That's really a shame because most of the information is nonsense the chemical she is promoting in this video is far more dangerous than 100 tick bites
Firstly, the thumbnail has been created. A tick does not go under the skin. Only its mouth, which is 2mm long. Only deer ticks cause Lyme disease. They are very small,usually a nuisance in spring and fall. They have black legs. Only 15% of deer ticks carry Lyme. Plus you have between 24-72 hours to discover the creature on your body. Go see a doc for antibiotics. Some people have a greater propensity for severe stages of Lyme disease. Some don’t.
Going back and watching some tick videos. Brushing up on my regimen. I got a nasty surprise this morning. I’d went squirrel hunting, we just came out of the coldest temps in like 40yrs for this time of year. I didn’t do my standard tick prevention. I just took off my gear gave a quick look and called it good. Stayed up late, went to shower before bed and found a deer tick burrowed into my hip DEEP. So even with fine tweezers still had to grab the body. Will be getting on antibiotics soon. Just as a precaution. Cause when I looked at the map, the county I was in is a hot spot for ticks. Moral of the story: If it’s warm enough for you, it’s probably warm enough for ticks.
@diannecraner2958 I've read that soap or alcohol will make the regurgitate into the host. Best to get ahold of it with tweezers up high enough to get the head.
I’m a Professional Forester with 42 years experience working in tick infested woods. Permethrin works. I also tape my pant leg to my boots. Be sure and spray your boots. Change clothes when you get home.
Sure method > taping up ur sleeves (preferably over gloves) & Pant leg with sock pulled over top & Than couple wraps of tape Hockey tape works great & is relatively cheap to buy if buy 4 or 8 pack (even come in different colours) Ticks hangout on end of tall grass, weeds & bushes They jump on u as u walk by (or dog) If they can’t find a way to ur skin > they jump back off to repeat on next red blooded animal that walks by Not giving them a path to ur skin is best defense :)
@@ronblackburn3683 When I go into the deer woods early in the season, I tuck my pants into my boots. That keeps them and chiggers from crawling up inside my pants.
Thanks for letting people know NOT to spray Permethrin directly on skin. I spray my cloths, shoes, and tents in the garage days before I go to make sure it is dry. Great video!
My wife used to have a bunch of horses. 1 day as I looked at 1 of them. I saw a huge tick on its neck. A woman who was boarding her horse is there told me to get some hand sanitizer and a paper towel. She put some hand sanitizer on the paper towel. And laid it on the tick. And with a minute, the tick backed out and that was all we needed.
It will regurgitate into its host if you do that, unfortunately. It is best to carefully remove them with tweezers being careful to make sure you grip it close to the head so it doesn't remain in/on the host.
@@vickijd22great advice, also you should twist them Anti Clockwise because of the shape of the mouthpiece/parts they come out easier. If I find one but it's already latched on but hasn't fed I'd leave it, so I can better get hold of it.
Alli, Great information on preventing tick bites. I was a Soldier for 28 years and never contracted an insect vector disease. The military uses the same method you present here. All my clothing, my rucksack and gear, tents, etc., get soaked in permethrin. I use a plastic 35 gallon garbage can and soak it for an hour, then hang to dry. This helps prevent ALL insect bites not just ticks. I carry a permethrin treated silk sleeping bag liner as well. This has prevented bedbug assaults in some seedy hotels overseas. Ewwwww! Ticks carry diseases other than Lyme Disease. If I am traveling overseas, I get a supply of 50 milligram doxycycline tablets as a prophylaxis against tick, flea and mosquito vectors. I also have a Sawyer Pump snakebite kit. I use it to suck at least a little of the tick juice out of the wound, then apply a triple acting antibiotic ointment. I cover the ointment with a Band-Aid and repeat for three days. This kills most of the bacteria in the insect bite. WD-40 neutralizes the insect poisons, too. Use a cotton ball to rub it into the bite. instant relief from mosquito bites. Heat also neutralizes the injected material. Heat a spoon with hot tap water and place it on the bite. Yes, it hurts. Say "OOOOOW' and curse my name. It does kill the bacteria and neutralizes the insect saliva that itches so bad. I am not a doctor. This is what works for me. YMMV.
Very good thanks. But no mention of "how" ticks actually "attack" their pray? It sounds like that their main pathway is by crawling on to your socks/shoes. Do they "jump"? Are they found on vegetation or are they totally terrestrial crawlers? Cheers
We have 25 Guineas running the property and that works best for us, i got lymes disease 15 years ago after 4 days in my back i al.ost had to be put in a wheel chair. My girl friend got the tick out but i had a round bullseye on my back. So we new what it was and my doctor put me on medication for 30 days, after 4 days i could walk fine again and ive been good ever since, but the virus stays in your body and creates arthritis in your lower jionts and at 68 yrs old im not doing to bad at all. Check yourself everyday!.
Take boron. Please read "nothing boring about boron". Multiple versions available in different formats. You can get the free PDF version online just type PDF after the title. And if you read the story about the doctor who discovered the benefits of boron in Australia in the 1960s and how a pharmaceutical company completely ruined everything, it will be an eye opener. Makes me so angry. Boric acid is toxic? Really? Why is it in contact lense solution? I hate greed. 😡. Get tri-boron from swanson. Cheap
You got to me just on the nick of time kiddo, I stopped riding my Harley’s and sold them because I’m at the age if I get hurt it last forever. Well I fell in love with the outdoors again spent a whole bunch of money on a beautiful tent camping gear survival equipment and then I was going to send it all back because I thought about ticks, bang then comes my brown eyed beauty and tells me about this stuff and I could go outside again much love thank you
Install a Barn Owl nest box. The Idaho Extension has a plan to build two Barn Owl nest boxes from one sheet of exterior plywood. Mount them 8 feet high and place the entrance away from the winter wind. Make the entrance an oval no more than 4x5 inches. Ticks life cycle included a small warm blooded host. These rabbits, rodents and such act as a reservoir for diseases. Barn Owls will suppress the host population.
@@1wheeldrive751 Ticks have a two year life cycle involving three blood hosts. Rodents are typically involved in one of the nymph stages. A Screech Owl nest box and late Winter early Spring Controlled burns are means to reduce tick populations. Blood seeking ticks and pit vipers are active before Dung beetles come out of hibernation. Prepare your land and remove debris from around tree trunks of desirable trees to prevent damage. Break the tick cycle and put pressure on their reliable hosts the Deer mice and White-footed Forest mice. Controlled burns also help clear underbrush.
@@1wheeldrive751Lol, they're a bigger target contacting a larger area of brush.. I gave my deer ivermectin as part of a study, no ticks, , they became tick killing machines..(ticks bite & die..) support your local possums to, they eat a lot of ticks!
We have been using peppermint extract purchased in pints or quartz and we mix it with water and a spray. This is Been somewhat effective, though we have had ticks on us, we have not been bitten. Works excellent for mosquitoes!
I am surrounded by the Patuxent river, Patomac river and the Chesapeake bay. My house has woods behind it and ticks are a problem. We release nematodes twice a year, when needed, to kill the ticks. There are many types of nematodes and you have to choose one that suits your needs. They kill more than ticks and some might kill beneficial insects, which is why the right ones, for your area, need to be picked. We order them online and once released, ticks aren't a problem for 2-3 years.
Hey, great news, I'm in Delaware.. is killing us this year.. Brewer's yeast worked last year for us and the dogs.. this year it is not working! Do you have a website to recommend or even the names of the nematodes that are safe for our area? Thanks!
I used to work for our state's Department of Conservation & had a supervisor that would use permethrine religiously...sometimes spraying down her clothes after we got out of the vehicles on the way into the woods (which you aren't supposed to do per the label). I started getting worried about chemicals & the potential tie to cancers about that time, so I experimented by starting to go into the woods with nothing on. I saw no significant difference in the amount of ticks that I found versus what she found, so I've opted out of using harsh chemicals that last on your clothes through several washings. In my mind it's deciding which risk you are more comfortable taking...possibly getting a tick disease versus 100% having chemical on your body. Now, I'm in the woods frequently doing chainsaw work or selling property. Today, I wear tall rubber boots & tuck my pants inside, even when it's very hot. Often, I take a change of clean clothes & put them on before I get in my vehicle (this probably has the greatest impact) to drive home. I also use duct tape (gorilla tape is my favorite version) to dab all over my clothes to pick up ticks I haven’t seen (this is especially effective for small "seed" ticks). Hope this helps someone find their best tick prevention strategy!
