Deer ticks are dark colored and the size of a match head, bear ticks are the size of a pin head. Lice are gray, look like coarse salt. Live in your hair. Fleas are brown and jump. They bite your legs and make you itch. Usually live in your rug or where your pet sleeps.
From a local news bulletin: A tick takes at least 36 hours to infect you with lymes disease, do a daily body check for ticks.
From a local news bulletin: A tick takes at least 36 hours to infect you with lymes disease, do a daily body check for ticks.
I found a tick on me the one time in my life when I was dating this girl with a dog. Ex-girlfriend pronto...
I'm almost 100% sure it ws a tick. Thank god, I'd rather have a tick then lice.
Average male length.
Yeah, basically I find one appx. every two weeks for the past couple months. Never found more then one at time, or within two weeks.
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Originally posted by: SLCentral
Yeah, I shower and wash my hair daily. But, every couple weeks for the past two months, I go to scratch my head, and I grab a fvcking tick. From there, I freak out, search my hair 50 times for ticks, shower multiple times, and still find nothing. Repeat every two weeks. WHERE ARE THE DAMN THINGS COMING FROM?!
You wouldn't just "grab" a tick. Those things burrow down deep into your skin, so their evil head is subcutaneous. ANd you don't feel their presence, because they numb the area of flesh they chomp into.
If you try to pull a tick off, it's body pops off leaving the evil head & jaws still clamped under there. It takes some work to detach a tick, such as hot match head & pull with tweezers using a twisting motion. It's all in the wrist.
You wouldn't remove a tick just with fingernails, except if you got lucky & happened to catch it before it ate its way into your body.
So you probably have lice, not ticks.
Just as a precaution, read something about Lime disease to help become aware what to notice in yourself.
Originally posted by: SLCentral
Yeah, I shower and wash my hair daily. But, every couple weeks for the past two months, I go to scratch my head, and I grab a fvcking tick. From there, I freak out, search my hair 50 times for ticks, shower multiple times, and still find nothing. Repeat every two weeks. WHERE ARE THE DAMN THINGS COMING FROM?!
You wouldn't just "grab" a tick. Those things burrow down deep into your skin, so their evil head is subcutaneous. ANd you don't feel their presence, because they numb the area of flesh they chomp into.
If you try to pull a tick off, it's body pops off leaving the evil head & jaws still clamped under there. It takes some work to detach a tick, such as hot match head & pull with tweezers using a twisting motion. It's all in the wrist.
You wouldn't remove a tick just with fingernails, except if you got lucky & happened to catch it before it ate its way into your body.
So you probably have lice, not ticks.
Just as a precaution, read something about Lime disease to help become aware what to notice in yourself.
That scares the sh!t of me. Eek. I thought ticks crawl around before actually digging in?
EDIT: http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dpd/parasites/lice/headlice_penny.jpg
What I found the other day looked nothing like this. It was def. a little bigger, and looked pretty much exactly like pictures of ticks I found online. Then again, this was a few days ago.
They're really fast. Triple Crown fast.
Ticks could run from your boot to your scalp in maybe less than 60 seconds. They don't go in a beeline though.
What freaks me out is, I'll be in the middle of 3 people on the trail. The ones in front & behind me will both get ticks, & I don't. This happened several times. Then at night in my sleeping bag I lay there worrying that maybe it's on me hiding, but I can't feel it (you can't feel them).
Luckily none of us caught Lime disease yet, although in the last 35 years Lime disease has spread from genesis on Plum Island all the way to California now, and up into western Canada.
You bet! Posting this creeps me out, but maybe it'll help someone:
Ticks Commonly Encountered In California
Pics from the above link:
Western_Black_Legged_Tick = Lime Disease culprit around here
Pacific Coast Tick
Winter Tick
American_Dog_Tick
Pajahuello_tick
You can often catch ticks before they burrow deep. That isn't very surprising. And you can usually feel them to some extent. If they bite you they can make you itch a little. 90% of the time you detect them simply by scratching an itch.
The fact that you keep getting them is rather nasty though. I used to hike all over and got very few ticks in my entire childhood. Got one on my ass though, that wasn't pleasant.
The fact that you keep getting them is rather nasty though. I used to hike all over and got very few ticks in my entire childhood. Got one on my ass though, that wasn't pleasant.
HeroOfPellinor
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I'll never hear the word "tick" again without thinking of that episode of House.
But, ya, you're not supposed to pull them off as I've heard their head becomes dislodged inside you and could, in the worst case scenario, enter your freaking blood stream. You need a glob of vasoline (I'm sure you've got a few cases handy) and put a glob on it until it lets go. The one time I had one, the doctor killed it using a match and had to jab the head out with a needle.
But, ya, you're not supposed to pull them off as I've heard their head becomes dislodged inside you and could, in the worst case scenario, enter your freaking blood stream. You need a glob of vasoline (I'm sure you've got a few cases handy) and put a glob on it until it lets go. The one time I had one, the doctor killed it using a match and had to jab the head out with a needle.
Ticks seem to be in abundance this year.
They are dropping from tree leaves like Scorpions all around the Country.
They are dropping from tree leaves like Scorpions all around the Country.
HeroOfPellinor
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:roll:
http://www.anapsid.org/lyme/removingticks.html
Also, it's very unlikely you will have the head get stuck in, and if you do, there just a slight chance of infection, and no, the head itself will not "enter the bloodstream".
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