ok i just found a baby tick on me but it was dead. So how long can it stay on a human before it dies??????????
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the sad thing is ticks arent that big of a problem, weve just blown it up unrealistic proportions. lime disease is about as deadly as the common flu, and easier to spot. sure it makes life harder for a while and it needs to be treated but if you start to get a target shaped mark on your body head into the doctors. my friend had it and he's fine. and if your saying it was a baby because it was small and red, it probably was a deer tick (the most common carrier of the virus) but dont get worried
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I'm a graduate of Biology. We didn't dwell on ticks. You say ticks are so important, so as almost every biological being. Scientists devote their time and life to specific beings--some to rats, some to seaweeds, some to ginger. In any case, it's because they find some interesting substance that would be of good value.\n\nI haven't done any reading on ticks. But their value in the study of medicine might be related to their biological metabolisms, reproductive cycles and parasitic nature.\n\nBtw, i read your answer to a bipolar disorder question. What did you mean when you said that a person wants or was it wait to become manic again? Email me. Thanks.
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I go fishing frequently and ticks can occasionally be an issue. It's probably going to be OK. If she was a little older you could use a tiny pair of pointy tweezers to remove the head, but at her age I suppose she wouldn't like that too much. The head is very small (think grain of sand or smaller) and should either work itself out through natural sloughing off of skin cells over time, or more likely will be dissolved by antibodies. Inspect the site periodically for redness/tenderness, signs of an infection, but I doubt you'll have a problem. If there have been cases of Lyme disease in your area, take her in just to be safe. Hope this helped.
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Sometimes bug bites are just persistent.  It also depends on your allergies/immune system.  Basically, some things just irritate some people more than others.  Even different places on our bodies react differently (like places where you tend to move more tend to get more irritated).  Recently, I stumbled upon some red ants while wearing flip-flops.  I've been bit before by red ants, but I have never reacted like this.  I got three bites on the top of my foot. . . this was before halloween and they're STILL itching like crazy every now and then.  \n\nThe best thing I have found to do is to buy an antihistamine cream to put on them when they itch.  If you have been taking an antihistamine like Benadryl, the cream is nice because it doesn't make you sleepy!  The antihistamine keeps your body from "overreacting" to stuff, which is why it is often used for allergies.  When you use it for the bites, they will itch less and can heal quicker because itching them makes the reaction worse (so DON'T itch them!!!).  I would do that until they go away completely.  If they begin to get bigger (other than just the slight swelling) and the redness/swelling starts to spread out, you should consider re-visting your doctor so they can give you a prescription to better treat them.\n\nI hope this helps!!
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Wear long pants, long sleeves, and spray yourself with pesticides like "OFF". \nIf you think you have gotten ticks, one thing you can use is clear nail polish after the tick has been removed. You will need tweezers to make sure you get the head of the tick though. If you can get to a bathtub, you can run the bath water and put 2 capfulls of brown bottle Lysol in the water and take a bath.  This REALLY works on killing the ticks but you smell like the Lysol til the morning although the smell is better than having ticks !
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huh...well this is a disturbing one. im not totally sure on a human head, but when we kill a deer, we take the head a skin it then boil it in a huge pan for a few hours, then we let it sit in the garage or some where and if there is any remaming flesh or what not maggots will eat it, after you let it sit for awhile then soak it in a big bucket of bleach, that will get rid of anything else that might be on it and make it really white.  hope that helps, im still quite disturbed...
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It will normally die quite soon. But you could keep it going for several weeks, or months if you're lucky!\n\nFirstly, do your plants have pesticide on them, or were they bought or potted within the last year? If so, even if it doesn't kill the mantis directly the poison in the soil will be absorbed into the plants and then into the crickets you might FEED your mantis, and so the mantis will be poisoned. Any plants that have been potted for more than a year should be okay though. \n\nHave you got a suitable food supply? If it's a female she'll eat quite a LOT, and get very fat! She may even honour you by putting her ootheca in your home so you get dozens (or hundreds!) of tiny mantids next Spring..! If it's a male he won't eat a lot - maybe 2 bugs a week, depending on the size! Maybe less, if they're big bugs, more if they're smaller. They only eat living bugs, so don't let any fool sell you dead flies...!\n\nThe temperature of your home ... the warmer it is, the more the mantis will perk up, but it should be cooler at night - maybe let the heating go off at night, until it's really cold. In the daytime, if you can walk around the house with a long-sleeved t-shirt and not get goose-bumps on your arms it will be okay! \n\nYou could buy a heat mat for insects, you're supposed to put them under the container the bug's in, but if you put it by the plants the mantis will surely gravitate towards it when it wants to. Don't let your home get too hot though, the mantis might 'dry up' a bit. As it will be living on or near your plants there should be enough humidity for the mantis, so that's good..! Spray the plants with a mister that has NEVER been used with pesticides - the mantis can drink when it needs to then..!\n\nBut don't forget that it's already an old lady (or man) now. It's inevitable that it can't last much longer - it's already lived the equivalent of it's three score and ten! It's very sad to see them die of old age ... but it's nice to know that you made their last days more comfortable..!