A follow-up story to my original comment... I believe that some of the sprays/treatments can be effective. I just personally am not comfortable with the possible risk of what they could be tied to in this particular case at this time. I had an experience where I had symptoms similar to Lyme disease a few years ago after working in the woods on a habitat project. The doctors started to treat me with a prescription as if I had Lyme disease, but then my blood tests came back negative for Lyme disease. I never found out what caused me to have those symptoms. The only thing abnormal/not typical that I could possibly link it to was that I had been spraying glyphosate a few days earlier. Glyphosate has historically been touted as a "safe" chemical, but now we are seeing evidence that it's possibly tied to some health issues. My personal experience leans towards this being true. That experience also makes me question the use of other "safe" chemicals. Hence, accepting the risk of contracting a tick borne disease over using a "safe" chemical that we may one day decide isn't so safe. You may weigh the risks differently than I do. If so, we can still be friends. 😊
This is exactly what I started to do last year. I tried hunting on the ground more. The bugs exspesilly the mosquitoes were so bad. Soon as I bought the same stuff you had in your hand, it was amazing. The mosquitoes started to leave me alone and there was no ticks willing to jump on permethrin
Being part Neanderthal myself I approve this message. LOL. Thanks for being part of the club. You gave me a good laugh. #don't laugh at hairy men at the beach
Ditto. But it also means you’ll feel the hairs touching hairs feeling like ticks messing with your mind. One or two ticks doesn’t do that but once I find more than 10 on me in a day and a couple are digging in, I feel them all over.
thanks for the tip about clothing treatment, i will be ordering some soon !!! I frequently work in the woods cutting firewood and maintaining my own wooded property. When I was a kid growing up in the country here in Pa. we did not have ticks and it wasn't something we needed to deal with at all !! There was a great deal more wildlife as far as wild pheasant , quail , wild turkey , etc and they were big insect eaters . After predators began to be reintroduced into our wildlife habitat here the birds disappeared and guess what , we now have ticks !!!!! If you find a tick embedded in your skin or any other scenario where you have a tick on you get a small bottle of rubbing alcohol , remove the lid and place the mouth of the bottle over the tick and turn the bottle upside down sealing the bottle against your skin and flooding the tick with the contents . As long as you maintain constant pressure with the mouth of the bottle against your skin you will not spill any . The alcohol causes the tick to be unable to breathe and it will back out of your skin almost as if paralyzed and die if you hold it on long enough . I learned this trick from someone who worked for the railroad crew who traveled around repairing the tracks in very densely wooded areas . This technique has worked flawlessly for me every time I had to deal with ticks , give it a try and be blessed !!!!
Thank you for the tick prevention insights. I should have listened years ago. I've had both Lymes and Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever. I have a fair tick population on my property. Chiggers too but that's a different conversation. Getting immediate treatment with anti-biotics will stave off a bad case of either. When I say immediate, if you have a fever of any sort within days of a tick bite, get treated right away. Let them do the test for Lymes/RMSF, but don't wait for the results to get treated. I have zero ongoing symptoms of complications from Lymes, years after my initial exposure.
I learned lavender oil stops the pain of any kind of insect bite/sting immediately. I keep a small vile of it in my purse, car and medicine cabinet. It has saved me from much suffering countless times. Really appreciate this video thank you🙏🏻
Word! Do everything Allie says. Lyme Disease victim here. Had to fight through many a fever and illness to keep going in my life but Lyme Disease knocked me out for the count for about 5 days. Thought I was dying. Took every ounce of my soul just to crawl out of bed to take a leak as well as get to the doctor for treatment. I live alone I had no help. Uggghhhhh. It's no fu**ing joke.
@Nikolai Ninja thank you and indeed. I thought it was a poisonous spider or snake bite but thankfully the doc suspected Lyme Disease and started treatment before the test came back and he knew for sure. I know people who's doctors would refuse to treat for Lyme Disease until the test results came back leading to more unnecessary pain and damage.
I spent 12 hours a day outside riding trail horses in mountains. The best thing for me is I eat crushed fresh garlic every day or rub a clove on the bottom of my feet before putting boots on. I tried garlic pills they don't work. I also shave entire body accept for my head but tie hair up and wear a hat. I might feel a tick crawling but never have they latched on. My body will not tolerate chemical tick sprays even pymitherin which stinks so bad the only reason cows will stick their faces through sand bags soaked in it is their after the grain in the feeder
I'm like you. I can find ticks wondering on me a day after I get home, and they never bite in. But there's a reason. If I wash all over with soap the morning I leave for camping, ticks bite right in. But if I wait a day after taking a thorough washing shower and then shower the morning I leave by just rinsing off with water alone and wash only under my arms and private areas, the ticks seem to never bite. I've only had 3 tick bites in my 72 years, and the last one was in the late 1990s before I knew this about myself. Nevertheless, during tick season I am always watching out for them on me.
I am 69 yrs old and was raised in rural Ky. My brothers and sisters and myself spent a lot of time in the blackberry patches. We got many chigger and a ticks on us. But back then there was no such thing as any diseases from ticks. I do believe that Fauci can very well be involved in the diseases, but not the ticks themselves.
There's a reason (and a location) for why it's called Lyme. Which just so happens to be a very short distance to an island with a US Govt biolab that just so happened to "study" insect diseases. Probably should trust the science and say it was totally natural to encounter Lyme disease...HAH!
It’s great to see an outdoors Woman sharing intelligent and science ! I have a tiny house in Maine! So, I’m super preparing before I get there, boots on the ground. Thank you for the info!!
I use sprays n believe it ....dog flea n tick collars around my boots. Don’t like to get sprays or lotions on me n my hands especially while fishing . HATE ticks n chiggers ......thanks for info , y’all have fun n be safe
We remove ticks with lavender oil. We put a drop or two on the tick, wait for a minute, because the tick will release and start to back out. We've gotten the tick out completely (head and all). Then we wash the site with Hibiclens to prevent any infection.
I live in Niagara Falls ontario and ticks are everywhere!!!! Took 5 off the dog just yesterday and i check him and remove ticks daily.. we hike a lot..
If I find an embedded tick on myself or my pet I find a cotton ball or tissue soaked with good ole amber Listerine will cause them to back out. Although they might regurgitate, of course they regurgitate when poked with tweezers too. Also heard a Vet recommending spraying diluted Listerine on cats and dogs as a repellent. Might work on pants and socks, too.
My wife and I live on a piece of Mississippi mixed hardwood forest. Our driveway is over 1/4 mile into the forest. We are always in an environment with biting bugs. I do use the permethrin but do not use Deet products on my person. I have become fairly successful at mixing natural oil products to find a good mix that works very effectively. I also use Gold Bond in my socks to keep chiggers off my feet.
@@OutdoorsAllie ..... I mix eucalyptus, tea tree, peppermint, lemon oil and almond oil as a carrier agent. Going head to head with my wife wearing deet (the 1st year), I was always better off than she. She actually switched.
@@elricofarmer1561I am so intrigued, could you pelase share the exact recipe? Thank you so much in avdance. I now live in woodlands and I am MORTIFIED
I remember being an outdoor child of my generation, playing neighborhood sports, disappearing on creek adventures, see ya a dark kinda life, and we had ticks all the time… we have dogs nowadays, and feel that our fury friends now bring the ticks to us… make a video talking about Lyme vaccine for dogs and maybe why we don’t have the same for humans…! Nice video btw
There was a Lyme vaccine for humans in the mid to late 90's. At the time I was living and working as a Forester in what was then recognized as a"Lyme Disease Hot Zone" in North Western California. Information I obtained from my ( Bye Monthly Subscription to the "Lyme Times"). With that knowledge. I contacted my Kaiser family physician for a consultation. We both agreed that I was a perfect candidate for the Lyme vaccine. Within two weeks my request was approved. I received a total of two injections spanning 3 months. To my knowledge I did not inc-cure negative side effects. Was I just a genie pig? I am curious to why the vaccine vanished and was taken off the market? Did recipients develop complications? I suppose I should Inquire.
