A woman’s run-in with a tiny beetle while on holiday has left her with painful rashes and blisters weeks later.

Gabrielle Vanessa was travelling from Canggu to Nusa Dua, south Bali , on November 8 when she was noticed a red rash growing on her right thigh before she felt a “stabbing pain”.

While the pain subsided the next day, the Adelaide mother then noticed a series of large red blisters develop on the rash.

Almost a fortnight later, Vanessa still has what she says “looks like burn patches” — on her legs.

“I have patches of red and brown pigmentation appearing on different parts of my body and some spots are still spreading, so it’s definitely not completely over yet,” she told 7NEWS.com.au.

“I feel like it will scar or at least take months to fade.”

Without a clue to what had

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