Originally Posted By: Kira
A time wasting "thing I heard", anyone?
My mother set her arm on a picnic table on the east side of the Hudson River in sight of the Tappan Zee Bridge.
She got bit by something and got Lyme disease. Diagnosed and treated by a good Lyme doctor.
I found a tick after it had burrowed into a personal part of my thigh, dug it out with an exacto knife and did nothing. I had been in the Adirondack Mountains.
We heard later that ticks from sub-divided land are corralled by development and become inbred. They transmit disease.
Upstate, free ticks are not inbred and acquire diseases less frequently.
I was a total jack @zz for not seeking treatment even though I didn't get ill. I figured a tick that deeply imbedded in my meat would've been there long enough for disease to have evidenced itself and I felt OK.
Never again will I do that especially since the early treatment is so easy. You don't want what my mother went through.
Kyra,
Inbred is only a concern if you are canoeing in the Deep South with Ned Beatty and Burt Reynolds.
It is not an issue with ticks.
Perfectly healthy ticks of good parentage and schooling carry and transmit disease. Many types of disease.
Next time you get a tick in your nethers or elsewhere, don't use a knife to remove. Just scrape it out following the illustrations online and then wash with soap & water and alcohol or iodine.
Make a 2" diameter circle around the bite with a marker and check the wound daily for signs of infection and swollen glands. Ticks carry many types of disease.
A time wasting "thing I heard", anyone?
My mother set her arm on a picnic table on the east side of the Hudson River in sight of the Tappan Zee Bridge.
She got bit by something and got Lyme disease. Diagnosed and treated by a good Lyme doctor.
I found a tick after it had burrowed into a personal part of my thigh, dug it out with an exacto knife and did nothing. I had been in the Adirondack Mountains.
We heard later that ticks from sub-divided land are corralled by development and become inbred. They transmit disease.
Upstate, free ticks are not inbred and acquire diseases less frequently.
I was a total jack @zz for not seeking treatment even though I didn't get ill. I figured a tick that deeply imbedded in my meat would've been there long enough for disease to have evidenced itself and I felt OK.
Never again will I do that especially since the early treatment is so easy. You don't want what my mother went through.
Kyra,
Inbred is only a concern if you are canoeing in the Deep South with Ned Beatty and Burt Reynolds.
It is not an issue with ticks.
Perfectly healthy ticks of good parentage and schooling carry and transmit disease. Many types of disease.
Next time you get a tick in your nethers or elsewhere, don't use a knife to remove. Just scrape it out following the illustrations online and then wash with soap & water and alcohol or iodine.
Make a 2" diameter circle around the bite with a marker and check the wound daily for signs of infection and swollen glands. Ticks carry many types of disease.