Best I found? Yard guard your lower pants and shoes use the really yard guard fogger. When your done outside for the day take a shower and do are good body check in front of a full body mirror. Turn the clothes wearing inside out. Check for ticks, especially on the seams. destroy any tics you find on you or your clothes. This is not a game of catching release. It’s search and destroy.
Novas Scotia Canada the tic Capital of the world! We carried pack of cigarettes and matches. A lighted cigarette close to tic causes them to back out with pinchers !
You are welcome you are doing a great job I love helpful and informative videos that's how I learn. I'm a visual learner as well as doing things with my hands.
I use rose geranium oil full strength on ankles and wrists and spray a concoction of rose, geranium oil, eucalyptus oil, patchouly oil, lavender oil, mixed with water and witch hazel. It worked well in northern Virginia, but I’ve since moved to Southern Virginia and now have Alpha gal syndrome. text are everywhere here. We’re now trying to treat the bushes and plants around our house.
I've spent my entire life in the outdoors and have had 3 ticks on me in 53 years. I've never had chiggers either. When I say outdoors , I don't mean out in the yard / garden. I mean in the thick brush, waist high weeds ,deep woods .
Yeah, I had hunting property in west Michigan. When I bought it in 1980 I could let my kids play in diapers. By the time I sold it in 2010 ticks were everywhere. It's changing with climate change.
When I bought hunting property in west Michigan in 1980 my kids could play outside in diapers. By the time I sold it in 2010 ticks were everywhere. Climate change is changing the game.
@@OutdoorsAllie It was as many ticks in the 70s and 80s when I was a kid as it is now. Everything fluctuates in cycles. When I was a kid , we would pick wild blackberries and ticks would be crawling on the brambles everywhere. I've trapped predators year round for decades and some springs and summers , coyotes would be covered in ticks and other years not so bad.
@@OutdoorsAllie It was aa many ticks in the 70s and 80s when I was a kid as it is now. Everything fluctuates in cycles. When I was a kid , we would pick wild blackberries and ticks would be crawling on the brambles everywhere. I've trapped predators year round for decades and some springs and summers , coyotes would be covered in ticks and other years not so bad.
The best way to prevent blood-suckers from biting us is a proper human diet, which is low to no carbs. It's not our blood that these creatures want - it's the glucose (sugar) in our blood. If the blood glucose is low enough, they won't detect it, and they, mostly, won't bite. I can be outside for hours on end, with gnats all over me and not get bit. Excess glucose in the blood is hands down the #1 root cause of just about all human disease. Another benefit of a low to no carb diet is that qe don't get sunburned, no sunscreen needed. The weight gets normal, too.
@@kenputer56 I'm already eating like that, I still got a tick on me the other day. Although I do eat some fruits. But personally I think we need some glucose. Our brain runs on it.
Yea I mean my dog only eats meat and has still gotten ticks, I've also gotten ticks while on carnivore so I'm not sure this theory holds up. I don't get sunburn though 😂
Water and geranium essential oil in a spray bottle. There's a popular spray they sell for horses and other animals to repel ticks and fleas, and that's pretty much its ingredients, simple, natural, works well. Edit - It's called Bodyguard and uses geraniol which can be derived from geranium essential oil or citronella. I just make mine homemade it's way cheaper and smells better imo, you have to shake it well especially if you don't have an emulsifier in it (dawn or Castile soap work good). But yea I put it on my lower body and some on the puppy anytime we go into deep woods in areas loaded w ticks and never bring any home w us when I use it. I'd never use anything even remotely toxic on my clothes, my body, or my dog.
Landscaper talking here from Roanoke VA. I probably have 50 to 75 bites per year. I have had myself tested a couple of times. Guess I'm lucky. I take precautions, but not this well clearly.
Great information,and presentation. Apparently eating raw garlic also makes one fairly unpalatable to ticks,which i take for health anyway(soaked in apple cider vinegar). Best wishes.
I read from the CDC once that tics will typically crawl around on your body till they find a comfort spot. Once they find this spot it said the average time a tic waits to bite was between 7 to 12 hours. However, they must not know about Idaho tics because every spring I have several on me every few hours and bad days I've got 15 or so I pick off every 30 minutes. But I've had em bite but not burrow after a few hours into my day. However often they bite, you have a very small possibility of actually catching a disease. But, for the outdoorsman especially in the spring, the chances are greater due to all tics falling off animals and finding new hosts. Never heard of these products. I will have to try.
A red bandana around your neck 24/7 , apply drops of Rose Geranium oil (pelargonium capitatum x radens) once a week with prayers to the most high God whom we both love and fear.
I spend A LOT of time in the woods & it seems like every time I go out with clothes that aren't treated with permethrin, I get ticks on me. That stuff is really good! I will have to start treating my boots like you said. Great video Allie!
I'm 57 years old and I have a Positive CDC tick bites test a month ago. Well I don't have this disease or Rockie Mountain. I have Alpha Gal from tick bites near Greensboro NC.. I'm so glad that I didn't have it, until I didn't suffer from red meat allergies.
Good info. Neighbor got Lyme disease five years ago and can no longer walk. People with type B blood less likely to be bit, type A blood are ticks preferred choice.
I once had Lyme disease about 5 years ago. I thouth I was about to die and I paralized of my upper body but about a week and half later every symptoms was gone. Now I'm free and alive! I don't know why!!
I am 55 and I spend hundreds of hours a year in the woods hunting, hiking and mushroom foraging. Eating a large fresh clove of garlic and a couple pinches of cayenne pepper every day makes a huge difference. It is not perfect but on average I will get 80 to 90% less ticks than people that are with me.
If you don't want to eat a clove of garlic, you can pop a garlic OIL supplement - not a garlic supplement, and achieve the same results. Works for gnats and mosquitoes as well.
@@MikeOrazzi Yes sir ! I actually started taking cayenne and garlic for the huge amount health benefits and then all my buddies started calling me a liar when i would say i only had one or two ticks after a day in the woods and they had 20 or more ! lol. Gotta be the garlic and pepper. Hope it helps brother.
Solid advice and I use these same products however I can attest nothing is 100%. I actually removed a tick from my right hip last night and this will make the 4th tick embedded for this year so far. Thankfully most tick spread diseases usually occur after tick has been embedded for 24 hours or longer and I do a tick search daily to prevent this. I must say I spend nearly every day outdoors in the woods with high tick population. If I didn't use these products I would be pulling dozen off daily. Moral of the story use these products but check for ticks at end of day. Thanks for sharing this, I was planning a similar video for ny channel but I think you covered it perfectly 👍
Hiya OA! For some reason I didn't know about Picaridin stuff. So after getting a notion and having a look around for tick removal today (Ordered the 'Tick Twister') I ran into your EXCELLENT piece. Got some ordered just a minute ago and came back to say thanks. Mosquitoes don't bother me much but I'm a regular tick chick. The little rascals love me! Also, almost as bad are noseeums. They leave places on me that last up to 3 weeks. My solution is Dickies coveralls (spacesuit). Even though I nearly got heat stroke last October working on the food plots...I gotta wear them. Permethrin is a bonus. I know that stuff works. I decided to visit the digs a couple of weeks ago in my regular hunting clothes and of course brought a tick back home. The wife pulled that off at 3AM with tweezers when my leg got to itching. So it's back to the spacesuit. DEET is really not good for me, so I'm going to have a go with your suggestion around the sleeves, collar, etc. Being a club I have to be out there some in the summer. I appreciate your super vid! Your bestest fan in Alabam, Norm
Great tips Allie, that's the first I've heard of Permethrin I'll be getting some. Everyone talks about Lime disease however that's not the only disease to worry about with tics. Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever is also deadly, a good friend and his wife both contracted it at the same. both spent weeks in the hospital and both almost died! It's not just confined to the Rocky Mountains this was in South Carolina.
Try Bodyguard spray it's all natural and works really well it's been around for a long time mostly for horses. I make mine homemade with just geranium essential oil and water in a spray bottle shake it real good, works great I just spray my lower body and try to do the same for the dog
I wear clothing from Craghoppers that has insect repellant made into the fabric, and I use Bert's Deet for my hands and neckline. Haven't had any issues during my hikes yet.
