A Lakewood boy came home after playing outside to find himself covered in ticks.
The boy was reportedly playing in tall grass in the Massachusetts Avenue area.
This picture shows approximately 25 ticks after they were removed from his body.
Earlier this week, TLS reported about a child who contracted Lyme disease after getting bitten by a tick.
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Holy tick!!
This madness, Anyone have any tips on how to avoid Tick’s?
Wow. Crazy.
OUCH !!!
#1 avoid any tall grass, brush or woods , etc walk only on grass up to 4″ tall
#2 tuck socks into pants if possible when walking in questionable areas
#3 use tick repelant
Ticks are rampant in this area. My children regularly pick them up just by playing outside- not necessarily in tall grass. That is a crazy amount of ticks, though.
You can buy bug spray specifically for ticks- I believe it needs to contain permethrin. There are very specific instructions for application – make sure to follow.
We do nightly tick checks- when getting ready for bed check the entire body for any unusual dark spots. They can be found in the groin, ears, hairline… they like warm cozy places.
FTmom: you are so, so correct. My husband was in the hospital in a coma for over two months two years ago from tick bites he didn’t see in the groin area. My son inspects his kids (twins) when they come in from playing. They are hard to spot. Take a shower every night before bed. I see kids playing in tall grasses across from my home. It drives me crazy. I know the area is loaded with ticks this time of year. Living in NY when I was a kid, I never had a tick on me. Guess it’s different in Jersey.
Ticks are often found in tall grass areas, and on deers.
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I really hope his doctor is forward thinking enough to know to treat the bite- He needs at least 4-6 weeks of antibiotics. ILADS has come out with guidelines based on research that trump the research of the CDC on this topic.
I said this b ll last article but I’ll repeat if you have a large yard use a service and get your yard sprayed!!!! Yes it costs a few hundred dollars for the season but so worth it…
Please contact life4lyme asap!!
This kids needs antibotics now!!!
If he’s over 8 he needs doxycycline
And CDC is not up to date btw!!
Either are most Lakewood doctors
For all those who keep mentioning ILADS, keep in mind that ILADS is an alternative medicine group. The ILADS research “trumps the research of the CDC” the same way the anti-vacccers research trumps the CDC. The CDC is quite up to date on Lyme research. It is the ILADS people who created a false diagnosis of “chronic Lyme” to rake in big bucks (which has nothing to do with this case of possible acute Lyme).
We try to check our kids daily or ask them to do so and have a Tick Twister which is a wonderful set of safe tick removers for ticks of all sizes.
As long as you remove them safely within 24 hours there is nothing dangerous about the bite.
My son was attacked by almost 100 ticks (he must have stumbled on tick hive)it was difficult and tedious work removing all the ticks.
All parents please beware that I have seen sources that state that 80-90 percent of all ticks are in USA are in nj and 80-90 percent of all nj ticks are on Ocean county these numbers are a serious warning to be extra cautious especially if you have a playful child that is adventurous.
For all the curious ones out there
Yes my son did test positive for Lyme disease which we treated with antibiotics
Wow and just the other week the scoop posted a letter complaining about all the articles/ letters about scaring the oilam!
Lemongrass oil is a good natural insect repellent
@moshe
I researched and could not come up with your statistics of Ocean County having the most ticks in USA ( by an immense number!). The most I found is that NJ is in the top 20 percent of reported tick cases. That’s far different than having 80 percent of all ticks. Doesnt seen like we’re that special.
U all city slickers who move to lakewood are like in a panic over ticks, my kids and neighbors have them all the time and you just take them Out and monitor it . Chill. all’s going to be fine
My child has Lyme now, even with daily checking. You can’t be careful enough.
It’s time for the town to spray with insect repellent the reason we grew up with so much fewer ticks is because spraying was a normal part of the season. Most of us don’t want to hear about it not being healthy- there was never so much Lyme disease which I think is a far greater risk
@yankel you have no idea what you are talking about. You speak as if you have researched every single dr that is part of Ilads. Have you researched Dr philips or Dr Mozeyani both studied in Yale. Please quote for me the studies that show the CDC is up to date because the last one they had was removed from their site. So please if you can prove to us the cdc is up to date please do. For anyone that wants to see the real up to date studies on Lyme and other tick borne infections like bartonella you can go to pubmed to see any research for bartonella specifically go http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/?term=Mozayeni the drs are not even up to date with what the cdc says which is to take a test again at the end of the month if the first one was negative check it out it’s on their site and I know for a fact that most drs don’t even do this
Not sure what you mean that the CDC removed studies from their site. It is pretty clear from them what they think about “chronic Lyme,” if you would actually go to their site.
