Dead ticks

[stuckmotor]

For years I've occasionally gotten a tiny tick attached to my miserable old hide. I think they're called deer ticks as often as not, by the time I find them, they seem to be dead. Does anyone know, WHY THEY'RE DEAD? I'm not complaining about it, I just wish they'd die before they inject the itch serum.

 

[bigtiller]

That's odd, what have you been drinking?

 

[atsah]

There is probably something in your bloodstream that kills them, do you take any medications, if so that might kill em.. I find them dead on floor because the dogs medicine but stay alive when I find them on me. Bad year up here for ticks.

My brother is fighting lyme disease right now. They give him graduall doses of the disease, kind of like when you get the flu shot but way more intense.

 

[stuckmotor]

There is probably something in your bloodstream that kills them, do you take any medications, if so that might kill em.. I find them dead on floor because the dogs medicine but stay alive when I find them on me. Bad year up here for ticks.

My brother is fighting lyme disease right now. They give him graduall doses of the disease, kind of like when you get the flu shot but way more intense.

First, I wish your brother a full recovery from Lyme Disease.
I'm 67 years old and a few medications came with the years. Your question got me thinking, we put a 30 day flea and tick killer on the cats and they sometimes sit on my recliner. That stuff used to work so well that we only had to put it on the dog and the cats didn't have fleas or ticks. The dog died a while back. This year, we're putting the flea and tick killer on both cats but they're still scratching. It's hard to believe a small transfer from two cats is killing ticks on me, especially since, I'm staying out at the farm and seldom around those cats. Maybe I should give the cats some cholesterol medicine.

 

[fishheadbob]

I suspect the cholesterol meds have something to do with it. I was always like a filet mignon for mosquitoes and would get large numbers of bites all summer long. My doctor put me on a statin for cholesterol, mosquitoes lost all interest in me. I mentioned this to my doc who looked at me like I'm crazy but something has made bugs lose interest in me and I cannot think of anything else I'm doing differently.

 

[stuckmotor]

It may well be the statin. Doctors don't know everything.

 

[newbury]

Do you consume garlic?
Body chemistry works different for many people but for me when I up my consumption of garlic mosquitoes won't touch me. They may land but then fly off.
This has been working for me long before I got on meds.

 

[oosik]

I have type 2 diabetes and take a wide variety of meds. The ticks sure liked me during the season - which, BTW - seems to more or less over now with the onset of our uber hot wx.

Stuckmotor - - there is an easy way to distinguish between wood ticks and deer ticks. Wood ticks are big - about the size of a pepper corn - - deer ticks are tiny- - half the size of a pepper corn.

According to those who are supposed to know - out there in S Carolina you could have both types - - here in Ea WA state we should only have the wood tick.

When I apply Frontline Plus to the dog - I do the job bare handed - certainly protects the dog - doesn't seem to help me one bit. Of course - the stuff only gets on my hands - not between my shoulder blades on the back of my neck area.

You would think that after all my years in AK and the gallons of Deet I've sloshed on me - I should have some immunity - - not the case.

 

[fried1765]

I suspect the cholesterol meds have something to do with it. I was always like a filet mignon for mosquitoes and would get large numbers of bites all summer long. My doctor put me on a statin for cholesterol, mosquitoes lost all interest in me. I mentioned this to my doc who looked at me like I'm crazy but something has made bugs lose interest in me and I cannot think of anything else I'm doing differently.

I have been taking a statin for years.
I still get just as many tick bites as I ever did.
Your lack of tick bites is probably as likely a result of the brand of toothpaste you use, as it is from your use of statins.

 

[oosik]

On the other hand - it could be as simple as - stuckmotor doesn't taste good.