Bit Of A Problem Here...

[FrogTosser88]

So.... I went down to check out this river the other day to see if it was worth fishing.. had my boots and jeans on.. I had to trek through some brush to get down to the water.... the place sucked and i will not likely return...

So when I got home and started changing my clothes.. I notice a tick on my shirt... i killed it with my lighter.. took my clothes off in the bathroom and found one more and flushed it... I searched my clothes , room and my car... found no more... however the next morning i found another!! Crawling in my chest...killed it and kinda freaking out now... I have yet to tell my girlfriend at this point because I know she will freak out.... So then this morning I find another one on my stomach... So now I'm officially tripping out.. I cant find the little scoundrels.... how many could I have had on me?... how can I get ridnof these parasites that I brought into my home?... should I just get a fogger and bomb the room or what?... anyone ever have an experience like this....

Pls help

[jigabooyah]

Wash your clothes, check your car, and check your body and head for more ticks.

I have gotten into a lot of ticks over the years. Sometimes it takes a day or 2 for them to come out.

If you have pets than check them as well. No need for bug bombs unless you have an infestation which

you don't. 

[Kevin22]

Probably a pet bringing them in the house. If you showered after you got home and threw your clothes into the washer you shouldn't have any more to come out. 

 

Next time put some tick repellent on around your ankles, wrists, and on your hat. 

[notevenanibble]

remove all of the hair from your body

[Balshy Fishing]

I thought I had limes disease earlier this year when I found a tick the next day. 

 

My doctor told me that it takes a tick 24 hours to fully feed and you can't develop limes disease until the end of that duration. They bite you, suck the blood and as they're done -- they kinda' "spit" or "throw up" into the bite and that's when you get infected.

 

Where i'm from in PA, we only have to worry about deer ticks. He said they're kinda' hard to see which let me deduce it not being a deer tick.

 

They creep me out, saw one crawling across the dash of my car two days after I had last fished. 

[Master Bait'r]

STICKY LINT ROLLERS.  

 

You know, the kind that are cylindrical stickers?  Use them all over yourself when you get back from a hairy traipse.  You'd be amazed at how many critters are tagging along and ticks are no exception.  They stick to the roller really well, but it isn't a substitute for a really thorough check...  Which I'm amazed you haven't been utilizing all along!  Who doesn't want to get "checked for ticks all over" by the little lady?        I mean it's for safety and everything!!  

 

 

So yeah.  Lint roll yourself when you get home, and have your girl double check the stuff you can't see- especially your hair and stuff.  Nobody wants to be a parasite host.  

[FrogTosser88]

Well.... unless they are hiding on the taint.... everything is shaved and i cant see anything... but i will have her look lol... and the dog has front line

[Preytorien]

Another option for next time is to use a product called Permethrin.

 

It's a clothing soak/spray. You put it on your CLOTHES only (not your skin) and it repels ticks, chiggers, and mosquitoes for 6 weeks from the time of application. That includes 1 wash per week.

 

I have about 4 fishing outfits I cycle and all are treated. I have yet this year to find any bug of any kind on me or my clothes - no mosquitoes, no ticks, nothing.....

 

Might give it a try.

 

They sell it at my local Wally World in the camping section. I have seen it at Dicks and Gander Mtn. too.

[Raul]

Well.... unless they are hiding on the taint.... everything is shaved and i cant see anything... but i will have her look lol... and the dog has front line

 

From the resident Veterinarian: Frontline is not enough, put your dog a flea collar ( it also kills ticks ), it has a much longer life than a Frontline application, it´s only good for up to 30 days.

[jigabooyah]

I just fish from my plastic bubble. Never need to touch the outside

[KritterGitter]

Ticks are an everyday battle here on MD eastern shore, I think its a prerequisite to have Lymes disease to live here, thank goodness I dont carry it but my wife, her parents quite a few buddies and all 3 dogs have it. This morning I actually woke up with two stuck to me. I grew up in western PA and saw maybe 3 ticks my whole time there. Within a day of moving to MD I saw more than my entire life in PA. It seems no matter what precautions I take they just end up everywhere, Dogs are treated but they can still drag them into the house with em. Best thing I found is to just check once you get home and a couple days afterwards. It really does seem like they end up everywhere.

[jhoffman]

Permethrin Mix I Use... 

 

Permethrin 10 - Found in the chemical section of the horse area at tractor supply or online

Mix 1oz of the above with 20oz of water in a spray bottle and shake

 

Spray clothes till wet, hang to dry before wearing.

 

6 washes or 6 weeks whichever comes first.

 

I hunt some tick INFESTED areas and since I started making this mix 6 years ago I havent brought a tick out of the woods. My buddy every year will tell me through text in archery or turkey season "Man the ticks are bad" and I never find any. Ive given him the mix recipe but he never follows through, every year he has a dr dig a tick out of him.

