Has anyone else noticed an increase in Ticks. I have had a dog for 7 years and only had on tick. Last week in exmoor i must have removed about 40 from her and one from me.
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 My mates cat has to be groomed for tickes every day and literally about 3 a day. And whe nI was out on a wildcamp i pulled loads of a dog, well these had not even latched on, they were jsut wonderign around on top, god knows how many must have actually bitten. And I found loads of myself too, luckaly again none had latched on. I have heard keeping a high level of B vitamins deters biting insects so I does up on Vitamin B all the time, and does actually seem to be working. you cant OD either coz its water soluble so you jsut pee it out if you take too much, the dose I get in some Joinace tablets is 2000#5 RDA! Seems to work though, worth a try anyway.
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 I honestly haven't noticed them any more or less. I had one last year, and three the year before (all on the same day, hooray).
I always wear long trousers unless I'm on the bike, that must be some sort of help.
Midges love my blood, so I'm assuming ticks would as well.
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.jpg) I have noticed that there are more around May-June time and this is the only time of year I have had any problems with the little b*******.
There were loads of them round the Burnmore Tarn area the other week. Descending from Scafell I removed several from my clothes and one from under my fingernail after chasing it accross my hand.
They should be banned!
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I have also heard puting garlic in a dogs food helps stop them, has anyone tried this.
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Not tried that, will try putting garlic in my food though. Mmmm garlic
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From Sunnyday - "Has anyone else noticed an increase in Ticks. I have had a dog for 7 years and only had on tick. Last week in exmoor i must have removed about 40 from her and one from me."
Not really, its just that the weather down here in Somerset has been ideal for them. There is a "Tick Warning" out on Exmoor and The Quantocks down here at the moment but not yet the Blackdowns, though my dog did get one, a deer tick I think, from up there.
Luckily I'd just Frontline'd her!
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 Should I worry about...................ticks?................er, no! Then again, I haven't got a dog, and I've never seen one on me (a tick that is). There seems to be tick mania at the moment. As long as you're aware of the symptoms of Lyme disease, I don't think there's much to worry about. As for wearing pesticide impregnated clothing next to my skin, I think I'd rather have the ticks taking an occasional meal from me.
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 I've never seen one only. But then again I don't wear shorts and don't typically roll around in the grass 
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 Has anyone else noticed an increase in Ticks. Do you have a lot of sheep in your area ? All sheep used to be dipped, the dipping coated the sheep with a chemical that killed ticks on contact, since all the health concerns over sheep dip, it is now not mandatory for sheep dipping, in many cases farmers now don't treat sheep at all. So we have went from a situation where sheep were mopping up ticks and killing huge quantities to sheep now acting as tick-aircraft carriers allowing them to breed and flourish like never before!
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 I have heard keeping a high level of B vitamins deters biting insects so I does up on Vitamin B all the time, and does actually seem to be working. you cant OD either coz its water soluble Wrote Gregory. Yes, similarly for mozzies too. And Garlic is said to be effective as well. The b vits source most likely often given as example for the desired effect, is a supplement of Brewer's Yeast from the health food shops.
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Scientists have predicted the global warming conditions of Europe to be the hotbed for an Europe wide ten-fold increase in all biting insects, bugs and ticks in general. The fear is also for an anticipated resultant escalation in recorded cases of both tick bite fevers and too Lymes Disease symptoms cases, throughout Northern Europe as a whole.  It has never been a better time to get tick conscious in the outdoors!
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America too is reporting an escalation of reported tick numbers, and in the reported cases of the symptoms of Lymes Disease, and too other diseases like Rocky Mountain and similar regional type tick born fevers.
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Reduced grazing by sheep in the Lake District has had some good results, but has also created many new homes for ticks in the more verdant vegetation. They've now got into areas where they didn't live before, or at least were very rare, like the Back o' Skiddaw.
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 Should I worry about...................ticks?................er, no! ... As long as you're aware of the symptoms of Lyme disease, I don't think there's much to worry about.
A month on antibiotics is reason enough to avoid the bloody disease. I certainly don't want it again in a hurry
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A friend of mine got Lymes disease a couple of years back, it was that good summer we had in 2006, the antibiotics he was given made him oversensitive to sunlight, he had to spend most of the summer indoors only venturing out at night time!
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Did you do loads of Dracula jokes at the time for him, Reiver? 
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One tick found on Emerald Fox June 2007 upper Eskdale, was camping below Little Narrowcove. Just pulled it off with fingernails and threw it! We have tick tweezers, the tips go round the 'neck' of the little creature and you are supposed to twist whilst gently pulling so the head (under your skin) comes out, rather than just yanking and leaving the head in to fester. In the old days it was considered clever to douse the tick in something horrible to it (whisky/meths/oil) so it would voluntary withdraw, which it does, but only after vomiting inside you! So, clearly on OM is needed a special Topic "Methods for Dealing with Ticks" ??!!
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I have found that if you have a tick biting you the easiest way to remove it is push it on it's back and pull, they seem to not loose their heads that way, although you do loose a little more skin that way.
As a bit of history, about 30 years ago kids in Lyme, Connecticut were coming down with cases of juvenile artheritis at a rate that was way beyond normal, one of the local docs did some investigating a discovered that they all had been bitten by bugs, further investigation showed that they were all ticks, but it took many years here (the states ) for doctors and hospitals to recognize the symtoms and put 2 +2 together.
The tick has to be attached for 24 hrs to transmit the pathogens to you so if you pull him off within that time frame you'll be safe.
I've had lyme disease at least twice and my wife has had it 3-4 times , once you have had it blood tests always show up positive for the titer.
Here it's a real problem. and we give our dogs doxicyclene routinely.
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 The Mrs picked one up over the weekend on Dartmoor. I guess I will have to inspect her body more often when camping
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