QWAK,TICK IDEA :)!
 

QWAK,I hate TICKS!:yes: I can usualy figure out a USEFULL PURPOSE for all creatures :yes: I just can NOT think :thinkey:of somthing GOOD that TICKS DO!:452::no_ma::stupido2:

KILL them ALL:yes::36_1_25: KILL the TICKS!!:yes::111::4_1_72::shine:

Just got this from some friends who live in tick infested aeria!


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Easy Tick Removal
> > Spring is here and the ticks will soon be showing their heads. Here is a
> > good way to get them off you, your children, or your pets. Give it a
try.
> > Please forward to anyone with children... or hunters or dogs, or anyone
> > who
> > even steps outside in summer!!
> > A School Nurse has written the info below -- good enough to share -- And
> > it really works!!
> > I had a pediatrician tell me what she believes is the best way to remove
a
> > tick. This is great, because it works in those places where it’s some
> > times difficult to get to with tweezers: between toes, in the middle of
a
> > head full of dark hair, etc.
> > Apply a glob of liquid soap to a cotton ball. Cover the tick with the
> > Soap-soaked cotton ball and swab it for a few seconds (15-20), the tick
> > will come out on its own and be stuck to the cotton ball when you lift
> > it away. This technique has worked every time I’ve used it (and that
> > was frequently), and it's much less traumatic for the patient and easier
> > for me.
> > Unless someone is allergic to soap, I can't see that this would be
> > damaging in any way. I even had my doctor's wife call me for advice
> > because she had one stuck to her back and she couldn't reach it with
> > tweezers. She used this method and immediately called me back to say,
“It
> > worked!"
> > Please pass on. Everyone needs this helpful hint.
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Personaly I just pull with fingers or small surgical hemostats but I always ITCH for 3 or 4 days ware the TICK bit in --- I like to CUT them in half with a tiney set of sissors or squish them:yes: -- knowing --- they already GOT ME!:36_1_25:

Ticks are just part of living with nature.:yes::shine:

the DUCK

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[QUOTE=GOLD DUCK;1696616]QWAK,I hate TICKS!:yes: I can usualy figure out a USEFULL PURPOSE for all creatures :yes: I just can NOT think :thinkey:of somthing GOOD that TICKS DO!:452::no_ma::stupido2:

KILL them ALL:yes::36_1_25: KILL the TICKS!!:yes::111::4_1_72::shine:

Just got this from some friends who live in tick infested aeria!


Nice one for ticks..

I HATE CHIGGERS...:36_1_28:

:yes:

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[quote=Golddust;1696637]Golddust,Quite RITE -- CHIGGERS are much WORSE!!!:yes::36_1_25:

In basic training some NCO made me hide in a BUSH as part od a concealment demonstration and after the march back to the barix I found over 50 CHiGGER BITES mostly around my ancles and waist band BUT others found places ware a CHIGGER BITE is way WORSE!:wink::yes::36_1_25::111:

They CAN bring on INSANITY:10_1_19: GARANTEED!!:yes::111::4_1_72:

Ticks do not respect PRIVACY either:452: but it don't ITCH as bad or as long:452:
YEP chiggers are WORSE!
:yes::36_1_25:

the DUCK

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QWAK,Just had a THOUGHT :thinkey::yes: If they had TORtURED ME with chiggers and TICKS rather than ELECTRICITY,DROUNDING and PEEING on ME wile burried in the ground (at the NCO acadamy) --- I just may have SIGNED there DAMED PAPER :yes::wink:-- probably told them HOW to build an A BOMB too --- at least I would have told THEM I knew HOW!:yes::111::cry1::shine:

KILL THEM ALL -- CHIGGERS and TICKS!!:yes::yes::4_1_72:

the DUCK

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All -

Growing up, the sovereign cure for ticks was

To put a drop of kerosene on the little beast, and they would back right out.

This was used for both people and animals.

'Course, this was in the days when almost everybody had

A gallon or few of kero in stock.

Now, you can do the same thing wit vegetable or olive oil.

Apparently the mechanism is that it causes them to begin to suffocate,

And they back out to get rid of the suffocating environment.

scyth

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Any oil will do - they breathe through their skin, shell, whatever, and an oil stops them breathing so they try to get away. They'll die anyway, but at least they "bug out" once they realise it.:Surrender:

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I wouldn't do oil or soap. If you put anything like that on them, they will tend to regurgitate their stomach contents into the wound.

