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trying to spot ticks in heavy brush as you are walking seems like a inefficient approach. They take a while to attach so if you do a thorough review after your

trying to spot ticks in heavy brush as you are walking seems like a inefficient approach. They take a while to attach so if you do a thorough review after your activity you should be good. It's also a lot easier to strip down to your birthday suit in the privacy of your own home.

transitionnel 3y ago
Yeah, still gotta enjoy nature without a crick in the neck.
jajko 3y ago
Stripping down has massive 'corner' cases. If you are alone, good luck find one on your back, between ass cheeks and few other places. Also if you do full day activity (or god forbid multiday out in the wild), not so good. Once they reach your hair (unless you shave clean), even good luck may not be enough, very hard to spot and almost impossible alone
- giantg2 3y ago
  "Stripping down has massive 'corner' cases. If you are alone, good luck find one on your back, between ass cheeks and few other places." Mirrors or camera phones are handy.
  - jajko 3y ago
    Yes of course but not good enough, imagine darker not ultra short hair, how do you spot one on the back of your greasy hair. I live in places where lyme is barely 5% incidence, and even that not everywhere. If it would be like 80% like some mention, doing week-long hikes alone would be outright suicidal. Better chances for retirement in base jumping.
    - giantg2 3y ago
      You can feel your head for them. Even if you have one attach, Lyme is really only concern after 72 hours of attachment (other things can be an immediate concern). You should be quite itchy and notice it before then. A single dose of antibiotics is a highly effective post exposure prophylactic. Lyme is a concern, but not as bad as many in the media make it out to be.
      - zx8080 3y ago
        Lyme is not the worst thing from ticks. Tick-borne encephalitis is much worse and can effectively leave a person disabled. There's just no treatment for it.
        giantg2 3y ago
        That's why I said there are other concerns that can be more immediate. The point was that lyme is not an inevitably or death sentence. Encephalitis is one of the more rare ones.
- zikduruqe 3y ago
  Where I grew up we called that Redneck Foreplay. When you'd get home and have the significant other do a tick check.

transitionnel 3y ago

Yeah, still gotta enjoy nature without a crick in the neck.

jajko 3y ago

Stripping down has massive 'corner' cases. If you are alone, good luck find one on your back, between ass cheeks and few other places. Also if you do full day activity (or god forbid multiday out in the wild), not so good. Once they reach your hair (unless you shave clean), even good luck may not be enough, very hard to spot and almost impossible alone

giantg2 3y ago
"Stripping down has massive 'corner' cases. If you are alone, good luck find one on your back, between ass cheeks and few other places." Mirrors or camera phones are handy.
- jajko 3y ago
  Yes of course but not good enough, imagine darker not ultra short hair, how do you spot one on the back of your greasy hair. I live in places where lyme is barely 5% incidence, and even that not everywhere. If it would be like 80% like some mention, doing week-long hikes alone would be outright suicidal. Better chances for retirement in base jumping.
  - giantg2 3y ago
    You can feel your head for them. Even if you have one attach, Lyme is really only concern after 72 hours of attachment (other things can be an immediate concern). You should be quite itchy and notice it before then. A single dose of antibiotics is a highly effective post exposure prophylactic. Lyme is a concern, but not as bad as many in the media make it out to be.
    - zx8080 3y ago
      Lyme is not the worst thing from ticks. Tick-borne encephalitis is much worse and can effectively leave a person disabled. There's just no treatment for it.
      - giantg2 3y ago
        That's why I said there are other concerns that can be more immediate. The point was that lyme is not an inevitably or death sentence. Encephalitis is one of the more rare ones.
zikduruqe 3y ago
Where I grew up we called that Redneck Foreplay. When you'd get home and have the significant other do a tick check.