BathMTB: Ticks & Lymes

[Daniel Groves]

On the subject of Wednesday, I won't be out this week either.

Afan ate four sets of break pads so I'm waiting on more to arrive before I
can ride again, they should be here Thursday/Friday though so I'll be
riding next week.

Dan.


On 19 Jun 2012, at 08:54, "Watson, Ben (UK - England)" <
Ben.Watson at eu.jll.com> wrote:

   All very useful info guys.



A least we don’t have the killer ‘sparrow sized’ mozzies that exist in
Scotland.



Sorry but I wont be out on Wednesday (I will be out soon!!)





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  *From:* kevin boyd [mailto:kaboyd at hotmail.com]
*Sent:* 19 June 2012 08:51
*To:* bathmtb at mtb-oz.com
*Subject:* RE: BathMTB: Ticks & Lymes



Any vet surgery should stock them. Here is a link to the one we use.

http://www.tickremoval.co.uk/tick_twister.html

They should come as a pair,  small one and large one.

Kevin

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From: john at vanh.am
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 22:42:52 +0100
Subject: Re: BathMTB: Ticks & Lymes
To: bathmtb at mtb-oz.com

Had one on my neck the other week - not sure how it got up there. Didn't
know it was a tick, just scratched something and it caught on my nail and
then dropped off and saw it was crawling along! Thankfully it looked to
have all of it's head etc. intact, guess it hadn't been there that long.
Been in long grass tonight will have to do a thorough check!



Where do you get the removers from?

On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 9:52 PM, kevin boyd <kaboyd at hotmail.com> wrote:

Horrible things, the problem is getting worse too. Currently getting about
3 a week off our poor cat.

Kevin

ps. no me wednesday, got a meeting in london will not be back until late.

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Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 20:06:08 +0100
From: justinwoods29 at gmail.com
To: bathmtb <bathmtb at mtb-oz.com>@mtb-oz.com <bathmtb at mtb-oz.com>
Subject: BathMTB: Ticks & Lymes

Hi All,



I found a tick on my leg on Saturday the little *&%£ had been there since
Wednesday night! Dave kindly lent me his tick remover thing to get the
little bleeder off.  I've attached Andy's advice from a few years ago for
anyone who has not already read it.


Worthwhile* *then reminding everyone of the current advice:


   - Lymes disease can become a debilating lifelong illness and is thus to
   be avoided if at all possible
   - A study by the University of Bath in 2006 found that 5-10% of the
   ticks around Bath carry Lymes disease and are most likely to be picked up
   from deer and in long grass.
   - There *are* immediate symptoms but they only show in less than 50% of
   cases
   - You lessen your chances of contracting it if you remove the tick
   quickly (at least within 48 hours)
   - You MUST remove it properly though – DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES
   SQUASH IT OR BURN IT OFF (YES I’M SHOUTING) or use vaseline or anything
   else to kill it – it will disgorge it’s stomach contents into you and
   possibly leave behind it’s mouth parts greatly      increasing your chances
   of picking up something nasty. REMOVE IT USING THIN POINTED TWEEZERS OR A
   SPECIALIST REMOVER using a twisting motion.


More details here:

http://www.lymediseaseaction.org.uk/

And on that cheery note. See you later* :-/*

Andy





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