ABSTRACT

Tick‐borne diseases are seen all over the world and their importance rises increasingly. It is noticeably important that disease and death rates due to tick‐bites in our country in different areas increased in 2008. In Turkey, the numbers of diseases which are transmitted by ticks are considerably large and all of them are not detected. Reports of isolated facial paralysis cases due to tick infestation in the ear are infrequent in literature. The development of isolated facial paralysis due to ticks can be explained by several theories. This article reports a case report of a 3 year‐ old girl who was bought to our clinic with severe left ear pain and paresthesia on the left half of her face. She couldn’t close her left eye and she lisped. The tick was removed from her external auditory canal surgically.

Keywords: Hyalomma marginatum, facial paralysis