Tick repellent?

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Most homemade remedies advocate using a distilled vinegar mix:

 

The ingredients you would require to make the repellent include white vinegar (2 cups), water (1 cup) and Eucalyptus, peppermint or citrus oils (20 drops). Get a spray bottle and mix all these ingredients and then spray it on your clothing and skin. The ingredients you would require to make the repellent include white vinegar (2 cups), water (1 cup) and Eucalyptus, peppermint or citrus oils (20 drops). Get a spray bottle and mix all these ingredients and then spray it on your clothing and skin.

 

Anyone used something like this?

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Another one:

 

The second tick repellant recipe consists of vegetable oil (2 tbsp.), aloe vera gel (1 tbsp.), rose geranium essential oil (20 drops) and lavender essential oil (20 drops). Now, get an empty shampoo bottle and fill it with the vegetable oil and add the aloe vera gel. Shake the bottle vigorously so that the gel blends with the oil. Now, add 20 drops of rose geranium essential oil to this mixture and shake the bottle once again. Add the last ingredient, which is the lavender oil and shake for 30 seconds. So, before you go outdoors, rub this tick repellent which you have prepared, onto your hands, arms, ankles, neck and wherever you suppose ticks may find their way through. Even if the ticks attempt to latch onto your skin, they will fall off after they get the odor and taste of the repellent on your body.

[Big H*]

OK, it's time to confess......I've used Frontline on my Labrador for years.....and then one day I had a brilliant idea......if it was good enough for my best friend, it was good enough for me.....so I sprayed myself liberally around the legs before going for a hike.....all worked well until I got some scratches from thorny vegetation......then it started to sting like mad......and rubbing just made it worse......

 

Have you stopped howling at the full moon yet????? ....... doe you still get hair on your palms?????

[fanievb]

That's BS

 

Ok now please explain to me, why in three years I have never gotten sick despite fishing, camping, cycling, walking and working in the tick invested Transkei?

[Big H*]

 

Ok now please explain to me, why in three years I have never gotten sick despite fishing, camping, cycling, walking and working in the tick invested Transkei?

 

Lucky Fanie????? ..... or is it the Garlic you consume!!!!!

[No Hare]

Ok now please explain to me, why in three years I have never gotten sick despite fishing, camping, cycling, walking and working in the tick invested Transkei?

Copious amounts of alcohol? Edited October 3, 2013 by No Hare

[DJR]

Have you stopped howling at the full moon yet????? ....... doe you still get hair on your palms?????

 

No, luckily not, but I tend to jump in the pool and fetch any ball that gets thrown there

[GrumpyOldGuy]

My GP told me to just get bitten, build up resistance.

 

When you get sick just treat the symptoms and don't take the antibiotics.

 

Phew, not sure I would go with that advice, my wife got tick bite fever a few years back when we went hiking up in Crystal Springs and she got really sick. Wasn't pleasant at all, severe headaches, eyes very sensitive to light, nausea, very tired etc and the bite left a hard nodule under the skin which took a long time to go away.

 

Now I go to the outdoor shops before we go hike and buy the tick repellent sprays, theres a few, cant remember names but they all worked, Outdoor warehouse, Trappers, etc they all sell them, I would definitely use it, tick bite fever is not fun.

[GrumpyOldGuy]

No, luckily not, but I tend to jump in the pool and fetch any ball that gets thrown there

 

- Ha, Ha, tick bite fever in dogs is very serious, my one boxer got bit and ended up with tick bite fever, we nearly lost her, even though we used a repellent the vet said they can still get it, he was great though, and smiled very pleasantly when he presented me with a very big bill.

[deanbean]

 

Ok now please explain to me, why in three years I have never gotten sick despite fishing, camping, cycling, walking and working in the tick invested Transkei?

I'm constantly pulling ticks off of myself, it's an occupational hazard of farming. I've had tickbite fever more than once, and you do build up an immunity/resistance to the Rickettsia, so that the symptoms are not so bad anymore.

Copious amounts of alcohol?

Lots of rum, ha ha. I don't drink the stuff, so I have to rely on my natural immunity.

 

A point is that only about 2% of ticks are carriers.

[jmic]

Thing is that ticks do not only carry tick-bite fever (the 2% you are referring to...i.e lime disease), but also a host of other diseases like Spotted fever, Q fever, Ehrlichiosis and parisites like Babesiosis and Encephalitis.

These can all kill you, so no... don't get bitten in the first place.

 

Tabard works a charm and definitely repells them before biting.

Frontline and some of the similar products contain toxins that kill fleas, ticks etc, while Tabard just does the repelling job.

They latch onto you and before biting the Tabard makes them just drop off.

Safest, cheapest and known to work. (The alcohol thing sounds nice, but is to darn expensive )

[Cranky]

Did not know that you get Bayticol for humans. We use it on our horses. Damn expensive

 

Bayticol works brilliantly, sprayed on shoes or clothes. Guys who work in Kruger use it every time they are out in the bush. I

[flymango]

Found two ticks on my body in the shower after Hoogekraal last Sunday. I think those bushes in purple flower at the moment are riddled with ticks.

 

Gin and tonic. Wait - no. Mozzies?

[DJR]

- Ha, Ha, tick bite fever in dogs is very serious, my one boxer got bit and ended up with tick bite fever, we nearly lost her, even though we used a repellent the vet said they can still get it, he was great though, and smiled very pleasantly when he presented me with a very big bill.

 

I became so much more aware of it once I got tick bite fever myself. I felt truly terrible. Did a mtb race and simply couldn't understand why I couldn't get up the hills. Thought I came dead (ha ha, great pun) last, but later read that Steve Shapiro finished behind me. next day was diagnosed with tick bite fever. Ever since then I do my best to prevent ticks from biting my dogs.