When you say studies were removed from their site, perhaps you are referring to the event that was widely celebrated in the ILADS world, and that was removal of the IDSA guidelines (the ones that are evidence based) from the NGC, or National Guideline Clearinghouse. The NCG (which is soon to be defunct), is a database of 1000s of various guidelines that was maintained by the Dep of Health and Human Services for insurance billing purposes. The IDSA guidelines were removed because they were more than 5 years old (they haven;t been updated because there hasn’t been much change in terms of good, reliable research). Somehow the ILADS world took that as proof that the CDC was changing their mind. It is worth it, though, to look at the NCG guideline from ILADS, every single recommendation is rated as very-low-qulaity evidence,
For those of you advocating for spraying yards and public areas please consider the application of beneficial nematodes. Nematode application is inexpensive, non toxic and you can do it yourself. Also do not frighten or chase away opossums you may see, they eat an incredible number of ticks.
@yankel please stop twisting my words I said study and I meant study. The cdc had on their website a study about lyme which was removed. I have no idea why they removed it. My only point was that it is not there anymore for people to easily look at. I have no idea about them removing the guidelines I don’t know anything about that. It seems you are the one pushing an agenda. I’m trying to stick to the facts. I don’t care about the organization ilads I look at the individual drs. Every organization can have bad drs part of them including the CDC and AMA that’s how groups are. Look at the individual work of the drs I mentioned. Regarding money these drs spend hours for a first consult with patients who are sick going over every symptom and every blood test. Insurance only covers in 15 min intervals so basically you want the dr to work for free. Also there is a clinic in Williamsburg for not so complicated cards of chronic Lyme that does take insurance so I guess they should ask you what they doing wrong in the money making scheme. Instead of focusing on a fight between cdc and ilads why don’t you speak to the 100s of yidden suffereing from chronic Lyme and then judge if you think they are making it up.
Can you reference the study removed from the CDC website? The CDC website currently says” Studies funded by the National Institute of Health (NIH) have not shown that people who received prolonged courses of antibiotics do better in the long run than people treated with placebo.” The CDC links to the NIH site, with links to the studies.
As far as all the people suffering- that is precisely the point. These are people who are suffering from some symptoms, and along comes the ILADS (yes, the whole group), and convinces them that they have an illness that they call “chronic Lyme” for which there is no evidence that it exists. Then they end spending all that money, wasting all that time getting treatments, and they never actually get properly diagnosed with what is really wrong.
This is very common in alternative medicine, where people are told they have all sorts of fake disease, such as adrenal fatigue, Wilson’s syndrome (not be confused with Wilson’s disease, a real disease), candida hypersensitivity, male menopause, etc…In the end, they spend all that time chasing alternative therapies, and don’y get treated for the real problem.
After a little Googling, I found a post on one of the ILADS website celebrating the removal of the “study” from the CDC page, perhaps you are referring to that. In this case, the old page had a link to the IDSA guidelines, and the CDC removed that. But thing is, they replaced the link with a table showing recommended treatment, and the recommended treatment is exactly what the IDSA recommends!
As far as your point about money, no, I don’t think that doctors are expected to work for free. I do expect that doctors should be willing to accept evidence, even if it means that they won’t be able to make money treating the patient. That is exactly what the IDSA (infectious Disease Society of America) the association of infectious disease specialists, has done. They could have joined the chronic Lyme bandwagon, so that all the infectious disease specialists could rake in big bucks by running infusion centers giving out IV antibiotics, but instead they chose to accept the evidence for what it is.
Correction to my past yesterday:
Nj is among 8 states that report 90 percent of all Lyme disease reports
A bit different but still not good news
I got a tick bite and I was positive on Lyme disease and a week later got BEL’S PALSY – The muscles on one side become paralyzed or week