I love summer, but what I don’t love about it is the creepy crawly things that come with it, and so far this week they’ve been pretty bad.
Sunday night a hairy black spider accosted me while I was sorting laundry. Monday I trapped a wasp under a p-nut butter far. Tuesday a wasp hurtled onto my keyboard just inches from my hand, and he came down with such speed that it was like he was thrown at me. I nearly jumped out of my chair… but I’m not moving so fast these days, and thus failed to make it the whole way out before I identified, and squished the unidentified hurtling missile.
But today, today was the worst. I just got a call for the school nurse – they found a tick on my daughter. It gives me the shivers just thinking about it.
The nurse said she’s removed over 50 ticks from kids this spring already, there’s only around 200 kids in the entire school (which houses only !st anf 2nd grades).
But cialis prescription drugs without soft tabs she did give me a handy tip on how to remove them, but hopefully I’ll never have to use it. I’m breaking out the bug spray and we’re all just going to shower in it every 6 hours!
Anyway the school nurse’s tick removal method: Dish soap (she said she uses Dawn) on a Q-tip swirled counter clockwise around the base of the tick, and the tick will back itself out.
A note from the pediatrician then: if the tick hasn’t been attached for more than 24 hours, then there’s usually nothing to worry about, just watch the area for any redness or rashes.
Ugh! I hope the creepy crawlies stop here!
Thankfully, we have no experience with ticks. But I will try to remember this tip if it ever comes up. *shudder*
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I wish I had no experience with ticks! But living in the woods, we can’t seem to avoid them. Thanks for stopping by and commenting!
Thank you for sharing your tick removal trick. We get them all the time (especially the dog). We are having trouble with may flies right now. They don’t buzz, but they will fly up your nose if you aren’t careful.
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I haven’t noticed a fly problem, yet, but every is saying how the spiders and ticks are bad this year. Thanks for stopping by and commenting!
It’s amazing how small they are but have the ability to terrify me like crazy. I hate those things too.
Parents are already warning me about lice and my son only starts school in September. That’s how freaked out it makes parents.
Ugh, Lice – it seems to go around every year at least a few times in every school. My kids have never gotten it, but my one niece that ride the same bus as my daughter got it four times this past school year, so every time she gets it I flip out and treat everyone and everything in my house too. Thanks for stopping by and commenting!