Whenever I get bit by a tick it causes a festering open wound in my skin. The wound oozes puss and can take over a year to heal. It is very painful and extremely frustrating. Over the years I've been to numerous physicians and all of them prescribe me the same skin creams and sometimes antibiotics which do nothing to heal the wound. The last bite was on my inner thigh. When I showed a dermatologist, he insisted it wasn't a tick bite and decided to take a biopsy to check for skin cancer. Even though I knew it was a festering tick bite because I walked around with it on my leg for six months. And despite two trips to two other doctors, and two different medications, the wound was still there. And despite me going through this over and over again for the past thirty years this doctor like many before him did not listen to what I was telling them about the problem of my reaction to tick bites. The biopsy came back negative for cancer, just as I knew it would, but when the biopsy wound healed so did the tick bite.
Doctors used to listen many many years ago, but today's doctors NEVER listen to the patient! Condolences. I hope you can get a breakthrough someday soon.
Permethrin is Awesome...if i don't have it, i apply 'sublimed sulfur' powder around my waist, boots also if im hunting wild boar....it keeps the chiggers/red bugs out also. Fortunately, i'm 12.5% Cherokee and Rarely have an issue with mosquitos =) *I remember as a young 12 year old miscreant my Dad would take me to get a haircut on Saturdays. Midway through one cut, the Barber Jim said...look at this to my Dad. A Tic had burrowed under the skin on the back of my neck. He had to 'lance' the skin to get it out...I was freaking out, as Everyone in the Barber watched from behind, haha.
We keep guinea fowl, and the tick population within their range has dropped dramatically! Like, two years ago I was pulling an average of 5 ticks/day off each dog, but this year it's been about one tick per week! Other parts of our property where the guineas don't go are thick with ticks, so we just check ourselves/our dogs when we get back from those areas.
Great info! Up here in Canada our idiots at Health Canada are taking forever to approve Permethrin sprays. We just got one source of Permethrin treated clothing approved for sale this year and of course it sold out pretty quickly. Picaridin and DEET are the only defense for most people here, thankfully our colder climate means we have less ticks than more southern locations , but we still do have them , and the Lyme's disease that goes along with them
Very good advice. For additional clarity - DO NOT let wet permethrin touch your skin. It can affect the nervous system and is much more easily absorbed when wet. Similarly, do not apply to clothing that is close to your skin - hats, etc.
So just a tip on permathrine... You can buy the concentrate and mix your own in a spray bottle. We buy it at the local farm store for about 15 dollars. That concentrate will make dozens of spray bottles full. By the way, permathrine is used on cows and on dogs for fleas and tick control, however don't use it on our near your cats as they react badly to the spray when they contact the wet permathrine.
@@paulpillow7641 I ordered it from India off their website. I'm so sorry I am not allowed to tell you on this format, 🥺 you will have to look it up for yourself. 🇨🇦
When I was a kid (I’m old LOL) and we camped in an area with ticks we always brought a small bottle of turpentine with us. If you got a tick you just uncapped the bottle and inverted it on your skin over the tick and they would back out in a hurry. Alcohol is likely safer but it worked for us and I’m still here and okay…. okay…. okay…. okay… 🤣😂🤣
I'm a firm believer in permethrin. Also, the low odor stuff like Sawyers, is undetectable by deer, or at least it doesn't spook them. One tip. If you get your gloves, mask, and hat as well as your socks pants and top, you'll keep mosquitoes off and in the early season, that's really important. Plus, no chiggers, which are horrible!
I’m currently on antibiotics right now for an infected tick bike that started turning into a systemic disease. This will be the third time. I normally use Ben’s, but the one day I forgot to put it on, I had 3 ticks on me, and one of them definitely caused a tick-borne infection.
My. Beagle seems to get more ticks ( she does take tick prevention) and they would crawl off of her when she would get up on the couch, I guess lucky for me I could feel the crawling on my hair and get them off me , we don’t walk near tall grass in the summer
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Fear of tick diseases is the single most thing that keeps me from exploring the woods like I wish I could. Thank you for this!
Yes, they suck! Thanks for watching Sarah!
That's really a shame because most of the information is nonsense the chemical she is promoting in this video is far more dangerous than 100 tick bites
@@OutdoorsAllie They _do_ suck.
Don't be scared to live
Firstly, the thumbnail has been created. A tick does not go under the skin. Only its mouth, which is 2mm long. Only deer ticks cause Lyme disease. They are very small,usually a nuisance in spring and fall. They have black legs. Only 15% of deer ticks carry Lyme. Plus you have between 24-72 hours to discover the creature on your body. Go see a doc for antibiotics. Some people have a greater propensity for severe stages of Lyme disease. Some don’t.
Going back and watching some tick videos. Brushing up on my regimen. I got a nasty surprise this morning. I’d went squirrel hunting, we just came out of the coldest temps in like 40yrs for this time of year. I didn’t do my standard tick prevention. I just took off my gear gave a quick look and called it good. Stayed up late, went to shower before bed and found a deer tick burrowed into my hip DEEP. So even with fine tweezers still had to grab the body. Will be getting on antibiotics soon. Just as a precaution. Cause when I looked at the map, the county I was in is a hot spot for ticks. Moral of the story: If it’s warm enough for you, it’s probably warm enough for ticks.
Ugh. They're so nasty.
2 ticks on me today. 1 yesterday.. been building in the woods for a 2 weeks
Put dish soap on the tick to smother and they will try to come out. Then you can get them out pretty easy.
Asthmatics cannot use pyrethrins- can't breathe. Also damages nerves- bad for children.
@diannecraner2958 I've read that soap or alcohol will make the regurgitate into the host. Best to get ahold of it with tweezers up high enough to get the head.
I’m a Professional Forester with 42 years experience working in tick infested woods. Permethrin works. I also tape my pant leg to my boots. Be sure and spray your boots. Change clothes when you get home.
Yep, thanks Ron!
I also wash and throw my cloths into a dryer with the hottest setting as I step into the house.
Sure method > taping up ur sleeves (preferably over gloves)
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Pant leg with sock pulled over top
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Than couple wraps of tape
Hockey tape works great & is relatively cheap to buy if buy 4 or 8 pack (even come in different colours)
Ticks hangout on end of tall grass, weeds & bushes
They jump on u as u walk by (or dog)
If they can’t find a way to ur skin > they jump back off to repeat on next red blooded animal that walks by
Not giving them a path to ur skin is best defense :)
@@ronblackburn3683
When I go into the deer woods early in the season, I tuck my pants into my boots.
That keeps them and chiggers from crawling up inside my pants.
Thanks for letting people know NOT to spray Permethrin directly on skin. I spray my cloths, shoes, and tents in the garage days before I go to make sure it is dry. Great video!
My wife used to have a bunch of horses. 1 day as I looked at 1 of them. I saw a huge tick on its neck. A woman who was boarding her horse is there told me to get some hand sanitizer and a paper towel. She put some hand sanitizer on the paper towel. And laid it on the tick. And with a minute, the tick backed out and that was all we needed.
Thanks
Not only ticks---any insect you want to kill, if (alcohol) is on a pad or hand, it will make the insect stop and listen (spiders).
It will regurgitate into its host if you do that, unfortunately. It is best to carefully remove them with tweezers being careful to make sure you grip it close to the head so it doesn't remain in/on the host.
@@vickijd22great advice, also you should twist them Anti Clockwise because of the shape of the mouthpiece/parts they come out easier. If I find one but it's already latched on but hasn't fed I'd leave it, so I can better get hold of it.
@@vickijd22yes. True. It can cause them to vomit in your body. People would do the same with petroleum jelly.
Alli,
Great information on preventing tick bites. I was a Soldier for 28 years and never contracted an insect vector disease. The military uses the same method you present here.
All my clothing, my rucksack and gear, tents, etc., get soaked in permethrin. I use a plastic 35 gallon garbage can and soak it for an hour, then hang to dry. This helps prevent ALL insect bites not just ticks. I carry a permethrin treated silk sleeping bag liner as well. This has prevented bedbug assaults in some seedy hotels overseas. Ewwwww!
