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DALLASLADYBUG
5/28/08 10:45 P
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we all just have to be careful, and check often. I keep feeling things crawling on me all the time now.
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| It's interesting I found this link...my husband mowed (our grass was really tall because of all the rain recently) and my 5 year old twins played out with him. Before bed I gave the boys a bath and checked them for ticks since we'd gotten some the day before in the woods but I didn't see any. That night my husband had a tick in his leg and I had to pluck it out. The next morning as I was getting Ben ready for preschool he said he had a bump on his head so I checked him and he had a tick buried in! I had to pluck it out with tweezers. I checked him all over (again!) but a couple of hours later he said he had another bump and sure enough it was ANOTHER tick and this one had really buried in. Both of the ticks were in his hair. Needless to say I went out and bought several cans of Deep Woods Off (I'd run out) and today they didn't go outside without being sprayed. Ben asked for it before he went out! It's scary because we have lots of deer and my next door neighbor got Lyme Disease a couple of years ago. She was very ill and nearly died from it.
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Also, I have read that the tick has to be attached for some time, two days or more, in order to pass on diseases, if that makes anyone feel better.
Unfortunately, ticks are a fact of life if you live in the country and anyone who spends much time outside learns to check themselves, pets and kids daily.
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DALLASLADYBUG
5/28/08 1:52 P
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| I mentioned this on another team, but I was sitting my step grandson when he got sick. emptied his stomach all over. next day his mom said she found a tick on him, doc. said it could make him sick...use the bug reppellant, and the frontline with dogs(nothing good for cats) and just check for them often.
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DAWN91476
5/19/08 10:30 A
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| My husband and I do tick patrol every night with our two kids. Yesterday when I was fixing my little boys hair for church I noticed one right behind his hairline in the very front of his head. I had to take the tweezers to it while my husband held him still. It's not often that I have to take the tweezers to them though, thank goodness. It's like some of the others have said, there really isn't a way to get rid of them so unfortunately we all have to just tolerate them and be careful. Good luck this tick season. I know I need it.
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Yes, ticks are gross but very few will actually make you ill. Yes, lyme disease is a big deal and I feel for anyone who has it but a person gets lyme disease is contracted from the very small deer tick, not the normal wood tick. Wood ticks have been around for many years and I grew up on a farm and have had hundreds of them over the years attacked. They are pretty hard to avoid and you can not actually kill them in the wild as you can't just spray for them as you would never get them all. The best thing to do to avoid ticks is to keep your yard mowed (ticks love long grass and weeds!) and to use bug repelents. Read the can on your mosquito repelent as they make them that also repel ticks as well. Also, wear light colored clothing when going into areas where ticks are likely to be as ticks are attracted to darker colors and it is also easier to see a tick crawling on lighter colored clothing. Ticks are colored blind but dark colors absorb more heat and the ticks are actually attracted by heat. Also, wear long pants and so forth when in areas where ticks are.
Again, yes wood ticks are nasty but it is the deer tick (much smaller tick) that you get sick from. Also, when taking of a tick that has attacked make sure that you get the head, that is how infections occur is when you don't get the head. Look on the internet for other ways but I know that by pouring rubbing alchohol on the skin around the tick I've never had a problem. I am not sure if it annoys them so they let loose or what but I've never had an infection ever or had a problem making sure the head releases.
Good luck and I do feel for you but I like you have to check all five of my children every night to make sure they are tick free. It is just a fact of life. Did you know that more kids have problems with knatt bites than ever do with ticks!!!
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GIRLINMICH
5/18/08 10:02 P
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PLEASE BE VERY CAREFUL ABOUT TICKS. FIND OUT ABOUT LYME DISEASE!! THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT!!
My sister now has lyme disease from a tick that bit her when she was younger. It's sooo important to keep the flea preventative on the dogs, and get the house as tick free as possible!!! My sister, years later ended up hospitalized in her early twenties with an infection around her heart, numbness and paralysis in her arm. She's had many infections before then, and the last time they finally put it all together. I also have a very good friend online who is in a wheel chair from lyme disease progressing unnoticed. It's sooo important if a child gets tested to learn what the tick bite looks like and talk to their pediatrician!! Please, don't make the same mistake my mother made, and just pluck them out. Now my sister is paying years later.
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This is tick season in Nebr. too, and our dogs have tons of them, even though we've put the tick medicine on them. Every once in a while one of us will find one on us too, though usually not attached, thank goodness. I get them when I walk through brush and high grasses, as well as from the dogs.
I hate tick season! They can carry disease, but I think most of the ones that do are not common in our area and are the smaller type (deer ticks). But it's still best to watch carefully for symptoms at this time of year. A little boy from the area did get deathly ill last year after a tick bite, but did recover.
If anyone has some tried and true methods for getting rid of ticks on dogs or people, let me know!
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IVANABSLIM
5/14/08 8:45 P
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It sounds like a parent's nightmare having to get the tick off your baby! It's bad enough trying to give babies and toddlers medicine when they are ill! I hope that someone in your neighbourhood has a solution to this problem. I think ticks can be poisonous??? Or is this if they fester? Maybe someone on the forum knows?
How do you get rid of them, I wonder? Can you spray with nuclear bombing tick killer? Can you flush them out with some new-agy herbal solution? I don't know as I have only ever had one tick - I went to a sleepover at Virginia's house and one crawled in my ear! Her mum got it out with no drama saying it happens all the time at their place.
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| Yuck! Ticks give me the heebeegeebee's (that's probably NOT how you spell that! LOL!) I'd watch yourselves closely for signs of tick illnesses. Also, can you have the home sprayed? Makes my skin crawl to just think of it!
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TMCGINNIS2
5/14/08 1:47 P
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| I live in the country where ticks are bad. I just got one off my husbands side last night. My kids and i use to get them all the time.
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SUSIEMCLANE
5/14/08 12:57 P
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| About a week and a half ago my fiance' woke up in the middle of the night saying he had a tick on him, the next day i was putting my 2 year old daughter to bed and she had one on her too. Since then we have been checking each other and the dogs all the time although the dogs have never had a single one, they just go right for us. Last night I woke up and I had one on my check so when I got up this morning I checked Deanna and sure enough, there was a tick on the back of her head under all her hair, I never would have seen it if I didn't look but the worst part is that it had already buried its head so Skyler had to try to get it out with a tweezers and I had to hold her down.. Trust me, it was not pretty, she screamed and kicked and cried. the whole damn thing damn near killed me, Shes only screamed like that when she had blood taken. When we finally got it out 10 minutes later She just layed down and my bed and wimpered holding her blankie :-(.When finally got her to calm down and come downstairs, she seemed fine. I have seen a lot of dogs with ticks but I have never seen them ignore 2 dogs adn go for people.. its very stressful especially when I have to take a tweezers to the back of my babys head
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