5 Tips to Prevent Tick Bites and Getting Lyme Disease | Johns Hopkins Medicine

If you have a tick problem on your lawn just sprinkle crushed egg shells on your lawn. birds love egg shells its where they get there calcium. once a bird finds egg shells on your lawn he will keep coming back. while hes looking for egg shells he finds ants to eat... ticks... beetles.. The other birds see him foraging on your lawn and they go down there and eat too.

One of those little buggers got me 2 yrs ago. Left me with the gifts of Synkinesis, joint pain, floaters in my eyes,hearing issues, intermittent memory issues, intermittent double vision, dry eye and over sensitivity to noise. Protect yourself people, seriously.\

Very helpful advice. I wish I knew this before I got Lyme disease. Thanks.

I had a tick bite in 2009. I contracted ehrlickiosis (sp?) and it just about killed me. Thought I had the flu but an old doctor in a walk in clinic told my wife to take me to the ER immediately. Probably saved my life. Woke up 5 days later in the intensive care unit. Organs were shutting down. 17 people in TN got that disease that year. 7 died. I fully recovered. Was very lucky. I use permethrin on shoes and boots now. Screw environmentalists who say that’s not the right thing to do….talk to me after you’ve almost died from a tick bite…..

Ticks can get inside a pant leg and crawl to parts unknown, believe me I know! :) And they can be found in short grass as well. Once they fall off the animal after being engorged they can be anywhere including inside your house, if you have dogs be especially alert!

In the Spring, nymph stage ticks get dropped in the leaf litter and will usually look to attach to mice or chipmunks. It's at that time when black legged/deer ticks usually ingest Lyme's disease. So it is very important to spray your shoes with permethrin at that time as well.

Very well constructed video, very professional. I gained useful information from this video, for that, you have my thanks.

What is an "acceptable" titre level? I have Lyme disease, but the Veterans Affairs medical center says that it is an "acceptable" level. As far as I'm concerned, that's like being a little bit pregnant. Or "a little bit dead". Thank you for your anticipated response Dr.

Very helpful information. Thank you for sharing it!

Thank you very much doctor for your valuable advice.

Thank you for a very thorough covering of topics on this subject! I try to educate anyone I come in contact with about ticks and how to avoid and learn and deal with them. I hand out Tick ID cards from the NYS Health Dept., and show them my tick removal tool and where to get them! Thanks again!

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Thank you!

"When you're hiking, stay on the path." Well that's not hiking in my book.

Ticks have gotten so bad in rural Ma. I had a tick on me in February, yes February, we had a warm day and the ticks were already out. I recently had 3 ticks dug into my skin in less than 3 days. What I have found to work pretty good is wearing knee high, full rubber boots with my pants tucked inside the boots, then I spray Deep woods off on the outer boots. this works pretty good , the boots are hot and uncomfortable but they do work pretty good. I hope this helps someone. Peace !

This doctor know about the taught science of ticks, not about actually dealing with them! While some of his information is correct, a lot if information is either left out or mis represented, for instance tick don’t just live in grass, they also are in trees, and when a host (person / animal) is near they can drop and direct their fall, ticks can also jump a fair distance as well. While the material of his pants were good, the color was not & there should be some way to gather the lower hemmed area with a boot band especially when hiking. Light colors, and a “shade hat” with a brim large enough to shade your neck is great! Remember that you are out in nature, not putting on a fashion show ! Be comfortable, but be smarter then the ticks layer clothing is a good idea to prevent tick from reaching your skin, material choice is just as important. Think of how you dress in winter, but instead of insulation layers, barrier layers! Starting at your head outer layers should overlap seams in under layers for instance, a light colored tee shirt should be tucked in at the waste, pants should be worn with a belt and boot bands, a light weight and light colored over shirt should be worn over your tee shirt, but not tucked into your pants, the cap your self off with a hat the can shield your neck, shoulders, and face! Dusting the lower 6 inches of pants with lye deters ticks and fleas also!

Ticks have a life cycle which typically includes small warm blooded mammals which also act as reservoir for disease. Install Barn Owl nest boxes. The Idaho Extension has a plan to build two out of a sheet of exterior plywood. Place them 8 feet high and have the entry face away from prevailing Winter wind. Make the opening oval, no more than 4x5 inches.

WOW! Thanx

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