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Posted 3/19/2016 3:58 AM (GMT 0)
She pulled it off and threw it away...she knew it had not attached long.

I told her she should have prophylaxis, but she did not believe me, so I'm sending her this link:
http://www.ilads.org/lyme/what-to-do-if-bit-by-tick.php

What would you want for prophylaxis if you got a tick bite today?
Posted 3/19/2016 5:35 AM (GMT 0)
From Dr. Burrascano's Lyme Disease Treatment Guidelines:



TICK BITES - Embedded Deer Tick With No Signs or Symptoms of Lyme (see appendix):
Decide to treat based on the type of tick, whether it came from an endemic area, how it was removed,
and length of attachment (anecdotally, as little as four hours of attachment can transmit pathogens). The risk of transmission is greater if the tick is engorged, or of it was removed improperly allowing the tick's contents to spill into the bite wound. High-risk bites are treated as follows (remember the possibility of co-infection!):
1) Adults: Oral therapy for 28 days.

www.lymenet.org/BurrGuide200810.pdf


I wouldn't try to figure out the risk - I would just do it. 28 days is nothing compared to what will happen if she gets lyme.
Posted 3/19/2016 5:38 AM (GMT 0)
I think now - they're suspecting that even less than four hours - the tick can transmit bacteria.
Posted 3/19/2016 5:44 AM (GMT 0)
As far as herbals go - I think Andrographis can be used.
Posted 3/19/2016 10:17 AM (GMT 0)
That's exactly what I thought, Girlie. Thank you.
Posted 3/19/2016 12:36 PM (GMT 0)
In his book on Lyme that was published last year, Buhner writes that "Recent research has found that it is extremely common for ticks to disengage from a host before they feed to completion. Those "fed" ticks, once they attach to a new host, can transmit Lyme organisms in as little as ten minutes!!! (see top of page 121)

After being one of "those people" for whom 21 days of doxy proved inadequate after a known nymph deer tick bite, I know I would be more aggressive if I got bit again.....only I would opt for herbals.

I already have Andrographis tincture and Bentonite Clay and plan on following Buhner's recommendation to make a paste with it for application on the tick bite....and I would take Homeopathic ledum for 3 days.

If I got the rash (any type of skin anything, really), I'd take Homeopathic apis 30C for 3 days and then begin the core protocol.

Heck, I plan on taking Japanese Knotweed and Cats Claw for the rest of my life....hopefully, I'll never have to revisit these infections.

I hope your girlfriend seeks treatment, Kathie. We both know having these infections completely sucks.
Posted 3/19/2016 2:39 PM (GMT 0)
As best as I can figure I got bit about 2:30pm and at about 7 or 8 that evening I saw a red mark. I never saw the tick. It was April and I assume it was a nymph.

A few months later a woman that lives near the place where I got bit, well, she was bitten by something. Her mark looked exactly like mine. She went on Doxy for a month and so far nothing else happened to her.
Posted 3/19/2016 7:12 PM (GMT 0)
I knew I'd get the best answers here, thanks everybody! I haven't finished Buhner's book yet, cd...appreciate that information. My friend doesn't like to take antibiotics (big surprise, huh? ;) so she might be willing to go with the herbs. I'll talk with her.
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