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Lyme Disease Expanding in the NE and Upper Midwest
- Thread starter berryman
- Start date
HaroldILL.
Active member
That's one reason I stay outta' the woods till winter.
detectin4fun
Active member
If you walk in deep grass, weeds or frequent woods you need to check yourself for implanted tics. Deer tics are very small and difficult to see. Living in Ohio I found the classic bulls eye rash on my shin about 25 years ago now. Oddly enough I had read about Lymes after my sister in law gave us some free information put out by the forest service. My doctor and then medical experts had believed Lymes was only in the New England area. After seeing the rash and reading the information I brought with me, He left the exam room and spent some time on the phone calling the then experts. I got some strong antibiotics that I took for a time. Don't remember the details but was told I would be OK. For those of us that spend time outdoors using deet repellent and checking for tics afterwards. Be safe.
Ticks?
My woods in early Spring/Summer are loaded with them, so much so i don't run my dogs back there. Dogs are tick magnets.....all my dogs over the years were diagnosed with lyme disease. First clue is when they start limping.
Last Summer i did some relic searching in remote dense woods, when i was done i picked off 8 of them @$%%^&'s crawling up and around my socks, shoes and pants and another one later in the shower. I was told if you find them within 48 hrs. of first bite and get rid of them the likely hood of lyme disease is much lessened. Might be some truth to that cause i picked off a lot of them in the daily shower and so far never had lyme disease.
My woods in early Spring/Summer are loaded with them, so much so i don't run my dogs back there. Dogs are tick magnets.....all my dogs over the years were diagnosed with lyme disease. First clue is when they start limping.
Last Summer i did some relic searching in remote dense woods, when i was done i picked off 8 of them @$%%^&'s crawling up and around my socks, shoes and pants and another one later in the shower. I was told if you find them within 48 hrs. of first bite and get rid of them the likely hood of lyme disease is much lessened. Might be some truth to that cause i picked off a lot of them in the daily shower and so far never had lyme disease.
Shenandoah Digger
New member
Get some Repel Permanone and spray it on your clothes and you'll never see another tick again, nor a chigger. You don't put it on your skin, so it's not slimy, and really has no smell at all. I had Lyme disease twice before I found this product, and wouldn't go in the woods or in tall grass without it.
Tell me about it! Awful. Here on Long Island we went from woods you could let your kids roam around in to woods full of Lyme carrying deer ticks. Now we have an abundance of lone star ticks, and as of this year, chiggers. You haven't itched until you've gptten them! Damn near clawed my feet off!
My previous dog died of kidney nephritis due to Lyme disease at age 5 a few years back. My new dog already had Lyme disease by 9 months old. Both caught despite having received the vaccine. I've gotten babesiosis.
As far as prevention against these ticks and now the chiggers? Only thing I found that works is the 99% DEET spray and the permethrin clothing treatment. That got the chigger bites resulting in walking in thge woods down from several hundred per walk to about a half dozen.
John
My previous dog died of kidney nephritis due to Lyme disease at age 5 a few years back. My new dog already had Lyme disease by 9 months old. Both caught despite having received the vaccine. I've gotten babesiosis.
As far as prevention against these ticks and now the chiggers? Only thing I found that works is the 99% DEET spray and the permethrin clothing treatment. That got the chigger bites resulting in walking in thge woods down from several hundred per walk to about a half dozen.
John
Cameraniac
Active member
Must have been the DDT that kept the critters in check cuz I sure do not remember getting eaten up by them when I was a kid and I spent most of my childhood in the woods.