Queso Posted January 11, 2006 Report Share Posted January 11, 2006 The other day i went running through a meadow without any mass produced clothes on. A meadow that i now believe to be infested with ticks. How do i know if im being eaten alive by ticks? Is it painful? Its been about 3 days and there have been no real signs of anything down there in my foot region, so im assuming im allright but im just double checking.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay-qu Posted January 11, 2006 Report Share Posted January 11, 2006 well apparently they start small but get bigger as they feed on you and they are visible - you have to be careful removing them because if you dont get the whole thing out you can get a nasty infection:( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cedars Posted January 11, 2006 Report Share Posted January 11, 2006 The other day i went running through a meadow without any mass produced clothes on. A meadow that i now believe to be infested with ticks. How do i know if im being eaten alive by ticks? Is it painful? Its been about 3 days and there have been no real signs of anything down there in my foot region, so im assuming im allright but im just double checking.... LOL... I didnt know if this was a serious post or not, but you probably reduced the chance of picking up ticks by running naked thru the meadow... unless you have hairy legs... The most common ticks around here like to sit on top of grasses with their front feet up. When a person/dog/deer walks past, brushing the grass where the tick waits, these feet work like hooks and they grab onto the creature and begin to climb up. There are also seasons where ticks are very common. Spring and early summer here. By August, their numbers have fallen dramatically. Back of the knees, armpit area, back of the neck are areas to check. View your back via a mirror. Most are 1/8" or less in size and will not be the same color as your skin. Often they will look like a small mole. Smaller ones (such as the deer tick) are harder to find via running your fingers thru your hair. ewww... theres alot of types of tick in california http://entomology.ucdavis.edu/faculty/rbkimsey/caticks.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boerseun Posted January 11, 2006 Report Share Posted January 11, 2006 Don't stress about ticks, Orby - if you haven't found any yet, you probably don't have any. Here in Africa, ticks are a fact of everyday life - especially down here on the farm! But, hey - you can't let your life be dictated by a small little speck of crud with feet. Besides - tickbite fever is a small price to pay for running through a field nekkid! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bumab Posted January 11, 2006 Report Share Posted January 11, 2006 I'll be quoting you on that.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Queso Posted January 11, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 11, 2006 heheh thanks guys, i have extremely hairy legs.i am a beast!But, i seem to be OK. :rolleyes: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Racoon Posted March 5, 2006 Report Share Posted March 5, 2006 Ticks are really a pain in the ***! I went camping w/ GrandpaAs we left after a few days, I felt this really weird Soft Lump on my head..:steering: Turns out, some kinda' Tick was mooching of my brain blood!Doctor pulled it out with tweezers..Dude was Fat! Good thing I didn't get Rocky Mtn. Spotted Fever or nuthin'... MMMmmmmm... my head still itches. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InfiniteNow Posted March 5, 2006 Report Share Posted March 5, 2006 Yeah, ticks are a pain. I'll sometimes just be sitting there thinking evil thoughts and my neck will just twitch and my head will tilt... ticks are bad. :steering: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheBigDog Posted March 5, 2006 Report Share Posted March 5, 2006 Better wood ticks than deer ticks. Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever is bad but ends. Lyme Disease lingers... And is also transmitted sexually. Bill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GAHD Posted March 6, 2006 Report Share Posted March 6, 2006 Yeah, ticks are a pain allright. Red-hot butterknives (which you should have in supply, being a 'smoker' there Orby :steering:) are the best way to get them off since they don't like heat. Most commaon places I know the little buggers like to hide are groin, knees, armpits, back of the head/neck...any place with high bloodflow near the surface really. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drip Curl Magic Posted March 7, 2006 Report Share Posted March 7, 2006 ticks creep me out, man. How do they breathe when they have their heads burried in your flesh, anyways? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Racoon Posted March 7, 2006 Report Share Posted March 7, 2006 It's F*in creepy.. Not something you want. Thing had my head on swoll' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay-qu Posted March 7, 2006 Report Share Posted March 7, 2006 I watched a show a while ago called body snatchers - it was about parasites, there was this terrible fly thing that would lay its eggs in your skin and it would swell up with the larvae indside... not cool! now you really dont want one of them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buffy Posted March 7, 2006 Report Share Posted March 7, 2006 One of my friends just found out that she's got Lyme disease that's been causing awful and mysterious symptoms for the past year. She never had any obvious tick bites or the infamous "ring around the bite" that's supposed to indicate you got it. She's now facing a six month regimen of massive antibiotics to get rid of it. Very unpleasant. You're wise to be paranoid about this sort of thing... Cautiously,Buffy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drip Curl Magic Posted March 15, 2006 Report Share Posted March 15, 2006 no one knows how they breathe while plunging their face into your flesh? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InfiniteNow Posted March 15, 2006 Report Share Posted March 15, 2006 no one knows how they breathe while plunging their face into your flesh?They probably don't have noses which can be plugged like we think of breathing in humans... Even if they do, as small as they are it's probably analogous to us putting on a ski mask... covers, but doesn't suffocate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CraigD Posted March 16, 2006 Report Share Posted March 16, 2006 no one knows how they breathe while plunging their face into your flesh?I don’t think there’s any great mystery about how ticks breath, whether attached to a host or not. Although some relatives of the tick – spiders and scorpions – have lungs of a sort, ticks don’t. Like most arthropods, they breath through spiracles on the sides of their abdomen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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