Ticks

[sandspider]

I may never go in the woods again!

 

"If you go down to the woods today, you're sure of a big surprise..."!

[Two Acres]

I've bought myself the O'Tom tick remover, so better equipped now for next time. I think I'll get myself a pair of those tweezers as well. Good advice all, muckh appreciated

[Mike Hill]

The Tick tweezers are good,but you still run a risk of leaving its head behind.I get plenty of ticks here and normally only use the tick tweezers if the tick is on my back or some other place where I need someone else to get it off.

 

Normally I use a Scalpel for removing stitches,one with a curved blade.I slide the blade in under the tick and into my skin a little bit and just lift it up.I have taken out four or five ticks this year like that and plently more years past.The wound bleeds a little bit but its nice to know its gone.Then the tick on the Scalpel gets roasted over a lighter.

[Two Acres]

The Tick tweezers are good,but you still run a risk of leaving its head behind.I get plenty of ticks here and normally only use the tick tweezers if the tick is on my back or some other place where I need someone else to get it off.

 

Normally I use a Scalpel for removing stitches,one with a curved blade.I slide the blade in under the tick and into my skin a little bit and just lift it up.I have taken out four or five ticks this year like that and plently more years past.The wound bleeds a little bit but its nice to know its gone.Then the tick on the Scalpel gets roasted over a lighter.

 

That sounds a little like what I call 'home surgery' Mike. My Grandad used to do that. He was always whipping out his shutknife and cutting out splitters and the like when we were on the farm. I've stopped that now because I was once cut out a splinter from my chest and even though I thought I'd sterilised the scalpel I ended up with a big cyst. Pretty horrible because it burst then wouldn't heal. Very nasty and that was the end of home surgery.

[cornish wood burner]

I'm surprised no one has mentioned fingernails. If you have reasonably long fingernails and one of your fingers line up with your thumb then pinch the ticks head between your nails and pull gently. We used to remove ticks at the farm that way. I have some long nose tweezers now, but if you are stuck fingernails are worth a go.

[Darrin Turnbull]

In most cases, the tick must be attached for 36 to 48 hours or more before the Lyme disease bacterium can be transmitted.

 

http://www.cdc.gov/lyme/transmission/

[Two Acres]

In most cases, the tick must be attached for 36 to 48 hours or more before the Lyme disease bacterium can be transmitted.

 

Lyme disease transmission

 

Thanks Darrin

 

Reassuring know that

[Darrin Turnbull]

Thanks Darrin

 

 

 

Reassuring know that

 

 

I don't know for sure , i think here in Germany they say 12 hours

[Two Acres]

I don't know for sure , i think here in Germany they say 12 hours

 

Either way gives you a good long time to find the beggars

[CutterSy]

For the last couple of years I've been spraying my clothes with Pemethrin. The life systems EX4 spray, it's a bit expensive but seems to work quite well. Only had one bite me so far this summer which is good for being in the woods 5 days a week.

They used to call me the 'tick magnet'!