blake
Life Member
<font color="red">Spring, unfortunately, means ticks as well as turkeys and morels. Tick bites are extremely unpleasant, and can carry some serious human diseases, like Rocky Mountain spotted fever and Lyme disease. Turkey hunters and mushroom hunters should be extra careful, since they spend so much time in the woods.</font>
Deer Ticks link
Precautions
• Check yourself thoroughly and regularly for ticks while turkey & mushroom hunting!
• Check yourself thoroughly for ticks before getting back into the car.
• Remove your clothes when you return from the woods, and check them for ticks. Some people recommend setting your clothes in a white bathtub, where ticks will be easier to spot.
• Tucking your pants cuffs into your boots and duct tape around the cuff. Also wearing light colored clothing can make it easier to spot crawling ticks.
Treat pants and socks with Permanone. This insecticide must be sprayed on hours in advance in order to dry and permeate the fabric, but then you are well protected. The treatment will last a week or so even if the clothes are laundered. Thoroughly read the instructions on the Permanone label. It’s sold at Wal-Mart in the sporting goods section."
Removing Ticks
<font color="red">Use tweezers, and grasp the tick by the head, near the point where it is buried in the skin.
Kill the tick after removal by burning it, flushing it down the toilet, or dropping it in rubbing alcohol. (If you are worried about the possibility of the tick carrying a disease, you will need to keep the tick alive by putting it in a sealed baggie with a damp paper towel; this way your doctor can figure things out better later.)
Wash and disinfect the bite thoroughly.</font>
Deer Ticks link
Precautions
• Check yourself thoroughly and regularly for ticks while turkey & mushroom hunting!
• Check yourself thoroughly for ticks before getting back into the car.
• Remove your clothes when you return from the woods, and check them for ticks. Some people recommend setting your clothes in a white bathtub, where ticks will be easier to spot.
• Tucking your pants cuffs into your boots and duct tape around the cuff. Also wearing light colored clothing can make it easier to spot crawling ticks.
Treat pants and socks with Permanone. This insecticide must be sprayed on hours in advance in order to dry and permeate the fabric, but then you are well protected. The treatment will last a week or so even if the clothes are laundered. Thoroughly read the instructions on the Permanone label. It’s sold at Wal-Mart in the sporting goods section."
Removing Ticks
<font color="red">Use tweezers, and grasp the tick by the head, near the point where it is buried in the skin.
Kill the tick after removal by burning it, flushing it down the toilet, or dropping it in rubbing alcohol. (If you are worried about the possibility of the tick carrying a disease, you will need to keep the tick alive by putting it in a sealed baggie with a damp paper towel; this way your doctor can figure things out better later.)
Wash and disinfect the bite thoroughly.</font>
