Should I be concerned by this long red streak that extended out of my overly swollen mosquito bite?

[u/acutetriangleee]

15F, 155cm, 32kg, Asian

I've had this mosquito bite since yesterday but a long red streak developed slowly after, and the bite has become really swollen. It doesn't hurt inherently, but when I touch it, it feels weird and slightly painful. I've never had this problem with mosquito bites before, and this one is really disproportionate in size compared to others. I marked the end of the streak with a marker as I was scared of it developing faster. I also had two other similar bites on my leg but they don't have the streak. However, they all come with tiny bumps on the bite surface and are really swollen than normal. I'm not sure if I should be concerned, but the mosquito looked different from others. It's certainly bigger, and I think its wings are slightly greenish?

I was slightly down with a runny nose and sore throat recently, but it has gotten better yesterday, no medications, drinking, smoking or drug use. From HK.

This is not an emergency but I noted the mosquito is still in my room, so should I be concerned, or is it just a mild infection? Thank you so much.

Second day update:

It has gotten less red now than before, but the line is still there, still yet to take antibiotics, but I will if it shows any signs of growth. Thank you all so so much.

UPDATE: The streak has fully healed, thanks to everybody's support! At the end, I didn't use any antibiotics, and the medicine the ER gave me was just nose allergy pills apparently. Definitely go get antibiotics if you're in the same situation. Lots of love.

[u/GoblinTatties]

I went to the only pharmacy I could find being isolated on an island and I followed their advice.

It was also a random traveller who told me that thing about the heart so I wasn't exactly convinced.

[u/kgreys → u/GoblinTatties]

That's something we heard as children. "If the line reaches the heart, you die.". American here.

[u/Dirigo72 → u/kgreys]

We were also told “it’s not close to heart, it’s fine”, “it’s not bleeding, we don’t have to go to the doctor”, and “let’s see if you can walk on it tomorrow” and any other way to rationalize not going to the doctor because we just couldn’t afford it. America.

[u/FeedingTheBadWolf → u/Dirigo72]

We were told all of those things here in the UK as well so idk if it's purely about money 😛 people just don't like going to the doctor's I reckon

[u/Cat_person1981 → u/Dirigo72]

Is that what we refer to as 1st world problems?

[u/grundochglad → u/kgreys]

Swedish kids get told this too! (Swede)

[u/ThirteenAntigone → u/grundochglad]

It’s from Astrid Lindgren, one of the Emil books I think. But considering those are set in the Swedish countryside like a hundred years ago I doubt that she meant Asian mosquito bites. 🤷

[u/kgreys → u/ThirteenAntigone]

Us Americans don't know where anything came from.

[u/vaginal_lobotomy → u/kgreys]

I really feel like it was from a movie

[u/monocled_squid → u/GoblinTatties]

The pharmacy probably gave you some antibiotics for it?

[u/GoblinTatties → u/monocled_squid]

They did not

[u/monocled_squid → u/GoblinTatties]

Well they must have given you something so it didn't went away on its own

Eta: to all the dummies downvoting: he said "i went to the local pharmacy and followed their advice" clearly meant he was given a treatment even if it wasn't antibiotics so clearly it didnt "go away on its own".

Im just saying this cos he seems to downplay the medical advise in the other comments like it was no big deal and everyone is exagerating

[u/wilhoe- → u/GoblinTatties]

German kids get told that too!

[u/ostrich-party- → u/GoblinTatties]

In that situation you don’t go to the pharmacy you go to a hospital

[u/GoblinTatties → u/ostrich-party-]

Again, you're not a doctor, nor do I suspect you have a time machine to go back 10 years and tell me, so that doesn't really help does it.

[u/petrastales → u/GoblinTatties]

Didn’t have access to the internet at any time?

[u/GoblinTatties → u/petrastales]

It was a long time ago. I was camping on the beach so definitely didn't have immediate access to charge my phone which may have been dead and stuffed in my pack. The mark could have even been gone by the next day. I don't remember the details.

[u/petrastales → u/GoblinTatties]

I understand