RE: flea and tick repellent?

[Guest guest]

We use a spray our ND makes. Now I make it myself. It contains:

Purified Water and Essential Oils of:

Citronella

Bergamot

Lemon Grass

Lavender

Eucalyptus

and Leleshwa Oil in 6% alcohol base.

If you would rather buy it made than make it, you could probably call my

doctor (SCD friendly, BTW), Dr. Lori Brown at Natural Family Medicine of Cascade

Park, P.C.

2401 SE 161st Ct., Ste. B

Vancouver, Wa 98683

She sells it for $6.50

Summer

Marina Derman wrote:

Hi all,

We're heading into flea and tick season, and I have the annual argument with my

vet over whether to use a product on my dog (such as Frontline) that will repel

ticks and fleas. I hate the idea of the chemical, which I know will get

absorbed by the family as we play with the dog. On the other hand, unprotected

he brings in ticks etc., and we run the risk of Lyme disease or worse, such as

Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever. My veterinarian, who is a pretty natural kind of

person herself (offers pet acupuncture, etc.) recommends using Frontline,

balancing out the risks of the chemical with the risks of disease.

Does anybody know of any other, safer product to keep the dog, and us, bug-free?

With two ASD kids, I worry so much about their compromised detox ability. My

sister, who is a chemist, once looked at a box of tick repellent and said that

it was chemically related to nerve gas! Yuck!

Marina

SCD Day 23

[Guest guest]

> > We're heading into flea and tick season, and I have the annual

> > argument with my vet over whether to use a product on my dog (such

> > as Frontline) that will repel ticks and fleas. I hate the idea of

> > the chemical, >>> Does anybody know of any other, safer product

> > to keep the dog, and us, bug-free? With two ASD kids, I worry so

> > much about their compromised detox ability. My sister, who is a

> > chemist, once looked at a box of tick repellent and said that it

> > was chemically related to nerve gas! Yuck!

>

> Marina

> SCD Day 23

I stopped using chemical repellents years ago for the same reasons.

At first, I was better about using herbal repellents, etc., but with

everything else going on, I haven't used anything at all in many

years. I find the flea problem has been non-existent since not using

chemical products. I have heard some theories about this.

We now have ticks in Maine; never used to. But I find we bring them

in just from playing outside and going for walks -- not just the

animals. We do all the usual things like wearing light colored

clothing, tucking things in, doing tick checks. I have to check us

just as carefully as the animals, so maybe the repellents aren't going

to stop the problem anyway?

I would like some advice on deer ticks and lyme disease. We have

found some of these on us and I had one with the classic ring around

it and went on antibiotics last summer for it. I can't go on

antibiotics every time I find a deer tick, so what to do?

Tick checks work well for dog ticks, but is it good enough for the

deer ticks?

Patty T

dh, ulcerative colitis since '87

Matt (17) , uc since '01

Luke (7), asd

whole family new to SCD

[Guest guest]

> We use a spray our ND makes. Now I make it myself. It contains:

> Purified Water and Essential Oils of:

> Citronella

> Bergamot

> Lemon Grass

> Lavender

> Eucalyptus

> and Leleshwa Oil in 6% alcohol base.

>

> If you would rather buy it made than make it, you could probably

call my doctor (SCD friendly, BTW), Dr. Lori Brown at Natural Family

Medicine of Cascade Park, P.C.

> 2401 SE 161st Ct., Ste. B

> Vancouver, Wa 98683

>

>

> She sells it for $6.50

>

> Summer

Hi, Summer...this sounds interesting. Could you post the " recipe " ?

I'm sure there are lots of us who recoil at flea and tick collars

and chemicals.

--Mel

[Guest guest]

Tick checks that are good enough are dang near impossible to do. Most

people catch Lyme from a nymph tick or larval tick, not from an adult tick.

Nymphs look like a speck of dirt (that doesn't brush off). Larval ticks are

even smaller, and lighter in color. Once a nymph or a larval tick reaches

hair (like on your head), forget it -- you'll never find it unless you are

very allergic to tick saliva -- then you'll find a swollen lump but the tick

may be gone already.

(Favorite places for teensy ticks -- inside ear lobes, back of ears, in the

hair, in the belly button.) The only way I ever got a teensy tick off was

by scraping with a fingernail. Don't know how the heck you're supposed to

get one of those teensy things off without squeezing the tick's stomach

contents into the bite, like they talk about with big ticks.

From:

Been there, done that Kayla

[Guest guest]

So anybody have any good ideas to avoid taking antibiotics all summer?

I can't avoid the outdoors and I really, really don't want Lyme

Disease! (And especially not my son)

Patty T

> Tick checks that are good enough are dang near impossible to do.

> Most

> people catch Lyme from a nymph tick or larval tick, not from an

> adult tick.

> Nymphs look like a speck of dirt (that doesn't brush off). Larval

> ticks are

> even smaller, and lighter in color. Once a nymph or a larval tick

> reaches

> hair (like on your head), forget it -- you'll never find it unless

> you are

> very allergic to tick saliva -- then you'll find a swollen lump but

> the tick

> may be gone already.

> (Favorite places for teensy ticks -- inside ear lobes, back of ears,

> in the

> hair, in the belly button.) The only way I ever got a teensy tick

> off was

> by scraping with a fingernail. Don't know how the heck you're

> supposed to

> get one of those teensy things off without squeezing the tick's

> stomach

> contents into the bite, like they talk about with big ticks.

>

> From:

> Been there, done that Kayla