Ticks

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Look lads if you get a tick on you get it checked out, Ticks have gotten quite nasty recently

 

Here is a post I found on a shooting forum recently be aware

 

 

 

Just been diagnosed with Lymes disease and just started a course of stronge antibiotics to shift it. Luckily I noticed the red rash around the old tick bite and went to the doctors straight away. The rash came on about a week and a half after I noticed the tick on me and apparently is only the third or fourth confirmed case that my young doctor had seen.

Since my visit I have been reading up on it and I have been scared to death by what I have read. This thing is really grim and the effects are worse the longer you have it. Eventually leading to Cronic Arthritis, Depression, Headaches, and all sorts of things including death in some cases.

 

I read in the daily mail only yesterday that some bloke (38) commited suicide after getting cronic depression and contant joint pain which was slowly crippling him.

 

It seems to be on the increase down south especially Hampshire and Dorset.

 

So if you do get bitten by a tick whilst you are out hunting, watch out for the red rash up to the size of an orange around the bite area. If you notice one get down to the docs ASAP as the other consequences dont bear thinking about.

 

here is a bit more on what was said.

 

Extracted from some medical textbooks of mine:

 

First reported 1975, Old Lyme, Connecticut.

 

Causative organism: Borrelia burgdorferi (a spirochaete bacterium)

Transmitted by: Ixodes dammini (a tick usually found on deer)

 

Red spot(s) appears within a month at the bite site...spot(s) expand....fever...fatigue...headache....muscle and joint pain.....enlarged lymph nodes....

 

Organism may eventually infect every organ......several months later 15% develop nervous system complications lasting months or years.....in 50% of cases joints are affected.....can be passed from mother to unborn child....

 

If early skin pattern is recognised and treatment given, the disease can be quickly clearded up with antibiotics and other drugs and complications are mostly avoided.

 

I didnt realise how bad a tick can be

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I agree that is a very useful post. It is mad how somthing so small can be so dangerous! (A bit like the Chinese) LOL

[BRYKAY 2]

I ALWAYS CARRY A BOTTLE OF MADE UP PEROXIDE AND STERILIZED WATER

IN THE CAR (50/50 ON 30% VOL PEROXIDE) SO IF IM OUT WITH THE DOGS AND

NOTICE ANY ON THEM ON THE DOGS I CAN NIP THEM OFF AND TIP SOME

PEROXIDE IN THE HOLE AND THIS FIZZES OUT ANY HEAD,LEGS OR CRAP THAT

MIGHT BE IN THERE. IT DOESN'T MAKE THE DOGS JUMP OR YELP BUT MAKE SURE YOU

HAVN'T ANY CUTS ON YOUR FINGERS WHEN DOING IT!!!

[johnnyboy28 1]

I use parafin oil

Dab some on the ticks arse and they release there heads from the dog straight away

this takes away any worry of the heads staying in

i was taught this by an old man about 20 years ago on ticks the ferret's used to get

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