Ticks carry diseases other than Lyme Disease. If I am traveling overseas, I get a supply of 50 milligram doxycycline tablets as a prophylaxis against tick, flea and mosquito vectors. I also have a Sawyer Pump snakebite kit. I use it to suck at least a little of the tick juice out of the wound, then apply a triple acting antibiotic ointment. I cover the ointment with a Band-Aid and repeat for three days. This kills most of the bacteria in the insect bite.
WD-40 neutralizes the insect poisons, too. Use a cotton ball to rub it into the bite. instant relief from mosquito bites.
Heat also neutralizes the injected material. Heat a spoon with hot tap water and place it on the bite. Yes, it hurts. Say "OOOOOW' and curse my name. It does kill the bacteria and neutralizes the insect saliva that itches so bad.
I am not a doctor. This is what works for me. YMMV.
Thanks for your service!
Super helpful comment @jefffefferson8339 I'm gonna do my work boots today
Great info. Thank you and thank you!
Very good thanks. But no mention of "how" ticks actually "attack" their pray? It sounds like that their main pathway is by crawling on to your socks/shoes. Do they "jump"? Are they found on vegetation or are they totally terrestrial crawlers? Cheers
We have 25 Guineas running the property and that works best for us, i got lymes disease 15 years ago after 4 days in my back i al.ost had to be put in a wheel chair. My girl friend got the tick out but i had a round bullseye on my back. So we new what it was and my doctor put me on medication for 30 days, after 4 days i could walk fine again and ive been good ever since, but the virus stays in your body and creates arthritis in your lower jionts and at 68 yrs old im not doing to bad at all. Check yourself everyday!.
Happy to hear that you're ok!
Take boron. Please read "nothing boring about boron". Multiple versions available in different formats. You can get the free PDF version online just type PDF after the title. And if you read the story about the doctor who discovered the benefits of boron in Australia in the 1960s and how a pharmaceutical company completely ruined everything, it will be an eye opener. Makes me so angry. Boric acid is toxic? Really? Why is it in contact lense solution? I hate greed. 😡. Get tri-boron from swanson. Cheap
You got to me just on the nick of time kiddo, I stopped riding my Harley’s and sold them because I’m at the age if I get hurt it last forever. Well I fell in love with the outdoors again spent a whole bunch of money on a beautiful tent camping gear survival equipment and then I was going to send it all back because I thought about ticks, bang then comes my brown eyed beauty and tells me about this stuff and I could go outside again much love thank you
Install a Barn Owl nest box. The Idaho Extension has a plan to build two Barn Owl nest boxes from one sheet of exterior plywood. Mount them 8 feet high and place the entrance away from the winter wind. Make the entrance an oval no more than 4x5 inches.
Ticks life cycle included a small warm blooded host. These rabbits, rodents and such act as a reservoir for diseases. Barn Owls will suppress the host population.
Deer are an excellent tick host. You’ll need to make a wolf den as well as the barn owl nest box.
@@1wheeldrive751 Ticks have a two year life cycle involving three blood hosts. Rodents are typically involved in one of the nymph stages. A Screech Owl nest box and late Winter early Spring Controlled burns are means to reduce tick populations. Blood seeking ticks and pit vipers are active before Dung beetles come out of hibernation. Prepare your land and remove debris from around tree trunks of desirable trees to prevent damage. Break the tick cycle and put pressure on their reliable hosts the Deer mice and White-footed Forest mice. Controlled burns also help clear underbrush.
@@1wheeldrive751Lol, they're a bigger target contacting a larger area of brush..
I gave my deer ivermectin as part of a study, no ticks, , they became tick killing machines..(ticks bite & die..) support your local possums to, they eat a lot of ticks!
We have been using peppermint extract purchased in pints or quartz and we mix it with water and a spray. This is Been somewhat effective, though we have had ticks on us, we have not been bitten. Works excellent for mosquitoes!
I am surrounded by the Patuxent river, Patomac river and the Chesapeake bay. My house has woods behind it and ticks are a problem. We release nematodes twice a year, when needed, to kill the ticks. There are many types of nematodes and you have to choose one that suits your needs. They kill more than ticks and some might kill beneficial insects, which is why the right ones, for your area, need to be picked. We order them online and once released, ticks aren't a problem for 2-3 years.
Hey, great news, I'm in Delaware.. is killing us this year.. Brewer's yeast worked last year for us and the dogs.. this year it is not working! Do you have a website to recommend or even the names of the nematodes that are safe for our area? Thanks!
DON'T RELEASE NEMATODES INTO YOUR ECOSYSTEM!!!! YOU WILL BE KILLING ALL KINDS OF BENEFICIAL INSECTS TOO!!!
I used to work for our state's Department of Conservation & had a supervisor that would use permethrine religiously...sometimes spraying down her clothes after we got out of the vehicles on the way into the woods (which you aren't supposed to do per the label). I started getting worried about chemicals & the potential tie to cancers about that time, so I experimented by starting to go into the woods with nothing on. I saw no significant difference in the amount of ticks that I found versus what she found, so I've opted out of using harsh chemicals that last on your clothes through several washings. In my mind it's deciding which risk you are more comfortable taking...possibly getting a tick disease versus 100% having chemical on your body.
Now, I'm in the woods frequently doing chainsaw work or selling property. Today, I wear tall rubber boots & tuck my pants inside, even when it's very hot. Often, I take a change of clean clothes & put them on before I get in my vehicle (this probably has the greatest impact) to drive home. I also use duct tape (gorilla tape is my favorite version) to dab all over my clothes to pick up ticks I haven’t seen (this is especially effective for small "seed" ticks).
Hope this helps someone find their best tick prevention strategy!
Very brave, going into the woods with nothing on😊
I agree, I don't like the idea of putting these nasty chemicals on my skin. What you put on your skin gets absorbed into your skin.
Hi. Like the no chemicals. And always check your whole body
@DanielSon69 Gotta be brave to even take a breath in this world, you might choke on your own spit...lol! 😁
A follow-up story to my original comment...
I believe that some of the sprays/treatments can be effective. I just personally am not comfortable with the possible risk of what they could be tied to in this particular case at this time.
I had an experience where I had symptoms similar to Lyme disease a few years ago after working in the woods on a habitat project. The doctors started to treat me with a prescription as if I had Lyme disease, but then my blood tests came back negative for Lyme disease. I never found out what caused me to have those symptoms. The only thing abnormal/not typical that I could possibly link it to was that I had been spraying glyphosate a few days earlier.
Glyphosate has historically been touted as a "safe" chemical, but now we are seeing evidence that it's possibly tied to some health issues. My personal experience leans towards this being true. That experience also makes me question the use of other "safe" chemicals. Hence, accepting the risk of contracting a tick borne disease over using a "safe" chemical that we may one day decide isn't so safe.
You may weigh the risks differently than I do. If so, we can still be friends. 😊
This is exactly what I started to do last year. I tried hunting on the ground more. The bugs exspesilly the mosquitoes were so bad. Soon as I bought the same stuff you had in your hand, it was amazing. The mosquitoes started to leave me alone and there was no ticks willing to jump on permethrin
It's a game changer!
I rather wear a hazmat suit than go freaking spraying insecticides on myself, yuck
.@@OutdoorsAllie I don't play games .
As a hairy wolf man, I always feel mosquitos, ticks and horse flies on my skin
😂is that what hair is for?
Being part Neanderthal myself I approve this message. LOL. Thanks for being part of the club. You gave me a good laugh. #don't laugh at hairy men at the beach
Yeah, free perimeter alarms. Very effective 🤭
Lol me too 😂
Ditto. But it also means you’ll feel the hairs touching hairs feeling like ticks messing with your mind. One or two ticks doesn’t do that but once I find more than 10 on me in a day and a couple are digging in, I feel them all over.
Wow that was a lot more simple than I thought!
