Tick talk

[thewoodlands]

Already have the permethrin spray on my boots and wood cutting clothes. The ticks have been out in force this year already. We have taken at least 6 off our dog and had one attached to me. It gets worse every year

I have some stuff sprayed but will do more, the wife will need more clothing sprayed too.

 

[bigealta]

We use a lint roller on our clothes and the dog when we come in from a walk, today the wife had one tick on the lint roller from the bottom of here pants, none for the dog. This is the first tick since the snow left the trails that came off on the lint roller.

We do use Permethrin but we haven't sprayed a lot of our clothing yet.

Plan on respraying clothes today with permethrin. 2 sets of pants, socks, t shirts, long sleeve shirts, hats, and shoes.

 

[danrclem]

I just got diagnosed with Alpha-Gal a little over a week ago. I've had stomach problems for a long time but almost three years ago I started having some really bad pain. I went to the doctor but nothing they did seemed to help so I had to suffer. Awhile back I found out that some of the neighbors had Alpha-Gal. One of them had to go to the ER twice (anaphylaxis ) and another had an awful time with it for awhile. I suspected that I had it, so I asked my doctor to order me a test. He recommended that I get and carry an epi-pen with me.

Supposedly on some people the symptoms can lessen over time which is what I think mine has done but it's still no picnic. From what I've read, if you get bit by another infected tick again, your symptoms will get worse again. I bought some Sawyer .5% permethrin but it wasn't cheap for what I got. I found out that I can buy a 10% permethrin concentrate and mix it with water and it'll save me a lot of money.

So far this year I've had at least 18 ticks attached to me and last year I'm sure it was more than 20 total. I HATE TICKS!

I ain't giving up beef and pork but I will cut back. That is unless the really bad pain comes back.

 

[bigealta]

I just got diagnosed with Alpha-Gal a little over a week ago. I've had stomach problems for a long time but almost three years ago I started having some really bad pain. I went to the doctor but nothing they did seemed to help so I had to suffer. Awhile back I found out that some of the neighbors had Alpha-Gal. One of them had to go to the ER twice (anaphylaxis ) and another had an awful time with it for awhile. I suspected that I had it, so I asked my doctor to order me a test. He recommended that I get and carry an epi-pen with me.

Supposedly on some people the symptoms can lessen over time which is what I think mine has done but it's still no picnic. From what I've read, if you get bit by another infected tick again, your symptoms will get worse again. I bought some Sawyer .5% permethrin but it wasn't cheap for what I got. I found out that I can buy a 10% permethrin concentrate and mix it with water and it'll save me a lot of money.

So far this year I've had at least 18 ticks attached to me and last year I'm sure it was more than 20 total. I HATE TICKS!

I ain't giving up beef and pork but I will cut back. That is unless the really bad pain comes back.

I mix my own too, but recently learned there is a water and oil based permethrin. The 10% that i got and most people get i believe is the water based one and it supposedly lasts much less than the oil based ones.

I need to do more research but in the meantime i'm upping my clothes treatment frequency schedule.

I have the martin s pint size 10%.

 

[brewer69]

I run, train and trial Beagles year round so always in the thick brush, overgrown fields and woods with the beagles and bunnies. This spring after a Saturday training run ,I had 12 ticks on me with one attached,I typically use the Insect Shield Clothing and also spray with Perm. on hats boots and socks, works for the most part but that day I figured the ticks wouldn’t be out yet, boy was I wrong only had 1 on me since going back to my routine. I use Simparia trio works great on the hounds, occasionally my find one crawling on them but hardly ever attached and never engorged also protects against intestinal worms, fleas and heart worms, its good stuff

 

[thewoodlands]

We sprayed a bunch of clothes we wear outside when working or walking, so far this year we've taken off about six with a lint roller on the dog. Before we sprayed our clothes, the lint roller took about four off the wife and two from my clothes, usually the pants.

I'll have to see what percentage our permethrin is. I haven't been working in the woods much just mowing a bunch.

