{"id":420,"date":"2006-04-19T07:43:30","date_gmt":"2006-04-19T12:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/?p=420"},"modified":"2006-04-19T07:43:30","modified_gmt":"2006-04-19T12:43:30","slug":"tick-tick-tick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2006\/04\/19\/tick-tick-tick\/","title":{"rendered":"Tick, tick, tick&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So during last Saturday&#8217;s hike I stopped once to wring the water out of my socks and happened to notice about a half-dozen little brown ticks crawling around on my pant leg. I dusted &#8217;em off and made a mental &#8220;check for ticks at  home&#8221; note. <P>Being a man of science and all, I did the logical thing when I got home: I checked for ticks on my head, where none had been seen, and didn&#8217;t bother checking the leg where many had been seen.<br \/>\n<P>Along comes Wednesday morning and I notice a sore spot and a lump right behind my right knee.  Didn&#8217;t  have to look, just had to call in Melissa, my trail EMT, with the tweezers and antiseptic.   We concluded it was a common dog tick &#8212; brown with white markings on its back &#8212; rather than the more dangerous deer tick,  the smaller, blacker beastie that carries lyme disease.<br \/>\n<P><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nlm.nih.gov\/medlineplus\/tickbites.html\">This page <\/a>has a bunch of tick-related info, including this:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>HOW TO REMOVE A TICK<\/strong><P><br \/>\nDespite folklore, the proper way to remove a tick is using a tweezers<br \/>\nand gripping the tick as close to the skin as is possible. The use of a<br \/>\nsmoldering match or cigarette, nail polish, Vaseline, or kerosene<br \/>\nshould be avoided, since they may irritate the tick and cause it to<br \/>\nbehave like a syringe, injecting organism-bearing bodily fluids into<br \/>\nthe wound.<\/p>\n<p>The proper technique for tick removal includes the following steps:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Use a fine tweezers to grasp the tick as close to the skin surface as possible.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Pull backwards gently but firmly, using an even, steady pressure. Do not jerk or twist.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Do not squeeze, crush, or puncture the body of the tick, since its fluids may contain infectious agents.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>After removing the tick, disinfect the skin and hands thoroughly with soap and water.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>If<br \/>\nsections of the mouth parts of the tick remain in the skin, these<br \/>\nshould be left alone; they will be expelled on their own. Attempts to<br \/>\nremove these parts the same way one would remove a splinter usually<br \/>\nresult in significant tissue damage.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Most tick bites are harmless but that will be no consolation if you&#8217;re among the small percentage of bitees who catch a disease from one.  Don&#8217;t panic if you get bitten, but don&#8217;t blow it off either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So during last Saturday&#8217;s hike I stopped once to wring the water out of my socks and happened to notice about a half-dozen little brown ticks crawling around on my pant leg. I dusted &#8217;em off and made a mental&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2006\/04\/19\/tick-tick-tick\/\">Read the whole thing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}