Last night we took my sister Bree to the "Wayside Inn" for dinner and left the girls with babysitters. When we got home, Mckenzie was sleeping in our bed which was fine and at about 1:30am I went to move her to her own bed so we could go to sleep (yea, we don't go to bed at decent hours). I went to lift her up and found a tic on her leg. Of course being a mom and never having experienced a tic before I freaked out! In the process of telling Dan, I found ANOTHER tic on her other leg. AHH! How does one get 2 tics at the same time? Although New England is known for their tics, we didn't play in the forest yesterday. We went to the New England Aquarium, so we're a bit confused as to where she picked them up. Anyway, Dan was able to get the one out, but the other one broke off and there's some still in her leg. We tried and tried to get it out, but we couldn't. Anyone have suggestions? I'm planning to call the dr. tomorrow and see what they want me to do. I'm sure it's fine and no big deal. I hate the thought of anything creeping and crawling. Well, I'm off to go sanatize and vaccume my home.
Sunday, June 21, 2009
Tic Season
at 7:50 AM
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The east is definitely a bad place for tics. We have to check our kids for them every time we come back in from the garden. A good way to get them off is to not pull them. As you found out, that can break them and leave pieces in the body. It works surprisingly well to spread peanut butter or something like that over where they have entered the skin. It will make them come up for air and you can just take them off really easily! Good luck and I hope you don't get any more!
Something I found when looking into this (we've now had to remove 3 ticks in the last month).
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvbid/Lyme/ld_tickremoval.htm
Dan
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