Lyme Disease Ticks
The bacterium that causes Lyme disease lives in certain animals such as mice, birds and small animals. The bacterium is harmless to the animals but affects humans.
Ticks are small spider like creatures with little legs and are a dark shade of red the size of a pin head. Ticks are parasites and suck blood from animals like mice and sometimes humans. This is how ticks get infected with the bacterium that causes Lyme disease and in turn infects humans. Thereafter, the bacterium that causes Lyme disease is not passed from human to human. However, only ticks infected with the bacterium will cause Lyme disease. Tick bites do not necessarily cause Lyme disease.
The Lyme disease ticks are very clingy and are very difficult to take off the skin; they become especially clingy once they bite you. The ticks carry the bacteria in their gut, and it travels to your skin through the tick's mouth. If you find the tick on your body within 24 hours after it has bitten you it is possible that you may not develop Lyme disease, even if the tick is infected.
It is not known for certain if only infected ticks that bite. Humans may not notice the Lyme disease causing tick clinging on to the skin. This is often due to the tick being very small and tick bites do not hurt. When a physician queries from a person diagnosed with Lyme disease if they were bitten by a tick the patient would not be in a position to answer.
After the infected tick bites you the bacteria multiply and travel in the bloodstream to other parts of the body and spread the symptoms. The part of the human body that is affected by this bacterium is the skin, heart, joints and the nerves.
If once bitten by a tick, even though it is not known if the tick is the carrier of the Lyme disease bacterium, one should not panic. Use a pair of tweezers and grasp the tick's body as close to your skin as possible and pull it upward until the tick comes out. Do be careful not to squeeze or twist the tick's body. If there are any parts of the tick left in the skin, carefully remove them with the tweezers. Rub in a good antiseptic to the bite area and wash your hands with hand-wash or bacteria killing liquid. If a rash develops see a doctor.
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Deer Tick Lyme Disease
Deer Tick Lyme Disease
Deer ticks are the most common carriers of the bacteria which causes Lyme disease. For this reason, the disease is commonly referred to as deer tick Lyme disease, especially in areas where the deer tick is prevalent.
Given that prevention is always the best cure, deer tick Lyme disease is better of prevented than treated, since treatment may be very difficult, and could take a very long time at times.
First of all, where deer ticks are common, one way of prevention is by the use garlic. Garlic in powder form can be used to clean pets, including dogs. This significantly helps in reducing tick bites in the animals. Taking fresh garlic also helps in reducing infection for humans, as it has been reported in some quarters.
Secondly, it has been proven that pet owners are at the highest risk of contracting deer tick Lyme disease. It is therefore important for pet owners to be vigil and keep a regular check on the pets, removing any ticks that may have bitten the dog or cat or any other pet for that matter, as soon as it is detected.
On the other hand, it is helpful to use the dryer in laundry, since ticks cannot survive the high heat produced by a drier. Ticks can survive ordinary washing, and the only sure way to ensure their elimination is by using high heat, which kills them. This option, however, is not very affordable, but given the consequences of the deer tick Lyme disease infection, it is better to be safe than to be sorry.
The other viable alternative would be the use of repellants to keep off ticks. These could be off the counter repellants or even naturally occurring repellants such as eucalyptus. These can be used as effective repellants against ticks. This remedy is good even for deterring mosquitoes. For ticks, the use and application of repellants should be much more often and at more frequent intervals.
Keeping hens has been found to be a winning formula for keeping deer tick Lyme disease at bay. For the hens, the ticks are a very good source of food. While being a food source for the hens, the ticks will be easily eliminated by the hens, thus reducing the risk of infection by Lyme disease. Hens will ensure that there is a significant reduction in the number of ticks.
Deer ticks are the most common carriers of the bacteria which causes Lyme disease. For this reason, the disease is commonly referred to as deer tick Lyme disease, especially in areas where the deer tick is prevalent.
Given that prevention is always the best cure, deer tick Lyme disease is better of prevented than treated, since treatment may be very difficult, and could take a very long time at times.
First of all, where deer ticks are common, one way of prevention is by the use garlic. Garlic in powder form can be used to clean pets, including dogs. This significantly helps in reducing tick bites in the animals. Taking fresh garlic also helps in reducing infection for humans, as it has been reported in some quarters.
Secondly, it has been proven that pet owners are at the highest risk of contracting deer tick Lyme disease. It is therefore important for pet owners to be vigil and keep a regular check on the pets, removing any ticks that may have bitten the dog or cat or any other pet for that matter, as soon as it is detected.
On the other hand, it is helpful to use the dryer in laundry, since ticks cannot survive the high heat produced by a drier. Ticks can survive ordinary washing, and the only sure way to ensure their elimination is by using high heat, which kills them. This option, however, is not very affordable, but given the consequences of the deer tick Lyme disease infection, it is better to be safe than to be sorry.
The other viable alternative would be the use of repellants to keep off ticks. These could be off the counter repellants or even naturally occurring repellants such as eucalyptus. These can be used as effective repellants against ticks. This remedy is good even for deterring mosquitoes. For ticks, the use and application of repellants should be much more often and at more frequent intervals.
Keeping hens has been found to be a winning formula for keeping deer tick Lyme disease at bay. For the hens, the ticks are a very good source of food. While being a food source for the hens, the ticks will be easily eliminated by the hens, thus reducing the risk of infection by Lyme disease. Hens will ensure that there is a significant reduction in the number of ticks.
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