It's time to check for ticks again.
By reinydawn
@reinydawn (11642)
United States
June 29, 2009 6:13am CST
About a month ago my husband brought some ticks home - unknowingly of course. He was doing some work over on his fathers' property, getting it ready for next hunting season. It's all woods and the ticks seem to be really bad this year. When he went last month, our dog ended up getting a tick and had lyme disease from it. My husband had a couple, and around the same time so did my son. I had one, which I thought gave me lyme disease but it didn't.
Well, yesterday he was over there again. And so far, he's had 3 ticks on him. I haven't seen any other ones yet, but we just finished up the medicine for the dog to treat the lyme. I am so hoping that there are no more, but we'll be on "tick alert" for a few days.
Do you have ticks bad where you are? Do they usually get on you or your pets?
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@bunnybon7 (50970)
• Holiday, Florida
19 Oct 09
not around them these days but was when i was in florida and ohio. never even figured on lyme desease
man now thats really dangerous. i sure hope you can keep on top of this and none of you get it. isnt there anything you can put on you to keep them off like maybe "Off" spray?@reinydawn (11642)
• United States
27 Oct 09
Off Spray (DEET) or ticks??? What's the worse of two evils? I'm not real big on DEET in my system either. I will actually use a tea-tree oil based product that helps. Except where my husband goes, nothing helps!
@salam1 (1474)
• Malaysia
19 Oct 09
lucky i dont have tick in my place. but when i lived in the farm many years ago once in a while we got tick, got it from cow or chicken (is it the same tick?). strangely i never heard of 'lyme disease'. just to share with you that there are people who think that vitamin c can help people with lyme disease, if you want to read about it just go to lypo-spheric-vitamin-c.blogspot.com and search an article about lyme disease and vit c there...
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@reinydawn (11642)
• United States
27 Oct 09
Thanks! We all seem to be ok so far! I take plenty of vitamins so I should be good if Vitamin C is helping :)