Thank you Outdoors Allie!!
thanks for the tip about clothing treatment, i will be ordering some soon !!! I frequently work in the woods cutting firewood and maintaining my own wooded property. When I was a kid growing up in the country here in Pa. we did not have ticks and it wasn't something we needed to deal with at all !! There was a great deal more wildlife as far as wild pheasant , quail , wild turkey , etc and they were big insect eaters . After predators began to be reintroduced into our wildlife habitat here the birds disappeared and guess what , we now have ticks !!!!! If you find a tick embedded in your skin or any other scenario where you have a tick on you get a small bottle of rubbing alcohol , remove the lid and place the mouth of the bottle over the tick and turn the bottle upside down sealing the bottle against your skin and flooding the tick with the contents . As long as you maintain constant pressure with the mouth of the bottle against your skin you will not spill any . The alcohol causes the tick to be unable to breathe and it will back out of your skin almost as if paralyzed and die if you hold it on long enough . I learned this trick from someone who worked for the railroad crew who traveled around repairing the tracks in very densely wooded areas . This technique has worked flawlessly for me every time I had to deal with ticks , give it a try and be blessed !!!!
Thank you for the tick prevention insights. I should have listened years ago. I've had both Lymes and Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever. I have a fair tick population on my property. Chiggers too but that's a different conversation. Getting immediate treatment with anti-biotics will stave off a bad case of either. When I say immediate, if you have a fever of any sort within days of a tick bite, get treated right away. Let them do the test for Lymes/RMSF, but don't wait for the results to get treated. I have zero ongoing symptoms of complications from Lymes, years after my initial exposure.
I'm glad to hear that you aren't experiencing ongoing symptoms. Thanks for watching!
i tell people about permethrin frequently love that stuff
Mint extract and distilled water mix. No chemicals.
I learned lavender oil stops the pain of any kind of insect bite/sting immediately. I keep a small vile of it in my purse, car and medicine cabinet. It has saved me from much suffering countless times. Really appreciate this video thank you🙏🏻
Yellow jacket stings? I'll have to try this one.
Word! Do everything Allie says. Lyme Disease victim here. Had to fight through many a fever and illness to keep going in my life but Lyme Disease knocked me out for the count for about 5 days. Thought I was dying. Took every ounce of my soul just to crawl out of bed to take a leak as well as get to the doctor for treatment. I live alone I had no help. Uggghhhhh. It's no fu**ing joke.
@Nikolai Ninja thank you and indeed. I thought it was a poisonous spider or snake bite but thankfully the doc suspected Lyme Disease and started treatment before the test came back and he knew for sure. I know people who's doctors would refuse to treat for Lyme Disease until the test results came back leading to more unnecessary pain and damage.
Nick was the same way. Terrible.
Have been using Sawyer aerosol not the pump style for 20 years. Never had an issue with ticks. Also keeps the skeeters in check. Great video
Thanks for watching!
Thanks Allie.
Thanks for watching Tracy!
Vicks vapor rub really helps keep them off. On your legs around the top of your socks and any other place on your skin where they might want to go
Permethrin is a life saver but that's the first I've heard of picaridin, thanks Allie
hieuhn99 we’ve treated a lot of our gear/clothing with the permethrin. My only concern is odor. I don’t know if it does or not.
Picaridin does have a slight odor.
I spent 12 hours a day outside riding trail horses in mountains. The best thing for me is I eat crushed fresh garlic every day or rub a clove on the bottom of my feet before putting boots on. I tried garlic pills they don't work. I also shave entire body accept for my head but tie hair up and wear a hat. I might feel a tick crawling but never have they latched on. My body will not tolerate chemical tick sprays even pymitherin which stinks so bad the only reason cows will stick their faces through sand bags soaked in it is their after the grain in the feeder
PYMITHRIN IS MY GO TO FOR ALL MY OUTDOOR GEAR AND CLOTHES.NEVER ON MY SKIN.AND HAVE NO PROBLEMS!
This is exactly how I do it too, whether I'm fishing or working outdoors, etc. Works great so far!
Sure does!! Thanks for watching.
I'm like you. I can find ticks wondering on me a day after I get home, and they never bite in. But there's a reason. If I wash all over with soap the morning I leave for camping, ticks bite right in. But if I wait a day after taking a thorough washing shower and then shower the morning I leave by just rinsing off with water alone and wash only under my arms and private areas, the ticks seem to never bite. I've only had 3 tick bites in my 72 years, and the last one was in the late 1990s before I knew this about myself. Nevertheless, during tick season I am always watching out for them on me.
Thank-you! That was very helpful!!!
Glad it was helpful!
60 years ago when I was a kid, I was in the woods constantly and had never even heard of a tick. Apparently Fauci hadn't developed them at that point.
Same here brother, oh how did we survive without govment
I am 69 yrs old and was raised in rural Ky. My brothers and sisters and myself spent a lot of time in the blackberry patches. We got many chigger and a ticks on us. But back then there was no such thing as any diseases from ticks. I do believe that Fauci can very well be involved in the diseases, but not the ticks themselves.
There's a reason (and a location) for why it's called Lyme. Which just so happens to be a very short distance to an island with a US Govt biolab that just so happened to "study" insect diseases. Probably should trust the science and say it was totally natural to encounter Lyme disease...HAH!
He is a tick … sucking the life blood of our country !
Fauci is a tick.
TY SWEET LADY = gonna stock up now!
It’s great to see an outdoors Woman sharing intelligent and science ! I have a tiny house in Maine! So, I’m super preparing before I get there, boots on the ground. Thank you for the info!!
Thanks for watching April!
Very informative, I live in northern Minnesota and the ticks are outrageous. Thnx
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you so very much for the information but especially for providing the links!
Glad it was helpful!
@@OutdoorsAllie Aways a good time on your channel!
Thank you. Nice video.
I use sprays n believe it ....dog flea n tick collars around my boots. Don’t like to get sprays or lotions on me n my hands especially while fishing . HATE ticks n chiggers ......thanks for info , y’all have fun n be safe
Thanks David!
Tick collars on the boots.... Genius.
We remove ticks with lavender oil.
We put a drop or two on the tick, wait for a minute, because the tick will release and start to back out. We've gotten the tick out completely (head and all). Then we wash the site with Hibiclens to prevent any infection.
I live in Niagara Falls ontario and ticks are everywhere!!!! Took 5 off the dog just yesterday and i check him and remove ticks daily.. we hike a lot..
Yikes!
If I find an embedded tick on myself or my pet I find a cotton ball or tissue soaked with good ole amber Listerine will cause them to back out. Although they might regurgitate, of course they regurgitate when poked with tweezers too. Also heard a Vet recommending spraying diluted Listerine on cats and dogs as a repellent. Might work on pants and socks, too.
My wife and I live on a piece of Mississippi mixed hardwood forest.
Our driveway is over 1/4 mile into the forest.
We are always in an environment with biting bugs.
I do use the permethrin but do not use Deet products on my person.
I have become fairly successful at mixing natural oil products to find a good mix that works very effectively. I also use Gold Bond in my socks to keep chiggers off my feet.
Interesting. Thanks for the idea!
@@OutdoorsAllie ..... I mix eucalyptus, tea tree, peppermint, lemon oil and almond oil as a carrier agent.
Going head to head with my wife wearing deet (the 1st year), I was always better off than she. She actually switched.
@@elricofarmer1561 Interesting. Thanks for sharing Elrico!
@@elricofarmer1561I am so intrigued, could you pelase share the exact recipe? Thank you so much in avdance. I now live in woodlands and I am MORTIFIED
@@cryptolola9064 .... I don't know if I have a recipe to be honest! I just purchased essential oils and mix them together with a carrier agent.
I remember being an outdoor child of my generation, playing neighborhood sports, disappearing on creek adventures, see ya a dark kinda life, and we had ticks all the time… we have dogs nowadays, and feel that our fury friends now bring the ticks to us… make a video talking about Lyme vaccine for dogs and maybe why we don’t have the same for humans…! Nice video btw
There was a Lyme vaccine for humans in the mid to late 90's. At the time I was living and working as a Forester in what was then recognized as a"Lyme Disease Hot Zone" in North Western California. Information I obtained from my ( Bye Monthly Subscription to the "Lyme Times").
With that knowledge. I contacted my Kaiser family physician for a consultation. We both agreed that I was a perfect candidate for the Lyme vaccine. Within two weeks my request was approved. I received a total of two injections spanning 3 months. To my knowledge I did not inc-cure negative side effects. Was I just a genie pig? I am curious to why the vaccine vanished and was taken off the market? Did recipients develop complications?
I suppose I should Inquire.
Spot on advice.
Great advice👍, I will share this to family and friends. Thanks🙏🏼
Thanks for sharing!!
