The very small tick may or may not be a deer tick. Adult deer ticks are about an 8th inch. The tick 'nymph' or what we call a 'seed tick' is very small. It's the same tick in a different stage of it's life cycle. Lymes is pretty rare especially if you get that tick off within 3 hours. Usually one gets flu like symptoms and the spreading rash or bullseye, but not always.
Also be aware of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever which can kill ya pretty quick. I always check for ticks several times after walking in the woods. There's something that we locals call "tic paranoia", lasting hours to days, where every little tickle promotes nudity and inspection. [more fun in mixed company :-)] If a dog gets a tick in its ear, the dog can be paralyzed till it's pulled out. If the tick is allowed to drop off, you'll have "Sagans" [billions and billions] of ticks around...starting with seed ticks. I don't know if dogs get or carry Lymes disease but it's a good idea to de-tick them every day. As a former forestry worker, I've had ticks on me that were so thick that the blue on my jeans was not visible and they had to be scraped off with a knife before they dug in. WAY FREAKY!!! Fun with ticks... They can run around on the bottom of a jar full of methonol for a long time. Lots of fun to touch with a butane pocket torch. Sometimes they'll imitate a ballistic missile! Ready, aim, FIRE "pop"! Place ticks on the burner of a kerosene lamp and watch them do laps! Pull off their legs on one side and watch them walk in circles. Guinea hens and chickens love ticks...for supper. Hey, what's that little spot??? Oh a Freckle whew! Ken At 07:38 AM 6/29/01 EDT, you wrote: >In a message dated 6/28/01 9:59:06 PM EST, sam...@snowcrest.net writes: > ><< bj: CS>A question of ticks and lyme > Date: 6/28/01 9:59:06 PM EST > From: sam...@snowcrest.net (Joanne) > Reply-to: sam...@snowcrest.net (Joanne) > To: silver-off-topic-l...@yahoogroups.com, silver-list@eskimo.com (silver >list) > > Last week I was visiting my daughter about 30 miles East of >Sacramento.(California) We went for a walk with the kids and the dog. After >we got back we found a tick on the dog. Later that day while shopping a tick >fell off me. After we got home Nancy found two ticks on her. The next day I >found another one on me. Today, three days later and three showers later, >after I got home, I found two more on me. Except for the first one they all >had a hold of me and were digging in. The clothes I was wearing were not >even with me in Sacramento.....The questions are: > Where were those ticks for three days? > Do all ticks carry lyme? > If they do and one gets it what are the symptoms to watch for? My daughter >was concerned as there apparently are ticks around her place this year. I >told her I would try and get some info. for her as I know some of you have >had to deal with lyme. > Thank you > > Joanne > I am posting this to both lists > >> > >Joanne: I'm sure there are others much more knowledgeable than I, and I may >be dead wrong as well, but here goes anyway. Those ticks could have >transferred themselves to other clothing, or your pets and back to your body >during those three days, or been on your body the whole time. There's no way >to know. If you can see the tick easily, i.e., its an eighth to a quarter of >an inch in size, it is NOT a deer tick which is extremely small and very >difficult to see. It's the deer tick which carries Lyme disease and even >among deer ticks, only about 3% actually carry the Lyme bacteria. >Furthermore, even IF you HAD a Lyme infected deer tick on your body, there is >no certainty, by any means, that it will infect you. However, one way to >PROMOTE infection from any tick, since all ticks carry infectious bacteria, >is to attempt to remove it with a tweezers, or other means that induces it to >regurgitate bacterial containing fluids into your bloodstream. I would be >VERY cautious about removing a tick. If fact, have an expert do it. As far as >your pets are concerned, my vet once told me it's far safer to allow them to >fall off rather then attempt to pull them off yourself. If you are infected >with Lyme bacteria, a bulls-eye shaped redness MAY appear around the bite. >Check with your doctor to get further help. Roger > > >-- >The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. > >To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: >silver-list-requ...@eskimo.com -or- silver-digest-requ...@eskimo.com >with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. > >To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com >Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html >List maintainer: Mike Devour <mdev...@eskimo.com> > >
