Lyme

Ticks that carry Lyme Disease are in Ontario. The Bug Guy, Curtis Russell, PHD says stay cool and Target Lyme.

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Available at http://www.DogToys.com Tick Key is the easiest way to remove a tick…plain and simple!

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With the warm season arriving, ticks are out in full force. These blood suckers are responsible for a great deal of suffering. Despite what ads and the media tell you, DEET sprays such as OFF are useless against ticks. Your best defense is using a Permethrin spray. Permethrin is a natural insecticide. When sprayed to clothes, it remains effective for a month or more. Repel Permaone is the best treatment. When ticks crawl onto treated clothing, they die before they get a chance to attach.
The main ticks to be concerned with here are the tiny brown deer tick, and the larger, red spotted Lonestar Tick. Both carry disease. Almost half of deer ticks carry the bacteria that causes Lyme disease. The Lonestar Tick can carry Lyme or Rocky Mountain Fever.
These tiny parasites have caused a great deal of trouble in people’s lives. Several users here have shared their stories of what Lyme disease is like. It can ruin your life. It doesn’t always go away, and can remain chronic.
Which is why prevention is the most important thing. When you’ve in the woods, park, or just near the woods, you may come in contact with ticks, lying in wait in grass, brush, or tree branches.
Make sure you cover all your skin below your waist, and treat your pants, socks, and shoes with Permethrin. Check yourself for ticks when you get home. Prompty remove any attached ticks.
People need to take ticks seriously. They may be small, but a bite from one of these bloodsuckers can make you real sick.

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This 2006/2007 video was produced by Starving Artist Pictures and Crosse Media for Ticked Off and Fed Up, Inc. (TOFU), a 501(c)(3) charitable organization in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Please check out their website: http://TickedOffandFedUp.com

For more info about Lyme, go to http://LymePa.org or http://ILADS.org, and be sure to watch the award-winning documentary “UNDER OUR SKIN,” which is in theaters now and available on DVD: http://underourskin.com

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TICK FIELD MANAGEMENT

Click the link below to download the PDF document

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PREVENTION

1. Treat clothing & boots with spray Permethrin (0.5%) and let dry 4 hours. This treatment will typically last approximately 6 weeks or 6 launderings.

2. Stay out of areas with tall grass and avoid brushing against grass and brush.

3. If possible, in tick prone areas wear long pants and a long sleeved shirt.

4. Keep your shirt tucked in and tuck your pants into your boots, or tape or rubber band your pant cuffs to your boots, or wear gaiters.

5. After a hike in a heavy tick area, examine your entire body for ticks.

FIELD TICK KIT

1. Gloves

2. Sharp Tweezers

3. Pro-Tick™ (Magnifying Glass & Tick Tool)

4. Gelled Alcohol Hand Wipes

5. Antibiotic Ointment

6. Band-Aid

7. Transport pouch & label

POTENTIAL TICK BITE COMPLICATIONS

1. Local skin Infection

2. Lyme Disease

3. Colorado Tick Fever

4. Tick Paralysis

TREATMENT

1. Remove any ticks immediately.

2. The best way to remove a tick is by firmly grasping the ticks mouthparts at your skin with tweezers, & GENTLY pulling straight out.

3. Avoid squishing the body as this forces more digestive juices into the host, increasing the chance of infection.

4. Wash your hands & the tick bite site with soap & water.

5. Treat the bite antibiotic ointment.

6. Consider saving the tick in a small vial of alcohol labeled with location & date removed for future identification.

7. If you experience any symptoms of Lyme disease, get medical care promptly.

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American Lyme Disease Foundation has said that killing deer does not work.

http://www.aldf.com/

What is Lyme Disease?

http://www.aldf.com/lyme.shtml

http://www.aldf.com/majorTick.shtml

http://www.webmd.com/skin-problems-and-treatments/tc/tick-bites-prevention

http://www.ocean-beach.com/_tick/tickinfo.htm#The%20Deer%20Tick

Why there are too many deer

http://web.linkny.com/~civitas/page104.html

WHAT IS COMPENSATORY REBOUND EFFECT AND WHY KILLING DEER WORSENS DEER POPULATION?.

http://mathew5-7.blogspot.com/2009/04/what-is-compensatory-rebound-effect-and.html

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Inside your first aid kit you should keep a pair of fine pointed tweezers just for tick removal.

It is very important that the tick not be crushed while being removed. If the tick is crushed, there is a chance that the fluids from the tick will be injected into the persons skin.

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Sources:

http://kidshealth.org/parent/general/body/tick_removal.html

http://www.aafp.org/afp/20020815/643.html

http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvbid/Lyme/ld_tickremoval.htm

http://chppm-www.apgea.army.mil/ento/TickEduc/Tickremoval.pdf

http://www.lyme.org/ticks/removal.html

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I was doing yardwork and I took my gloves off and saw a tick on my hand.

Ticks bite in places where there are a lot of muscle. They bite there because thats where the most blood is. Ticks can also carry disease and other parasites its best to make sure all of the tick is out of you and clean the area where you got bit.

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