Best way to not get ticks

[iiranger]

O.K.

Modern diet is way to focussed on starches which leave the body acid and tasty and attr4ractive to insects... reflects "un-health..." So it would be GREAT to cut way back on junk food, bubble drinks like pop and beer (darn), etc. Any sugar or simple starch. Good protein and complex carbs (colored veggies).

B). If you understand, the vitamin B1, also called thiamine, in excess will spill out onto the skin and you will taste AWFUL to pests. i). You need to be getting enough of all B vitamins or this doesn't work. [Laeatrile is B-17 now...] Can't live on twinkies and beer and expect this to work. A "one a day" twice a day is a fair start. Natural source is liver. The other is fermented foods like real bread, cheeses, vinegar... vinegar from the health food store with the "mother wort" still in it, etc. Then you add a small amount of B-1... 50 mg? 100 mg? so it leaks out and the bugs will flee. You won't believe it until you hit this level. Then you still won't believe, just watch it work in amazement. Scouts will land. They taste with their feet. They will scream (in bug) "FOUL" and fly away and the swarm might swarm but won't land, well a few scouts every so often...

The second suggestion, sulphur, is, again, largely absent from the diet. Easy is the yoke of eggs. The yellow is sulphur. Eggs will lower your chloresterol, but when the main stream doctors found they had been wrong they were not loud admitting it. Or you can eat small amounts. Sulphur is also high in the onion/garlic family. Compounds resembling the old "sulfa drugs" of yesteryear. Maybe you have heard of an infection "cured" by a poultice of onion or garlic... There is a "cure" for the super bug outside the USA, based on garlic. Drug companies haven't welcomed it yet. No profits.

Beyond that there are herbs in legion. Lavender. Some mints. Oil of ??? You have to ask the old women... Nice thing there, you will smell, --IF you don't get cheap and buy some imitation of the smell that game can spot at 500 yards-- like the local plants and "blend in..."

And what works for people can work for any other warm blooded mammal like a dog. Need a little care and checking. I never guessed that chocolate and raisins would "do in" fido... LUCK.

 

[atomchaser]

garlic pills + deet on exposed skin + permethrin treating clothing.

 

[bdg146]

wow i had no idea this many people were scared of ticks.

Lyme disease scares me. For some it's no big deal... some antibiotics and things are fine. For others it affects them for a LONG time. I don't want to deal with that.

I realize to have a good chance of contracting it, the tick has to be in you for something like 24 hours. A thorough check when you get home should alleviate that risk, but I still find myself distracted with it while I'm out hunting. I find myself being preoccupied with checking for ticks when I'm out in the woods, and anything that takes away from what would otherwise be a relaxing experience is worth taking seriously. To me, hunting is just as much about being out there as it is about actually getting something.

 

[308win]

Around central Ohio ticks only seem to be particularly bothersome around morel time (mid/late April to early May). Spring turkey season may be a little early for them although not being a turkey hunter right now I could be totally wrong on that. Either that, or when I am hunting groundhogs and Coyotes I am not where the ticks are - nor the Coyotes very often.

As for the Lyme disease, we get a few cases of that reported in the paper every year.

 

[280shooter]

I had Lyme disease for over 2 years before they found out why i was sick,, Yes IM A WHOLE lot scared of Lymes,, If you never had it,I hope you never get it.. it never leaves your body.. you'll always have it.I had to go back for more meds after 6 months,I have blood work ever 6 months to make sure its under control,

 

[Dr. Tad Hussein Winslow]

Sorry to hear that, 280 - hope we can all learn from your heartache!

 

[KevinAbbeyTech]

If you have a tick, put some dish soap (like dawn) on it, and it will let go without having to pull it off.

 

[caribou]

Live in Alaska!

Only horse flys and misquitos by the sq foot for 2 months a year

 

[bdg146]

Live in Alaska!

Never thought about using the tick angle. I'll run that by the fiancee. Pretty sure that isn't gonna fly though

 

[Inspector3711]

I moved to Kansas and this place is loaded with them. We have a couple of dogs and during the summer I'll pull one or two off them every day. We treat them with Frontline so the ones I miss die within 24 hours. The best thing I have used to remove ticks is a little plastic crowbar made just for that purpose.

If you have a tick, put some dish soap (like dawn) on it, and it will let go without having to pull it off.

Exactly what I was going to write. I learned the Dawn trick from our friends in Kansas last July. We were fishing in the strip pits... Tick-o-rama.

