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I Googled the phrase "Ticks die after biting me" and saw the archived post from Dan, the arborist, on this web site. I also found a post from "tolkeinlover" (Vanessa Abbott?) who also has ticks "dying" to bite her. ;^ ) When ticks bite me, usually overnight when I missed finding them, my skin grows over them and they die. I am curious if anyone else reading this has had the same experience. I am a retired research scientist (chemist/biologist) with a background in medicine. FYI, Research chemist wash their hands both before, and after, going to the bathroom (at least the ones still alive do!. Also, I did not work with pesticides nor handle chemicals bare skinned. <Please re-read the previous sentence before posting!>
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Keebler
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- gatotten,
welcome. So that more can read and reply, breaking up your text:
gatotten writes:
I Googled the phrase "Ticks die after biting me"
and saw the archived post from Dan, the arborist, on this web site. I also found a post from "tolkeinlover" (. . . ?) who also has ticks "dying" to bite her. ;^ )
When ticks bite me, usually overnight when I missed finding them, my skin grows over them and they die.
I am curious if anyone else reading this has had the same experience. I am a retired research scientist (chemist/biologist) with a background in medicine.
FYI, Research chemist wash their hands both before, and after, going to the bathroom (at least the ones still alive do!.
Also, I did not work with pesticides nor handle chemicals bare skinned. Please re-read the previous sentence before posting!
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- Do you mean the skin / body tissue / scabbing? "grows" over the BITE place, where the tick mouthpiece is embedded?
Or over the whole tick? And, if so, I assume it's a very tiny one, in the nymph stage?
Maybe the critter also crawls deeper and under some of the skin? Some can go fairly far under.
How would you know for sure it would be dead? It might just be very still. Do they go dormant when digesting their meal? And, if embedded they might look dead. Tricky to excise an embedding tick and have it still be alive.
And, by embedding itself, it may be that the tick is not able to survive for too long under the skin? Inadvertently, you may have squished its tunnel and it could not back out, so to speak?
Your questions certainly prompt thought. I hope you can find answers.
If dead, and if you are on zero medications, perhaps something in your diet? Garlic, garden herbs that have medicinal effect? Genes?
For others whose posts you found, though, there could be many variables.
Do you / they have a pet with a medicated collar? Do they give a pet medication that is supposed to kill ticks if they bite? I recall a beagle from years ago.
You don't say if you ever get sick after such occurrences.
MOST VITAL Q: Did you get the embedded tick (ticks as this seems to have happened more than once for you) removed completely?
As you are in science, I assume so yet so much about ticks and lyme just doesn't get conveyed to everyone so just want to be certain. No answer required, just so that all reading this will also know. -
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