Deer Tick Bite
May 29th 2014, 5:44 am
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Re: Deer Tick Bite
Hubby's been scorpion stung twice, my 10 yr old daughter twice (the first when she was 7) - we're quite casual about scorpions now! Which is lucky, as we currently have one in the sticky trap in my bathroom, and one in the trap in my daughter's bedroom (she has an external door).
I wonder do you live near the base of a mountain? or near a wash? Those locations are prone to scorpions apparently.
May 29th 2014, 7:49 am
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May 29th 2014, 10:41 am
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Re: Deer Tick Bite
This gives you a bad case of flu lasting a few days but rarely any other complications. (Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, despite its name, is supposed to be rare in CO.)
http://www.ext.colostate.edu/pubs/insect/05593.html
May 29th 2014, 2:59 pm
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May 29th 2014, 3:37 pm
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May 29th 2014, 4:05 pm
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Re: Deer Tick Bite
Well understandably not casual. Having a 7 year old stung by a scorpion can't be nice. I remember seeing kids stung by weaver fish at the beach in the UK.
I wonder do you live near the base of a mountain? or near a wash? Those locations are prone to scorpions apparently.
I wonder do you live near the base of a mountain? or near a wash? Those locations are prone to scorpions apparently.
My cross streets are McDowell and Val Vista, so it's an 'edge of the desert, former citrus groves' thing. Although her first scorpion was in the middle of Gilbert, when we first came over to look around the area prior to moving and had only been in AZ for a week. Like I said, if there's a stinging thing nearby, it'll find her!
I do my own spraying using CyKick, and it does help. There's a startling difference on our black lighting after a spray bout (every 1-2 months in summer, maybe once during winter). I've found simply wetting the ground in a mist has little effect, but squirting the stuff in a fine jet into the block wall cracks is miraculously effective.
May 30th 2014, 4:41 pm
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Re: Deer Tick Bite
I got an email that my tick has been received by the lab, and that "my" tick was female and was engorged.
She certainly didn't look engorged to me--she was so bl$$dy tiny, I thought she was a spot of dirt. But apparently she had drunk blood (probably mine) for a little while at least. They're testing for three diseases, and the results will take 3-5 days.
Meanwhile I've not felt well, but maybe that was because of the doxycycline dose, which is only now leaving my system (strong stuff). The bite has hurt now and again, but it and the bruise/rash are slowly fading. Both legs are somewhat swollen and have itchy patches that come & go, which I can ignore during the day but which become irksome at night. Again, I don't know if this is the doxy (some people report itchy skin from it) or possible Lyme, or some other possible disease the tick could have had (anaplasmosis, babesia).
Wish me luck. I'd love to have this tick turn up negative for Lyme, but I think I might go have the test in a few weeks anyway. False negatives aren't unheard of..........
She certainly didn't look engorged to me--she was so bl$$dy tiny, I thought she was a spot of dirt. But apparently she had drunk blood (probably mine) for a little while at least. They're testing for three diseases, and the results will take 3-5 days.
Meanwhile I've not felt well, but maybe that was because of the doxycycline dose, which is only now leaving my system (strong stuff). The bite has hurt now and again, but it and the bruise/rash are slowly fading. Both legs are somewhat swollen and have itchy patches that come & go, which I can ignore during the day but which become irksome at night. Again, I don't know if this is the doxy (some people report itchy skin from it) or possible Lyme, or some other possible disease the tick could have had (anaplasmosis, babesia).
Wish me luck. I'd love to have this tick turn up negative for Lyme, but I think I might go have the test in a few weeks anyway. False negatives aren't unheard of..........
May 30th 2014, 9:06 pm
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Re: Deer Tick Bite
I got an email that my tick has been received by the lab, and that "my" tick was female and was engorged.
She certainly didn't look engorged to me--she was so bl$$dy tiny, I thought she was a spot of dirt. But apparently she had drunk blood (probably mine) for a little while at least. They're testing for three diseases, and the results will take 3-5 days.
Meanwhile I've not felt well, but maybe that was because of the doxycycline dose, which is only now leaving my system (strong stuff). The bite has hurt now and again, but it and the bruise/rash are slowly fading. Both legs are somewhat swollen and have itchy patches that come & go, which I can ignore during the day but which become irksome at night. Again, I don't know if this is the doxy (some people report itchy skin from it) or possible Lyme, or some other possible disease the tick could have had (anaplasmosis, babesia).
