PREVENTION
- Wear light-colored clothing
- Wear long sleeves and long pants tucked into socks when going into wooded or grassy areas.
- Use insecticide containing DEET.
- Caution: Do not spray directly on young childrens skin. Spray on clothing
- Bathe or shower when you return home.
- Check youself and your children carefully every night.
- Put clothing including jackets and coats in clothes dryer for thirty minutes to kill ticks.
- Use sprays and dips containing permethrins and pyrethrins on dogs, cats and horses to kill deer ticks.
- Use prescription strength tick collars obtained from a veterinarian on your pet
HOW TO REMOVE A TICK
If bitten by a tick:
- Use fine-point tweezers to grasp the tick at the place of attachment, as close to the skin as possible.
- Gently pull the tick straight out.
- Place the tick in a small vial.
- Have the tick identified/tested by a lab, your local health department or veterinarian.
- Wash your hands, disinfect the tweezer, and the bite site.
- Call your doctor to determine if treatment is warranted.
Caution:
Children should be taught to seek adult help for tick removal.
- If you must remove the tick with your fingers, use a tissue to avoid contact with infected tick fluids.
- Do not prick, crush or burn the tick as it may release infected fluids.
- Do not try to smother the tick with petroleum jelly, nail polish etc., the tick has enough oxygen to complete feeding.
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