Skin Problems

Skin symptoms appear early in Lyme (21Trusted Source).You may have unexplained skin rashes or large bruises without usual cause.Skin outbreaks may be itchy or unsightly. They could also be more serious, such as B cell lymphoma (21Trusted Source).Other skin ailments associated with Lyme are:

• morphea, or discolored patches of skin (21Trusted Source)
• lichen sclerosus, or white patches of thin skin (21Trusted Source)
• parapsoriasis, a precursor to skin lymphoma

In Europe, some of the skin diseases that result from Lyme transmitted by a different Borrelia species are:

• borrelial lymphocytoma, which is common in Europe as an early Lyme marker (22Trusted Source)
• acrodermatitis chronica atrophicans (21Trusted Source)