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The nasty little arachnids... I found one on my neck and another bloody thing was looking for a place to settle down. I am quite surprised to find them this time of the year up in the highlands after a couple quick walks to a river stream over muddy brown grass. This is less than a year since I had one in Bristol in someone's garden. And I had the anti-bug spray in the car - had I only used it!!!

Do you also find them attached more and more frequently? Have they ever caused you or someone you know any real problems rather than simple nuisance?


P.S. Be careful out in the wild nature. Not drowning in the sea, falling off of the rock or crashing a car are just the tip of a very large iceberg.
 
I'm always getting the wee beggars feasting on my legs. I try to keep on top of the treatment with the dogs as they're in and out of the bracken with deer and sheep but I'm always taking them off them. The cats pick them up too.

Lyme disease is worth knowing about but folk go a bit OTT about it.

Just one of those things you learn to live with although it's worth getting a removal tool if you don't know what you're doing twisting them out by hand.
 
Never had one but have removed loads from the cat when she was my parents' and lived more rurally.

A mate who's a gardener contracted Lyme disease after a bite about 20 years ago and although it was eventually picked up, it damn near killed him and he still has problems because of it. If you get a tick, see a doctor and take steps, it's not a fun illness! Prevention is better than a cure.
 
I've never had any problems with them in the UK, but I did get tick bite fever years ago in SA. It's fairly common, quite nasty, and can be fatal in extreme cases.
 
I can't remeber how many ticks have attached themselves over the years but it is loads. I had five after an afternoon in the garden. The numbers I find have decreased quite a lot in recent years but I thiink some nearby deer fencing may have reduced the number of deer that are getting close to us, though very occasionally a couple of roe deer still pass through the garden.

Lyme Disease can be nasty and perhaps I have been lucky but I have never had any bad effects. I don't know how many cases of Lyme Disease there are each year, but I suspect it is very small compared with the nuber of ticks that people remove from themselves every year.

It just a occupational or recreational hazard in some areas and checking yourself over if you been in an area that could have ticks is a matter of course.

Dave
 
daugirdas said:
The nasty little arachnids... I found one on my neck and another bloody thing was looking for a place to settle down. I am quite surprised to find them this time of the year up in the highlands after a couple quick walks to a river stream over muddy brown grass. This is less than a year since I had one in Bristol in someone's garden. And I had the anti-bug spray in the car - had I only used it!!!

Do you also find them attached more and more frequently? Have they ever caused you or someone you know any real problems rather than simple nuisance?


P.S. Be careful out in the wild nature. Not drowning in the sea, falling off of the rock or crashing a car are just the tip of a very large iceberg.
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Almost an all year round problem now. Worth getting a removal tool http://www.otom.com/how-to-remove-a-tick
Using that gets the entire tick out. If you just try to pull them out most times the head will remain and that easily becomes a source of infection. Pulling also causes the tick to disgorge body fluids into the wound and if it is a Lyme carrier that is not what you want.
 
How do the ticks manage to move around on your body without you feeling them? I mean you can feel a fly land on your hand or leg cant you. Or do the ticks simply dig in as soon as they get to skin and use some sort of aneasthetising thing so you dont notice? Just that Ive heard of people getting them in their groin so the ticks must have to move up your leg first before attaching?

Cheers
 
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I had one in Germany and contracted Lymes disease because of that one. was treated with antibiotics, i moved up here (highlands) last year and within weeks i got two of the little buggers. i keep a very close eye on myself now and my partner.
 
DorsetDude said:
How do the ticks manage to move around on your body without you feeling them? I mean you can feel a fly land on your hand or leg cant you. Or do the ticks simply dig in as soon as they get to skin and use some sort of aneasthetising thing so you dont notice? Just that Ive heard of people getting them in their groin so the ticks must have to move up your leg first before attaching?

Cheers
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I got one on my goolies, once. Most common place they got me was on inside of thighs. They do use an anaesthetic to stop you feeling them burrow in. Most often I never knew I had one until I was bathing. They seem to go through heavy wool socks no bother.
They can move quite quickly, too.
 
I found one on my shaft a few years ago while having a shower. It felt like a bruising sensation until I looked and almost cried like a girl because it was on my member! I've seen the little blighters all year round. In the winter months they have learned to climb the door frame and latch onto a human, they are much more cunning than we think but I guess the doors and frame look like a beacon to anything with a good sense of thermal attraction. I've also tried countless things to remove them but it usually ends up with a good set of surgical tweezers and some vodka!
 
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to remove them but it usually ends up with a good set of surgical tweezers and some vodka!
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That it, get it p***ed so it doesn't see it coming :D

I got eaten alive (well dare I say, nearly sucked dry) in the states a few years back,
They all said "all look, fresh tender British meat"
And headed for a few intimate little places. :(
 
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