New 'Heartland' Virus Discovered In Sick Missouri Farmers (Ticks)

My Health News Daily ^ | 8-29-2012 | Rachael Rettner

[blam]

Pas It On.

[Joe 6-pack]

Missouri? You’d think the farmers’ bodies would have a way of shutting that down...

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Bring Out Your Dead

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[Nervous Tick]

I swear I had nothing to do with this.

[crz]

Being formerly from the upper midwest, I thought I was immune from Lyme. I got it last year.

[verum ago]

Being formerly from the upper midwest, I thought I was immune from Lyme. I got it last year.

That reminds me of something: I know a girl who thought she was immune to poison ivy. She plowed through a bunch in shorts and sandals and nothing happened. She didn't realize that no one gets a reaction on the first time: you have to be sensitized first (and everyone does get sensitized eventually). So about a month later she again plowed through knee-high poison ivy for nearly an hour. Worst case I've ever seen by a huge margin.

Never assume you're immune to something just because you haven't gotten it before. It may be that you just haven't gotten it yet...

[crz]

It is not what lyme does in the beginning. It is what it will do to you over time. They did not even bother with the tests. It was a classic rash and I was put on antibiodics post haste.

I have had ticks stuck on me a million times.

[blam]

"It is not what lyme does in the beginning. It is what it will do to you over time. They did not even bother with the tests. It was a classic rash and I was put on antibiodics post haste."

Lyme is a very serious and scary disease...often, it's years later after the tick bite that things go terribly wrong.

I'm suprised that more isn't made of this disease by medical experts. Mostly, they want to deny it's present in a community.

[Ditter]

The same thing happened to me with poison ivy. I pulled it down with my hands carelessly until........ I got my first rash. Now I am so allergic to it I can’t even get near it. The last time I had it, it took months of treatment to clear it up.

[count-your-change]

“...one man, a farmer, reported receiving an average of 20 tick bites a day...”

duh...I've lived where the tick population was severe and we always used repellent...just good common sense.
Twenty bites a day from anything might produce illness.

[badpacifist]

Coming from someone who lives in MO I can categorically state that you are not a “legitimate” tick.

[Secret Agent Man]

It’s the urishiol oil that you’re allergic to in the posion ivy/oak/sumac family.

The outer husks and rinds of mangoes will also cause allregic reactions as they are in this family of plants too, they have urishiol oil in those parts of the plant. Inside deeper in the sweet fruit they don’t.

[Secret Agent Man]

Prescription corticosteroids seem to really help knock it down pretty fast for many folks.

[tsomer]

Same here. For years I never had anything more than a mild rash, though I was usually careful. Then, about two years I broke out on one of my legs. It was hellish.

Then I went out to the hardware store and bought some weed killer. This is about the third year of my Poison Ivy Jihad and I’ve down to an occasional sprig here and there; I soak it with weed killer, and this gives me a good feeling.

Odd that sensitivity can develop so quickly. I used to get allergy shots, and they worked. The idea was that exposure would decrease the reaction. I guess it’s a matter of how much and when.

I’ve heard the Lyme’s disease works the same way; it’s not the bug that causes the problem but the immune system going awry.

[neverdem]

Thanks for the ping.

[Eagles6]

Yeah. 100% DEET.

[american_ranger]

I was spraying poison ivy myself, yesterday. Got a gallon of spray left over. I may have to hit it again this afternoon.

[Smokin' Joe]

Pas It On.

I'm a bit tardy, but will do! Thanks, blam!

[Ditter]

The last time I got poison ivy it was a small spot on my foot. It continued to act up on that spot for about 4 months and that is with shots and cream and pills from the dermatologist. It would send red streaks up my leg like blood poisoning. That scared me.

I learned how to kill the vines, cut through the stem close to the ground and pour straight weed killer or stump killer on the cut. That’ll kill it! Forget the spraying.