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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 279134" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>I had a nasty case of chiggers once, I was rather horrified. I'd been cleaning out a broody hen box after the family had finished with it. The welts/blisters were in the waistband line and at cuffs, elbows etc. I felt like I'd been ringbarked.</p><p></p><p>We have a bad tick problem in our area which I beleive is at least partly due to having lots of deer in plague proportions - deer that wander the streets of the village every night. When difficult child 3 was at the local school which has a lot of natural bushland, he came home with several hundred "grass ticks" (6-legged nymphs) on him. I had to strip him off and pick them off him, he had a lot round his scrotum. I also had to crewcut his scalp to be able to find the 50 or so there. A few days later he had another hundred or so.</p><p></p><p>Since then we've found he reacts fast to even one tick, with localised swelling. But the fast reaction means that he's on the alert constantly to any symptoms.</p><p></p><p>I was mildly amused at your label of "brown dog tick". We have a saying in Australia, that something is so bad it would kill a brown dog.</p><p></p><p>Our ticks are cattle ticks, Ixodes species. They start out as pinhead size and grow to something the size of your thumbnail. They are also called paralysis ticks. When I was a kid, we sometimes would lose a sheep (or a brown dog!) to a paralysis tick. It's really difficult trying to find a tick on a very woolly sheep.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 279134, member: 1991"] I had a nasty case of chiggers once, I was rather horrified. I'd been cleaning out a broody hen box after the family had finished with it. The welts/blisters were in the waistband line and at cuffs, elbows etc. I felt like I'd been ringbarked. We have a bad tick problem in our area which I beleive is at least partly due to having lots of deer in plague proportions - deer that wander the streets of the village every night. When difficult child 3 was at the local school which has a lot of natural bushland, he came home with several hundred "grass ticks" (6-legged nymphs) on him. I had to strip him off and pick them off him, he had a lot round his scrotum. I also had to crewcut his scalp to be able to find the 50 or so there. A few days later he had another hundred or so. Since then we've found he reacts fast to even one tick, with localised swelling. But the fast reaction means that he's on the alert constantly to any symptoms. I was mildly amused at your label of "brown dog tick". We have a saying in Australia, that something is so bad it would kill a brown dog. Our ticks are cattle ticks, Ixodes species. They start out as pinhead size and grow to something the size of your thumbnail. They are also called paralysis ticks. When I was a kid, we sometimes would lose a sheep (or a brown dog!) to a paralysis tick. It's really difficult trying to find a tick on a very woolly sheep. Marg [/QUOTE]
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