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Other tips
Once home or at camp if you have a clothes dryer.
Clothes worn outside put in a dryer at a hot setting will kill ticks tha are hidden.

Never put field clothes on your bed roll. Always hang away at a distance.

Field cloths put in a plastic bag and sprayed with Permanone and sealed will act like a fumigator. Just seal end of bag over night.

Seal your self. Long johns with socks over the cuff and a long sleeved t-shirt with the tail tucked in only leaves you wrists and neck exposed. So Protect yourself.

Smooth green rubber boots ticks can not cling to.

Ticks are the only Arthropod I know of that makes one git nekid with someone else as you just can't see everywhere.

Inspect yourself each night - feel along your hair line - Prompt tick removal greatly reduces the risk of a tick borne diseases they might carry.

Find a tick stuck on you -
Removal - Ticks do not screw or bury their whole body in you. But the do stick in their chewing-sucking mouth parts. Grab at the point of attachment even with a bit of skin with a forceps and remove. DO NOT Squeeze the ticks body! You have a live hypodermic needle there.

NOTE: Using a coating of Vaseline - or using a lit match or coating with nail polish are NOT to be used. PROMPT Tick Removal is a MUST. USE A FORCEPS!!

Upon removal scotch tape the tick to a file card - mark date - area of body found, geographical area you picked up the hitch hiker and save. Ticks can NOT chew through tape and if you come down with some type of unforeseen illness you got the potential culprit.
Once removed wash the bitten area with soap and water well. Any ole antiseptic ointment will do - I like Neosporin. Even use that on my dogs.
JW