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Post by richm on Apr 10, 2024 8:53:36 GMT -5
I ride my mountain bike in the North Georgia forest and trails North of Atlanta often. I have yet to find a tick on me, but I'm going to look into wearing long pants in the summer, and treating with permethrin. Kind of hard though considering how much one sweats when riding. Permethrin will last thru several washes - sweating episodes.
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Post by TRTerror on Apr 10, 2024 8:54:04 GMT -5
Tuck your pants inside your boots , Tuck your shirt into your pants.. Beats off 99 % of ticks and never wear your hiking clothes into the house. I am in the woods daily and found only 2 ticks on me so far this summer
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Post by illinoisfisherman on Apr 10, 2024 9:01:51 GMT -5
Tuck your pants inside your boots , Tuck your shirt into your pants.. Beats off 99 % of ticks and never wear your hiking clothes into the house. I am in the woods daily and found only 2 ticks on me so far this summer With the disease tick’s are now responsible for even one found would give me reason for concern. Good luck to everyone.
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Post by richm on Apr 10, 2024 9:32:07 GMT -5
Tractor supply sells permethrin concentrate. Mix it up, spray it on. Works.
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Post by gogittum on Apr 10, 2024 9:40:49 GMT -5
Ticks were one of the reasons (there were several) I left FL and returned to NM over a year ago. I walked my dog in wooded areas and rarely went without getting at least a couple on me.
I live alone and finding, then trying to remove those on my back and shoulders was very difficult. So far (knock wood) I don't seem to have contracted anything from them.
Permethrin helped but didn't eliminate the problem. I had major problems with mosquitoes, too, but they're easily repelled...tho' I really disliked having to spray myself before working out in the shop or yard.
I've been home for 16 months now - already - and haven't seen a tick or mosquito here yet and I hike in the wilderness frequently and frequently go off trail, bushwacking to some destinations.
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Post by cyclist on Apr 10, 2024 10:36:12 GMT -5
I picked off 2 ticks yesterday and three the day before. Total for the year about 70, total for last year maybe a couple of hudred (all embedded). I have 6 friends and co-workers with AG (first one to get it got it in 2000 on a mnt bike ride). Recently a co-worker was diagnosed with AG and Lyme, tell your doctor it DOES occur in Florida. The other tick disease to look out for, of many, is ehrlichliosis. www.cdc.gov/ehrlichiosis/index.htmlI know some folks that take doxycycline with every tick bite, which I think is counterproductive and stupid. To the best of my knowledge I have never had a tick disease, knock on wood. I attribute it to my cracker heritage (9th generation Floridian) and possible resistance? I don't use any repellents and I wear shorts, makes it easier to find them and pick them off, but if you are in the woods you will get ticks.
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Post by bullfrog on Apr 10, 2024 12:01:08 GMT -5
I attribute it to my cracker heritage (9th generation Floridian) and possible resistance? I don't use any repellents and I wear shorts, makes it easier to find them and pick them off, but if you are in the woods you will get ticks. I was just about to chime in that I would bet susceptibility or lack thereof to Alpha Gal is genetic and shaped by natural selection. I’ve get bit by ticks dozens of times a year. I have had (or still have?) Lyme, which I’ve talked about in other threads. Lyme was initially a northern disease. My ancestors probably weren’t exposed. While the lone-star tick, and therefore likely alpha gal, is native to the South. I would suspect I’m immune to it. Immunity or weakness to brain-eating amoeba is also speculated to be so genetic. It is now known to be present in almost all water sources in the SE during summer. Yet so few people get it. I saw a study that suggested many fur trappers may have immunity to rabies through exposure to the weakened virus in the dead mammals they skin out.
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Post by tampaspicer on Apr 10, 2024 12:07:12 GMT -5
I pulled 100's of ticks from my body in my life. Never done anything but pull them out and sometimes with the head still in me. Price of doing business in the outdoors. LOL
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Post by serotinouscones on Apr 10, 2024 12:18:21 GMT -5
To the best of my knowledge I have never had a tick disease, knock on wood. I attribute it to my cracker heritage (9th generation Floridian) and possible resistance? I'm also a 9th Gen Floridian -- and maybe this explains why mosquitoes don't bother me. But if there is a Cracker gene for AG resistance, apparently I didn't inherit it.
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Post by cyclist on Apr 10, 2024 12:25:28 GMT -5
To the best of my knowledge I have never had a tick disease, knock on wood. I attribute it to my cracker heritage (9th generation Floridian) and possible resistance? I'm also a 9th Gen Floridian -- and maybe this explains why mosquitoes don't bother me. But if there is a Cracker gene for AG resistance, apparently I didn't inherit it. Uhoh! I like your forum name, are you fond of the Ocala sand pine scrub?
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Post by biminitwisted on Apr 10, 2024 12:36:41 GMT -5
Does Deet on one's skin help at all? I guess i should have a tick puller in my saddle bag, and maybe some alcohol.
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Post by serotinouscones on Apr 10, 2024 12:39:24 GMT -5
Uhoh! I like your forum name, are you fond of the Ocala sand pine scrub? One of my favorite places (except for the ticks) and one of my favorite tree species.
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Post by cyclist on Apr 10, 2024 12:46:32 GMT -5
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Post by TRTerror on Apr 10, 2024 13:14:12 GMT -5
I've also drank swamp water for years and never gotten sick. Maybe E Coli is scared of me. It's all back to licking Dumpster Lids builds Antibodies.
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Post by illinoisfisherman on Apr 10, 2024 13:43:35 GMT -5
My native Floridian friends attribute their immunity to bites to garlic. I don’t know but my wife doesn’t even like when I take my garlic pills. She says the odor comes through my skin. Perhaps they are correct.
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