 

[hardluk1]

Well a , well , i guess i have tried panny hose for ticks after getting covered with small ticks ,i mean covered on my legs. Must be funny to see 2 grown men standing around in there undies sweeping little bitty ticks off use around perry florida one year. We shot 2 nice hogs and just could not get to them with out putting those thangs on and going in to hunt them up to help keep them off. Even the spray did not help much . Pick'n then up waist high off the bushes so also hard on white tee shirts. Never again .. The tick spray does work but everthing in the woods down wind can smell it. And it is diedly for use.

 

[Brian Dale]

Yup, appropriate to bring up this thread. April's when they get thick around here; I've taken two off my dog and one off the cat in the past two days.

I use DEET. Lots and lots of DEET, especially on my shoes or boots, my socks and my trousers. I also check for 'em, thoroughly, when I come in from the woods. A couple of my neighbors have been infected with Lyme disease and, as others have posted here, it's no good thing to have.

 

[publiuss]

i haven't had one in years but I always used tweezers. I wonder how well one of those liquid nitrogen wart freezers would work?

 

[target1911]

wow i had no idea this many people were scared of ticks.
here in OK ticks are everywhere. just pull them off and forget about it. if you see any type of rash, get it checked out though that's rare.

however, since in the summer time you can pick up around 50 just walking through tall grass, i drink two tablespoons of vinegar a day, diluted of course.
surely a big tough hunter could tough it out?

It IS a big deal. You dont always get the noted "BULLS EYE RASH". I did not get the rash and I here to tell you that LYME SUCKS.

 

[308win]

Go morel hunting too early. I went today (Licking County) and did not get one tick nor morel. Next weekend if we get a warm night or two this week and the morels - and the ticks - will be out.

 

[JImbothefiveth]

I wonder how well one of those liquid nitrogen wart freezers would work

It might freeze you as well as the tick, and you still might get lyme. Just a guess though.

 

[Cpt. America]

Eat matchheads, start a week before you go into the field. It'll give you a "pleasent" oder and ticks won't mess with you.

 

[scythefwd]

permethrin or pyretherin sprays on your clothing. DONT put the clothes on until it has dried though. DEET is also pretty good at keeping the ticks away. Do a check each and every time you go out. Ticks will ride on your clothes for a while before they bite sometimes so removing your clothes removes that little risk. I also take a good bath after I come in from the field to drown any that may be in my hair before they bite.

 

[spiroxlii]

I was wondering how long it would be before somebody pointed out that garlic and onions contain sulfur compounds. iiranger nailed it. If you guys have heard that sulfur works, then it makes sense that garlic would work. After you eat garlic, some of the sulfurous compounds actually come out through the pores in your skin for up to a day or two.

I've been working in the woods and grassy fields since I was little, and I have had two ticks on my body in my entire life. Now I know that my Korean diet (rich in garlic) may have something to do with it!

 

[noob_shooter]

it's a bit noisy, but i sometimes would wear nylon clothes when hunting. Ticks and other insects can't grab on nylon clothes. They'll fall off when you're walking and rubbing tree/twigs..

put on my usual hunting clothes/jackets or whatever and then wear like a nice wind breaker pants and light jacket with a hood over

 

[neuf08]

I swear by garlic. It seems to work incredibly well for not having problems with ticks. I also hate them and have seen too many lives practically ruined by Lyme Disease to fool around. I take every precaution necessary. Of course I am careful about how I dress when in heavily wooded areas (tuck everything in to prevent them from getting in clothes), check myself over very carefully when done, and even careful check my hair and scalp. Many people will even give garlic to their dogs to prevent them from picking them up as well. I definitely think that garlic helps a lot.

 

[Kentucky Windage]

Just ordered several of those tick twisters -- looks pretty useful.

 

[CSA 357]

STAY IN THE HOUSE

 

[Encoreman]

Okay, I have never personally used this technique as I just got it this week. To easily remove a tick: take a cotton ball and saturate with a liquid anti-bacterial soap, daub this onto the tick real easy and plenty of soap. This cuts off his air supply and he will turn loose and back out. They said this was especially effective for children. Mac

 

[BP44]

Please dont

burn them off
twist them off
pull them off by their body

use a tick puller or even a fine pair of tweezers and grasp as close to the head and pull directly out. I am not a doctor (I am a EMT though) but i spend over six months of my year in the woods all over the western half of the nation and these are tried and true methods that reduce leaving the ticks head in the bite area as well as squeezing its contents back into yourself risking infection.