Ticks

[Filterhoose]

Next week is Tick Prevention Week. Useful info here – not alarmist but informative,

Ok so it snowing but be prepared:


http://www.thebmc.co.uk/get-ready-to-tackle-ticks

and the video is worth watching.

http://www.thebmc.co.uk/modules/video.aspx?id=58&s=3

Windy

 

[THOaken]

I got this exact message from my countryside officer as I volunteer at Yellowcraig. You're in Haddington, do you by any chance also attend volunteer sessions?

 

[Filterhoose]

Yeah that's right I've worked with Duncan Priddle in the past. Thought they were worth sharing so copied n paste the email.

Small world, when you start wandering about.

Windy

 

[ZEbbEDY]

had 2 on me last year (that i knew about)

dogs get them all the time, so repulsive

 

[Filterhoose]

I was on a canoe trip last spring across Inverpolly lochs. One of the party had no less than 13 at the end of one day. He was French so must have tasted better than me coz I had none the whole trip.



Windy

 

[Niels]

I tanned a roe deer skin once. Got seven on me in one day. Did kill them all by dropping the skin in salt water, hehehehehe

 

[Johnnyboy1971]

Question for you guys on ticks. Once you have removed them by whatever means you use do you put anything on the bite or do you then just leave it.

 

[Niels]

Alcohol mate, but not on the dog.

 

[Johnnyboy1971]

Don't have a dog so should be fine. I'm fortunate that I have never been bitten by a tick but better safe than sorry.
Cheers for that.

 

[fozzy]

Wow they never told us about them when I was crawling about in the Army . Good info thanks , video worth a watch too .

 

[mudgutz]

Wunder why they say don't use vasaline or spirits to remove them now? I was always led to believe that pulling them out like in the vid stands a chance of leaving there feeding parts in your body and could go septic

Good info though all the same. Cheers.

 

[Goatboy]

Wunder why they say don't use vasaline or spirits to remove them now? I was always led to believe that pulling them out like in the vid stands a chance of leaving there feeding parts in your body and could go septic

Good info though all the same. Cheers.

If you "shock" the tick by suffocation (vasaline) or chems (meths) or heat (lit ciggy) then it regurgitates its gut contents where the lymmes disease baddies live straight into your bloodstream.

Things like the Tom O' Tick little crowbar are quick not giving it time to be sick and remove them whole. Or you can use the Yorkshire massage method.

Cheers,
GB.

 

[pango]

Alcohol mate, but not on the dog.

Why not on the dog, Niels? Is there something ominous I should already have known about?

Good work in highlighting this info Filterhoose. I'm amazed at how many walkers, fishermen, etc, are unaware of the dangers of tick bites, yet go regularly into areas where the dangers are greatest.

Two mates of mine have come down with Lyme Disease in the past couple of years and another mate's wife was diagnosed just last autumn. One is having a particularly hard time though after relapsing a year after he thought he was shot of it. I don't think he's been out on the hills since last spring, which is all the sadder when you've drank as much whisky and chapped as much wood with him as I have.
He used to carry a log splitting maul in his rucksack!

 

[Niels]

Why not on the dog, Niels? Is there something ominous I should already have known about?

No. Just because it hurts the dog and it's not really neccesary because the harm's already been done. Just remember it's best to prevent it, which reminds me I should put some frontline on the dog.