How to prevent tick bites? Wearing pants tucked into socks can prevent tick access and wearing light colored clothing will help you see ticks. Also, spraying clothing with permethrin (not for skin use) or buying permethrin-treated clothing is very helpful. For skin, DEET repellant is still the best. Use 30% (above 30% is not helpful) for tick-dense areas or 10% for tick-sparse areas. DEET is safe for children over 2 months of age, but can be neurologically harmful if high concentrations are chronically used. Picaridin at a concentration of 20% is equivalent to DEET, but only for 1hr, probably longer for mosquitos. PMD, from oil of lemon eucalyptus, is at least similarly effective as DEET for mosquitos at double the concentration (40% PMD = 20% DEET), but it is unknown how effective it is at tick repelling [info from Uptodate].
Posted on: Fri, 16 May 2014 16:54:18 +0000
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