Migrans and is often caused by a deer tick bite and the appearance will be a red circle with a skin colored circle underneath and then another red circle in the middle.

The bullseye tick bite rash will normally appear from 2 - 30 days or more of the person receiving a bite.

The treatment for a person who thinks that they may have lyme disease or are simply worried after a rash has appeared will need to seek medical attention which will normally involve the person needing antibiotics such as...

• Penicillin, 
• Amoxicillin, 
• Doxycycline, 
• Cefuroxime, 
• Azithromycin, 
• Erythromycin, 
• VK and possibly cetriaxone.