My friend's daughter got bit by one on Friday & she's worried as hell-she's just been married a year 7 Is trying to get pregnant. We usually don't see them down out of the mountains (no fleas, either), but this year they're terrible.
I just found this on my dog.
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As I understand it...a bite that looks like a bull's-eye...a large...I dunno, .50-cent piece...large red spot surrounded by a red ring is not a good sign. I'd check with a doctor regardless...there must be tests they can do.
Yep. She was told to call at the first sign of fever (it's Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever that's the biggest problem here), and to watch the bite closely. Does anyone know if exterminators do any good against ticks?
Have not heard of anyone calling an exterminator for ticks. Here in the U.P. the tick population is in unpopulated (by people) areas although people whose homes border 'country' settings rather than urban settings are likely to encounter ticks. When I've gone out in the woods, either to walk around or to spend time wild berry picking, that's when I've encountered ticks. I've found or felt them crawling on me either driving home or hours later. They can't bite you until they migrate to bare skin and even then they seem to look for "the spot". Deet is the only product I've heard about that will repel them. A spray product applied to clothing works. And it seems like once July or August rolls around the tick numbers are either non-existent or much lower than when the snow is completely gone and during that time period from May and June. We have a variety of ticks here and I've heard/read that it is only the deer tick that transmits Lyme disease. I used to carry a small card in my wallet that helped identify them. But for me any tick is nasty.
We have tiny deer ticks (as well as the big dog ticks). The thing with the tiny ones is they can look like freckles and if they are attached over 24 hours, you can get some nasty diseases. My youngest had three on her that we didn't see until a day or two after a weekend camping, and a couple of weeks after we pulled them off, she got the bulls eye rash on her back. Freaked me out! But the doctor ordered some tests, which came back inconclusive - only 1 of the markers for Lyme was positive, I think - but he put her on 4 weeks of antibiotics and all is well. No symptoms, add'l tests were still inconclusive. So it can be OK, but it's worrisome for sure.
I had a friend once who had a tick on his d***. They froze it off. The tick not his d***.
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Poor guy....!
This was in grade school so you can imagine the way we kids treated him.......
Jeez, I bet you really ticked him off too!This was in grade school so you can imagine the way we kids treated him.......
We gave him the utmost support, really. What else could we do with such a prickly situation?
You know... because of the location of his er... problem, I've just had to delete (before posting) four of my own responses!
I'm not sure you could've done anything more... the whole situation just bites, really.
You had to be careful for sure. Definitely not a situation to be going off half-cocked.
((((DiO'Bolic's daughter))))One of my daughters got Lyme disease from a deer tick 2 summers ago. And we had her checked immediately after finding the bugger upon return from GS camp (can you believe they wouldn't allow anyone to have bug spray with deet!!! I guess getting Lyme disease is soooo much better than some minsicual problems one could get from the causual use of deet in a product.
Try leeches (plural) there! Man did I ever sympathize with King’s character.
Agreed, that really sucked the big one.