How Do You Prevent/Treat Tick Bites
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Butte_Creek
seriously, i have no idea why doctors seem to be so nonchalant about tick bites!? some you have to practically force them to prescribe antibiotics. i know a few who had to lie, saying they had the tick much longer than in reality. it actually kind of pisses me off.
Rabbits too. I can guard all your crops for free just tell me where they're at.
To the OP- I feel your pain.
Ticks will crawl around on your body for 10 minutes to 1 hour or longer before attaching. They mostly attach themselves in the warmest parts of your body- underarms, crotch, beltline, buttcrack etc, but they usually start on your legs. Wear shorts and be aware of anything crawling on your legs and you should be able to detect them before they bite.
Also, they can sit on your clothes for a while. I've noticed they may wait until you stop moving before they begin exploring your body.
Ticks around here are really bad. I get between 5 and 10 ticks on me everytime I visit my plots. DEET will deter them, but it's not a 100% solution. After walking in the woods I will immediately shower, and throw my clothes in the washer or leave them outside.
I hope this helps my guerilla brothers!
Ticks will crawl around on your body for 10 minutes to 1 hour or longer before attaching. They mostly attach themselves in the warmest parts of your body- underarms, crotch, beltline, buttcrack etc, but they usually start on your legs. Wear shorts and be aware of anything crawling on your legs and you should be able to detect them before they bite.
Also, they can sit on your clothes for a while. I've noticed they may wait until you stop moving before they begin exploring your body.
Ticks around here are really bad. I get between 5 and 10 ticks on me everytime I visit my plots. DEET will deter them, but it's not a 100% solution. After walking in the woods I will immediately shower, and throw my clothes in the washer or leave them outside.
I hope this helps my guerilla brothers!
Lyme disease is actually a small part of worries in regards to tick bites.
Read the WIKI on Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever.
Growing up as young children in tick country we were under constant watch for ticks, rashes and fever. While we might not hear much about it today, something like 1000 deaths occur every year from it and in only a very small percentage of cases is the tick ever found.
Read the WIKI on Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever.
Growing up as young children in tick country we were under constant watch for ticks, rashes and fever. While we might not hear much about it today, something like 1000 deaths occur every year from it and in only a very small percentage of cases is the tick ever found.
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driftersmokinjo
I use this on my hunting clothing. Shouldn't spray your self with it but I spray my clothing and allow it to dry be for wearing your clothes. There might be bugz on some of you mugz but there aint no bugz on me 
ChynaRyder
Member
You need to see a doctor today...
You need to see a doctor today...
And not leave until you are prescribed 6 weeks of Doxycycline
I missed a deer tick 11 years ago, and it changed my life...bit me right at the top of my butt crack. Cannot get rid of the Lyme and Bartonella infections, was able to rid myself of the Babesiosis...god knows what other virus or other funky shit the tick transmitted.
You all need to make tick checks the first thing you do when you return from your plots...if you find one attached, DO NOT try and pull it out with your fingers, or burn it, or anything else. Remove it with fine point tweezers, or better yet, a tick remover, and grasp it only at the head. I screwed myself so bad scratching/smashing the tick off, and ensuring it regurgitated the full contents of it's gut into my body...right at the base of my spine.
SOAK an outfit in permithrin, and wear it every time you go out...make it light colored so you can see the ticks easily, and tuck your pants into your socks.
You do not want a permanent neurological illness...particularly one that was manufactured by the US Government to be particularly nasty. My sigs no joke.
You need to see a doctor today...
And not leave until you are prescribed 6 weeks of Doxycycline
I missed a deer tick 11 years ago, and it changed my life...bit me right at the top of my butt crack. Cannot get rid of the Lyme and Bartonella infections, was able to rid myself of the Babesiosis...god knows what other virus or other funky shit the tick transmitted.
You all need to make tick checks the first thing you do when you return from your plots...if you find one attached, DO NOT try and pull it out with your fingers, or burn it, or anything else. Remove it with fine point tweezers, or better yet, a tick remover, and grasp it only at the head. I screwed myself so bad scratching/smashing the tick off, and ensuring it regurgitated the full contents of it's gut into my body...right at the base of my spine.
SOAK an outfit in permithrin, and wear it every time you go out...make it light colored so you can see the ticks easily, and tuck your pants into your socks.
You do not want a permanent neurological illness...particularly one that was manufactured by the US Government to be particularly nasty. My sigs no joke.
Tactical Farmer
Member
Got a great tip that i use, at camp we always make sassafras root tea & it helps ALOT with bloodsuckers.
Also eating raw garlic as much as possible seems to help also, it seems to come out of your pores when sweaty, onions should help too.
Also eating raw garlic as much as possible seems to help also, it seems to come out of your pores when sweaty, onions should help too.
jack Haze
Member
I have a Cousin that contracted Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever about 30 years ago. He apparently had a bad case of it and was photographed for a dictionary or some type of book as an example of that disease.
memphis man
Member
liquid hand soap also works. the tick will be smothered and back out on his own within a minute or so.
crawling around and then try to dispose of it with out killing it.
