Tick Season is here. Please remember to watch out for symptoms after a tick bite!

[peacebird]

The symptoms may be headache, low grade fever, or high fever and flu-like - but if you get any of these within a week or two after a tick bite please go to the doctor and be sure to mention the tick bite.

Also - IF the site of the bite develops from a red bump, to a bullseye, go see the doc whether you feel bad or not!

I was bitten three weeks ago,and after one week the red lump at the bite developed a ring of red bumps (like mosquito bites) around it. Then next day the ring of bumps had coalesced into a red rash circling the original bite, with a little band of white between them - bullseye. Lymes disease. I had no symptoms which *I* would have taken seriously enough to go to the doctor, had the bullseye not appeared. I had a bad headache, and a lowgrade fever, but I would have done nothing without the bullseye. And I would have been WRONG.
The lowgrade fever and headache will go away on their own, but the underlying bacterial infection would have continued to attack my body - and Lymes can cause permanent damage or death if untreated. And lymes is not the only nasty tick-borne illness.
After almost a week on antibiotics the bullseye is fading and I will be fine. Please pay attention and check for ticks if you've been out in an area that has them.

[underpants]

1. HeyHONEY!!!! it's time to do a "tick check"

;-)

[peacebird]

2. LOL!

[madokie]

3. Must be nice living in an area where a tick is in the minority

all my live I've lived here in the northeast Oklahoma boonies and a tick bite is pretty much a daily occurrence and for sure if you wander any further than the fence line. We have ticks and they bite everyone of us from babies to grown women and men. If I was to stop and worry about a tick bite I'd never be able to get anything done except worry about a tick bite.

Nothing personal but I have to laugh at the alarm that a tick bite raises to many. I guess since I've been getting ticks on my body for my whole life, 62 years and counting, I'm immune to them or lymes disease. Could that be possible?

When I go mushroom hunting in the spring and fall, some days I'll have maybe a dozen ticks latched onto my body when I get home. I pick them off take a shower and wash my clothes I was wearing and then go on about my bidness. And I am one of the few who don't get (eat up with them) as some say. :hi:

[peacebird]

5. Ticks are an every day business here too, but I usually get them off before they get engorged

It is still worth paying attention if you have any symptoms after having pulled off an engorged tick. A friends wife is in hospital now fighting for her life due to Lymes - it has got into her brain.
My husbands aunt it on 3 drugs a day for the past 6 months because lymes went undetected til it attacked her joints.

[madokie]

6. Since they bite in some of the most unusual places and they don't always hit a nerve

its impossible to not be bitten by one. I'd safely say I've had thousands of them on my body engorged in my 62 years. I have no idea how many. I'm not a dirty person either. Shower twice and sometime three times or more a day depending on what I'm doing, how much I get to sweating or how dirty the project I'm working on gets me. I guess maybe I have an immunity to lymes disease or maybe I have it and don't even know?
Nothing personal here ok.

I can see where if a person, like many in our family btw, who are raised in the cities where there won't be any ticks could or would have to worry. I was simply wanting to point out that not all of us has the luxury of worrying with a tick bite on our bodies. :hi:

[Donnachaidh]

4. you might want to read the article here -- tracking ticks via satellite

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8443201

[izquierdista]

7. The ultimate solution

Guineas!
http://www.guineafowl.com/fritsfarm/guineas/ticks/

[leftyladyfrommo]

8. And watch for ticks on your dogs.

There are a bunch of really bad tick born disease that dogs get - as well as humans. They are very serious.

Need to have dogs on tick preventative.