Bathing helps... Take a shower every now and then, and if you see a tic... Pull it out. Problem solved.
Apparently the Lone Star ticks causing alpha-gal are not the same are the deer ticks causing Lyme.
Lyme takes a minimum of 24 hours of being embedded to be able to even begin to transmit it.
My understanding is that one bite from the LST is enough to sensitize someone.
We live in tick country (NH) and do a tick check every single evening if we’ve been outside that day.
If they’re not embedded the most sure way of removing them from the gene pool is a piece of scotch tape. Put it on their back and they stick to it, wiggling their little legs helplessly in the air (love it), and I fold the tape over, seal it together around the edges, and toss it in the trash. They cannot get out of the sealed up tape.
Even the ones we pull off get the tape treatment, but we put them there.