SetHeh
Member
My plot is also infested with ticks and I've tried all kinds of insecticides which more or less didn't work (I haven't tried pyrethrin yet because it's banned in my country). I've found out that the best preventive measure is checking your legs for ticks every few minutes and wearing white clothes (pants, shirt). If you wear white clothing you can spot even the tiniest ticks climbing your pants. It also helps to wear boots and then tuck your pants into the boots.
The problem with the idea of wearing white is that nearly every other pest like bees, mosquitos, and LEO is attracted to it.
It would make it impossible to be stealthy...
I was at the doctor just yesterday over tick bites. Ive lived in the country all of my life around farm animals and ticks are part of my world. I pull ticks off of me every single day of the summer and have since i was 6.
I never had to go to the doctor until yesterday. Ticks are thick this year, but we have new tick. The ticks around here are brown/grayish and oblong. Because animals swim, ticks try and reach the top of your head and you can feel our normal ticks crawling on you and its hard for one to actuall get attached.
The new ticks are very tiny and round, and their legs are on the outsides of their bodies almost like a spider. I have pullled 22 of them off of me over the past 2 weeks and i went to the doctor because i had 22 swollen knots with a red spot the size of a baseball around each one. Its so bad the docter gave me a tentanus shot and a hepititis shot. Our normal ticks leave no spot and are easy to remove. These tiny little ticks bury half of their body into you and its nearly impossible to get it out without pulling the head off - each of my bites still had the head stuck in me and thats what caused the irritation and the spots.
The doctor said they were, "deer ticks" and they havent ever been seen in this area. The doctor called the "infectious diesease" officers of the state and i have an appointment to meet with them on Monday. I have one of the ticks in a bottle. Our ticks are called "wood ticks". These newcomers are nasty and hard to detect before they bury themselves into your skin.
I never had to go to the doctor until yesterday. Ticks are thick this year, but we have new tick. The ticks around here are brown/grayish and oblong. Because animals swim, ticks try and reach the top of your head and you can feel our normal ticks crawling on you and its hard for one to actuall get attached.
The new ticks are very tiny and round, and their legs are on the outsides of their bodies almost like a spider. I have pullled 22 of them off of me over the past 2 weeks and i went to the doctor because i had 22 swollen knots with a red spot the size of a baseball around each one. Its so bad the docter gave me a tentanus shot and a hepititis shot. Our normal ticks leave no spot and are easy to remove. These tiny little ticks bury half of their body into you and its nearly impossible to get it out without pulling the head off - each of my bites still had the head stuck in me and thats what caused the irritation and the spots.
The doctor said they were, "deer ticks" and they havent ever been seen in this area. The doctor called the "infectious diesease" officers of the state and i have an appointment to meet with them on Monday. I have one of the ticks in a bottle. Our ticks are called "wood ticks". These newcomers are nasty and hard to detect before they bury themselves into your skin.
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BrnCow
Back in the day, we used to put lighter fluid on the tick and in a couple of minutes it will pull out and you can remove and kill the whole bug - head and all ! I use olive oil on my skin to keep Colorado deer flies off me when I am hiking. Those fuckers are little bastards! Just run it on you skin and/or rub it on your clothes...might try it for ticks also....maybe mosquitoes also. Cheap and non poisonous!
I grew up with deer ticks. They do not burrow, it just seems that way, Follow the directions I posted and you can get them out. For the nymphs you better have tweezers.
I can feel adult deer ticks, but I am extremely sensitive to touch, in an often unpleasant way.
jescowhite
Member
there should be a sticky in the outdoor section on ticks, the diseases they can pass to you have horrible side effects. I'm usually an indoor grower but the cali market has forced me outside . I've been out in the woods for months tending a greenhouse & prepping the soil for the full season run. Never in my life have I gotten so many tick bites, most of them I've removed easily but a few have gotten me good in places that are hard to reach with out help, like lower shoulder blade area ... good luck getting one of those off cleanly by yourself, I felt helpless like a damn dog.
Ouch man I'm feelin for y'all who got bit.
I'm gonna recommend it one more time get one of these suits you won't get bit again. I wear'em under my pyrethrin sprayed clothes
This shit's used by military, police, hunters, fishermen. Everyone who gets 'em swears by them. The first link I posted isn't working but you can get them here for $60:
http://www.specialforces.com/tactical-gear/apparel/insect-protective-body-armour
Yeah they may be a bit gay and you might feel like spiderman or some kind of forest ninja, especially if you get the head piece:
Then again you might like that
But I swear you ain't gonna get bit.
I'm gonna recommend it one more time get one of these suits you won't get bit again. I wear'em under my pyrethrin sprayed clothes
This shit's used by military, police, hunters, fishermen. Everyone who gets 'em swears by them. The first link I posted isn't working but you can get them here for $60:
http://www.specialforces.com/tactical-gear/apparel/insect-protective-body-armour
Yeah they may be a bit gay and you might feel like spiderman or some kind of forest ninja, especially if you get the head piece:
Then again you might like that
But I swear you ain't gonna get bit.
