Can you get Lyme from eating Venison?

If its cooked, no.

120 - 160 degrees well done and pathogens are killed.

But well done venison is an abomination.

astroman said...
There are all kinds of pathogens in farm raised and wild animals - all of them. Cooking kills bugs.

The main reason I think the "hipster" fad of eating raw meat is nuts - it might look "clean", but your eyes are not microscopes.

Lol. I do not do raw meat. When I go to some of these restaurants and see like "beef sashimi" I'm like really my fellow human beings, there's all kinds of pathogens in there. There was a reason before fire living until 25 years old was considered an old and our brains were smaller.

However when I order steak I do get it medium done, hopefully that's good enough, I don't know.

Oh I could eat sashimi everyday! Especially salmon. But raw beef or otherwise, no. I do like a nice ribeye medium rare though!

Deer - liver and heart should not be eaten, not to do with lyme, rather to do with environmental pollution, acid rain etc.

As you know, deer hunting is a great way to get lyme.

Hope he uses permethrin on outdoor cloths, it NOT for skin, Repel brand Permethrin, or another.

I am TOTALLY paranoid about going outside.

I was doing two careful tick checks a day. We have a large fenced in yard (acre) that does not border on the woods. It is more suburban than country. We only let our dog out in the yard and be had three ticks on him last week, so obviously there have to be ticks in our yard.

(I used to be a passionate gardner and have always mowed the lawn. I don't know how to live life with ticks around.... some of these diseases can get transmitted pretty quickly)

Any ideas on how to get over my fear of being in the yard? I feel like I have TICK PTSD.
I feels crazy to me.

I don't like them but I'm not phobic. I could get rid of my property and my horses and my cats and 2 dogs, and move someplace in town like a recluse and be miserable with a broken heart and spirit.
While I'm not healed yet I could still get a new infection having somebody else's shed tick crawl up my leg at the grocery store in town where you'd expect to be safe.

I have enough stress without adding fear of what more ticks might do to me. I won't even allow myself to think about it, it's just too depressing.

My friend got shistostomiasis from sushi , ...and if cows get ticks and med rare steak then ya i think so ..even the route of toxoplasmosis is mentioned as such ..and they sell giemsa stain to cattle farmers for the routine testing of babesia

dacarte3 said...
120 - 160 degrees well done and pathogens are killed.

But well done venison is an abomination.

I checked the temp ranges of beef. Venison wasn't on the list, and beef has the lowest temp range listed.

120F-125 for beef is considered rare.
130-135 for medium rare. Depending on where you ask.

USDA sets them higher, unfortunately.

It also depends on what form the venison comes in. Ground meat is handled far more than a steak and requires cooking to about 160 to be safe from contaminating pathogens. Ecoli being one.

One thing to remember is you can remove the meat from the heat source about 5 degrees or more under desired finish temp. and let rest, covered and it will continue to cook through.

That's what we do, Huddie. Now that we know, we just have to protect ourselves. It would be like getting into a car accident and refusing to ever get into a car again, otherwise. At least that's how I view it.

When I'm infected, I'm a tick magnet. No other way to put it. I was bit by a tick again, just two weeks ago. Lone star tick, so I got the eschew (scab with a black spot) and raised my dose of astragalus up to 3,000 mgs a day again.

I know that sends shivers through a lot of people, which is why I don't normally bring it up, but I'm much like Julymorning in that I simply can't live anywhere else. Especially, since we've had members that have never left a large city and got infected anyway. So if I run that risk anywhere I live, I'd rather live where I don't have to stay on antidepressants in order to live there.

So I wear treated clothes when I'm outside working in the garden or doing yard work, and stay on astragalus and do my tick checks on myself and my critters. I see it as wearing a seatbelt and staying in my own lane when I drive. Just smart things to be doing!!

I also treat my yard though. It's the one place I have no mercy and use chemicals.

Thanks guys. Love the car/seat belt analogy. It's a good one.

I have heard of mice. Can there droppings make us sick?

I was feeling really good Wed/Thursday. Then spent ALL of yesterday washing pans/pots and cleaning down cabinets because of a mice infestation. Droppings everywhere. This is very common in cold weather at our weekend house but never like this year. Even found a dead mouse - it was lovely.

My entire body hurts today from how much I did yesterday.

Basically I brought down my ticks/mice. These little creatures do big damage.