Tick on Toddler
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levigsp
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My first answer was going to be vert rude. This one less so. If you get that many ticks on yourself you are extremely careless.I’d need probably between 20 and 40 tests per annum if every time one had to be picked off. Not sure my GP would go along with it
HonestJohn
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Some of the areas I stalk, brushing 30-50 ticks off trousers as you move just 500yds isn’t abnormal. Without any tick protection, it would be 3x the figure. You probably live in a place where getting a tick is uncommon and you run to the Go crying for antibiotics - here we have balls and deal with it like men
levigsp
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I happen to live in an area that got one of the highest burdens of Ticks in the UK. i also spend most days out in this area.
I used to think like you and also thought I was the hard man! how wrong nature proved me!
As I say I am out most days and I DO NOT get ticks full stop. There is No need for anyone in UK to get ticks if the are sensible, unless in the garden etc.
And if I got one and didnt know how long it had been there, I would get antibiotic.
Rather that, then let it kill or permanently be disable me.
One final thought, get tick borne diseases and you might just lose the use of those balls!
I used to think like you and also thought I was the hard man! how wrong nature proved me!
As I say I am out most days and I DO NOT get ticks full stop. There is No need for anyone in UK to get ticks if the are sensible, unless in the garden etc.
And if I got one and didnt know how long it had been there, I would get antibiotic.
Rather that, then let it kill or permanently be disable me.
One final thought, get tick borne diseases and you might just lose the use of those balls!
phillc
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Not at all, and kept informing us that it was still red for several days afterwards.
First time I saw an attached tick was on my son, 4 at the time. Not pleasant, particularly as it almost certainly came home with me, GP not worried and said not to antibiotics.
No issues since, I am now very careful with long gauntlets when gralloching and a change of clothes as soon as I’ve skinned. My boy, now 11, comes to spectate when I go stalking so he gets a good check over when we get home with no more ticks, touch wood!
For peace of mind I keep a couple of these in, which allows you to send the removed tick or ticks off to be tested for lymes. I’m in Wiltshire, air there’s lymes about, but all 3 I’ve sent off so far - from 3 different areas, all came back clear.
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That's a handy item I didn't know existed.
Like a non specific fever within a week?
Toddlers deserve all our care.
It never ceases to amaze me how some people never gets ticks no matter whether there working with livestock or out on the hills , I’m a magnet for them and no matter what I wear or method I put on my skin I always end up with a lot .
2 days on Mull and pulled of 50-60 , my wife pulled of the ones I couldn’t reach
all the red marks are ticks removed from 1 leg as I’ve 2 
Farmers never seem to get them so maybe I’m needing a bath in Spot On .
2 days on Mull and pulled of 50-60 , my wife pulled of the ones I couldn’t reach
all the red marks are ticks removed from 1 leg as I’ve 2 Farmers never seem to get them so maybe I’m needing a bath in Spot On .
There might be some truth in that. I never pick up ticks, despite working in ticky places all day every day, and I guess I've absorbed a fair amount of various pour-on products for sheep over the years.
Don't.
Of all the insecticide products that I routinely accidentally get on my skin, Coopers Spot-On is the one that causes the most discomfort. Just take my advice and don't do it.
Side effects? You might start chasing pussy.
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