Ticks
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Whoa mama, the ticks are bad down here in the South! Just pulled one giant gross sucker out of my armpit after a recent trip to the Glass/Bald, NC & my partner and I counted like 6 of them at the TWall a couple weeks ago down near Capitol Assets. |
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After having one chomp down on me in LCC a few weeks ago I started spraying Permetherin on my clothing and pack prior to climbing. Haven't had one on me since. Best way to remove embedded tick is pair of tweezers and pluck. Little fuckers. |
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Don't pluck. Grasp the tick as close to the skin as possible with tweezers held parallel to skin and give a steady slow pressure until it lets go. |
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Yeah Im 99.9 % sure this f*cker came out as I could see his head and legs attached to that big ball of whatever grossness on its back. Call me crazy, but I think the tea tree oil I put on it helped extract him or made him want to get the f*ck off. |
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Cover them with something like vaseline and they will let go, if you just pull them out there is always the chance you will leave part of them inside you and could cause infection. |
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Best way to get them out is to heat a pair of tweezers and grab the tick, this will cause them to start to back out. Slowly but firmly turn the tic counter clockwise to make sure to remove the head and body. If possible wash the area ASAP w clean water (no creek water) and soap. |
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No bug spray will prevent tick bites! If they are there and you have exposed skin, they will bite. Best way as stated above is to pull them out with tweezers. Another good way is to light a match and put the match out on the tick - they will let go and if you do it right it won't hurt you. Regular ticks don't care Lyme disease. FYI, the only ticks that carry Lyme are the deer ticks, the ones with the white streak in their backs. Cheers |
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I would not recommend using heat to encourage the tick to let go. I've heard that the match can cause the engorged tick to regurgitate it's contents which really increase your chance of catching something. |
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If you start feeling tired or lethargic after being outdoors, get a Lyme test asap even if you don't have the classic ring around the bite. Lyme is no joke, it's better to try to catch it early. |
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LCC-Climber wrote:After having one chomp down on me in LCC a few weeks ago I started spraying Permetherin on my clothing and pack prior to climbing. Haven't had one on me since. Best way to remove embedded tick is pair of tweezers and pluck. Little fuckers.permetherin yes tweezers NO sometimes you can crush the tick and it spits shit into you Get a Tick Picker $3 and worth all of it,,scoops the fucker off w/o any issues |
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Cody, If that's directed towards me I should have clarified that this was a while ago that I got sick. |
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I've had 100% success by grabbing the tick with my fingers and applying enough pull to pucker the skin but not snap em off. Now just keep applying the pull for usually up to a minute or so. They release their grip and your free. |
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Nope josh..just what has worked for me in NE as well as CO |
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Thought I would chime in since I just recently (two weeks ago) found a tick on my scalp the next morning in the shower after climbing in little cottonwood canyon. Given that it was my first encounter with a tick I did a fair amount of research afterwards to make sure I knew what to look out for in the way of Lyme Disease. One thing that I thought was really interesting was how specific all of the resources were about how to actually remove a tick, and since there were so many recommendations on this thread I thought it could be good to post. This is straight from the American Lyme Disease Foundations site and many others say the same thing:
Ticks are bastards. |
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Lyme test not very helpful. Just ask your doc to write you for some doxy if you want to nip possible Lyme in the bud |
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Yup Im getting some doxy tomorrow just to be safe. Been reading up on this stuff the last few days and wow, this sh!t sucks! |
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This thread is a compendium of whacky tick-removal nonsense. Read tsaint's post of American Lyme Disease Foundation guidelines. |
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I have also had Lyme, and it is definately no joke. There's a lot of bad information out there to wade through before you get to the real stuff. Do your own research and don't rely on what armchair quarterbacks think they know. A lot of doctors are even clueless. I was mis-diagnosed negative twice before finally being properly diagnosed, and that made the sickness and the treatment much worse. Ticks are evil and nasty, a scourge. Take all precautions. |
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Old Crusty wrote:Lyme test not very helpful. Just ask your doc to write you for some doxy if you want to nip possible Lyme in the budThe best info here |
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50% yeah that's high, it's because there are more hosts that carry it (deer & mice) |
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From what I understood when I got pills after a tick bite is the pill only works if you take it 48-72 hours after the bite. Maybe I got a different med than you? I only had to take two pills. My doc prescribed double the dose so I would have the med for the next time not to take more meds. |