Only correct way is to pull out with a pair of tick-specific tweezers....... not normal tweezers or hemostats either--tick tweezers.

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And then there is the waiting game........

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If they are in an area that you cannot pull them out safely or easily (such as eyelids) then you let them finish and they'll drop off on their own.

-end-

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:36_1_25:

You ever seen a tick when it's "finished"? You want to walk around with one of these hanging off your eyelids?

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You, of all birds, should know that ticks are a food source for a variety of fowl including ducks.

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Jeez, Duck.. This is the time of year the ticks are literally falling out of the pine trees. I have pulled 4 ticks off me this week. One was in an unmentionable area..:hissyfit_m:
My husband had three this week and the dog had two. They were a mixture of regular ticks and those tiny deer tics..

I found out oil of oregano works really well to stop the itching and swelling.
Last year between my husband and I we had over 20 tick bites. I just pull the suckers off with my finger nails although my husband makes a big production of pulling his off with tweezers and alcohol.

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QWAK,Avalon,I have had 5 tick bites in the last 7 days!:censored: they ITCH like crazy for a day or two but with some bug bite ointment after a fiew hours I can mostly ignore it.:yes:

At the site of the bite there is always some slight swelling and then a small scab after 3 or 4 days.

Just part of living in the BOONIES:yes:

Got a friend that came down from Chicago about 12 years ago and was waring SHORTS and some how must have brushed up agents a bush with a newly hatched batch of SEED TICKS and did not notice till he woke up SCRATCHING from his CROTCH:10_1_19: to his toes on one leg!:s10::36_1_28::signs14: He has not been back since and sayes he will only come down here in the WINTER!:36_1_25::111::4_1_72::shine:

There are always traid offs and conviences and inconviences to every place --- there are a lot of things in the city MUCH worse than TICKS!:thinkey::36_1_25::yes:

the DUCK

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We have ticks and chiggers here.

I don't like the ticks and I hate the chiggers. Talk about itching!

Makes working in the garden a real bitch sometimes.

It helps to spray the entire yard with an insecticide.

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QWAk,elroy,"It helps to spray the entire yard with an insecticide." --- :36_1_30:
NOT a good idea!:452:

There are all kinds of unintended side effects not the least of which is killing off benificial incets!:wink:

The harm to YOU and your pets could be much worse than from the tick bites!:yes:

Cities are virtualey STERAL INVIROMENTS except for ALLOWED SPECIES ---that aint NATURAL and is out of BALANCE. :shine:

IF you live in the boonies you have to deal with NATURE and learn to get along because NATURE always WINS:yes::thinkey::shine:

YOU can't REALY "KILL them ALL" :36_1_30: If you try -- you KILL EVERY THING posably even your self!:yes: Figuratively and cumulitivly speaking.:wink::shine:

the DUCK

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chiggers are the horrible. I have been eaten up more times then I would like to count by the boogers.... For me poison Ivey is the worst though.. I have horrible reactions.

I was going to try the oregano oil on my next bout of poison Ivey since it did so well on the tick bites. If it helps with Poison Ivey I will be singing its praises because nothing works.

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yeah, I have to laugh when people get all freaked out by tick bites. Its just a little bug sucking the blood out of you. Of course you do have to aware of the diseaes they carry..

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Bump.

Thanks for the info all. I found one in the middle of my back last night. Just, of course, where I can't reach it. Grrrr!

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Avalon,

an RN told me the other day that I should try lavender oil the next time I get poison ivy... :dontknow:

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QWAK,Max,Got one on the middle of my spine about 7 days ago too :yes: I am flexable enough so I could scratch the little BUGGER off but the ITCHING always drives me CRAZY!:yes::confused_ma:

The "ITCH" you just can't "SCRATCH" :wink: is why BEARS rub TREES!:yes:

I have a "BACK SCRATCHER" hanging on the wall :yes: for this ocasional EMERGENCY! :111::4_1_72:

Previously when that happened I would make like a BEAR and rub my back on a TREE :yes: but you GOT to pick the TREE real carfully because "SOME BARK BITS" wile OTHERS are just RIGHT for "ITCHES" :yes::111::4_1_72:

Just one of the things that come along with living in the BOONIES rather than the CITY!:wink::111::4_1_72:

the DUCK :15_1_70v:

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Ticks and Lyme Disease

I am living proof that putting Vaseline, or any other such thing, on a tick is a really bad idea. I put Vaseline on the one I had on my back, which was very hard to reach. It did not back out and I still had it on me in the morning.

