In a message dated 6/28/01 9:59:06 PM EST, [email protected] writes: << bj: CS>A question of ticks and lyme Date: 6/28/01 9:59:06 PM EST From: [email protected] (Joanne) Reply-to: [email protected] (Joanne) To: [email protected], [email protected] (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: [email protected] -or- [email protected] with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. To post, address your message to: [email protected] Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