[Smokinal]

This like you OP?

[deaknh03]

I know a woman who walked thru a nest or pod or whatever its called...thousands upon thousands of them all over her body.

[bassguytom]

I've had a bunch of ticks on my jeans in then spring onetime when walking through the woods trout fishing. If you can see them they don't carry lymes. It's the deer tick that is the size of the period at at end of this sentence that carrys lymes.

[MassBass]

Down at the river and in the woods around here there are many many ticks. Last year when i hiked down to the river to carp fish i would use bug spray on my ankles and legs and that keeps the suckers off. It takes at least 24 hours for a deer tick to transmit lyme disease. Around here there are dog ticks and deer ticks which are smaller. I pulled a deer tick off me this year after about 12 hours. The bite mark went away without complication. Keep a close eye on your bite marks and if they get worse see your doctor for doxycycline. I think the woods with a deer population are the worst places for getting ticks. 

[Smokinal]

I know a woman who walked thru a nest or pod or whatever its called...thousands upon thousands of them all over her body.

Uuuggghhhh...stop it! I'm getting creepy crawlies just thinking about that!

[crazyjoeclemens]

I wouldn't worry too much.  They don't usually drop off of a warm body.  If you checked yourself out thoroughly, you probably found em all.  Just wash & dry your clothes and bedding and vaccuum the carpet, if you're still paranoid about it.  Make sure you wash & dry clothes and bedding at the higher heat settings.  The heat is what kills the little buggers, not the detergent.  As far as lymes disease goes, the ones you gotta worry about are the ones you never see.  As mentioned before, the ticks that carry it are the size of a pin head.  The larger ticks carry a host of other diseases, like rocky mountain spotted fever, but symptoms are more acute than lymes.  Ticks are no joke.  Its important to check yourself thoroughly, especially for those of us who spend a lot of time bank beating.

[Kevin22]

From the resident Veterinarian: Frontline is not enough, put your dog a flea collar ( it also kills ticks ), it has a much longer life than a Frontline application, it´s only good for up to 30 days.

 

I still say its the dog. Ticks well get on him/her and as soon as they hit the pheromones they will crawl off (unless you washed the dog), otherwise when they bite they will crawl off the dog to die. There is plenty of time for them to get on the dog and then hop off when the dog comes inside. We have it happen all of the time. 

[flyingmonkie]

Uuuggghhhh...stop it! I'm getting creepy crawlies just thinking about that!

 

Happened to my whole family… thousands of them.  It was horrible.  We were taking baths in rubbing alcohol and went through gallons of GermX (Isopropyl kills them quickly).

 

P.S.  Pretty sure this is the first time I've ever seen the word "taint" used on this forum.

[Bluebasser86]

I know a woman who walked thru a nest or pod or whatever its called...thousands upon thousands of them all over her body.

Happened to me checking my trail cameras a couple years ago. Went to dinner with my wife and kept feeling like something was crawling on my leg and knee but couldn't see a thing. When we got back to my truck and I got out a flashlight it looked like I had hundreds of freckles that were moving around. We couldn't get home fast enough for me to get in the shower. I found another 13 crawling around in my truck after I'd scrubbed the first layer of my skin off. They were what we call seed ticks, about the size of a pin head. I learned my lesson now, no matter how hot out it is I'm wearing long sleeves and pants with duct tape to seal off the wrist, ankles, and waist. I don't care how stupid I look, not wanting to go through that again. 

[Bankbeater]

Are you itching anywhere?  Whenever I have a tick on me it starts to itch about the 2nd day. 

[Oregon Native]

Wow....hate those things.  One of the reasons I quit archery hunting because it was alway during the warmer weather.  Now turkey is early spring...nope no turkey hunting either.  I seem to be a bug magnet.  Since moving here to Tennessee I have got into the habit of spraying the yard and woods close to house with OFF.  Comes in a bottle you attach to hose.  I know some bugs are supposably good but this keeps the mosquito's down and the tics around the house. 

P.S.  Must not be to bad as we have a bunch of blue tailed lizards around property

[Master Bait'r]

I know a woman who walked thru a nest or pod or whatever its called...thousands upon thousands of them all over her body.

 

 

My gf did that while peeing once.  Looked down whilst squatting and there was literally a cloud of them swarming over her legs.  After she re-entered the earth's atmosphere I am told there was quite the panicked search and destroy mission.    

[FrogTosser88]

Are you itching anywhere? Whenever I have a tick on me it starts to itch about the 2nd day.

Dude.... I have been itching everywhere since this ordeal.... my nerves are shot lol... but I havent seen any more today and the room got cleaned amd vaccumed.. so i feel a little better