MainelyTicks of Windham, ME Apply 25% DEET to your exposed skin and wear light colored clothing that has been pretreated with .5% permethrin. Treat your own clothing or buy treated apparel from LL Bean.
 Keep grass cut short, get rid of leaf piles, and move play sets into sunny areas. Ticks will be in tall grass, low shrubbery, leaf piles,stone walls, wood piles, or the interface between lawn and woods. Small rodents are the vectors for the Lyme disease bacteria. Deer are simply the larghe blood meal.

When removing ticks, use fine pointed tweezers, grasp the tick as close to the skin as possible, and pull straight up slowly. It may take 1 to 2 minutes to remove the tick. If the tick has attached, consult your physician and note the date and location of the bite.
Along with Lyme disease, deer ticks can also transmit other tickborne diseases including anaplasmosis, ehrlichiosis, babesia, bartonella, rocky mountain spotted fever, and/or tularemia. The sooner you remove the tick, the less likely that Lyme or other diseases may be transmitted.
Educate yourself and become your own advocate. Understand that there are 2 standards of care and treatment protocols - ILADS & IDSA. Support Federal Bills S 1708 / HR 741 for Prevention, Education and Research for Lyme and associated diseases.
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