by Michelle Stein posted in Parenting

As the school year comes to an end and families start spending more time outdoors, parents should take care to diligently check their children for ticks. The parents of a 4-year-old girl in Oregon found this out the hard way. And now they're sharing their story to raise awareness for a rare but terrifying condition: Tick paralysis.
On May 13, Amanda Lewis posted a concerning video on Facebook of her daughter, Evelyn.
"Evelyn started acting a little weird last night around bed time," Lewis wrote in her now-viral post. "She didn't want to stand up after her bath to get into her pajamas. I helped her and got her in bed. She was a little fussy last night and I ended up sleeping in bed with her all night." By the next morning, Lewis' daughter was having an even more difficult time standing, and she could hardly crawl or use her arms. She and her husband recorded video to send to family to see if they might shed any light on her condition. Soon after capturing the footage below, they decided to take Evelyn to an emergency room because her symptoms only got worse.

"We got into a room quickly, thank God, and were seen almost right away," Lewis wrote. "The doctor talked to us for a minute and said over the past 15 years he had seen about 7 or 8 children her age with identical symptoms and more than likely she had a tick. They looked her over, combed through her hair really well and sure enough found a ...