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Tick Awareness Week Coming Up
Time to get clued-up on the dangers of ticks and Lyme disease ready for a summer of hillwalking.
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Mole
12/05/2010 at 22:44
talking to a friend last week - she had (verified and treated) Lymes disease last year from a tick bite which she got on the coast path on the Devon/Dorset border - so not just the hills....
Metric Kate
12/05/2010 at 22:47

On the Devon / Dorset border? Well, that would be Lyme Bay, Mole!

I've used the tick-twister to remove a tick from a friend - worked a treat.

Mole
12/05/2010 at 22:53

passed me by Kate! (must be bedtime)

never tied a tick twister - I've nearly always  managed to twist ticks out ok (probly had over 100 since childhood) with my finger/thumb nails, but my OH uses a loop of cotton or a strand of string  twisted around the tick's 'neck'to pull them out - (sucessfully every time too)

Edited: 12/05/2010 at 23:01
alexander rae
12/05/2010 at 22:56
I had a tick on my leg after slioch, Kate. Who's idea was it to go up there !
Tytto tho Pesh
12/05/2010 at 23:23
Mole wrote (see)
talking to a friend last week - she had (verified and treated) Lymes disease last year from a tick bite which she got on the coast path on the Devon/Dorset border - so not just the hills....

yup - my verified and treated lymes (year before last) was from a devon tick, and not even up on the limited heights of dartmoor either, but in the valley.

i think walkers are quite aware - but GPs are emphatically not!  i ended up at the fantastically helpful lupus centre in london because three successive GPs went "what...? eh...? er...?  come back in six months...".

Metric Kate
12/05/2010 at 23:48

My friend whose tick I removed last year went to the GP just in case. GP informed her that UK ticks didn't carry Lyme disease. er... yeah.

I do wish the BMA would circulate GPs, or hit them on the head with some information.

Tytto tho Pesh
13/05/2010 at 09:36

the third one i went to said hang on... while he looked it up in the book... and then said i didn't have it because i lived in london

devon GPs are much more aware, obviously, since they see more potential cases.

Milly.
13/05/2010 at 10:00

My GP surgery had Tick Awareness posters and leaflets last year.

It lists sites of additional information:

Disease and prevention: www.tickalert.org - they produce the leaflet - could ask your GP surgery to order some?

TBE: www.tick-victims.info

Lyme: www.bada-uk.org & www.lymediseaseaction.org.uk

I agree, it seems that GPs in potentially affected areas are more aware.

huskyman
13/05/2010 at 22:36
Not allways, Ireland as a whole has a tick problem, due to the fact that livestock are kept from sealevel to near the highist points.
After a bad weekend for bites,(around 20 in 3 days),I went to my GP for a check, knew nothing about ticks !!!.
I explained the problem to him and has now studied it in depth, anyone bitten by ticks now see him.
scottishquine69
22/03/2012 at 16:29
Tick Bite Prevention Week is here again 26th March 2012


Ticks can carry harmful infections that can be transmitted to humans. It is estimated that each year around 3,000 people in the UK contract Lyme disease (Borreliosis) from a tick bite.*
If you take part in outdoor activities or simply enjoy being in the countryside, or parks and gardens where wildlife is present, you may be at risk from tick bites. In fact, research from the School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol, published in January 2012, suggests that the prevalence of Lyme disease bacteria in the UK tick population is considerably higher than most recent estimates indicated.
Tick Bite Prevention Week, supported by Mosi-guard Natural™, runs from 26 March-1 April 2012, and is an annual programme that helps promote awareness of tick-borne diseases and effective tick-bite prevention for at-risk groups, including pet owners and their animals.
Don't panic but be 'Tick Aware'!
Simple precautions can help to keep you safe. The campaign's Patron, Bushcraft and Survival expert Ray Mears, shares his Top Tips that can be taken to help prevent ticks from biting people and pets.
The great outdoors is there to be enjoyed, so make sure you visit www.tickbitepreventionweek.org for lots of useful information and advice.
*Health Protection Agency 2011
captain paranoia
22/03/2012 at 18:36
scottishquine69
22/03/2012 at 22:21

