Re: tick prevention form the other forum

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What does 'WDB' refer to in Dr Shoemaker's letter?

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> Flag this messageRe: [DougPlus] Shoemaker on Lyme preventionSaturday, May 28,

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DougPlus Good info - thank you! It's gardening time and I'm

hyperalert for ticks as you can all imagine.

> Live simply. Speak kindly. Care deeply. Love generously. Laugh often.

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> To: DougPlus

> Sent: Fri, May 27, 2011 5:41:31 PM

> Subject: [DougPlus] Shoemaker on Lyme prevention

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> This is from the Surviving Mold newsletter. Hopefully Shoemaker does

> not mind having it copied here.

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> Lyme prevention:

> many of our subscribers are Lyme patients. Many of those are affected

> by exposure to WDB and sickened by that exposure but they continue to

> think that Lyme is their problem. Sad, but true.

>

> As we enter the months with the greatest incidence of tick bites and

> acute Lyme disease you will read a lot of verbiage about prevention of

> tick bites. Please discard most of what you hear as the ideas are not

> logical. For example, have you heard to use insect repellents like

> DEET? I use these products every day to reduce the number of mosquito

> bites I risk entering the forests and swamps of this area. But I never

> saw any reduction in tick bites. Why? Ticks are arachnids, like mites

> and spiders. Permethrin is an excellent tick repellent. The Army puts

> permethrin into the uniforms of soldiers stationed in tick endemic

> areas.

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> But the commercial permethrin-containing sprays were pulled from the

> market last year. Why? Ask the Feds. No logic touched that decision.

>

> So after I was permethrin-less and had another beautiful ECM rash from

> a tick bite last spring, it was time to visit the farm store. There in

> the horse chemical section was 10% permethrin, used by horse people

> all the time on their animals. Simply put one ounce of the stock

> solution into a 32-ounce misting container, fill with water and spray

> your clothes. Good bye ticks.

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> While you are there, pick up some rotenone powder too. Take two

> ounces; dissolve in a gallon of water. Now take cotton balls, dunk

> them into the rotenone solution and use tongs to place the soaked

> cotton balls at the end of your gardens, plantings, trees and wildlife

> edges. I suggest you do this at dusk to try to make sure your dog or

> cat can’t play with the cotton balls. In the morning, take a look at

> where you cotton balls were. Just about all will be gone.

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> Mice (mousies, as they are known around here) love cotton balls. They

> take the cotton to line their globes (nests) quicker than anyone would

> believe. Now the rotenone soaked cotton kills the ticks on the mice as

> the mice sleep away. Keeping the ticks off mice will protect you far

> better than shooting neighborhood deer!

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