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Tick! Tick?
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thats what my hearts becomein that place you dare not look staring back at youRegistered User regular
thats what my hearts becomein that place you dare not look staring back at youRegistered User regular
So I was mushroom hunting today. Came home got naked, took a bath, got back into my dirty clothes. An hour later I had a bug crawling on my arm, it looked like a tick!
So I flicked the tick, it landed on my keyboard and crawled inside. So after literally debugging my keyboard for the last hour I have him trapped on a piece of tape. It looks like a male deer tick (Ixodes scapularis) and is the right size. There is a white tail deer back in the spot I was checking today, I saw it and it's tracks were on some of the same trails I was using.
Until I get my gf to look me over for bites I won't be sure it didn't feed on me. I've never had a tick before. How worried do I need to be about diseases from it? What symptoms do I need to look out for?
I live in NE Indiana.
So I flicked the tick, it landed on my keyboard and crawled inside. So after literally debugging my keyboard for the last hour I have him trapped on a piece of tape. It looks like a male deer tick (Ixodes scapularis) and is the right size. There is a white tail deer back in the spot I was checking today, I saw it and it's tracks were on some of the same trails I was using.
Until I get my gf to look me over for bites I won't be sure it didn't feed on me. I've never had a tick before. How worried do I need to be about diseases from it? What symptoms do I need to look out for?
I live in NE Indiana.
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Ticks latch on for periods longer than a day. If you'd been bitten, the first indication you'd have had would be finding the tick and proceeding to have a hissy fit. Though I may be projecting on that last point, it's a completely reasonable reaction.
Do get your GF to look - ask her to check your scalp very, very carefully. Check your pubes, too.
If you are worried, look up the symptoms of Lymes disease
I've been reading up on it since posting but I'd rather hear from hunters or someone with real experience instead of wikipedia.
The bastard is a deer tick.
I bath and shampoo with tea tree oil and peppermint oils added to my soaps/shampoo because my gf is a teacher for troubled and neglected children and will inevitably bring home head lice (it is also really good for my skin and scalp). I think that is why this guy was crawling on me instead of feeding.
Aside from any other ticks or a rash or bite mark what else should I be on the alert for?
I think you're safe. The largest problem is people break the tick and leave the head or part of the head attached and viola, bacterial infection and/or lyme disease.
Odds are though that you're fine. If you get really bad flu-like symptoms that refuse to go away, get tested. Doxycicline is really cheap and 30-60 days later you're fine!
As a kid my family used to get ticks all the time since we lived on a farm. That tick did not get you he woulda been head deep when you found him if he got the chance to bite. Check yourself over really well for ticks in every area. As a kid I actually managed to get a tick on my junk so look everywhere. I don't know your experience with ticks but if you find one, and it's not in your hair or anything, have your girlfriend take a match or a lighter really close to the tick and it will cause it to withdraw it's head. This way you aren't ripping it out leaving risk of the ticks head staying in.
If you do that it'll likely just throw up into the wound and get you sick. If you can remove it with tweezers at the head, do it, only, only only at the head. If you can't, get to a doctor. You won't die in a 2 hour span from lyme disease.
But I also don't really get many ticks on me per year. I usually find them when they're crawling around being the silly geese that they are.
I was reading up on ticks, is it true that a female can produce hundreds of offspring that are so small that they can go undetected for a long time on horses and cows? I would be really grossed out to find a horse covered in ticks.
One time I had a very tiny baby leach on me after swimming in a lake. It was so tiny that it was almost cute, about the size of a grain of rice. My gf looked like she was going to barf when I showed it to her. The leach only freaked me out a little because it was small enough that it could have easily gotten up my ear or nose.
In the scheme of all things tick, this was a minor event; where I work in the summer there are so many ticks that we usually have a de-ticking session at the end of the day (no Lyme disease fortunately). Just everyone standing around in their underwear searching each other for ticks and removing them, awesome.
The babies are so tiny they look like a grain of dirt. I walked through a nest once, and I got a million of them on me. I dove in the river like I was on fire.
Can they even bite when they're that tiny?
Finding a tick on a dog that's been there for quite awhile is a whole other kind of gross, too.
Yeah, one of the guards at my study abroad site had a dog that was fucking covered in them.
Anyway, I think the mods would be alright if I post this video to keep things in perspective (and I'll take it down if the mods tell me to):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NZUNlFo6Uk