ticks

I made a shelter once out of a tree limb leaning against a tree, and smaller sticks leaning aginst it. i covered it with pinestraw and put a thick layer of pinestraw in it for a soft surface. Next day i had 12 ticks. Anyone else have this problem?

Ah that sucks brother.

Cant say I have, i have not have the misfortune of running into ticks...yet

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I have not experienced the TICK either.

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Other then taking a deet bath, there isn't much you can do for ticks. Maybe if you find some good local bug repealing plants, you can use them for the bottom layer of the bed, it might help a little. When you are awake, if you stay alert, yoou can feel them crawling on you, and get them, but asleep... good luck!

	TrooperMax wrote:
	Cant say I have, i have not have the misfortune of running into ticks...yet

	Drummer Dave wrote:
	I have not experienced the TICK either.

I guess there aren't many in such cold areas or something? I've had countless ticks trekking trough-out South and south West US. They are all over the place here! Crying or Very sad

Well I dont think thats entirely correct. My dog did have one a few years back but I never had one myself.

I dont think the weather has anything to do with it because it is actaully very warm here in recent years. Its november and i'm walking around with a t-shirt and a sweater, what has this world become.

I want sterotypical canada back! Sad

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	TrooperMax wrote:
	Well I dont think thats entirely correct. My dog did have one a few years back but I never had one myself. I dont think the weather has anything to do with it because it is actaully very warm here in recent years. Its november and i'm walking around with a t-shirt and a sweater, what has this world become. I want sterotypical canada back!

i hear that, i walked home from ju jitsu today in a t shirt and shorts.

Yeah I just got home from Algonquin, and the wind is actually warm.

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Hahaha, lucky bastards. I get ticks a at least a few times year. I don't know how I don't have Lime disease!

Get ticks quite a bit, got Lyme as well! You guys should consider yourselves lucky you don't have to deal with the little buggers!!! Evil or Very Mad

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Whats that like? Having Lyme?

Here is a good product i found.

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Here is a artical right out of Backpacker the magazine.
" TICKS "
- How to protect yourself -
> avoid marshy areas, & dont brush up against high grass, bushes, & woody shrubs.
> wear long pants & tuck them into your socks to prevent ticks from crawling up your legs. Tick researchers wind duct tape around the sock-pant area to keep ticks out.
> wear light colored clothing so you can spot the ticks more easily.
>spread deet on your skin or spray it on your clothing.
> at least once a day check your body.
> if you find a tick & suspect it has been attached for at least 36 hours, ask your doctor about taking a single dose of the antibiotic doxycycline as insurance against an infection.

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{ How to remove a Tick }

Carry fine tipped tweezers when hiking in hight risk areas. If you find an embedded tick, grasp it near your skin with the tweezers & pull it out in one steady motion without crushing it. Dont worry if mouthparts remain in your skin; once a ticks body is gone, it can no longer transmit disease. If you crush a tick, wash your skin with soapy water or alcohol.

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{ What to do after you've been bitten }

Studies show it takes 36 to 48 hours for lyme bacteria to move from tick to human, in part because the bacteria must migrate from a deer tick's midgut to its salivary glands before passing to a human host.
If you remove a tick within 36 hours, your odds of contracting Lyme diseaseare slim - less than 4 percent, says
Gary Wormser, chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases at New York Medical College.
If your close to that time limit, a single 200 milligram dose of doxycyclinecan cut your risk to amost nil.

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{ The 3 types of ticks }

> Deer Tick - Transmits agents of lyme disease & a parisitic disease called babesiosis

> Lone Star tick - Transmits agents of ehrlichiosis & a lyme like condition know by the acrony star.
Found in the southern USA.

> American dog tick - Transmits agents of Rocky Mountain spotted fever & tularemia { but not Lyme }

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great info dave, thanks a bunch for the post!

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Well Dave you've expanded my knowledge on ticks significantly, and those posts are pretty awesome!

Thanks!

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No Prob Guy's i dont want any of my Buddy's out there getting Lyme Disease Shocked

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Try garlic. 1,200 mg garlic tablets worked for me. Not one tick or chigger. Very Happy

Though, it didn't seem to work for 'ol Woodsy on Les's forum. Confused

Hmm.....

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Hmm interesting, I cant say i've ever encouterd a tick but incase I do thanks for the info

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"There dosen't look like there's much shelter over in those mountains, but that's the only choice I got right now, this is gonna be a long week" - Les Stroud Arctic