March 2020 disc/obs

[DavisStraight]

get a seresto collar for you dog, too bad they don't work for humans, LOL, I got lyme once now and Im always super aware, I don't walk in the woods without spraying myself with deet anytime of year, even in dead winter when its 10 degrees..

[snowman19]

9 hours ago, MJO812 said:

Big signal for a coastal around 200 hours on the gefs. 

Ok Joe Bastardi

[kdxken]

7 hours ago, powderfreak said:

Can’t believe I had a tick burrow itself into my neck today.  

Its been pretty cold the past few days but warmer than normal winter keeping these things active?  

10-day cycle of antibiotics coming up just to be on the safe side.

 

 

Will a health provider prescribed antibiotics on just a possible?

[Damage In Tolland]

13 hours ago, 512high said:

Sun-Mon? Doable?

No

[CoastalWx]

7 hours ago, powderfreak said:

I honestly had no idea they were out already in the northern Vermont hills.  Fukkin’ crazy.  

That’s effing gross lol. They’re indestructible. 

[snowman19]

24 minutes ago, kdxken said:

Will a health provider prescribed antibiotics on just a possible?

When thar happened to me last spring, they gave me Doxycycline twice a day for 10 days as a precaution 

[weathafella]

28 minutes ago, kdxken said:

Will a health provider prescribed antibiotics on just a possible?

Standard of care with a tic bite.  Smowman21 mentioned the same treatment when he had it.

[Torch Tiger]

congrats

[dendrite]

1 hour ago, CoastalWx said:

That’s effing gross lol. They’re indestructible. 

Guinea hens

[dendrite]

A little sun this morning as some dry air advects in from the NE in the low levels. Still some garbage moving in aloft though. We'll take the brief sun. The sunrise was amazing.

[RUNNAWAYICEBERG]

6 hours ago, DavisStraight said:

get a seresto collar for you dog, too bad they don't work for humans, LOL, I got lyme once now and Im always super aware, I don't walk in the woods without spraying myself with deet anytime of year, even in dead winter when its 10 degrees..

That collar doesn’t work well imo. I’ve pulled a good amount of ticks off my boxer when she had it on. I do the drops now and last summer was better but still not bulletproof. Easy solution is for her to stop running into the woods but she’s a hunter. So instead, I spray the property and about 10 feet into the woods with Permethrin plus the drops plus my wife makes a concoction of essential oils which includes cider I believe. Basically, we put like 3 to 4 layers on because it’s the last thing I want anyone in my family to get attacked by while just playing in our own damn yard. 

[Ginx snewx]

8 hours ago, RUNNAWAYICEBERG said:

Mind boggling. They must be adapting or some shit. I gotta check my dog now who runs into the woods on my property often enough but I thought...it’s March and it just snowed...they can’t be out yet can they? Dead wrong obviously. If you have them up there already...in for a long and nasty tick season down here. 

Tics are out basically year round. They like snow cover and will appear as soon as open spots appear. Always always check if in the woods. His dog probably brought it in the house 

[Ginx snewx]

9 minutes ago, RUNNAWAYICEBERG said:

That collar doesn’t work well imo. I’ve pulled a good amount of ticks off my boxer when she had it on. I do the drops now and last summer was better but still not bulletproof. Easy solution is for her to stop running into the woods but she’s a hunter. So instead, I spray the property and about 10 feet into the woods with Permethrin plus the drops plus my wife makes a concoction of essential oils which includes cider I believe. Basically, we put like 3 to 4 layers on because it’s the last thing I want anyone in my family to get attacked by while just playing in our own damn yard. 

I spray the yard and woods 10 feet in too. My dogs all wear serestos, luckily none of the 8 have had ticks since we went to seresto 5 years ago.

[ORH_wxman]

Another threat 4/1-2?

[RUNNAWAYICEBERG]

6 minutes ago, Ginx snewx said:

I spray the yard and woods 10 feet in too. My dogs all wear serestos, luckily none of the 8 have had ticks since we went to seresto 5 years ago.

I’ll have to check my amazon order history to see if I didn’t get the knock off brand but I’m pretty sure I didn’t. It just didn’t work well on my boxer but I know people rave about it. I’m willing to try anything to protect basically.

[klw]

9 hours ago, powderfreak said:

I honestly had no idea they were out already in the northern Vermont hills.  Fukkin’ crazy.  

I had my dog into the vet for her booster shots a couple of weeks ago and the vet was saying they had already been out in this area for a week or two at that point.  I remember when I first lived in central Vermont I took the dogs into the woods and long grassed fields twice a day for 7 years and never once pulled a tick off either of them.  Now we worry about them with snow still around.

[RUNNAWAYICEBERG]

Just now, klw said:

I had my dog into the vet for her booster shots a couple of weeks ago and the vet was saying they had already been out in this area for a week or two at that point.  I remember when I first lived in central Vermont I took the dogs into the woods and long grassed fields twice a day for 7 years and never once pulled a tick off either of them.  Now we worry about them with snow still around.

Yup which is why my weeniesm thinks those blood suckers mutated or something. 

[klw]

35 minutes ago, Dr. Dews said:

congrats

Big big winter incoming!

[mreaves]

5 minutes ago, RUNNAWAYICEBERG said:

Yup which is why my weeniesm thinks those blood suckers mutated or something. 

