Tick and Lyme Disease Awareness

Callee said:
Where I live in the near north of ontario, the ticks seem to be getting worse every year. 5 years ago we never would have heard of ticks. This year I've pulled three off of myself already! This isn't from going hiking in the woods or anything, this is just from being on my own property in a semi-rural area. on 2 occasions it was actually our dogs that brought the ticks into the house, and the ticks left the dogs and went on our furniture, and then crawled onto the next human who sat on that furniture.

Fortunately it seems that so far we have got all the ticks very promptly, when they were still very small and obviously hadn't been latched on for long. I've kept the ticks just in case, but there have been no rashes or other symptoms to raise concern.

My big question, and this is a bit off topic, is how some people manage to have the tick latch on long enough to give them Lyme disease? all my Googling tells me that the tick generally has to be bitten in for 24 to 36 hours in order to give you Lyme disease. That's a long time to have a bug stuck on you and not notice. Or more to my point, that's a long time to have a bug Stuck on You without your s ex partner noticing! I mean, if my wife had a tick stuck on her, I promise you I would see it! It makes me wonder if the solution to Lyme disease isn't just for people to have more regular s ex?! 😀. I'm only half joking.

When I read that Shania Twain got Lyme disease, I really was shocked. How is it possible that one of the best looking woman in Canadian history has such a Spartan s ex life that a tick was able to go undetected for 36 hours?? Something is not right with the universe there...
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Honest question, when is the last time you put your finger in your belly button & checked for a tick?

So, there ya have it...
 
RL1 said:
yes i had an EPI pen at one point...my friend offered to feed me shrimp and then stab me with it but he was disappointed that it is not a heart stab like Pulp Fiction

I managed to get a "better" pic of it

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Yes, ,damage to my shades and clothes is definitely a concern.

RL
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It doesn't look like a tick bite to me, but I'm no doctor!

ILADS dot org is a great resource AND, if in doubt, it's better to take a course of antibiotics to hopefully avoid Lyme disease...
 
Jay said:
Honest question, when is the last time you put your finger in your belly button & checked for a tick?

So, there ya have it...
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honest answer, which kind of proves my point: not to get too much into it, but my belly button is an inny that has a propensity for collecting belly button lint. The Missus has made it clear that she finds that distasteful, so whenever I'm getting ready for deployment, so to speak, the first thing I do is clean out that belly button! So I think I have a valid point in there somewhere: I bet you if the data existed and we could make a chart, we would see an inverse correlation between the people who have more active se x lives and the people who get Lyme disease.
 
Unless your BMI number looks like a decent IQ number, a full body tick check should burn up around 90 seconds of your life 3-4 times a day. Permethrin is magical stuff though if you use it to treat clothing. Scotch tape is good if you get the heebie jeebies touching ticks.
 
My money is on the Mosquito bite.

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I mean, what’s the worst that could happen? It’s not like you usually eat fancy meats! Lol!

"Developing allergies to meat after a tick bite is often associated with a condition known as Alpha-gal syndrome. This syndrome is linked to bites from certain types of ticks, particularly the Maple Leaf tick in the Canada/Ontario."
 
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Change of topic ..... there seem to be less ticks this year. Anybody else noticed this?

I have been out to the property every week end since March and so far I have only caught 3 ticks on me.
Normally ... and in the last couple of years ... I had 20 or 30 crawling on me by the end of May.

I am just east of Ottawa.
 
0faustus0 said:
Change of topic ..... there seem to be less ticks this year. Anybody else noticed this?

I have been out to the property every week end since March and so far I have only caught 3 ticks on me.
Normally ... and in the last couple of years ... I had 20 or 30 crawling on me by the end of May.

I am just east of Ottawa.
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My buddy had four on him this morning after an hour, turkey hunting in the woods north of Kingston..........
 
0faustus0 said:
Change of topic ..... there seem to be less ticks this year. Anybody else noticed this?

I have been out to the property every week end since March and so far I have only caught 3 ticks on me.
Normally ... and in the last couple of years ... I had 20 or 30 crawling on me by the end of May.

I am just east of Ottawa.
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Tons around in my neck of the woods, but Kanada is a pretty vast country. I would say there are less here compared to warm and wet years, but the last time I had a tick on me was 10 minutes ago. I went bear hunting, well, looking for bear poop/sign a few weeks back, and ended up removing 16-18, and then mrssaskgunowner found another 11 when I got home and stripped.
 
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