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Ok- well I know last week I was moaning about my cat with a tick on his face...well I woke up this morning with a red bruise on my leg which was stinging....on closer inspection there was a tiny tick in the centre!!!
( runs round room flapping arms....)

Anyway, it's gnashers weren't too deep as it came out with a quarter turn and a gentle tug.

even so.....euewww.........

Any advice as to anything I should do now? Antihistamine cream for the stinging?

OMG! ( runs round room flapping arms.... also)

>>>Any advice as to anything I should do now?
Gin, you should sip gin - vodka may work but I think gin is best.....

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Do you live near deer, there is the very faint possibility of contracting Lyme's disease. I'd advise a visit to your GP.

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Yes tick bite see GP. Lyme disease is nasty. Always get a tick bite checked out ASAP.

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Yep- there are wild deer where we are in France. We're travelling back to the UK tomorrow, so I might just go and see my GP.

- actually, having just read some Googled bits and pieces on Lyme's disease, I'm going to make an appointment now for Thursday!

BBC - Health - Conditions - Lyme disease

Ohhh, Nicos - my first thought was gin as well, but I didnt realise you could catch a disease ... good luck with the gp, let us know how you are wont you...

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did you get all the head out? we used to burn ticks off,(see i knew there was a reason i never gave up smoking) cos if you pull them it can leave the head inside ....... i recommend vodka, gin is gross, and lots of drugs .... not that i drink much, but when i do it's got to be voddy and pour some on your leg too dunno if it will do anything but alcohol is good for stuff

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LOL - yep agree Lynda
*see Nicos with bottle in hand.....one for leg, one for Nicos, one for knee, one for legos, two for mecos, one for ..who are you

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Yeuch! Pulled many a beastie off the horses, but never myself! Had to get one out of the pony's armpit the other day. Glad he's ok with people being under his belly, as I had to become quite a contortionist! Horrible little blighters, aren't they?

little girl i used to nanny for got 1 once~her mum did as lynda suggested & burnt it out.(lit a match blew it out & just touched the tick with it~think it causes their legs to open~otherwise you could remove the body & leave the legs embedded in yer skin!the little girl had no ill effects but as others have said prob best to be on safe side & see G.P.
also i'd reccommend save the vodka for leg & drink lots of wine!!

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I hope you got the entire thing, I doesn't sound like it was been there to long. I found one the other day, right after I got out of bed, it was on my arm the dog had brought a bunch of stuff in. Damn him. Watch out for any redness radiating form the bite, than can be a sign of Lyme's disease. They can really be painful and make the entire body sore. Rubbing alcohol and cortisone cream are probably the best. Hope it doesn't worsen and everything turns out to be okay.

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Haha - had one in my scrotum once - OMG : (

My Mum & Dad, both in their 80s, get half a dozen tick bites PER WEEK cos of all the deer around. Ten years ago, I used to scream at them to check for Lyme's Disease, but they reckon that's only if they've been hanging on you for days and if you don't get them out in their entirety. My Dad's made several tools for extraction. I could write a book ; )

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[quote=greenlung;249641]Haha - had one in my scrotum once - OMG : (

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thats just made me feel sick - i burnt one off my dog once (i smoke as well Lynda ha ha) and then got vasaline around it, as advised by the vet, so that it slides out easy or the knashers are left and its not nice!!!

poor you - it makes me feel sick, just the thought of it!!

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The best way to remove a tick is to smother it in vaseline,then it will recoil its sucker and suffocate.Works on the cats everytime without any infections.

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cats fine humans most definately not.

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BBC - Berkshire - Features - Ticked off

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You lot are making me itch!

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Never had any in me or my family, taken plenty out of dogs, hot end of match and a pair of tweezers. They are eeeeeugh!!!!

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Oh lord I feel ill. I spent some time in East Africa and if we got ticks we used to smother them in Vaseline. As said earlier they suffocate and fall off or loosen their grip so you can scrape them off. Always used antiseptic on the site, but I never knew they could regurgitate horrible stuff into you. We were always told never to pull them off as you can leave bits in your skin.

Poor you!!!!!

Goodness.......yuck.....OMG.....we need a yuck rating on our posts!
this would be a 8+
so should read
'First tick' (8+)

lol

ps..... they say it's a really bad year for ticks!

I think i'm with piskie on this one, poor enough alcohol into your system so it falls off drunk., bleugh, note to self stop scratching.

Found another of the little sh*ts in the other armpit of the pony last night. It was too small to get off, so I'll have to have another go, later!

Update.....Well I decided to wait till I got home before deciding to make a Dr's appointment as my French neighbours just shrugged their shoulders ( I took this to mean that we weren't in a high risk area as most French peeps are experts on medication and ailments!!)
By then the angry red circle hadn't become much larger and had, in fact, started to turn into a bruise rather than the 'bullseye' of Lyme's disease.

Phew eh?????