How to ward off summer's unwanted visitors
Photo: Ron Erwin/Getty Images/All Canada Photos The U.S. Centers of Disease Control and Prevention warn that the incidence of tick-borne diseases continue to increase, following last year’s news that the number of insect-borne diseases in the United States has tripled since 2014. And the summer months are when you’re most susceptible, because “as the weather gets better, tick numbers rise,” according to Dr. Thomas Daniels, who studies ticks at Fordham University’s Louis Calder Center.
Insect Shield Sport Crew Sock For day-to-day tick prevention, Mather counts on clothing that’s been treated with permethrin. “Most of it comes from a company called Insect Shield in North Carolina, and it can go through the wash about 70 times and still be effective,” he says. Dr.
$35 at Amazon Buy $35 at Amazon Buy Sawyer Products Premium Permethrin Clothing Insect Repellent You can also treat your own clothing with permethrin using a spray. “For tick repellent for myself and my field crew, we soak our clothes in permethrin and allow them to dry before wearing them,” says Williams. But unlike pretreated clothing , clothes you’ve sprayed with permethrin lose their ability to kill ticks after about six weeks or six washes .
$9 at Amazon Buy $9 at Amazon Buy Best Tick Repellents for Dogs Bayer Animal Health Seresto Flea and Tick Collar for Large Dogs When you and your dog go for a walk, your pet is more likely to come back into the house with a tick than you are, so if you really want to protect yourself from tick bites, it’s important to make sure your pet is protected, too. If a dog brings a wandering tick into the home, it can live in your couch or sheets until it bites you or another human.
$12 at Amazon Buy $12 at Amazon Buy Safari Flea Comb With a Double Row of Teeth $4 You should also check your dog for ticks by grooming it with a fine-toothed comb after you come in from a walk. $7 at Amazon Buy $7 at Amazon Buy A Quick Note on Essential Oils As Tick Repellent Garlic 100% Pure, Best Therapeutic Grade Essential Oil $13 Though the CDC does recommend essential oils like garlic oil and lemon-eucalyptus oil as somewhat effective repellents of black-legged ticks in yards and on skin, Mather wouldn’t advise essential oils as your primary line of defense.
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