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How to prevent Lyme disease this summer? Not been out since covid. Looking a bit like skeletor but thats OK. I mean, is there anywhere safe these days. You c
by reify 3y ago
How to prevent Lyme disease this summer?
Not been out since covid. Looking a bit like skeletor but thats OK.
I mean, is there anywhere safe these days.
You could catch anything out there. All those viruses and germs in the air and people breathing on you.
Now I can catch lyme disease off of those sneaky sneaky Ticks living in the long grass.
Thank heaven I dont go out.
I wont catch that bugger!
The new staying in! Dont go out!
- treflop 3y agoAs far as I know, Lyme disease is much worse than COVID and most other common diseases that you can just catch randomly.
- newaccount74 3y agoThe article is pretty clear: wear long sleeved clothes, tuck your pants in your socks, check your body for ticks when you get home. Ticks are dangerous, but if you are careful the risk is low.
- chickenchase-rd 3y ago[flagged]
- rapjr9 3y agoA neighbor caught a tick borne disease (not Lyme) even though she took precautions. The tick came off a tree onto her head and she didn't notice it there. So consider all attack angles. Watch out for West Nile also!
- microtonal 3y agoFWIW ticks generally don’t jump from trees, which is a common misconception: https://wgme.com/amp/news/i-team/ask-the-i-team-do-ticks-jump-off-trees-onto-people https://wgme.com/amp/news/i-team/ask-the-i-team-do-ticks-jum... If she didn’t notice it, it’s more likely the tick got on here from grass tips or bushes and worked its way up.
- bregma 3y agoThis. They crawl around on you for a couple of hours looking for a nice quiet warm moist place to tuck in, which is why permethrin works. Also, they like quiet warm moist places. Yes, especially there.
- rapjr9 3y agoMaybe, but that's what she told me. She was wearing treated clothes and footwear. Maybe she was gardening or something and had her head closer to the ground.