Posted on 06/16/2014 8:41:55 PM PDT by blam
Ted Siefer
June 16, 2014
Deer ticks, also known as blacklegged ticks, are the prime carriers of Lyme disease, which is particularly common in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic.
Large numbers of ticks, the parasites that carry Lyme disease, are expected to emerge in New England in the coming weeks, experts said on Friday.
Abundant snow over the winter and a wet spring have created ideal conditions for ticks to come out in the warm weather and try to latch onto hosts, they said.
"The next three to four weeks is the peak season of risk," said Sam Telford, an infectious disease professor at Tufts University and an authority on Lyme disease.
"That's when the nymphal ticks emerge and appear in large numbers. It's going to be gangbusters the next few weeks," Telford said.
The nymphs, some as small as a period in a newspaper, are much harder to detect than the full-grown ticks more commonly seen in the fall.
At a site he monitors on Nantucket, Telford found twice the number of ticks last week as he did last year.
The University of Rhode Island, which operates the Tick Encounter Resource Center, has placed its tick alert level at red, or high, for the entire Northeast and Mid-Atlantic region based on reports from a network of tick surveyors.
Lyme disease is caused by bacteria carried by the blacklegged tick, commonly known as the deer tick. Early symptoms include headache, muscle pain and fatigue, and in some cases a tell-tale bullseye rash.
The incidence of Lyme disease continues to rise in the region. New Hampshire health authorities reported nearly 1,700 cases of Lyme disease last year and the state now has the nation's highest incidence of the disease per 100,000 people, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control
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The "bulls-eye rash " occurs only in 50 % of the cases
The bulls-eye is only but one observable indicator
The bacterium is like a spirocete and virus in that it has a flagella (tail-like ) that allows it to travel through the bloodstream
if it rests in a bone joint, it can become arthiritis
If it rests in avital organ , it can manifest itself in many ways .
It has the ability to form an 'over coat' , like a virus , and can lay dormant for 15 - 20 years before it reappears.
Most doctors don't know how to treat it as the symtoms can lay dormant for a number of years, depending on where they lay dormant.
If bitten , contact a doctor who has current information about tick bites; if ignorqant , get another doctor for tratment .
Like ADD (learning disability), there are no specific symptoms - but rather a series of symptoms, some of which may , or may not , occur.
Treatment : Antibiotics for 14 - 21 days
Search online for specifics and recent suggestions and more recent information.
Prevention : Rubber bands on long pant legs , and/or , spray with pyrethrum (natural/ flower insecticides)
Wear 'flea collars' specific to fleas and ticks for annimals, especially where deer are known to inhabit.
Ticks are known to alternately infect rabbits , chipmonks, squirrels, and other 'warm blooded' annimals .
I had three tick bites last summer while visiting friends in New Hampshire, and after doing internet research online, I knew more than my doctor.
This is an unknown issue that many doctors will overlook, or be ignorant about; be assertive as you may know know more than the doctor !
Get antibiotic treatment within the first week and you may overcome this debiliatating disease of Lyme , or several other diseases that the tick is the vector of creating.
This is nothing to screw with ..
It bugs me too!
My sister caught Lyme Disease trail riding on her horse, two years ago. She thought it was not something to worry about. However, the Lyme, bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi, did damage to her heart muscle control system. One heart chamber began pushing the blood out in an irregular manner causing blood cavitations. These blood cavitations eventually caused a blood clot in her brain, causing a lost of function in one side of her body. Luckily, she made it to the hospital soon enough to mitigate the damage. At 59 she has to walk with a cane. She no longer has her horse.
You are spot on! Read my Post #23. Lyme Disease is a killer.
I contracted Lyme Disease in 1994, after a tick bite in the woods of the Virginia Mountains (Clark County, 1 hour west of DC). I was treated about two months after the tickbite, when I had an infection I thought was a toothache in my left jaw. The tick bit me on my waistline.
I had a second treatment in September, with higher grade antibiotics. then, on December 21, they found me walking in those woods, incoherent and with low body temp, low pulse rate, and low blood pressure.
It was January 2 before they actually properly diagnosed me, and began a daily intravenous drip of a powerful anti- and it worked well.
I could have died quite easily had I not been observed and help called. God looks after us fools. I did not know I had it for two months, because when I discovered the tick I just pulled it off and flushed it.
BUT, any time you get a tickbite of ANY kind, assume the worst and get checked. In 1994, due to low incidence nationally, my blood sample was sent to Mayo Clinic for diagnosis. Today the testing can be done locally almost anywhere Lyme Disease has been observed.
I’ve sprayed Sevin around my yard for years. My dogs are both gone now though.
It’s too late.Those damn ticks are already out there.I took my dog for a walk and upon ending it I found three ticks on her and all we did was walk on the grass along the roads.
Check your dog immediately after there walk so you can catch those critters before they have a chance to hide.
Soviet Red Hampshire is LOADED with ticks this year...a judgement against people who support abortion and sodomite marriage, I suppose.
Already had Lyme Disease positive dogs this Summer. I rarely find the disease but it seems this Spring is different.
“Said to return if a bulls eye appears.”
Less than 50% of Lyme infected patients actually get that bulls eye rash.
“I knew more than my doctor.”
It’s easy to know more than most doctors who think the CDC is the last and best word on everything. On Lyme, the CDC knows Jack. Unfortunately, more than 300,000 cases of Lyme are being diagnosed every year(those are just the ones being caught). That’s more than AIDS numbers. But, right now, it’s simply not pc enough to be looked at seriously by the CDC who really want to look good in front of sodomy activists.
West Michigan - the mosquitoes are still really bad. Found a tick for the first time on my 10 year old maltese mix about 3 weeks ago. We keep his hair super short plus it’s thin as he is 1/4 yorkie. It was up at the base of his neck an easily felt spot and when I discovered it, it had already swollen to the size of a raisin. Smashed the cr@p out of that little bugger and my dog had an open sore from the head of the tick about 1cm in diameter. Kept it doused with peroxide. We live on 10 acres of dense woods and in 10 years this is the first one he has had.
I use K9 Advantix for my dogs. Repels and kills ticks up to 4 weeks. Repels and kills mosquitoes for 4 weeks (for those up in Michigan :)). Not safe for cats.
My neighbor died from Lyme at 42. When he contracted it it was unknown in this area so diagnosis was very late. Despite aggressive treatment later, damage before death included both hip replacements, brain damage, heart damage. This is nothing to mess around with.
I've read that often times when a doctor makes a Lyme Disease diagnosis in a 'new' area, property values decline.
My only word of advice is that doxycyline does a number on your body! Stay out of the sun and take plenty of probiotics!
This is the most under diagnosed disease in the country and believe me FRiends,
It is in every state in the the Union, this is not just an east coast thing.
I friend of mine who spends a lot of time on Cape Cod in the summer, found a tick in her bed. She found a bull eye spot and then later, after she came back to Houston she became extremely sick with fever, terrible pain and swelling in her knees.
Yes, all the signs but she was tested and she did not have Lyme disease. I would have insisted that my doctor treat me as if I had it, but she would not do that. I think she was in denial and the blood test was all she needed to continue denying it.
” At 59 she has to walk with a cane.
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Good lord,she’s lucky to be alive.
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She was treated with antibiotics and was okay.
Somebody will blame this on Global Warming (TM), as sure as I’m sitting here.
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
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