My daughter had a tick on her today!

This is the 3rd tick we have seen this year. So visibly “everywhere”, no telling how many are hiding not visibly! I almost can’t take it, seriously.

My daughter has been in her bed, hasn’t gone outside, and calls me in there this morning and had a tick in her hand!! She felt something crawling under her shirt and thought it was a string or something from her clothes. I’m assuming since she got it crawling, I shouldn’t worry about it?

My only thought is that me and the other children go outside a lot all day and then come in and sit with her or check on her. I sit on her bed...i guess that is how this happened, I don’t know! This child is an insect magnet. She was able to sit outside a few days ago and now it appears has six or seven bites all over her feet. They swell for days and itch like crazy. No one else gets them and we never see anything like mosquitos or fleas, though that’s what they look like.

Anyway, the tick in her bed has me even more freaky about things. I probably check my other children for ticks four times a day and they get tired of me asking if they checked (the older ones). This poor girl can’t even get out of bed and gets a stinking tick on her 🤮

You should also put her on Astragulas Root at 2000 to 3000 mg per day for 30 days minimum to boost the immune system.

I know how you feel. It is one of the reasons we ended up moving. For whatever reason our yard was like a tick hot bed!

I recently bought a natural product called Wondercide that I sprayed on yard (they make something for inside too). I also put tick tubes in yard.

I’d check for bites (other than feet) and hopefully since it was crawling it’s ok.

I'm so sorry! How terribly nerve-wracking.

You have a dog now, right? I would assume that the tick came in with the dog. I know the tick treatments tend to be very toxic, but personally I consider them necessary. (I have a 100-pound black dog in Massachusetts, and there's just no way that a tick comb after every single foray outside is going to happen. I just have too much else going on.) We also don't allow our dog onto furniture or beds, sad though that makes her!

I second the idea of astragalus if anyone has recent bites or suspected bites. Stronger insect repellents are generally recommended, but we've had flawless results with rose geranium and citronella oils for our ankles and such. Permethrin on clothing is supposed to be excellent. But of course you do not want to be dealing with these things while indoors!

Guinea fowl and chickens will eat a lot of ticks, if you have the bandwidth for caring for them. Keeping your grass cut regularly, and creating a thick border of wood chips around the perimeter of your space can help. Also the aforementioned tubes (permethrin-soaked cotton balls inside of toilet paper rolls, which mice use for nest-building, thereby decreasing their own infestations). Which reminds me - field mice tend to be tick-laden, so if you have any mice in your home, then they also are a way for ticks to be transported in. Don't feed or attract deer or other mammals, if possible.

You're probably right that the tick you found crawling had not attached, so that's good news. I definitely understand feeling so unsettled by this, though!

Thank you for all the suggestions for repellent. I will definitely be looking into those.

Yes, she did recently get a puppy but it stays inside. It is a tiny dog and I have taken it out a couple of times but each time gave it a thorough bath. Who knows though? We do live at the edge of the woods and also farm so avoiding outdoors is not possible. Which is why I am so diligent about checking the kids’ skin. BUT, now I need to put more effort into checking our clothes. Goodness, this pack of children runs in and out all day so idk how to handle that!

Would the astragalus be ok since she is currently dealing with late stage Lyme? I am so thankful it wasn’t embedded!

Fdrill, thank you for asking. She is currently in the middle of a very difficult homeopathic treatment by DesBios. She had to take an antibiotic break as she was dealing with what we thought were severe yeast issues. During the break we found out about DesBios and decided to give it a try. I have a thread about our experience. We are in the second round of the series kits since we saw at least some improvement after the first round. But currently still in the bed with so many symptoms. Keeping hope that it will turn around soon.

I know it sounds like a lot but that's what Buhner recommends please correct me if I'm wrong.

Somebody said...
For new tick bites, Stephen typically recommends taking astragalus – 3,000 mg daily for 30 days, 1,000 mg daily thereafter, indefinitely. Also: using a paste made of andrographis tincture mixed with green clay, the paste applied on the tick bite area can often prevent an active infection.

Source :
http://buhnerhealinglyme.com/basics/astragalus-dose-discrepancy/