I just want to let everyone know a few little basics about the method of removing ticks as its quite important and i keep hearing misinformation. This tiny knowledge could prevent a lot of bad times. You need to use tweezers and grab it via the mouthpiece and twist/pull. Try not to grab the body. Never try to apply any type or cream or liquid to the tick, never burn the tick(at least whilst its on you! ;) ), and if you dont have any tweezers in your immediate vicinity its better to wait a little bit until you can get to one(but not more then a few hours). Its because if you squish the body it will push the bacteria from its stomach and vomit it into you. Same with messing with the tick, if it freaks out it will vomit and its contents of its stomach will go into you. Secondly, if you get bit by a tick and get a rash that looks like a bullseye (red dot, white circle, red ring, any size from 10c coin to your hand then you have Borrelia infection and need immediate antibiotics to prevent a chronic infection. This needs to be from a lyme literate doctor not a normal standard GP. The rash only appears 40% of the time also.. So its not a definitive yes/no. Come see me if you are out bush with me and dont have tweezers on you and i will help out :)
Posted on: Mon, 24 Nov 2014 04:35:54 +0000
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