Getting a tick bite doesn't automatically spell medical emergency, but it is important to know what to do next.

Lyme disease can result from the bite of a black-legged tick that ... lump on the skin in the center of a rash. In the early stages, the rash may be: warm to the touch smooth scaly or crusty ...

"So it's important to check your skin and the skin ... you have been bitten by a tick is to have seen the tick and removed it," Oller says. Otherwise, they look like pretty typical bug bites.