ticks do suck
supposedly the saliva they exude is where the lyme disease enters the human body... and i've been told by more than one source that its not ONLY the deer tick now that's carrying the disease...all of them carry it. I had a tick on my neck recently and the first thing i did was take penicillen which was stupid because it takes almost two weeks before the symptoms begin my doctor said. The area where i was bitten on my neck while i was asleep was extremely achey, like i got wacked in the neck by a branch out in the woods or something similar. if i came up and punched you in the neck! hard enough to where you'd be in pain from it the next day....that's what it felt like.
ticks are unbelivably resourceful and will climb up anything tall that an animal will brush against with their fur gaining them access.
theres an herb called pennyroyal which is difficult to buy except at only certain seed sellers but its easy to buy as an extracted oil
at most specialty shops or health food stores. you can get some and soak a thick string in it to make pennyroyal collars at home.
The best preventative proceedure is to mow ...and weed wack true
but also when you come in from certain places you have to strip down naked and shower while isolating those clothes or else you bring them in. Certain places are infestated though. I'll never forget one day my wife and i were walking in a grassy field near the charles river and we purpously had our socks pulled up over our pant legs...for tick prevention. We stopped mid -way to do a tick inspection on each other using the buddy system and we were absolutely covered in them thangs...25 on each leg at least....so we got the hell out of there fast and grabbed a brush at the car and
made sure we weren't taking any home.
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