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[Michelle Maxwell ™ @MichelleMaxwell]

With everything we are hearing right now about ticks this seems like good information to share.

“Here’s what I’ve learned after more ticks than I care to count.
First, whatever your uncle told you, forget it. No matches. No nail polish. No Vaseline. No soap on a cotton ball. All of those do the same terrible thing, they stress the tick out, and a stressed tick empties its gut back into the bite before letting go. Which, if you think about what that actually means for a second, is literally how Lyme and the rest get transmitted so you’re not speeding up its exit. You’re making it throw up into you.
Fine-tipped tweezers. Grip right where the mouthparts enter the skin, not the body, the head. Pull straight up, steady, no twisting, no jerking. It’ll feel like it’s resisting because it is, the mouthparts are barbed. Just keep the pressure on and it lets go in a few seconds. If a piece breaks off in the skin, leave it alone. Your body pushes splinters out. Digging around with a needle does more damage then the fragment ever would.
Clean it with alcohol or soap. Wash your hands.
Now here’s the part most people skip: don’t flush the tick.
Tape it to an index card. Clear packing tape right over the body, write the date and where on your body it was, and stick the card in a drawer. If you come down with anything weird in the next 30 days, rash, fever, joint pain, that flu-that-isn’t-flu feeling, that tick goes with you to the doctor. Some labs will test the tick itself, which is faster and often more reliable than waiting for antibodies to show up in your own blood. A dated tick taped to a card is one of the most useful things you can hand a doctor who’s trying to figure out what’s wrong with you.
The other thing worth saying out loud: if the tick was engorged when you pulled it, and you can’t swear it was off your body within 24 hours, call your doctor that same day. Don’t wait for a rash. Fewer than three out of four Lyme cases even produce the classic bullseye. A single preventive dose of doxycycline within 72 hours of a deer tick bite cuts the Lyme odds way down, and most docs in tick country will write that prescription without giving you a hard time, especially if you walk in with the tick taped to a card and a clear timeline.”

[Interesting things @awkwardgoogle]

A photographer captured a weasel riding on the back of a green woodpecker

[bears 🧸 @wydbear]

i never understood why my mama couldn’t spare 19.95 cause i wanted this so fucking bad

[Netflix Sports @netflixsports]

This dad at the Red Sox game went into full dad mode — managing it from both sides after little bro threw away the foul ball 😂

Big bro was sick 😭

[Jordan Chamberlain @jordylancaster]

Delta passengers when spirit passengers get on the plane

[Price Errors @Pricerrors]

Walmart may have just made a price mistake

Listed this 16 pack of Paper Towels for just $7 (Reg $45)

Same thing is listed on Amazon for $35

Shipped and Sold by Walmart themselves so risk free

https://t.co/1SOQ7VhQHb #ad

[Gunz @TheGunzShow]

Shout out to THIS guy who decided to take a spoonful of his mashed potatoes while ducking and covering after tonight's WHCD shooting. No way he was passing up on that free food, even with Secret Service having their guns drawn out. 🙌 😂

[My Mixtapez @mymixtapez]

Ashley Furniture employee got fired after going viral for promoting the store in his freestyle videos on TikTok 👀

[Baseball’s Greatest Moments @BBGreatMoments]

That was absolutely insane 😂🥜

[Price Errors @Pricerrors]

PROMO STACKING FOR $26 LEAF BLOWER

On lightning deal, auto 30% off, then clip coupon on page

Total should come to just $26 from $70

Lightning deal almost sold out

https://t.co/dGcJ1OOmsy #ad

[Jomboy Media @JomboyMedia]

Reds catcher Tyler Stephenson walked into manager Terry Francona’s office with a towel on

He dropped the towel to reveal that he was only wearing a Speedo with Francona’s face all over it

[horse dentist @equine__dentist]

wouldn’t you like to know weather boy

[Sophie Vershbow @svershbow]

If that brave corgi story is AI I'm going to burn everything down.

[Jett 🜲 @iky_fwjett]

not to expose myself for being dumb-but the vet told me my dog had a spot that might be a melanoma and the first words out of my mouth were "oh that does run in our family." like, 1 really forgot for a sec that i did not give birth to her.

[Danny Healey @Danny__healey]

I think I already posted this but deserves to hit the timeline again. JT Miller going full song with no music and lyrics is the most American thing of all time

What a night. 🇺🇸

[Jay Bee @TheJayBee]

Harvey and Charles writing the Nancy Guthrie ransom notes to TMZ.

[Sleuthie @SleuthieGoosie]

I feel personally attacked.
#NancyGuthrie

[𝒥𝑒𝓈𝓈 @worldreads]

me if my boyfriend was a worm:

[Wild content @Nocapmedia]

Definitely one of the greatest videos of all times