Thanks for sharing!!
Great educational video. I haven't been as careful as needed. Will try your regiment. Thanks!!!
Regimen
Eat fresh chopped garlic every day. Spray clothes with a water, neem oil, ac vinegar, and eucalypus oil. Guineas eat lotza ticks so do opossum.
Thank you for stating this. Only way to safely protect yourself.
Wrong. Possums do not eat ticks. Research it non scientific study claimed they did. Wrong facts.
Chickens do also.
And turkeys
In the Marine Corps back in the 80 we used to drink DEET!!
This was great. I hope you do more of these.
Thank you!
I want to thank you for sharing thank you for the video too
Thanks for watching!
Best I found? Yard guard your lower pants and shoes use the really yard guard fogger. When your done outside for the day take a shower and do are good body check in front of a full body mirror. Turn the clothes wearing inside out. Check for ticks, especially on the seams. destroy any tics you find on you or your clothes. This is not a game of catching release. It’s search and destroy.
Even being in a dryer without having been washed can kill ticks (or so I am told).
Thnx
Novas Scotia Canada the tic Capital of the world! We carried pack of cigarettes and matches. A lighted cigarette close to tic causes them to back out with pinchers !
This is so informative and useful Thank you Allie. God bless you.
Glad it was helpful Jason!
You are welcome you are doing a great job I love helpful and informative videos that's how I learn. I'm a visual learner as well as doing things with my hands.
I use rose geranium oil full strength on ankles and wrists and spray a concoction of rose, geranium oil, eucalyptus oil, patchouly oil, lavender oil, mixed with water and witch hazel. It worked well in northern Virginia, but I’ve since moved to Southern Virginia and now have Alpha gal syndrome. text are everywhere here. We’re now trying to treat the bushes and plants around our house.
I've spent my entire life in the outdoors and have had 3 ticks on me in 53 years. I've never had chiggers either. When I say outdoors , I don't mean out in the yard / garden. I mean in the thick brush, waist high weeds ,deep woods .
Yeah, I had hunting property in west Michigan. When I bought it in 1980 I could let my kids play in diapers. By the time I sold it in 2010 ticks were everywhere. It's changing with climate change.
When I bought hunting property in west Michigan in 1980 my kids could play outside in diapers. By the time I sold it in 2010 ticks were everywhere. Climate change is changing the game.
Ya, I don't ever remember them being a problem when I was a kid.
@@OutdoorsAllie It was as many ticks in the 70s and 80s when I was a kid as it is now. Everything fluctuates in cycles. When I was a kid , we would pick wild blackberries and ticks would be crawling on the brambles everywhere. I've trapped predators year round for decades and some springs and summers , coyotes would be covered in ticks and other years not so bad.
@@OutdoorsAllie It was aa many ticks in the 70s and 80s when I was a kid as it is now. Everything fluctuates in cycles. When I was a kid , we would pick wild blackberries and ticks would be crawling on the brambles everywhere. I've trapped predators year round for decades and some springs and summers , coyotes would be covered in ticks and other years not so bad.
The best way to prevent blood-suckers from biting us is a proper human diet, which is low to no carbs. It's not our blood that these creatures want - it's the glucose (sugar) in our blood. If the blood glucose is low enough, they won't detect it, and they, mostly, won't bite. I can be outside for hours on end, with gnats all over me and not get bit.
Excess glucose in the blood is hands down the #1 root cause of just about all human disease.
Another benefit of a low to no carb diet is that qe don't get sunburned, no sunscreen needed. The weight gets normal, too.
What exactly does that mean, low to no carbs? What do you eat?
@@DaLeSy. No sugars no grains or root vegetables
@@kenputer56 I'm already eating like that, I still got a tick on me the other day. Although I do eat some fruits. But personally I think we need some glucose. Our brain runs on it.
Yea I mean my dog only eats meat and has still gotten ticks, I've also gotten ticks while on carnivore so I'm not sure this theory holds up. I don't get sunburn though 😂
Bs. Ticks bite in order to get the protein, blood sugar has nothing to do with it. What about cats and dogs who only eat meat and still get ticks?
Water and geranium essential oil in a spray bottle.
There's a popular spray they sell for horses and other animals to repel ticks and fleas, and that's pretty much its ingredients, simple, natural, works well. Edit - It's called Bodyguard and uses geraniol which can be derived from geranium essential oil or citronella. I just make mine homemade it's way cheaper and smells better imo, you have to shake it well especially if you don't have an emulsifier in it (dawn or Castile soap work good). But yea I put it on my lower body and some on the puppy anytime we go into deep woods in areas loaded w ticks and never bring any home w us when I use it. I'd never use anything even remotely toxic on my clothes, my body, or my dog.
Landscaper talking here from Roanoke VA. I probably have 50 to 75 bites per year. I have had myself tested a couple of times. Guess I'm lucky. I take precautions, but not this well clearly.
Good to know Thanks
Great information,and presentation. Apparently eating raw garlic also makes one fairly unpalatable to ticks,which i take for health anyway(soaked in apple cider vinegar). Best wishes.
I read from the CDC once that tics will typically crawl around on your body till they find a comfort spot. Once they find this spot it said the average time a tic waits to bite was between 7 to 12 hours. However, they must not know about Idaho tics because every spring I have several on me every few hours and bad days I've got 15 or so I pick off every 30 minutes. But I've had em bite but not burrow after a few hours into my day. However often they bite, you have a very small possibility of actually catching a disease. But, for the outdoorsman especially in the spring, the chances are greater due to all tics falling off animals and finding new hosts. Never heard of these products. I will have to try.
Definitely worth it!
What about cedar oil? It is all natural and safe.
Thank you Allie for sharing with us.
Thanks for watching!
I felt something crawling up my leg, sure enough a tick, was quick to give it a flick!
Flick - a - Tick ! Love it !
MrODOG,
So, a flick, but not a kill.
That tick went on to bite a host and then lay 100 eggs.
This Isn't catch and release.
It's catch and KILL. ! ☆
A red bandana around your neck 24/7 , apply drops of Rose Geranium oil (pelargonium capitatum x radens) once a week with prayers to the most high God whom we both love and fear.
I put geranium oil in a spray bottle with water and spray my lower body and the puppy before going in the woods. All natural works awesome
Magnesium ❤
I spend A LOT of time in the woods & it seems like every time I go out with clothes that aren't treated with permethrin, I get ticks on me. That stuff is really good! I will have to start treating my boots like you said. Great video Allie!
Great stuff.
I'm 57 years old and I have a Positive CDC tick bites test a month ago. Well I don't have this disease or Rockie Mountain. I have Alpha Gal from tick bites near Greensboro NC.. I'm so glad that I didn't have it, until I didn't suffer from red meat allergies.
I hope you feel better soon!
good stuff!!! thanks for the info!
It's good stuff.
Thank you for making this video
My pleasure!
Good info. Neighbor got Lyme disease five years ago and can no longer walk. People with type B blood less likely to be bit, type A blood are ticks preferred choice.
Interesting. Never heard that before!
I'm B positive and had a tick biting me just yesterday so please don't believe this bs, thanks
Good to hear thankyou for sharing! Any advise for animals dogs in par'tic'ulare 😊😊
I once had Lyme disease about 5 years ago. I thouth I was about to die and I paralized of my upper body but about a week and half later every symptoms was gone. Now I'm free and alive! I don't know why!!
My husband had it too and it was brutal. Glad to hear you're better now!
@@OutdoorsAllieI wish your husband is fine as well now
Excellent video! I swear by Permethrin. Lyme disease is no joke and if you suffer from an autoimmune disease, it's worse.
It helps a lot!
I am 55 and I spend hundreds of hours a year in the woods hunting, hiking and mushroom foraging. Eating a large fresh clove of garlic and a couple pinches of cayenne pepper every day makes a huge difference. It is not perfect but on average I will get 80 to 90% less ticks than people that are with me.
If you don't want to eat a clove of garlic, you can pop a garlic OIL supplement - not a garlic supplement, and achieve the same results. Works for gnats and mosquitoes as well.
I do the garlic thing, didn't know about the cayenne pepper. Thanks.