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I did, but only on some things. Other things were gross....Like did you know that your stomach has to make a new mucus lining every two weeks or otherwise it will digest itself??  Eew... And did you know that most of nail is made up of the same thing as fly poop?? Gross!! It is not possible to tickle yourself. The cerebellum, a part of the brain, warns the rest of the brain that you are about to tickle yourself. Since your brain knows this, it ignores the resulting sensation. Once a human reaches the age of 35, he/she will start losing approximately 7,000 brain cells a day. The cells will never be replaced....So sad...Over 80% of the brain is water...The hormone replacement drug "Premarin" is made from the urine of pregnant horses. ...You burn 26 calories evryone one minute that you kiss someone...Wierd huh???
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Put some antibiotic ointment on it. If it is not better after two days, I would go get it checked. I wouldn`t worry about having the baby`s nail removed just yet. My daughter got one. and it was bad. It cleared up. You might have to go to the doctor and get an antibiotic to give her.
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THANK YOU, MORE_EVIL!!!!!! Finally, someone uses some common sense with their answer to an immunization question. They told me in the hospital they do it because they don't know if I had it or not, which was insulting considering I've been married to the same man for 13 yrs. I refused it. But, yes, they do give it, at birth, 2 months and 6 months. \n   For your question, something caused my cousin to die at 4 months, it was written off as SIDS, but she died within 48 hours of receiving shots. I'm not sure which one it was. I know of three other infants who died with hours of their shots, too. It does happen, that's why I don't do them.\nHere's what I found on the possible side effects.\n\n"serious allergic reaction involving swelling of the mouth, breathing difficulties, low blood pressure, hives, weakness, an increased heart rate, dizziness and shock. If your child has any of these symptoms, call 911 or take her to an emergency room.
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Dear Lord I am scared of spiders and ticks.  I had a cousin that got Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever from a tick bite when I was little.  I've been scared of anything with a bunch of legs that looks spider like since then.  I couldn't get in the shower the other day because a spider was in it.  I was late to work because I couldn't get it to wash down the drain.  Sad, but true.
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The fact that you heard a "pop" suggests that the tick was engorged and my guess is the "rash" you have is from scratching your head before you found the tic.\n\nOr it is the result of the toxin released by the tick upon attachment which will pass soon.\nClean it with peroxide and watch it. There are many diseases that ticks carry and while the dog tick is pretty harmless any bite should not be ignored.\n\nI am a person who has been disbaled by Lyme disease. My advice is to be careful. Where there are dog ticks there are deer ticks.
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I dont think they live too long, I found an article that say the life cycle is about 14 days and as little as 4 days.
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Look for information on the Human Bot Fly, there are a lot of images, and they are nasty.\nThe genus Dermatobia contains only one species, D. hominis, the only species of bot fly that attacks humans (in addition to other primates). It is also known as the torsalo. In this species the fly's eggs are vectored by mosquitoes and muscoid flies; the female Dermatobia captures the fly and attaches its eggs to the body of the fly, then releases it. The eggs hatch either while the mosquito is feeding and the larvae may use the mosquito bite area as the entry point, or simply drop off the muscoid fly when it lands on the skin. They develop inside the subcutaneous layers, and after approximately 8 weeks they drop out to pupate for at least a week, typically in the soil. The adults are small gray flies resembling a blowfly.\n\nThis species is native to the New World tropics, though it is not abundant enough (nor harmful enough) to ever attain true pest status. Since the fly larvae can only survive the entire eight week development if the wound does not become infected, it is rare for patients to experience infections, unless they kill the larva without removing it completely (below). It is even possible that the fly larva may itself produce antibiotic secretions that help prevent infection while it is feeding.
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Dinky little red bug---chigger.  You will definately know if you are bitten!  a drugest can sell you Chigger Rid to get rid of the blisters.
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Something very similar happened to me two weeks ago.I found a dead bird on my front stoop.It didn't appear to be injured and it looked like it was asleep.But ,it wasn't.I'm not a superstitious person,so I don't know anything about that.I do know that a few years ago all of the crows in our area died as a resulty of west nile virus.I suspect the dead bird I found, might have been sick from something like that.
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This is what I found on the site listed below:\n\n"Pets become infested with a different kind of scabies mite. If your pet is infested with scabies, (also called mange) and they have close contact with you, the mite can get under your skin and cause itching and skin irritation. However, the mite dies in a couple of days and does not reproduce. The mites may cause you to itch for several days, but you do not need to be treated with special medication to kill the mites. Until your pet is successfully treated, mites can continue to burrow into your skin and cause you to have symptoms."\n\nSo the answer to your question is yes they can have scabies, but a different type.