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Brandon-
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The Granite State.
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Apr 25, 2012 - 08:12pm PT
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Two a day on me, three each at least on each of my dogs. It's a bad year here in NH too.
I was watching my Dads dog last weekend and found nine on it.
Lyme disease is out of control here, highest in the nation I think.
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 25, 2012 - 08:16pm PT
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Read the link, Brandon. Much talk about Lyme Disease with additional resources. Be vigilant.
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Brandon-
climber
The Granite State.
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Apr 25, 2012 - 08:22pm PT
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I hear you man, tick awareness is huge here. Seventy percent of deer ticks in NH carry Lyme Disease, I know a few people who have contracted it, as well as lots of dogs.
Thankfully, I only found two of them on me last year, most are dog ticks. Disease free and way easier to find.
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pell
Trad climber
Sunnyvale
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Apr 25, 2012 - 08:31pm PT
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Pfffff... just follow the following simple routines:
1. Wear a clothes that cover your skin. It is strongly recommended to put cuffs of your pants inside your socks when in bushes and/or last years grass underbush. Try to avoid bushes and underbush if possible.
2. Examine your clothes and yourself at least every hour - ticks do not bite immediately they try to find the best spot and do it really slowly.
3. Examine your buddy and ask them to examine yourself at least every hour.
4. Apply the most deadly anti-ticks spray at your clothes and backpack every 2-3 days.
5. When spot a tick on your clothes carefully take it away and burn in fire. Do not throw it away.
6. If find a tick already bit you then carefully remove it (it's not too hard to perform but also not an easy to do, I'm afraid my language is too bad to explain how to do it, sorry) and save it in sealed plastic bag. You need it for Lyme disease and/or tick-borne encephalitis test.
The most important paragraphs are #2 and #3. Inspect yourself and your buddy on a permanent basis - ticks are *very* slow and do not bite immediately. Usually you have at least one hour to spot it before it bites you.
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John Butler
Social climber
SLC, Utah
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Apr 25, 2012 - 08:42pm PT
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Little Cottonwood Canyon is a veritable tick-fest this Spring. Everyone but my climbing compadres and I should stay away until further notice.
;-)
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Apr 25, 2012 - 09:19pm PT
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The most in NH and VT this year that I have ever experienced.
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couchmaster
climber
pdx
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Apr 25, 2012 - 09:24pm PT
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I thought that the Jesse Ventura show where he pinned Lyme disease on the Gov't biochem lab in Ct was very good. Lots of interconnected facts.
Who knew that the gov't probably unleashed this sh#t on us accidentally?
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Captain...or Skully
climber
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Apr 25, 2012 - 09:25pm PT
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Pine sol baths. I'm from Arkansas & grew up on a steady routine of Pine Sol baths. A couple three capfuls in a tub, & they will ALL die.
Use some lotion after. That sh#t dries your skin after a while.
Ticks, normal ticks are nothing. Try getting 20,000 or so seed ticks.
Hideous. Tiny bastards, they are.
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 25, 2012 - 10:07pm PT
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Pfffff... just follow the following simple routines:
1. Wear a clothes that cover your skin. It is strongly recommended to put cuffs of your pants inside your socks when in bushes and/or last years grass underbush. Try to avoid bushes and underbush if possible.
2. Examine your clothes and yourself at least every hour - ticks do not bite immediately they try to find the best spot and do it really slowly.
3. Examine your buddy and ask them to examine yourself at least every hour.
4. Apply the most deadly anti-ticks spray at your clothes and backpack every 2-3 days.
5. When spot a tick on your clothes carefully take it away and burn in fire. Do not throw it away.
6. If find a tick already bit you then carefully remove it (it's not too hard to perform but also not an easy to do, I'm afraid my language is too bad to explain how to do it, sorry) and save it in sealed plastic bag. You need it for Lyme disease and/or tick-borne encephalitis test.
The most important paragraphs are #2 and #3. Inspect yourself and your buddy on a permanent basis - ticks are *very* slow and do not bite immediately. Usually you have at least one hour to spot it before it bites you.
