desert dweller
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Post by desert dweller on Oct 12, 2020 9:54:43 GMT -8
This outdoors enthusiast got bit recently by a tick and this is what happened to her.
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Post by Coolkat on Oct 12, 2020 13:31:45 GMT -8
This scares me more than most things. A couple of years ago I read about a tick (in CT I think) bite that can kill in 24 hours. I also know someone personally who spent thousands of his own money (after insurance) to recover from Lyme disease. Like a lot of things in life it's not the big things you have to worry about it's the tiny things. www.cdc.gov/ticks/diseases/index.html |
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Post by bluefish on Oct 25, 2020 7:25:01 GMT -8
Lyme's is horrible. I'm not sure that it compromised my immune system as I was diagnosed with a rare myeloma immediately following it.
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digger
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Post by digger on Nov 25, 2020 5:39:19 GMT -8
As much as I dislike mosquitoes and biting gnats...ticks are my most dreaded pest in the outdoors. Just the thought of a little parasite attaching itself to my skin and hanging on as long as it wants give me the creeps like nothing else.
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bushmaster
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Post by bushmaster on Nov 17, 2021 8:23:37 GMT -8
I never tried it, but have heard a couple of times, that if you dab a bit of ambisol tooth pain med on the tick that it will numb and relax it, thus making it easier to remove.
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