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**sposicke** · 06-14-2011, 04:58 PM

Yes, yours is excellent advice to be in the habit of checking for ticks. Also, we are always picking ticks off of the dogs. They have been dog ticks, not Ixodes (Lymes) ticks. I know the difference but show them to my microbiologist routinely.

You should keep 500 mg caps of doxycycline in the refrigerator. If you ever pull a tick off you and you believe it has taken a blood meal (i.e. tick is engorged and firmly attached, surrounding skin red and itchy), just take one 500 mg doxycycline PO. This is about 90% effective and a single dose has virtually no side effects. Original study was in NEJM.

06-14-2011, 04:58 PM	#9
sposicke Join Date Nov 2005 Posts 512 Senior Member	Yes, yours is excellent advice to be in the habit of checking for ticks. Also, we are always picking ticks off of the dogs. They have been dog ticks, not Ixodes (Lymes) ticks. I know the difference but show them to my microbiologist routinely. You should keep 500 mg caps of doxycycline in the refrigerator. If you ever pull a tick off you and you believe it has taken a blood meal (i.e. tick is engorged and firmly attached, surrounding skin red and itchy), just take one 500 mg doxycycline PO. This is about 90% effective and a single dose has virtually no side effects. Original study was in NEJM.
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