Lyme disease is just one illness that you and your pets can get from ticks. We talked to a tick expert about how to avoid ticks and remove one if you do get bit.
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If you are bitten by a blacklegged tick, your doctor may prescribe you a prophylactic round of antibiotics . However, if it’s not a blacklegged tick, there’s no approved strategy to prevent any type of infection, Mather said.The natural reaction upon finding a tick on a human or animal is to pull it off as quickly as possible, but it’s important to know how to remove it properly.
That’s why Mather said it’s essential to come in horizontally with a very pointy pair of tweezers and grasp the tickbefore pulling it out. That way, you won’t squeeze the back of the tick, increasing your chances of removing the body of the tick and all the germs still inside it. “The mouthpart will work itself out, a little like a splinter, in a reasonably short period of time,” Mather said.
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