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WildCondor
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Hey!

Where is the best place to get a tick tested? Can somebody post how to store the tick (keep it alive) and have it be sent out for testing for Lyme, babesia, Ehrlichia etc.?

Thank you!!

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Kara Tyson
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I always advise people to store the tick in a small caped cylinder normally used for film (you can buy them cheap at a film store) with a wet cotton ball.

The cylinder is easy to ship and protects the tick.

IGENEX test and so does Boston Biomedical (last I heard).

**the tick doesnt have to be alive. Just 'fluffy'

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Posts: 6022 | From Mobile, AL | Registered: Apr 2001 | IP: Logged |

kayaker
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Hello Secondtime, We got our ticks tested at Igenex Labs. also put them in a film cup with a small cotton ball - tad of water.
Call or e-mail igenex and find out their instructions as of today. I just pull up Igenex labs on search engine and all contact info is there. Good Luck. Denise (miamilady)

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Lymetoo
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and if you don't have a container, I put mine in a ziploc with a cotton ball and put it into a bubble pack.

Kara is right....it doesn't have to be alive.

I still wonder about the tick I had tested. I've had nothing but trouble ever since my supposedly Lyme/babesia-free tick bite two months ago.

I guess they can't test for every strain of Lyme!

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Carol in PA
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WildCondor,

Put the ticks in a plastic baggie with a piece of damp cotton.
Igenex lab
Tick test request form: http://www.igenex.com/formset2.htm

(Download DOC form, and print.)
You can have all the ticks tested in one batch, for several diseases.

Hope this helps.
Carol

Posts: 6956 | From Lancaster, PA | Registered: Feb 2004 | IP: Logged |

WildCondor
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THANK YOU all very much! The quick responses are great! I have the tick in a ziplock with a cotton ball on its way to IgeneX.

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