Sorry for not posting the link....my brain is in forum smush mode! Thanks for doing it Captain Paranoia. We also have our normal site

www.bada-uk.org 

I did notice someone removing ticks with fingers.....have to say this is not a good way to remove them...my hubby did that for years and ended up getting Lyme, it took him ten years to get diagnosed....so now he can no longer mountain climb, ice climb mountain bike etc..He was also an operational Fireman, now he has a desk job....it is a horrendous disease but is easily treated if caught early. Below is the link on how to safely remove ticks...

http://www.tickbitepreventionweek.org/tick-removal.html

Lee Robert
22/03/2012 at 23:02
scottishquine69 wrote (see)

Sorry for not posting the link....my brain is in forum smush mode! Thanks for doing it Captain Paranoia. We also have our normal site

www.bada-uk.org 

I did notice someone removing ticks with fingers.....have to say this is not a good way to remove them...my hubby did that for years and ended up getting Lyme, it took him ten years to get diagnosed....so now he can no longer mountain climb, ice climb mountain bike etc..He was also an operational Fireman, now he has a desk job....it is a horrendous disease but is easily treated if caught early. Below is the link on how to safely remove ticks...

http://www.tickbitepreventionweek.org/tick-removal.html


Link not working.

Mal Mawr
22/03/2012 at 23:10
GP's can be real terwats at times. Years back I picked up scabies, probably from one of my more skanky patients. I went to the GP for a prescription and he attempted to pooh,pooh the idea that I had scabies because, apparently, such things "are extremely rare these days". That was until I told him that I had diagnosed and treated many cases myself when I was a Royal Navy medic. It turned out that he had never seen a case before.
Lee Robert
22/03/2012 at 23:22

So much disinformation out there is beggers belief. Scabies is about as about as rare as commercial breaks on sky tv, can't get lymes in UK.. what !!!  I've done first aid training like 10 times and every time they tell you a different way of doing cpr, waiting for the day they tell you the best way to get someone breathing again is to smash um in the face or boot them in the bollocks.

scottishquine69
23/03/2012 at 12:24
I wish I could say that it isn't what we hear alot....sadly a lot GP's are lacking in information..through out last year we helped about 150 people get the right information to give to their GP's to help them get the correct treatment. This year we have a specific area for Health Professionals, and hope they will pass this information on to others. That is why we do what we do...

I have tried adding a link to our Tick Bite Prevention Week (TBPW) website....but it appears I have made an epic fail with that.....I will try again!!! fingers and toes crossed....

Correct tick removal
Edited: 23/03/2012 at 12:32
huskyman
23/03/2012 at 19:27

If like my Doctor, they knew nothing about tick bites, insist they look up about it.

 Thankfully, I've never got Lyme's, etc. but I had loads of tick bites.

 I would not leave my doctor's until he looked into the dangers of tick bites.

 Because I wouldn't give up, he looked into it. He has now rescearched all about ticks and informed the rest of the Doctors in the practice.

scottishquine69
24/03/2012 at 11:48
If any of you have a decent GP who will accept information, there is a bit specially for them on our TBPW website(health professionals). We were hoping to send it out to GP's, but due to data protection etc we couldn't. Hopefully some of you might also find it handy. As I said before if you get a "bullseye" rash it is the only total proof that you have Lyme. Even blood tests can give false results. I do apologise if I am repeating myself, I am covering about 40 forums now, and some are blurring into on e....lol...
huskyman
25/03/2012 at 21:48

 Re, DPA. Are Doctors, etc. allowed to download the information on BADA site?

 With regard to the professional information?

 I'd like to get my Doctor to look at it, as since I informed him about ticks and what can be caught off them. He wants to know as much as he can.

scottishquine69
25/03/2012 at 22:25
Hi Huskyman, the medical proffesional part of our Tick Bite Prevention week website should give your GP all the information he should need, but there is more info on our normal website too. Yes you can download it, so long as it is not used and made out to be someone elses work, and not linked to us. Our main aim is awareness and it is great news that your GP is willing to learn about ticks....If he/she wants leaflets we can send them to the practice...so he can give patients information away with then. Our Practice nurses tend to deal with tick removal, so we keep them topped up with leaflets....

Hope this is what you needed

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