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- Arachnophobia And Other Fears By: Edward Mills
We had a little excitement this morning at home. My wife came out of the bathroom and said, quite calmly, “Ed, there’s a big black spider in the bathtub.” Since I was watching my daughter, Ella, at the time, I carried her in there to investigate. I was a bit surprised that my wife did not call it a Brown Recluse. That’s our running joke. She grew up in Brown Recluse territory, and so whenever she sees a brownish spider she says “Ed, I just saw a Brown Recluse. Go get it.” I g...
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- Keeping A Dog Tick-Free By: Ken Charnly
Dogs and in general all pets tend to spend more of their summer time outdoors. In case of dogs, it is very important to be careful about parasites, bugs and micro organisms that can harm them while they get their whiff of fresh air. Precautions are necessary to keep these dangers away. One of these pests that can cause a lot of nuisance and damage are the ticks since they carry diseases. Avoiding the ticks is of prime importance than curing at a later stage.
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- Morgellons Disease Is Often Linked To Lyme Disease By: Margaret Mathews
Since many people who have Morgellons Disease seem to have also have Lyme disease you may well ask what Lyme disease is.
How did I get Lyme disease? How can Lyme disease be prevented / Can Lyme Disease be treated to go away or while I have it forever?
Lyme disease is a bacterial disease spread by insects called “Ticks “.
Ticks are small insects of the same family as spiders and are actually quite small.
The female tick seeks a blood meal to feed and nurture its br...
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- Tick and Flea Season By: Grant Carroll
Any experienced pet owner can tell you that every time spring and summer roll around, it’s time to break out the flea and tick collars. These pests cause more than just annoyance for people and pets.
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- Pet Health Tips By: James Munroe
Loving your pet means caring about your pet's health. The health of your pet can depend upon its age, breed and environment.
One area of pet health that most people can relate to is arthritis. Like humans, pets can get arthritic. Arthritis is particularly common in dogs. Like people, dogs' joins are lubricated by synovial fluid, which decreases over time; joints can become rough and painful. Warmth is the simplest treatment for arthritis in pets. Heating a confined area in...
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- Pet Supplies For Flea And Tick Control In Dogs By: Jim Brown
There are a number of good flea and tick control pet supplies out there. With the number of products available, it is sometimes hard to tell which products do what. We are going to examine some of the most popular pet supplies available to control fleas and ticks.
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- It Is Tick Time In Texas By: Pat Carpenter
The woods and fields in Houston, Dallas and the rest of Texas are beautiful this time of year. But they also harbor a hidden danger -- ticks. Ticks are part of the spider family, with more than 800 species around the world.
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- Good Night, Sleep Tight, Don't Let the Bed Bugs Bite! By: Trisha Coppley
If your parent or grandparent ever tucked you in at night, you may have heard this common, yet somewhat curious, chant. Most children never see or hear of bedbugs and never have any idea what their ridiculous parents are talking about, drifting off to sleep without any concern of the attack of the so-called ‘bedbugs’.
But, what they are blissfully unaware of is that there actually are bedbugs, scientific name cimex lectularius, and they would love to dine on the delicate flesh of a tender young offspring, if given the chance.
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- Flea and Ticks - How to Make Sure Your Pet is Free of These Pesky Pests By: Grant Eckert
While many pet owners think that fleas and ticks are just a part of owning a dog or a cat, that isn't necessarily the truth. You can make sure your pet stays healthy and pest free by taking just a few simple precautions along the way. Fleas and ticks aren't just something that you should dismiss as an everyday occurrence. If not properly treated and prevented, they can lead to long term damage and even more catastrophic results.
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- Lyme Disease – It Bites By: Abbey Grace Yap
This article is about Lyme disease. This disease is transmitted through bites of infected deer ticks. Early stage symptoms of Lyme disease may include red, bulls-eye like rashes that are most often accompanied by flu-like symptoms. Muscle and joint pain may also occur. If left untreated, Lyme disease may cause further complications like meningo-encephalitis, myocarditis, and Lyme arthritis.
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- Lyme Disease - Causes, Symptoms and Treatment Methods By: Juliet
Lyme disease also called Lyme borreliosis, is an infection that derives from a tick bite. It is caused by a kind of bacteria (germ) called a spirochete. This bacterium is usually found in animals such as mice and deer.
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- What Every Parent Ought To Know About Protecting Kids From Insect Bites By: SkinCareBaby
How do you protect your children from the potentially dangerous effects of nasty insect bites? Since children playing outdoors are often bitten or stung by insects, when children are outside and no matter what they are doing, it is essential for them to be protected.
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- Lyme Treatment Tips By: Juliet
Lyme disease is an inflammatory disease spread through a tick bite. Lyme disease is an infection caused by bacteria spirochete. The disease is carried by deer ticks and western black-legged ticks (found mostly on the Pacific Coast). These ticks can spread the disease to animals and humans through tick bites.
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- Tick Paralysis Information By: Juliet
Tick paralysis is an unusual but spectacular disease from a medical standpoint. Tick paralysis is a loss of muscle function that results from a tick bite. The illness is caused by a neurotoxin produced in the tick's salivary gland.
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- Lyme Disease By: Robert II Smith
Lyme disease is a multi-systemic inflammatory disease caused by the bacterium Borrelia burgdorfer. It is a tick borne disease and the bacterium is harboured by the deer tick known by its biological name as Ixodes scapularis. Infection occurs when humans come in contact with the ticks (tick bites) and so disease prevalence is restricted within the population zone of the deer ticks.
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- Information on Lyme disease By: Peter Hutch
Lyme disease is a bacterial illness caused by a bacterium called a "spirochete." In the United States, the actual name of the bacterium is Borrelia burgdorferi. In Europe, another bacterium, Borrelia afzelii, also causes Lyme disease
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- Causes of Tick Bite and Symptoms of Tick Bite By: samnickel7
A tick is a small brown bug that attaches to the skin and sucks blood for 3 to 6 days. The bite is usually painless and doesn't itch. The wood tick, which carries Rocky Mountain spotted fever and Colorado tick fever, is up to 1/2 inch in size. The deer tick, which spreads Lyme disease, is the size of a pinhead. After feeding, both of these ticks will be swollen and easy to see.
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- Choosing the best flea treatment By: jeffrey eugenio
There are a lot of dog owner that are very confused right now as to what flea treatment to choose from the wide varieties of flea control products available in the market today. Flea comb, flea sprays, natural products, topical spot-on solutions, oral growth regulator or "birth control" pills for the fleas are only some of the flea treatment products available in the market.
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- Lyme Disease In Dogs By: Jane D Reynolds
Is your dog losing weight although you are keeping feeding it?
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- Dog Disease: Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever By: Gerry Ronson
Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever is just one of the dog diseases your dog can contract. The good news is it is preventable if you take proper precautions between April and August. You will find that the Rocky Mountain spotted fever can be detrimental.
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