How to Check for Ticks
Time to Tackle Ticks!
I love our animals but sometimes they bring us an unwanted critters. Ticks can carry Lyme disease, Rocky Mountain spotted fever and ehrlichiosis. Eeeewwwww!
We use bug spray and tick control on all our animals but it still important check for ticks after a day out in the woods or tall grass.
How to Check Your Self or Child for Ticks
As soon you get home from a outing start checking. Some diseases can only be transmitted after 24 hours of the tick feeding. - Have tweezers on hand
- Start your search in the bathroom. Strip off all your clothes and shake them in a dry bathtub. You should see any ticks against the white tub and it keeps them from the rest of the bathroom.
- Check hair first. Run your fingers against your scalp checking the entire scalp for small bumps. Deer ticks are really small. Comb your hair to be sure you don’t miss anything.
- Check the rest of your body from the top down. Examine your skin carefully in front of a long mirror (or hand held mirror) to look at your back side. I found one in the middle of my back. Ewwwu
- Ticks like dark areas. Check under your arms and underneath your breasts, behind knees, ankles and groin area.
- Put on clean clothes.
- Shake all clothing in the bathtub before taking to laundry area.
If you Find a Tick
Remove the tick by grasping it close to the skin with a pair of tweezers. Apply gentle pressure, twist anti-clockwise and pull upwards. Do not squeeze the body of the tick or attempt to remove the tick through burning or chemicals (no Vaseline or ammonia- wife’s tales). Burn the tick to be sure to kill it.
Important: Consult a doctor if infection occurs.
After I found the tick on my back I felt phantom ticks crawling all night. Did I say Ewwwuuuu?
More photos of our sweeties.
Checking for Ticks on Animals
We like walking in and exploring wooded areas. 95% of our yard is pasture, but the furthest area from our home is wooded. The boys made a fort. We walk back once a week or so and roast marshmallows over a camp fire and make Smores.
Do you have animals or like to walk in the woods? Share.
Ticks really can be very dangerous carrier of those diseases!I can personally vouch for that!When I was 16 we had been at the lake camping, and I had gotten a tick on my head but didnt notice until next morning! When found we immediately got it off and thought all was well, except for a bit of itching! One week later I had terrible headache, but didnt relate the two together.Within 3 days I was lying in hospital with 106 fever, packed in ice, and in a coma with rash on wrists and ankles! I was in coma for almost a week, with family being called in because the doctors didnt think I would live! Praise be to God, HE had other plans and I was healed by the quick antibiotics and great doctors! PLEASE watch tick bite areas closely even after removing..and ANY fever, rash or headache, go to ER immediately! It is ALWAYS better safe than sorry!
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Thanks for sharing this warning Vicki! See you on Twitter.
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@pamfidler Trooper and Frosty are the puppy names. See photos w our big dog at http://budurl.com/ticks2
You have a couple of cutie pies Robin. Love the pics.
Yes, ticks and the diseases they carry are serious. After living in the city all my life, my husband was transferred out of state so we moved to the rural area an hour from his work.
Unfortunately it came with ticks carrying lyme and I came down with a bullseye rash last Sept.
Lyme is very difficult to get rid of.
I have found so many ticks on my kids, even ones attached to their heads that I didn’t know about until later.
I look forward to heaven when we don’t have to worry about sickness anymore.
Praise to the Lamb of God Who Ransomed us and gave us eternal life with Him!
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Robin a great preventative that’s safe and natural is cedar oil and tea tree oil. We have a tick problem in our area. My kids would come in absolutely covered. So I started using all natural laundry soaps which are less likely to draw pesky insects and I changed the entire family over to tea tree body wash and shampoo. For the animals, I got a shampoo with cedar wood oil that acts as a natural insect repellent. You still need to check for ticks routinely but the frequency of finding them has been greatly reduced.