Yep! that's what I do. Good beta.
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rincon
Trad climber
SoCal
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Apr 25, 2012 - 10:25pm PT
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Brandon-
climber
The Granite State.
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Apr 26, 2012 - 08:10pm PT
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I have to admit, I've got a considerable paranoia regarding ticks.
I lived in a tent in Central America for three months and had countless species of creepy crawlies all over me the whole time. Hell, I got blood poisoning from a bug bite and had to go to the hospital down there.
But, the insidious nature of ticks and the potential for disease really gets to me. I found two deer ticks (the nasty ones) on me last year. I found four dog ticks on my dogs when I got home from work today.
They freak me out like nothing else.
And, it's not just me. Driving home from work today I passed the headquarters of EMS, the east coast version of REI. They have a retail part of the facility and the sign said 'Got Ticks? We Can Help.'. Not sure how they can help, as they are selling outdoor products and if you walk in the woods you are guaranteed to get ticks on you.
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justthemaid
climber
Jim Henson's Basement
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Apr 26, 2012 - 08:15pm PT
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They are grody fer sure but I'm not really that paranoid.
We did have an incident a few weeks ago where Mr.E brought one home from Echo. It had only been attached a couple of hours (no lyme worries), but the wound itself got infected and he ended up needing antibiotics. Meh
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bergbryce
Mountain climber
South Lake Tahoe, CA
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Apr 26, 2012 - 08:27pm PT
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$hit, the ticks in So. Indiana are so small you don't find them until they've dug in, then there's a good dozen or so around your sock cuff and probably some along the elastic of your briefs. nasty little pukes. they call them "turkey ticks". keep you out of the woods from April until the 2nd or 3rd freeze. learnt about them the hard way.
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jmes
climber
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Apr 26, 2012 - 08:27pm PT
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I was bitten last spring and experienced Lyme symptoms. All my tests came back equivocal (different bands at different times in different numbers), and it took several visits to get treated properly. In the end 6 weeks of a high dose of antibiotics seemed to do the trick.
I still have occasional and very minor muscle spasms, but no other symptoms. It took several months for me to even start to feel normal again, and 6-8 months before I could start from scratch with climbing and exercising. It really messed with my mood, too. I think that if my wife wasn't so patient and kind it might have been the beginning of the end for our relationship.
CHECK YOURSELF CAREFULLY AND REGULARLY! THIS HAPPENED IN AUBURN, CA AT MURDERER'S BAR.
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Jkruse
Social climber
Illinois-SoILL
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Apr 26, 2012 - 08:45pm PT
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Ticks, normal ticks are nothing. Try getting 20,000 or so seed ticks.
Truth! Southern Illinois is a tick hell in the summer months... Many a time tromping through the woods I have looked down only to find what looks like hundreds of moving freckles on my legs. My solution: bust out a roll of a tape and start ripping the bastards off (along with most of my leg hair).
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Brandon-
climber
The Granite State.
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Apr 26, 2012 - 09:04pm PT
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http://www.dhhs.state.nh.us/dphs/cdcs/lyme/documents/lyme.pdf
http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/story/health/story/2012-02-03/New-map-pinpoints-Lyme-disease-risk-areas/52950978/1
CONCORD, N.H. – Researchers who spent three years dragging sheets of fabric through the woods to snag ticks have created a detailed map they claim could improve prevention, diagnosis and treatment of Lyme disease.
Maria Diuk-Wasser, AP
This map released by the Yale School of Public Health on Friday, Feb. 3, 2012 shows a map which indicates areas of the eastern United States where people have the highest risk of contracting Lyme disease based on data from 2004-2007.
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Maria Diuk-Wasser, AP
This map released by the Yale School of Public Health on Friday, Feb. 3, 2012 shows a map which indicates areas of the eastern United States where people have the highest risk of contracting Lyme disease based on data from 2004-2007.
