How to Do a Tick Check | Tips for You and Your Pets
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- čas přidán 26. 06. 2024
- Tick expert, Dr. Thomas Mather, explains how to do a tick check on yourself and your pets. After spending time in a tick habitat, it’s important to do a thorough tick check. While many recommend checking from head to toe, Dr. Mather recommends checking from the lower part of your body first and then moving up, because that’s how ticks move, from the ground up.
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Put a mirror on the floor and be sure to check your nether regions if you don't have someone to check for you. Guys, lift up the frank and beans, check under,behind and all around.
Indeed. I have had many ticks over the years in my crotch and butt crack areas.
Sack check!
That made me giggle
I just picked one off my beans the other day lol!
You can buy and wear treated clothes or treat your own. Gamehide has their Elimatick line of clothing. Sawyer Permethrin spray in pump bottles or aerosol cans. Both really work. You spray your clothes yourself, wash normally. I hang mine up to dry. You can tumble dry, but a lot is lost in the dryer. The Gamehide clothes are good for 70 washes. The ones that you treat yourself are good for 6 washes. A tick just walking on a pair not real new Gamehide pants died after less than 30 seconds on the pants. Saw it walking on the dogs fur. Caught it snd put it on a pair of Gamehide pants. It seemed agitated after 15 seconds. I kept moving the pants to keep it in sight. Put it quart ziploc bag with lots of air. It was dead when I checked a few minutes later.
My method:
1) step outside onto patio for a few minutes to enjoy nature.
2) come back inside and sit at computer.
3) wait until i feel feathery touch on the back of my hand/forearm/neck
4) roll eyes and grumble, "Seriously?! All I did was step outside for a few minutes."
5) remove tick and dispose of creatively and vindictively
Tick Check:
Step 1: get naked
Step 2: put clothes in the washing machine
Step 3: look at every inch of your skin
Step 4: look again, then take a thorough shower
Great information, thank you.
How to do a tick check:
Step 1: check for ticks.
You’re done.
Whoa, slow it down for me a little... :)
Thank you for this video series. Love your dog!!!!
Me too
Thanx
Every tick bite I’ve ever had has been right in the middle or be at the shoulder blade of my back
I’ve found ticks on me that were so small I had to zoom in with my phone and then zoom that image to see it. It was just a tiny black dot if I didn’t zoom in. They were so small I couldn’t even feel them walking on me. I measured one and it was about 1/2 mm in size (about 0.02”). My method now is to take a hot shower right after getting in the house and put the clothes in the laundry for washing.
Friggen deer ticks are so tiny
If I don’t have daily access to a dryer what can I use are some substitutes that I can use
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Doing a tick check is almost Too Little / Too Late.
Prevention is 90 %.
Ticks climb, don't ( can't ? ) decend.
A mirror, or better yet, Two, is secondary to someone checking you.
A shower doesn't hurt.
Actively check, recheck, re-recheck for 5 days ( 7 better ).
A week of checking is better than a lifetime of suffering.
For man and beast.
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Give your dogs NextGuard once a month. Any tick that bites your dog dies. Still check but you won't find a live one attached.
Not quite… they fall off and find YOU!
@ChristineMaentz They only get poisoned when they bite your pet. They never detatch as they die in place.
Earlier this spring I was working on fences in a field for a couple days. I ended up finding over 50 ticks on me between the two days, maybe 20-25 were attached, the rest were still loose and crawling.
I really dislike ticks......
Oh my god, that sounds so awful. I’m so sorry that happened to you
@@MonicaDG thanks! it wasn't one of the most fun things ever....lol
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What does that tagline mean, _One little episode is all it takes to get a tick...?_
How tick die naturally??
So quick question
Can ticks get blown around by the wind
A recent study shows they can use static electricity to more easily attach as you walk by, but it would probably take significant wind to get them airborne.
Sitting next to my husband at our son's tennis match (under trees & high population of ticks) I saw them appear on my husband's arm, stomach, etc. They either dropped from the trees above (I know they say they don't do this) or were blown by the wind.
What about ears?
Reminds me of a Brad Paisley song.
Just leave them in place until they’re engorged and release easily, about three days, then “pop” them and use the fluid and carcass to flavor your coffee
You've heard of tick-born illnesses right??? When a tick becomes engorged with blood it starts to regurgitate or backwash into your bloodstream, which is when a diseased tick is most likely to infect you with any of the many tick-born infectious diseases they can carry.
The earlier a tick is found and removed, the less likely you are to be infected with any of the many diseases the tick may have been carrying.
Around 80% of the ticks I find on myself are at my hairline on the back of my head. Another good way to find ticks is to stay perfectly still. You then can feel them move on you skin
I’ve had them so small that even looking right at them and seeing them moving I can’t feel them. I measured one and it was about 1/2 mm in size.
Not good at all! Usually when I get the ones that small, I get a ton of them! Mostly I get them 2-3 MM. I train duck dogs all year around, I get my share. The tiny ones pack a punch too!.
@@joeo7257 fortunately I’ve never been bitten by one (that I’m aware of🤞🏻) but it’s always been just one that I find.
That's why when I go hiking I go au naturel.
I had a tick bite years ago. And it was attached in the back of my knee 😳
Also the back of the neck. I think that the warmth of close to the surface blood vessels may be attractive.
@@davidguelette7036Yep, that's where my mom found one, she didn't notice right away because of her necklace, only when she went to slide the lobster clasp back behind her neck did she feel it MOVE!!!!! 😱😱😱
Thanks, God, for making ticks. Good job again. You really want the best for us
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And thanks a lot for those great white sharks, bull sharks, and tiger sharks. And thanks a lot for venomous snakes
And bad backs and poorly-designed knees. Oh yeah, and plagues, tsunamis, cancer, rapists, murderers, childhood diseases, car accidents, starvation... What a guy.
@@larryparis925a lot of that stuff God doesn’t even cause
@@noahcole6856 So, he's powerless to prevent them? Guess he's not all-powerful. Or, he does have the power but choses not to? Then he's evil.
@@larryparis925 ticks coming into the earth we’re likely another punishment of Adam when he disobeyed
Thank God that they don't fly.
Is that the best that so-called all-powerful dude can do? I'm not impressed.
We all got bit behind the ears
Dr. do not check your dog for ticks when it is sitting on your lap like that. If there is any climbing the fur, now they are on you.
Wow, thanks for so little information tick guy. Least informative tick video so far for me.