Stop the Tick

Prevent tick bites

A tick bite can be prevented when the right safety precautions are taken. Before you go outside it is good to protect yourself against ticks, in particular when you go to areas with lots of grass, reed, and bushes.

Safety precautions against ticks

Ticks are commonly sighted in grass, heath, reed, and bushes and they come from the ground onto your body. It is therefore very important to protect your feet and pants. Because of this is it important to wear impregnated socks, or you can use impregnation products to treat your clothes. The impregnation will cause the tick to die as soon as it touches the product. This product is completely safe for children and adults.

The tick comes everywhere

The most tick bites happen when you are gardening, playing golf, or on a walk. However, you are also at risk at football fields and in the park. Cover your head and body as much as possible and apply the uncovered skin with 30-50% DEET. The tick will crawl along your feet to the top and that is how you stop the tick.

To prevent a tick bite is much better than curing Lyme disease!

Remove ticks

A tick comes sooner than you think. Check yourself and others, for example children, for ticks. They will appear in particular in warm and moist places as popliteal, groin area, arm pits, and your hairline. A tick is such a small insect that you miss it easily. Make sure that you make a habit of it to check yourself regularly during tick season when they are very active, which is from May until August. For example after brushing your teeth, check for ticks!

Tick tweezers

Did you discover a tick? With the tick tweezers you simply remove the tick entirely.

Make sure you always have tick tweezers at hand, so that you can remove the tick as soon as possible. This is how you maintain a low risk of getting Lyme disease. Never try to remove a tick with your hands, nails, fire, or alcohol. With this you will increase the infection of Lyme disease, because the tick is not completely removed or it is in such a shock it still leaves saliva in your skin.

Tick removal

A tick must be removed as soon as possible, at least within 8 hours. The chance that the tick is stuck on your skin is very slim and therefore the chance of getting infected is slim as well. It is therefore very important that you check yourself regularly on ticks, so that you can take action and not giving any chance to the tick and Lyme disease!

Check your pets

Pets can also befall victim of the tick. Although a tick bite can do less harm to dogs or cats than to humans, the animal can take the tick inside your house. This will give the tick the chance to move himself to another victim. There are products for pets, just like flea repellents, which secure your pet’s safety and lower the risk of a tick bite!

Test the Tick

Test yourself regularly on ticks. Make sure you create a moment for yourself to check yourself during tick season, that starts in April every year, when you have been outside. For example, brushing teeth, tick test. Do you work a lot outside and do you come in the ticks’ living area? Check yourself every break!

Do you discover a tick that has sucked himself full with blood? Or do you discover a tick after 8 hours? Then it is most advisable to test the tick. The tick can be tested with the tick test if it has Borrelia bacteria. If it is the case, go with the test results to your doctor and get more tests.

Are you afraid to test the tick yourself? Send the tick to our laboratory and the tick will be tested for you. Please write the date of the tick bite down, so that you can refer to it when you have possible medical complaints.

Red circle often not present

Did you know that only 35% of the tick bites have the known red circle? There is a big chance that you do not have a red circle after you have removed the tick. Even without the red circle the tick bite remains dangerous and could have infected you with Lyme disease. The sooner you discover the tick or tick bite on your body, the better. Often doctors only take you seriously when you have the red circle, which proves it to be a tick bite. That is why it is smart to test the tick yourself or let us do it for you. This way you have trustworthy proof for your doctor and you can demand further research!