Tick prevention!

[Setterman]

Your best defense against ticks is thoroughly checking yourself after returning home.

That's what I thought, and it led to me not being able to eat pork or beef the rest of my life.

Don't take this the wrong way, but that's terrible advice. Lyme disease can be spread to you on the way home from the woods, long before a home check.

Prevention is the smart solution

 

[LanceS4803]

Your best defense against ticks is thoroughly checking yourself after returning home.

But by then, they are already in your truck!

 

[@fulldraw]

Your best defense against ticks is thoroughly checking yourself after returning home.

That's what I thought, and it led to me not being able to eat pork or beef the rest of my life.

Don't take this the wrong way, but that's terrible advice. Lyme disease can be spread to you on the way home from the woods, long before a home check.

Prevention is the smart solution

Actually a tick does not infect you as soon as it bites you. It can take up to 24 hrs before the tick feeds. The tick will suck blood from it's host but only can transmit a disease if it secretes its saliva to the host. Ticks are not born with a disease either. They can only get a disease after their first feeding from an infected host.

I'm not saying that spraying down is worthless. It does help prevent ticks from getting on you but removing ticks as soon as you can is best if a tick has attached itself to you. I've learned this from research and doctors from my own personal experience. Yes, I was infected by a tick.

 

[Setterman]

Your best defense against ticks is thoroughly checking yourself after returning home.

That's what I thought, and it led to me not being able to eat pork or beef the rest of my life.

Don't take this the wrong way, but that's terrible advice. Lyme disease can be spread to you on the way home from the woods, long before a home check.

Prevention is the smart solution

Actually a tick does not infect you as soon as it bites you. It can take up to 24 hrs before the tick feeds. The tick will suck blood from it's host but only can transmit a disease if it secretes its saliva to the host. Ticks are not born with a disease either. They can only get a disease after their first feeding from an infected host.

I'm not saying that spraying down is worthless. It does help prevent ticks from getting on you but removing ticks as soon as you can is best if a tick has attached itself to you. I've learned this from research and doctors from my own personal experience. Yes, I was infected by a tick.

Sorry but you're wrong, and I don't want to get in a biological discussion on this subject. I'll only get pissed off. The thing I suffer from is not a disease.

So you can choose to deal with them however you like, but don't give advise that puts others in danger.

I'm done with this, so carry on if you wish. But again your advise should be avoided.

 

[@fulldraw]

Your best defense against ticks is thoroughly checking yourself after returning home.

That's what I thought, and it led to me not being able to eat pork or beef the rest of my life.

Don't take this the wrong way, but that's terrible advice. Lyme disease can be spread to you on the way home from the woods, long before a home check.

Prevention is the smart solution

Actually a tick does not infect you as soon as it bites you. It can take up to 24 hrs before the tick feeds. The tick will suck blood from it's host but only can transmit a disease if it secretes its saliva to the host. Ticks are not born with a disease either. They can only get a disease after their first feeding from an infected host.

I'm not saying that spraying down is worthless. It does help prevent ticks from getting on you but removing ticks as soon as you can is best if a tick has attached itself to you. I've learned this from research and doctors from my own personal experience. Yes, I was infected by a tick.

Sorry but you're wrong, and I don't want to get in a biological discussion on this subject. I'll only get pissed off. The thing I suffer from is not a disease.

So you can choose to deal with them however you like, but don't give advise that puts others in danger.

I'm done with this, so carry on if you wish. But again your advise should be avoided.

Good deal

 

[Nsghunter]

As a meical professional, I agree. Prevention is the best route, ticks can be nightmarish. I would rather not take a chance on loosing my memory. ( rocky mountain spotted fever)

 

[chadperr]

supposedly vitamin B helps. I have taken a b supplement the last 3 years and have had very few ticks bite in on me, maybe 3 or 4 a year. I used to have 20 times that many every summer. I don't use bug spray at all, and I'm constantly in the woods.my dad will walk through the same places I do and get eat upuand I wont have any. I know its not a 100% guarentee, I just started researching why I was not having as many ticks bite in on me, I will just find them crawling on me several hours out of the woods. May be worth a shot. B complex supps are pretry cheap.