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Listed below are comments made by Gogargirl between Thursday, 19th March 2009 and Thursday, 19th March 2009.

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Lyme disease - useful information 11:14pm on 19 Mar 2009 Regarding tick removal: Slog26's comments above from the BADA UK website make the most sense. Alcohol, perfume, surgical spirit etc. might get the ticks to drop off, but this is not the method to use and is not proof against getting Lyme disease.

I was aware that tweezing them out was tricky and that you could leave mouth parts behind. So I sprayed the ticks with a bug repellant like Raid. They dropped off very quickly. I still got Lyme disease and my doctor said I should not have tried to poison or suffocate the ticks as if you do something like that they usually disgorge their stomach contents into the host before dislodging.

She was right.
Lyme disease - useful information 7:36pm on 19 Mar 2009 Excellent piece on Lyme disease - thank you. I think it should be a notifiable disease so that we can learn where it is prevalent. When I got it from ticks in a London garden a few years ago I was amazed at how many people told me they knew someone else who had had Lyme disease - not always with a happy outcome.

It's definitely worth checking for ticks after a rural day out. I had antibiotics within 24 hours of being bitten, after my excellent 'tick-aware' doctor told me that ticks carry plenty of other nasty germs apart from burgdorferi. I still developed the disease after 2 weeks. Further antibiotics did the trick. Happy and healthy now!

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