@@MikeOrazzi Yes sir ! I actually started taking cayenne and garlic for the huge amount health benefits and then all my buddies started calling me a liar when i would say i only had one or two ticks after a day in the woods and they had 20 or more ! lol. Gotta be the garlic and pepper. Hope it helps brother.
Solid advice and I use these same products however I can attest nothing is 100%. I actually removed a tick from my right hip last night and this will make the 4th tick embedded for this year so far. Thankfully most tick spread diseases usually occur after tick has been embedded for 24 hours or longer and I do a tick search daily to prevent this. I must say I spend nearly every day outdoors in the woods with high tick population. If I didn't use these products I would be pulling dozen off daily. Moral of the story use these products but check for ticks at end of day. Thanks for sharing this, I was planning a similar video for ny channel but I think you covered it perfectly 👍
Hiya OA! For some reason I didn't know about Picaridin stuff. So after getting a notion and having a look around for tick removal today (Ordered the 'Tick Twister') I ran into your EXCELLENT piece. Got some ordered just a minute ago and came back to say thanks. Mosquitoes don't bother me much but I'm a regular tick chick. The little rascals love me! Also, almost as bad are noseeums. They leave places on me that last up to 3 weeks. My solution is Dickies coveralls (spacesuit). Even though I nearly got heat stroke last October working on the food plots...I gotta wear them. Permethrin is a bonus. I know that stuff works. I decided to visit the digs a couple of weeks ago in my regular hunting clothes and of course brought a tick back home. The wife pulled that off at 3AM with tweezers when my leg got to itching. So it's back to the spacesuit. DEET is really not good for me, so I'm going to have a go with your suggestion around the sleeves, collar, etc. Being a club I have to be out there some in the summer. I appreciate your super vid!
Your bestest fan in Alabam,
Norm
Thanks for watching Norm. Glad it was helpful.
Permethrin definitely seems like the way to go!
Great tips Allie, that's the first I've heard of Permethrin I'll be getting some. Everyone talks about Lime disease however that's not the only disease to worry about with tics. Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever is also deadly, a good friend and his wife both contracted it at the same. both spent weeks in the hospital and both almost died! It's not just confined to the Rocky Mountains this was in South Carolina.
Yep, they are nasty little creatures.
Powassan disease, very bad for the nervous system
Looking for non toxic uses for me and for dogs
Try Bodyguard spray it's all natural and works really well it's been around for a long time mostly for horses. I make mine homemade with just geranium essential oil and water in a spray bottle shake it real good, works great I just spray my lower body and try to do the same for the dog
I wear clothing from Craghoppers that has insect repellant made into the fabric, and I use Bert's Deet for my hands and neckline. Haven't had any issues during my hikes yet.
Cool, I'll have to check it out!
I use dawn dish washing machine for ur clothes and in bath water too
Not found in Alaska as far as I know
Lucky!
@@OutdoorsAllie we got plenty of mosquitoes however
Whenever I get bit by a tick it causes a festering open wound in my skin. The wound oozes puss and can take over a year to heal. It is very painful and extremely frustrating. Over the years I've been to numerous physicians and all of them prescribe me the same skin creams and sometimes antibiotics which do nothing to heal the wound. The last bite was on my inner thigh. When I showed a dermatologist, he insisted it wasn't a tick bite and decided to take a biopsy to check for skin cancer. Even though I knew it was a festering tick bite because I walked around with it on my leg for six months. And despite two trips to two other doctors, and two different medications, the wound was still there. And despite me going through this over and over again for the past thirty years this doctor like many before him did not listen to what I was telling them about the problem of my reaction to tick bites. The biopsy came back negative for cancer, just as I knew it would, but when the biopsy wound healed so did the tick bite.
Doctors used to listen many many years ago, but today's doctors NEVER listen to the patient! Condolences. I hope you can get a breakthrough someday soon.
Survival Russia says to have folds in your clothes like socks, neck openings. He said they dont go backward and get caught in the folds.
If I were nick I would take horse paste, 1 notch for every 50 lbs body weight, 1 tube 1200lbs ! Ivermectin 1.87%, at tractor supply or Amazon
Permethrin is Awesome...if i don't have it, i apply 'sublimed sulfur' powder around my waist, boots also if im hunting wild boar....it keeps the chiggers/red bugs out also. Fortunately, i'm 12.5% Cherokee and Rarely have an issue with mosquitos =) *I remember as a young 12 year old miscreant my Dad would take me to get a haircut on Saturdays. Midway through one cut, the Barber Jim said...look at this to my Dad. A Tic had burrowed under the skin on the back of my neck. He had to 'lance' the skin to get it out...I was freaking out, as Everyone in the Barber watched from behind, haha.
Hahahahahahah classic
We keep guinea fowl, and the tick population within their range has dropped dramatically! Like, two years ago I was pulling an average of 5 ticks/day off each dog, but this year it's been about one tick per week! Other parts of our property where the guineas don't go are thick with ticks, so we just check ourselves/our dogs when we get back from those areas.
Great info! Up here in Canada our idiots at Health Canada are taking forever to approve Permethrin sprays. We just got one source of Permethrin treated clothing approved for sale this year and of course it sold out pretty quickly. Picaridin and DEET are the only defense for most people here, thankfully our colder climate means we have less ticks than more southern locations , but we still do have them , and the Lyme's disease that goes along with them
It has been a great tool for us!
Hey Scot, Piactive is what I use in Ontario. It’s pretty affective in my opinion.
FANtastic!
We live in the woods and buy permethrin concentrate. It's a lot cheaper in the long run.
Very good advice.
For additional clarity - DO NOT let wet permethrin touch your skin. It can affect the nervous system and is much more easily absorbed when wet. Similarly, do not apply to clothing that is close to your skin - hats, etc.
So just a tip on permathrine... You can buy the concentrate and mix your own in a spray bottle. We buy it at the local farm store for about 15 dollars. That concentrate will make dozens of spray bottles full.
By the way, permathrine is used on cows and on dogs for fleas and tick control, however don't use it on our near your cats as they react badly to the spray when they contact the wet permathrine.
Where do you find the lotion packets? Thanks for the video.
Sawyer!
I use 12 mg Ivermectin tablets to prevent things I might catch from Critters that bite me. Great 😊 video thanks.
Kills the bugs that bite you in the process.. 🕷->💥!
"Go ahead, BITE ME!"
😂
How do you get ivermectin?
@@paulpillow7641 I ordered it from India off their website. I'm so sorry I am not allowed to tell you on this format, 🥺 you will have to look it up for yourself. 🇨🇦
@@paulpillow7641 I order it off of website it comes from India.
@@paulpillow7641 🤫at onyxpills type in Stromectol or Ivermectin
Great info. Thanks. 👍🍻
Thanks for watching!
Similax sarrsparilla.
That's what rids the body from what the tick carries. Make tea. And detox.
I've done it myself
When I was a kid (I’m old LOL) and we camped in an area with ticks we always brought a small bottle of turpentine with us. If you got a tick you just uncapped the bottle and inverted it on your skin over the tick and they would back out in a hurry. Alcohol is likely safer but it worked for us and I’m still here and okay…. okay…. okay…. okay… 🤣😂🤣
Yep you SURE are??
Turpentine is an awesome tool
I'm a firm believer in permethrin. Also, the low odor stuff like Sawyers, is undetectable by deer, or at least it doesn't spook them. One tip. If you get your gloves, mask, and hat as well as your socks pants and top, you'll keep mosquitoes off and in the early season, that's really important. Plus, no chiggers, which are horrible!
Absolutely. Thanks Mark!
What is a chigger?
A mite (like scabies) also called redbugs.
Ozarks ticks eat permethrin for breakfast. Seriously, last weekend my clothes were treated with 8oz of Sawyer. Still got 6 tick bites.
Gamehide elimitick clothing is the best
I’m currently on antibiotics right now for an infected tick bike that started turning into a systemic disease. This will be the third time. I normally use Ben’s, but the one day I forgot to put it on, I had 3 ticks on me, and one of them definitely caused a tick-borne infection.
Ugh, I'm sorry to hear that.
My. Beagle seems to get more ticks ( she does take tick prevention) and they would crawl off of her when she would get up on the couch, I guess lucky for me I could feel the crawling on my hair and get them off me , we don’t walk near tall grass in the summer