Wish me luck. I'd love to have this tick turn up negative for Lyme, but I think I might go have the test in a few weeks anyway. False negatives aren't unheard of..........
She certainly didn't look engorged to me--she was so bl$$dy tiny, I thought she was a spot of dirt. But apparently she had drunk blood (probably mine) for a little while at least. They're testing for three diseases, and the results will take 3-5 days.
Meanwhile I've not felt well, but maybe that was because of the doxycycline dose, which is only now leaving my system (strong stuff). The bite has hurt now and again, but it and the bruise/rash are slowly fading. Both legs are somewhat swollen and have itchy patches that come & go, which I can ignore during the day but which become irksome at night. Again, I don't know if this is the doxy (some people report itchy skin from it) or possible Lyme, or some other possible disease the tick could have had (anaplasmosis, babesia).
Wish me luck. I'd love to have this tick turn up negative for Lyme, but I think I might go have the test in a few weeks anyway. False negatives aren't unheard of..........
May 31st 2014, 8:34 am
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May 31st 2014, 3:52 pm
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Jun 1st 2014, 10:11 am
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Re: Deer Tick Bite
DO NOT MESS AROUND WITH DEER TICKS.
In my opinion and in that of some doctors, if you have a deer tick bite at all, you should take the antibiotics just to be safe. But this is controversial.
There is no human vaccine, the one that was in development did not work enough to be licensed, though approved for animals.
In my opinion and in that of some doctors, if you have a deer tick bite at all, you should take the antibiotics just to be safe. But this is controversial.
There is no human vaccine, the one that was in development did not work enough to be licensed, though approved for animals.
On the second point - utter nonsense - there was a safe and effective human Lyme vaccine produced by GSK. They withdrew it from market in the face of poor sales and nonsense lawsuits designed to force them to lose money/pull it from market by the anti-vaccination nutjob crowd.
In the US, the anti-vaccine nuts cannot legally sue over adverse effects alleged from routine childhood vaccines. Instead, vaccines are taxed (which is just sad... but necessary due to the anti-vac nuts) and settlements to their nonsense allegations (and the occasional true adverse reaction) are paid for from that tax fund. Lyme wasn't a routine childhood vaccine, thus leaving GSK open to nonsense lawsuits.
Jun 1st 2014, 12:26 pm
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On the second point - utter nonsense - there was a safe and effective human Lyme vaccine produced by GSK. They withdrew it from market in the face of poor sales and nonsense lawsuits designed to force them to lose money/pull it from market by the anti-vaccination nutjob crowd.
Jun 1st 2014, 3:59 pm
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On the first point - controversial because it is a terrible idea for the good of humanity. Ever heard the phrase "post-antibiotic era?" Hopefully, it remains merely theoretical, however every unnecessary antibiotic prescription brings it closer.
On the second point - utter nonsense - there was a safe and effective human Lyme vaccine produced by GSK. They withdrew it from market in the face of poor sales and nonsense lawsuits designed to force them to lose money/pull it from market by the anti-vaccination nutjob crowd.
In the US, the anti-vaccine nuts cannot legally sue over adverse effects alleged from routine childhood vaccines. Instead, vaccines are taxed (which is just sad... but necessary due to the anti-vac nuts) and settlements to their nonsense allegations (and the occasional true adverse reaction) are paid for from that tax fund. Lyme wasn't a routine childhood vaccine, thus leaving GSK open to nonsense lawsuits.
On the second point - utter nonsense - there was a safe and effective human Lyme vaccine produced by GSK. They withdrew it from market in the face of poor sales and nonsense lawsuits designed to force them to lose money/pull it from market by the anti-vaccination nutjob crowd.
In the US, the anti-vaccine nuts cannot legally sue over adverse effects alleged from routine childhood vaccines. Instead, vaccines are taxed (which is just sad... but necessary due to the anti-vac nuts) and settlements to their nonsense allegations (and the occasional true adverse reaction) are paid for from that tax fund. Lyme wasn't a routine childhood vaccine, thus leaving GSK open to nonsense lawsuits.