heiwalove
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can they transmit lyme? what are your thoughts/opinions on this? what are your LLMD's thoughts/opinions? is there any proof, scientific or anecdotal, either way?
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there's a reason i'm asking! it's important! two dear friends have found dog ticks on their kids within the span of less than a week. when they asked me for advice i wasn't sure what to tell them; of course my instinct is to suggest they treat prophylactically (abx, homeopathics, herbs, SOMETHING), and one of them is doing just that because she's awesome and amazing.
but i'd like to know what you think. and what your LLMDs think.
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Didn't know there were such things as a dog tick. What do they look like?? We have "wood" ticks, are they the same?
I have seen ticks that have been attached to my kids that have red on them. They seem to be bigger than a deer tick. I thought maybe it was a bear tick?? My daughter has had engorged ticks on her head. Very gross. She is 3 hates me touching her hair/head and has extremely thick hair.
I posted previously about wondering if they could have LD, now I am thinking even more after hearing that other ticks may carry the disease.
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sixgoofykids
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My son got a tick mulching. I called my LLMD and talked to the PA. In an endemic area (we're in Ohio, but the PA considered it endemic since I got it here). She was of the opinion that you treat a new tick bite in his situation.
I never had a deer tick that I know of. Mine were all dog ticks.
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kreynolds
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jlc,
Click on the link to see the pictures of dog ticks. Just warning you, it's gross...
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disturbedme
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I was bitten when I was around 14 years old, so whenever I try to think back about finding the tick on me and what it looked like, it's always really fuzzy. I believe the tick on me was a dog tick or a stari. Though probably a dog tick.
We took in a dog that had hundreds of ticks on her, and that's where my tick bite[s] came from.
I'd say you need to treat regardless of the type of tick. Better safe than sorry. Most ticks carry something - they've been feeding off of who knows how many other animals and who knows what those animals were infected with, which in turn the tick picks up, which in turn you'll pick up after being bitten by it.
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heiwalove
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thanks guys! and thanks for that link, kreynolds. really helpful thread.
nefferdun
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Here in Montana there are no deer ticks or lone star ticks - I was bitten by a wood tick three years ago and developed the EM rash. When I became very sick I told the doctor about the tick and he laughed saying there is no lyme disease in Montana. 2 years later I was researching chronic fatigue online and it kept coming up with lyme connections. So I searched "lyme disease in Montana" and an article from a local newspaper came up which had been saved by the Can.Lyme site. It said there is a "cousin" to lyme disease here. In 2004 the state asked people bitten by ticks to take them to the health dept where they were sent to Rocky MT Lab in Hamilton, a few miles from where I live. 345 ticks were collected. 6 people developed the rash. I called the state epidemiologist and he told me this strain does not test. I have since found out I also got BLO from the tick. So it is absolutely true that wood ticks carry lyme. There is probably no place in the US that does not have lyme disease.
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Tincup
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For information on ticks and the diseases they carry in YOUR state...
Check Melanie's Lyme Memorial website. Excellent information. A whole list of good factual information that will answer your questions.
Click on the "state statistics" link on the left.. and then on your state.
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Thanks for the link for the dog tick pics. They are one in the same. I call them wood ticks. They are really thick this year!
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kreynolds
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jlc,
Yeah they are really bad over here as well....
I have seen more of them than deer ticks so far, but you have to remember, Dog/Wood Ticks are much larger than Deer Ticks.....
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