Talking to the Southeastern Michigan Geocaching Facebook Group,
many of our members reported ticks (and mosquitoes the size of finches) this
weekend. We even found a tick on Fiona,
the geo-wonder-pup, while doing to Metropark
trails. It’s been a bad season. SuperJosh reports he prefers the Northern
ones – our deer ticks are larger than ones in the Southern states so they are
easier to spot.
You are not supposed to squeeze and kill a tick embedded in
your skin for fear of them releasing all their toxins into your blood
stream. Worse yet, I heard a tale (urban
legend?) about a guy that poisoned himself because he would pull ticks off his
dogs and then bite off the ticks’ heads to kill them. Oh my.
As a result of the increase, there have been many posts
about Tick removal remedies. Snopes.com has disproved the “liquid dish soap method” as
an old wives tale. Another post states you should use a lint roller after being
outdoors to remove ticks from your clothes – I’m not sure if this works or not. Wear light clothes so you can spot them easier.
What I do trust is Ben of TheGrundalow’s CDC link about Tick
removal. The goal is to remove the tick
as quickly as possible and to clean the wound.
It’s a short article, but it’s really clear about what to do and to
watch out for. It even has this nifty graphic:
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| SOURCE: CDC Website |
As for Fiona, we used my new tick key on her, which was
quite quick and quite painless. I bought
this from gxproxy.com
but, after a quick Internet search, they seem to everywhere now.
Remember: Nothing is quite as fun as a tick-check with the
one you love!
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