I can’t say if allergies follow tick bites. There are, however, biological controls you can spray on your wet lawn to control Ticks. (Beneficial Nematodes—not the ones that infest your garden.) From:
http://www.ehow.com/facts_7706041_nematodes-ticks.html?ref=Track2&utm_source=ask
“Several species of nematodes, or microscopic roundworms, infect ticks. Steinernema nematodes infect ticks by crawling into an adult tick’s breathing holes, mouth, anus or genital pore. Heterorhabditis uses a sharp tooth to puncture the tick’s hard outer shell.”
“Death”
“Nematodes carry a Xenorhabdus bacteria that turns the tick’s inner tissues into a liquid that nematodes can then feed off. An infection of less than 50 nematodes can kill an adult tick within a day. After the adult tick dies and nematodes consume the liquefied insides, nematodes reproduce and leave the dead tick in search of a new host....”
For more info:
There; a pleasant circle of life thing that works in favor of humans. Nematodes can also be used to control lawn grubs, mole crickets, fleas, and cockroaches without harming earthworms.
Just do a search under: “ticks, nematodes” (I don’t sell them, I do not represent any company that does. Have used them in my garden. Result was reduction in grubs at the time it was next tilled.)
are nematodes harmful to chickens and dogs?