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The map, which pinpoints areas of the eastern United States where people have the highest risk of contracting Lyme disease, is part of a study published in the February issue of the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. Though the areas highlighted as high-risk likely won't surprise anyone familiar with the disease, the research also showed where the disease likely is spreading, and it turned up some surprising information about the rate at which ticks are infected with the bacteria that causes it, researchers said.
The map shows a clear risk of Lyme disease across much of the Northeast, from Maine to northern Virginia. Researchers also identified a distinct high-risk region in the upper Midwest, including most of Wisconsin, northern Minnesota and a sliver of northern Illinois. Areas highlighted as "emerging risk" regions include the Illinois-Indiana border, the New York-Vermont border, southwestern Michigan and eastern North Dakota.
"The key value is identifying areas where the risk for Lyme disease is the highest, so that should alert the public and the clinicians and the public health agencies in terms of taking more precautions and potential interventions," said the study's lead author, Dr. Maria Diuk-Wasser of the Yale School of Public Health. "In areas that are low risk, a case of Lyme disease is not impossible but it's highly unlikely, so the clinician should be considering other diagnoses."
Named after a small Connecticut town, Lyme disease is transmitted by the bite of tiny deer ticks. Antibiotics easily cure most people of Lyme, but other than the disease's hallmark round, red rash, early symptoms are vague and flu-like. People who aren't treated can develop arthritis, meningitis and some other serious illnesses.
Previous risk maps were heavily reliant on reports of human infections, but those can be misleading because the disease is both over- and under-diagnosed, according to the study. Where someone is diagnosed is not necessarily where the disease was contracted, and ticks may live in a region long before they actually infect someone, meaning there could be a significant risk even without confirmed cases.
The study was published this week based on data collected between 2004 and 2007. Diuk-Wasser said the high risk areas likely haven't changed, but there might be some changes in the transitional areas. The map is still useful, however, because it highlights areas where tick surveillance should be increased and because it can serve as a baseline for future research, she said. And it provides new information about the infection rate among ticks, she said.
About 1 in 5 ticks collected were infected — more than researchers expected — and that percentage was fairly constant across geographic areas, she said. Researchers had expected the infection rate to vary.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention counted more than 30,000 confirmed or probable cases of Lyme in 2010, the latest data available. More than 90 percent of those cases were in 12 states: Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin.
Dr. Jodie Dionne-Odom, New Hampshire's state epidemiologist, said the map may be a useful tool for states where Lyme disease is just emerging. But for New Hampshire, it doesn't provide any new information because the state does its own detailed tick monitoring.
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New Hampshire
Department of Health and Human Services
Division of Public Health Services
What is Lyme disease?
Lyme disease is caused by a bacterium, Borrelia burgdorferi. It was first identified in the U.S. in a cluster of children in Lyme, Connecticut in 1977, hence the name. The bacteria are transmitted to humans by the bite of infected deer ticks and cause more than 20,000 infections in the United States each year.
Who gets Lyme disease?
Lyme disease can affect people of any age. Persons who spend time in wooded or grassy areas are at greater risk of disease because of the increased exposure to ticks. Persons who work or play in their yard, participate in recreational activities away from home such as hiking, camping, fishing, and hunting, or engage in outdoor occupations, such as landscaping, brush clearing, forestry, and wildlife and parks management in endemic areas may also be at risk of contracting Lyme disease.
When are ticks most active?
Deer ticks in the nymphal, or juvenile, stage, which are less than a tenth of an inch long (<2mm), are active in spring and summer. This is the stage most likely to bite and infect people. Adult ticks, which are about an eighth of an inch in size (2-3mm), are most active in middle to late fall. Not all deer ticks are infected with Lyme disease though.
Fact Sheet
How is Lyme disease transmitted?
