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Gary350
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LOOK OUT for TICKS
I woke up this morning with a red swollen itchy place on my left hip wife took a look it turned out to be a very tiny tick about the size of a pac choy seed. Wife removed the tick then we put full strength laundry bleach on the red place. Bleach is very destructive it kills, virus, bacteria, germs. I have not been in the garden it is mud from 5 days of rain. Ticks fall out of trees not sure how I got this tick I have not been outside much in all this rain. I hope I don't get Lime Disease or Rocky Mountain Fever.
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applestar
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Those tiny ones are the worst! (…but I’m not sure about putting undiluted bleach on your skin 
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I seem to have an unwritten pact with my garden that I shall encounter 1 tick per day.
- I had my quota come crawling towards me on a black plastic mulch yesterday, and dispatched it. (DDs told me they found a tick on the kitchen floor in the morning after I’d come back in briefly, but we decided that even if I’d brought it in, since I didn’t see it, that one didn’t count
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- Last week, I had trouble falling asleep, waking up frequently feeling itchy or “something” on my face (which is normally loose hair or eyelash), and about the third time I woke, I felt something on my scalp and managed to pinch hold a smallish tick that had just begun to burrow into the outer layer of my skin — it came off easily and was flushed down the toilet.
Etc….
Definitely do a basic tick check and don’t ignore if you feel something creeping on your skin.
)I seem to have an unwritten pact with my garden that I shall encounter 1 tick per day.
- I had my quota come crawling towards me on a black plastic mulch yesterday, and dispatched it. (DDs told me they found a tick on the kitchen floor in the morning after I’d come back in briefly, but we decided that even if I’d brought it in, since I didn’t see it, that one didn’t count
)- Last week, I had trouble falling asleep, waking up frequently feeling itchy or “something” on my face (which is normally loose hair or eyelash), and about the third time I woke, I felt something on my scalp and managed to pinch hold a smallish tick that had just begun to burrow into the outer layer of my skin — it came off easily and was flushed down the toilet.
Etc….
Definitely do a basic tick check and don’t ignore if you feel something creeping on your skin.
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Gary350
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- Joined: Mon Mar 23, 2009 1:59 pm
- Location: TN. 50 years of gardening experience.
Several hours later the 1" diameter swollen red place is gone bleach took care of it. Wife cut my hair a week ago when it was 90° now it feels like winter again 70° high every day & 5 days of rain. Short hair makes it easier to find ticks but my head is cold. Every fall I stop cutting my hair it keeps my brain warm all winter. Wow 7" long gray hair photo I look like a hippie freak fossil.