 

[danrclem]

I mix my own too, but recently learned there is a water and oil based permethrin. The 10% that i got and most people get i believe is the water based one and it supposedly lasts much less than the oil based ones.

I need to do more research but in the meantime i'm upping my clothes treatment frequency schedule.

I have the martin s pint size 10%.

I was going to buy a quart of Gordon's 10% permethrin but I just checked and it says that it contains petroleum distillates. I think I'll check out the Martin and see if I can find what it has in it.

I bought some premixed Sawyer permethrin and it's a .5% solution. I saw on youtube where one guy mixes his at a 1% solution.

Edit; I just looked on the Tractor Supply website and a person asked if it was water based and a TSC rep answered that it was.

 

[Pinesmoke]

I found a new kind of tick tonight, a High Speed tick. The wife and I went out on the bikes for a 100 ride, about 80 miles under the canopy. We got home and put the scoots in the garage and changed clothes. A half hour later I was racking for a game of pool and felt something on my ear and brushed one off onto the pool table.

Little guy must of blown out of a tree and hit me. Only thing I can figure.

 

[danrclem]

It was about two months ago that I posted about having Alpha-Gal Syndrome and everything is still about the same. My symptoms are still about the same as they were two months ago. Hopefully in time they symptoms will decrease some more where I can eat all the red meat that I want.

Some time back my dog was acting like he might be feeling bad. He just didn't have the normal energy that he usually had. He also would sometimes limp on his front leg but it didn't look very serious. About two weeks ago he started limping really bad on one of his back legs. It was getting really bad where he couldn't get up and down steps by himself, so I took him to the vet on June, 12th. They did x-rays of his legs and his spine and also did a tick test on him. The x-rays came back pretty much normal and the vet told me that he suspected some kind of tick disease that I haven't ever heard of. The tick test came back as a strong positive for Lyme disease.

I got the vet recommended drugs and it was amazing how much better he got in just one day. I'd say most of that was because of the anti-inflammatory drugs that I was giving him. He's through taking the anti-inflammatory drugs and is still taking the steroids and the anti-biotic. One other thing is that my wife was seeing him limp on a different leg than I saw him limping on. The vet says that the pain can switch, and it can be different legs at different times.

 

[Whitenuckler]

It was about two months ago that I posted about having Alpha-Gal Syndrome and everything is still about the same. My symptoms are still about the same as they were two months ago. Hopefully in time they symptoms will decrease some more where I can eat all the red meat that I want.

Some time back my dog was acting like he might be feeling bad. He just didn't have the normal energy that he usually had. He also would sometimes limp on his front leg but it didn't look very serious. About two weeks ago he started limping really bad on one of his back legs. It was getting really bad where he couldn't get up and down steps by himself, so I took him to the vet on June, 12th. They did x-rays of his legs and his spine and also did a tick test on him. The x-rays came back pretty much normal and the vet told me that he suspected some kind of tick disease that I haven't ever heard of. The tick test came back as a strong positive for Lyme disease.

I got the vet recommended drugs and it was amazing how much better he got in just one day. I'd say most of that was because of the anti-inflammatory drugs that I was giving him. He's through taking the anti-inflammatory drugs and is still taking the steroids and the anti-biotic. One other thing is that my wife was seeing him limp on a different leg than I saw him limping on. The vet says that the pain can switch, and it can be different legs at different times.

Oh wow! Sorry to hear about yourself and your dog. Thanks for letting us know as I personally don't have much experience with ticks although I hear about them quite often. I'm in PEI but I heard Nova Scotia is bad for ticks. Some people get the pet medicine before they even go. I hopeyou both make a full recovery soon and get some ribeyes.

 

[blades]

besides Lyme those little buggers carry several other pathogens. Now i have to watch out for needle ants as well. I think Mother nature is taking revenge on us lowly humans.

 

[Whitenuckler]

besides Lyme those little buggers carry several other pathogens. Now i have to watch out for needle ants as well. I think Mother nature is taking revenge on us lowly humans.

Ya I wonder how many changes their have been to their DNA ect since the industrial revolution and manmade chemicals.