[pct-l] ticks removal and feminine hygiene (unrelated topics)

[Wes Rose]

Liz,  For clarification, is your reference to to an amorous encounter involving a tick?  I'm having a 
hard time visualizing is all.  Just curious.

Mendo Rider:  living and hiking in the Cleveland National Forest (aka Santa Ana Mountains),
we have had many, many occasions to disembed ticks from various regions of the body.  Rather 
that the amorous approached advocated by Liz, we use a variation of the tease-out approach.  
With hands cupped around mouth and lips as close to the tick as possible, we repeat in a falsetto 
voice, "weeaaah tick,  weeaaah tick".  One tick became so ticked that after disembedding it gave
us the bird.  Some ticks just have really bad attitudes I guess.
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[pct-l] ticks removal and feminine hygiene (unrelated topics)
Elisabeth M. Chaplin echaplin at gmail.com 
Sat Mar 6 19:53:37 CST 2010 

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I regularly select lighter colored clothing for hiking with ticks in mind --
a few years ago I heard that ticks are less likely to jump on to lighter
colors, which of course I have NO idea is this is based in science, but it
does make spotting them on you much easier. Also, I strip down and do a once
over as soon as I get home, just before I shower off all that poison oak I
may or may not have come into contact with. I know there are ticks out in my
big backyard, but I haven't had one latch into me since I was just a kid --
back then we used the hot match on their gluttonous little bodies, which is
now a big no no. But who am I kidding, that wasn't THAT long ago.... With
the dog, I find that the sooner I can find the ticks, the easier it is to
remove them; I get down next to the skin and just pull them out with my bare
hands, seems to do the trick every time. It's my understanding that fiddling
with the tick (as someone described fussing with them until they backed out
on their own) is not as good as just pulling them out with tweezers or your
fingers, as it might encourage them to backwash some of their belly into
you, including the bacteria causing Lyme disease. For me, I'd rather dig out
a few mouthbits and clean it out than risk them leaving some infectious
juice behind. But that's just me.
Here is the official CDC recommendation, FWIW:
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvbid/lyme/ld_tickremoval.htm

Onto the girly stuff! Some girls have raved over the Diva cup. I myself use
a similar product, the Instead cup, which is a flexible ring and a
cellophane-ish cup; I regularly rinse and re-use without incident during a
cycle. Plus, they accomodate amorous encounters, if you catch my drift....

On that note, everyone have a nice evening! Liz.

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[pct-l] Ticks/Tick removal
Edward Anderson mendoridered at yahoo.com 
Sat Mar 6 12:50:06 CST 2010 

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Hello Steeleye, 
Here is a place on myself where I often have found TICKS. If you have passed under 
vegetation/branches they will drop onto your head - once they are in your hair they will decend to the area of your 
hairline, often just above it. If you feel carefully with your fingertips they are easy to find. 
Here is the best way to 
remove ticks that have become imbedded:   In 2008, south of Mt San Jaciento, one of my hiker-friends, Ginny, 
discovered that she had a tick that was imbedded. I had along one of those tick removal kits with magnifying glass 
and tweezers and offered to pull it out. Then another hiker (I think it was Radar - but I'm not sure.) said "don't pull it. 
I will show you a better way that won't risk leaving the head behind". He said you have to "tease it out, take your time - 
have patience". I was somewhat skeptical but he seemed very confident. He gently teased it and then would wait several seconds and repeat. Again and again and again and again,etc, etc, etc.. It took about five minutes - then I was amazed to 
see the TICK BACK OUT. That approach is very important for everyone to know about.
MendoRider