>>832995Don't be scared anon. Just always, always wear the following:
>Long, light-colored clothing; pants tucked into boots, hair tied back, hat on, long sleeved shirt>Check your whole body every night, if you have a girlfriend have her check you and check her.>Dust your boots with sulfur and your clothes with permethrin>Spray yourself and your clothes with DEET-containing bug spray>I don't know if this is effective for ticks but it will make you not tasty to mosquitoes at least: eat one whole raw onion and one whole bulb of raw garlic each day for two weeks and avoid sugar in that time before you go innawoodsIf a tick does bite you, find it ASAP, gently pull it off by the head with tweezers, stick it in a jar, and freeze it. Then go to the doctor and send the tick to a medical laboratory for disease testing.
I have rocky mountain spotted fever; I got it when I was a kid in the mountains in Cali and I was really cavalier about wearing bug spray and sunscreen and all that. They say it's an acute infection but my immune system actually beat it at the time... and then it went chronic. Thought I had come down with the flu but it actually gave me ten years of full-body pain and increasing insanity. If you get bit, get to the doctor. And if you get sick in the middle of summer, go to the doctor, especially if you've been camping, and if they don't even bother testing you for tick-borne disease, go to an infectious disease doctor who will. Don't even think twice.
