Your item on ticks on dogs suggested telling you about things I’ve used, though not on dogs.
I put on tall, rubber “farmer boots” before going outside. I pull my pant legs down over the tops of the boots to keep things from falling into the boots. I then spray bug repellant on the lower pant leg, my cuffs, and on my hand to wipe on uncovered parts of my head, neck, ears, face and other exposed parts of hands and body.
Despite this, I can still come inside with up to a dozen ticks on my clothes and body found in a strip search with a small mirror in front of a larger one. When found, if not imbedded, I lay a small piece of scotch tape over them and put it on a piece of paper and date it to send to the state lab to test for the disease spread map around the state.
If imbedded, they are pulled off with a tweezers and transferred to the tape. If more than 24 hours or engorged with blood, call the doctor for antibiotics prescription. One year he gave me a prescription for a whole course for an active disease so I could immediately just take two without calling him for each bite, which seemed too often to be on weekends.
I have taped 26 ticks so far this season.
Harvey Versteeg
Augusta
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