Tick bites may be preventable with Canadian invention

Alvin

Alvin

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It was in 2016 when Lisa Ali's son of Mahone Bay, N.S., developed joint pain. The family went back and forth to the hospital multiple times, but received no concrete diagnosis. Medical professionals told the Ali family that swollen knees were common in children and once again sent them home.

"It got to the point where my son wasn't able to walk for a period of time because the joint pain was so bad," Ali Told The Weather Network.

"Eventually we found out that it was Lyme disease, and then about two months after that we found out that my other son had Lyme disease as well."
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https://www.theweathernetwork.com/n...ersity-science-lyme-disease-atlantick/101548/
 
I got bitten by one for the first time a few days ago. I was feeling better and went to the forest to walk a kilometer or two, but the weather was rainy and the ticks are active when it's raining. I was wearing long trousers and only stopped once in the forest for just a while to tie my shoes, but it still managed to get on me somehow. I only saw it when I came home, on my knee. But I took it out soon enough (maybe it was on me 1 or 2 hours, I'm not sure), and I took doxycycline right after that.
 
I have removed a couple of ticks from my dog recently. The first one didn't come out cleanly and she's off to the vets to check out an inflamed spot near the bite site. I got a little tool and used it to remove the second and it came out nice and cleanly.

Makes my skin crawl.... I wish there was something safe available for us humans to take to repel or kill off the little buggers.

This is the tick removal tool Ive got for those who want to know what they look like:
https://www.otom.com/en/
 
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