Lyme disease is spread in New England by the bite of the black-legged tick (Ixodes scapularis). Other species transmit the bacteria in other parts of the country. Ticks feed by inserting their mouths into the skin of a host and drawing blood. If a tick feeds on an animal infected with Lyme disease and then on a person, it can transmit the bacteria to the person. There is no evidence that Lyme disease is transmitted from person to person. For example, a person cannot get infected from touching, kissing, or having sex with a person who has Lyme disease. Lyme disease acquired during pregnancy may lead to infection of the placenta and possible stillbirth. However, no negative effects on the fetus have been found when the mother receives appropriate antibiotic treatment. There are no reports of Lyme disease transmission from breast milk.
What are the symptoms of Lyme disease?
The illness usually occurs during the summer months. Often, but not always, people develop a large circular rash around or near the site of the tick bite. Multiple rash sites may also appear. Other symptoms such as chills, fever, headache, fatigue, stiff neck, swollen glands, and muscle and/or joint pain may be present. These may last for several weeks. If Lyme disease is left untreated for a few weeks or months, complications such as meningitis, facial palsy, arthritis, and heart abnormalities may occur and other body systems may be affected. Swelling and pain in
Lyme Disease
How is Lyme disease transmitted?
Lyme disease is spread in New England by
the bite of the black-legged tick (Ixodesmay recur over many years. These later symptoms may appear in people who did not have early symptoms or did not recognize them.
How long does it take the symptoms to appear?
Symptoms usually begin within a month of exposure, but onset ranges from 3 to 32 days.
Does past infection with Lyme disease make a person immune?
It is possible for someone to get Lyme disease more than once based on current data.
What is the treatment for Lyme disease?
Antibiotics are used effectively against Lyme disease. Early diagnosis improves the outcome of treatment so it is important to contact your healthcare provider if you are feeling sick or develop a rash.
Is there a vaccine?
A vaccine was available for Lyme disease, but in February 2002, the manufacturer announced that LYMERIX would no longer be commercially available.
Is there Lyme disease in New Hampshire?
Lyme disease is most prevalent in the northeastern part of the United States. Each year hundreds of New Hampshire residents are diagnosed with Lyme disease.
What can I do to prevent getting Lyme disease?
When in tick-infested areas:
• Wear light-colored clothing to make ticks easy to see
• Tuck pants into socks and shirts into pants • Consider using an insect repellent. Products containing >20% DEET have been shown to be effective in repelling ticks. Clothes may be treated with Permethrin.
Always follow manufacturer’s instructions when applying repellents
• Check after every two or three hours of outdoor activity for ticks on clothing and skin • A thorough check of body surfaces for attached ticks should be done at the end of the day
• Reduce the number of ticks around your home by keeping grass short, removing leaf litter, and creating a wood chips or gravel barrier where your lawn meets the woods.
• If a tick is attached to your skin for less than 24 hours, your chance of getting Lyme disease is extremely small. But just to be safe, monitor your health closely after a tick bite and be alert for any signs and symptoms of illness.
How should a tick be removed?
Grasp the mouthparts with a tweezer as close as possible to the attachment (skin) site. If tweezers are not available, use fingers shielded with tissue or rubber gloves. Do not handle a tick with bare hands. Be careful not to squeeze, crush, or puncture the body of the tick, which may contain infectious fluids. It is important that a tick be removed as soon as it is discovered. After removing the tick, thoroughly disinfect the tick site with rubbing alcohol or an antibacterial wash and then wash hands with hot water and soap. See or call a doctor if there are concerns about incomplete tick removal. Do not attempt to remove ticks by using petroleum jelly, lit cigarettes, or other home remedies because they may actually increase the chance of contracting a tick-borne disease
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apogee
climber
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Apr 26, 2012 - 09:12pm PT
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bluering, you are the new 'Lois'.
GO AWAY.
Please.
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Norwegian
Trad climber
Placerville, California
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Apr 26, 2012 - 09:23pm PT
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when my wife is really mad
at me i request for a thorough
tick check.
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Brandon-
climber
The Granite State.
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Apr 26, 2012 - 09:27pm PT
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[Click to View YouTube Video]
Honestly, some music is so bad it's funny.
Anyway, assuming that no one makes it to the chorus, it's 'I'd like to check you for ticks'.
Good stuff...
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