Burning them with a cigarette or a hot match is also a bad idea.

All these things make them regurgitate into you. Even if they do not carry Lyme they can carry various other very nasty things.

The theory is that if you have a Lyme inflected tick on you you have 24 hours to get it off you. I have just learnt that was found out in a lab test. In real live you might roll on your tick, or squeeze at the tick, before you know it is there etc. This will make it regurgitate.

A week after I got my tick, which I had, in the end, removed very crudely by pulling at it with my fingers, which squeezed it, I felt very tired, and had nausea, and probably a fever, I did not check the last. I did not think of the tick bite, but for some reason brushed my back and noticed the tick bite spot was swollen and oozing.

When I looked at it in the mirror it was starting to develop a red ring around the bite area, with a clear area between the ring and the actual bite site. This is the Lyme disease 'target' or 'bullseye' rash. Wonderful. It was about the size of a Silver Maple. (I have since learnt that they can be anything from the size of a dime to the size of a dinner plate, or larger.)

My lessons in hindsight are.

1) Do not put Vaseline etc on your tick. If you can't reach it with tweezers yourself get help to remove it cleanly, even if that is inconvenient. Do not squeeze or tug at it.

2) Save the tick for at least a week. Put it in a medicine bottle with a bit of wet grass. If you live in a known Lyme area get hold of the Fish and Game Dept and ask if ticks are being surveyed for Lyme testing. Send it in. Clearly identified.

3) If you get the target shape rash (no matter how small) you are infected. Get competent medical help right away. This is easier said than done. You need to be put on Doxycycline (MINIMUM of 2X 100 mg per day) ASAP.

Also start taking your temperature morning and late afternoon. Chart it. The Lyme pattern is temp slightly low AM, slight fever mid afternoon.

I do not know what the case is in the US, and I would guess it varies from State to State. But if you have got Lyme in Canada you are in A LOT of trouble. The test, the only test, used in Canada for Lyme, called the Elisa test is known to be very inaccurate. Known to Lyme's patients, and Lyme educated doctors that is. NOT to GP's.

Also the standard book treatment is to give the Doxycycline for 7-21 days. I was lucky and got given 21 days, as I had a clear rash, and as there is a known pocket of Lyme infected ticks about 7 or 8 miles from where I live. This buys time, to try to get better treatment, that is all.

I am putting up some links.

http://www.canlyme.com/support.html

Support and advice in all Canadian province. Also a link on that page for US and other countries. (Yes it is the UK and Europe.)

This is a link to a Canadian doctor who is very well up on Lyme Disease's site:

http://drerniemurakami.com/

If you, or your child, or whoever, get bitten by a tick like this and get such a rash take it very seriously, and waste no time. 2-3 weeks Doxcycline will NOT get rid of this. But if you can get that much it is a starting point. Why is explained on the doctor's website. This bacteria Lyme, is very long lived.

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Hey Maxine, thanks for that info.

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Yes,read up now, before it happens to you, or someone you know! I made BIG mistakes. Not keeping my tick was a big screw up. There are a lot of politics with Lyme, involving insurance companies and tourist boards, and the test procedures are poor. You need PROOF.

By the way, so far as I can tell so far, DO NOT, at least initially start 'messing about' with any home remedy, naturopathic stuff. THIS IS WAY TOO SERIOUS. If there is a complimentary remedy that does not interfere with your antibiotics that is fine. But do not rely on alternative medicine alone on this one.

Lyme Disease is very similar in structure to Syphillis, it is a very invasive and dangerous bacteria.

It also needs to be targeted very careful with the correct antibiotics, I am learning.

A TARGET SHAPE RASH is NOT a reaction to the tick bite, it is a clear symptom of Lyme, though many GP's may not realize that. Especially if you are in an area purported not to have Lyme infected ticks.

I am taking high dose Echinacea and high dose garlic to try to boost immune response (which Lyme supresses) also Vit D3.

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Finally some good advice. Putting anything on a tick is a really bad idea.

Honestly, I think this thread should be deleted, as people come along and read the first post and run off with a bad remedy.

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Maybe Duck could edit his first post. That would do.

I don't want to type all I wrote again any time soon, I am feeling really crappy, but felt the info should be out here.