There was a poster here who did tick research.  I can't remember his name but I do remember he was from CT

[Ginx snewx]

7 minutes ago, RUNNAWAYICEBERG said:

I’ll have to check my amazon order history to see if I didn’t get the knock off brand but I’m pretty sure I didn’t. It just didn’t work well on my boxer but I know people rave about it. I’m willing to try anything to protect basically.

Its possible.  They can have ticks on the fur but they won't bite. We are extra careful because 2 of our dogs are allergic to the Lyme preventative shot. My yard being fenced in helps as other critters like deer can't come prancing in. I know tics hide in leaf matter but I do wonder if the lack of snow this year was in our favor.  Next door neighbor has Guinea hens too and that's gotta help some.

[Torch Tiger]

19 minutes ago, ORH_wxman said:

Another threat 4/1-2?

Looks possible for the ski resorts anyway.

[Ginx snewx]

30 minutes ago, ORH_wxman said:

Another threat 4/1-2?

You foolin?

[HoarfrostHubb]

We still use Frontline and it seems to work well.  No ticks so far this year.  Very few (maybe three or 4 dog ticks).  
 

We don’t go thrashing through the woods much. 

[backedgeapproaching]

40 minutes ago, Ginx snewx said:

Tics are out basically year round. They like snow cover and will appear as soon as open spots appear. Always always check if in the woods. His dog probably brought it in the house 

Yes, for sure.  I got a positive result from the Western Blot test for Lyme in mid JAN this year.  I was having a lot of physical and nervous system issues arise in mid JAN, enough that I had to take 3 weeks off work. I didn't know what was going on, but it really hit me hard (symptoms vary a lot from person to person too) I honestly didn't think Lyme because it was mid-winter, but my PCP did a battery of blood work including one for Lyme and sent it to UVM.  Came back positive--and since it actually showed up on the test(antibodies were still active in my bloodstream) its means it was acute and most likely got bit sometime in late NOV/DEC through early JAN.  During that time had almost constant snow cover too, with a few breaks in total cover at times. So, yes- check yourself, kids, pets year round. 

 

[HIPPYVALLEY]

A few years ago it was discovered that ticks  produce an anti-freeze like proteins in their blood when it gets cold which prevents ice crystals from forming in their blood.  I can’t remember the exact temperature but it protects them somewhere down into the upper 20s. 
if daytime temperatures get into the mid 30s you should assume that ticks t could be active, even in the winter.  

[ORH_wxman]

45 minutes ago, Ginx snewx said:

You foolin?

Definitely some support for it on ensembles. Obviously a lot of things would have to go right. 

[HIPPYVALLEY]

A few years ago when my dad turned 80 he got seriously ill and had to be hospitalized.  He tested positive for Lyme but it was not responding to treatment and was showing symptoms like high fever and chills that we’re not necessarily consistent with Lyme diagnosis. 

He had a great Doctor who did a huge blood screening and they found he had Babeseosis which is essentially like the American version of malaria.  They had never seen it in New England before but he told him he had not left Massachusetts in several months.  They ended up flying a specialist up from the CDC in Atlanta and determined he most likely got it from a tick bite on Cape Cod.  He said the doctor that came up was freaking out about how bad it was if that disease had spread so quickly up the Eastern seaboard since they have not really ever seen it north of South Carolina.  
Anyway dad was in the hospital almost 10 days and took him almost a month to fully recover but he’s going strong at 85!

[radarman]

5 minutes ago, HIPPYVALLEY said:

A few years ago when my dad turned 80 he got seriously ill and had to be hospitalized.  He tested positive for Lyme but it was not responding to treatment and was showing symptoms like high fever and chills that we’re not necessarily consistent with Lyme diagnosis. 

He had a great Doctor who did a huge blood screening and they found he had Babeseosis which is essentially like the American version of malaria.  They had never seen it in New England before but he told him he had not left Massachusetts in several months.  They ended up flying a specialist up from the CDC in Atlanta and determined he most likely got it from a tick bite on Cape Cod.  He said the doctor that came up was freaking out about how bad it was if that disease had spread so quickly up the Eastern seaboard since they have not really ever seen it north of South Carolina.  
Anyway dad was in the hospital almost 10 days and took him almost a month to fully recover but he’s going strong at 85!

My healthy 45 y/o cousin also got babeseosis from a tick bite on the cape maybe 4 years ago? 

[rclab]

4 minutes ago, HIPPYVALLEY said:

A few years ago when my dad turned 80 he got seriously ill and had to be hospitalized.  He tested positive for Lyme but it was not responding to treatment and was showing symptoms like high fever and chills that we’re not necessarily consistent with Lyme diagnosis. 

He had a great Doctor who did a huge blood screening and they found he had Babeseosis which is essentially like the American version of malaria.  They had never seen it in New England before but he told him he had not left Massachusetts in several months.  They ended up flying a specialist up from the CDC in Atlanta and determined he most likely got it from a tick bite on Cape Cod.  He said the doctor that came up was freaking out about how bad it was if that disease had spread so quickly up the Eastern seaboard since they have not really ever seen it north of South Carolina.  
Anyway dad was in the hospital almost 10 days and took him almost a month to fully recover but he’s going strong at 85!

How wonderful! Your father is blessed and must be a present day version of Old Hickory. I hope I’m around to hit the like button when you happily announce his 100th birthday. As always ....

[HIPPYVALLEY]

9 minutes ago, radarman said:

My healthy 45 y/o cousin also got babeseosis from a tick bite on the cape maybe 4 years ago? 

Yeah, Lyme is bad but Babeseosis kill yo’ ass.