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Alternative and complementary prevention and treatment tips.

By the time a tick is engorged enough to pull out with a tick-pulling tool (as opposed to tweezers, which can grasp a smaller tick), it has probably been feeding long enough to transmit the Lyme disease-causing spirochete.

When I opened her crate that morning, Samantha didn’t move. Instead of racing around with a toy in her mouth, our bouncy one-year-old Labrador Retriever stared at us with wide brown eyes, looking frightened. She didn’t object when my husband lifted her, but when he set her down, she stood as though frozen. He carried her outside and held her while she urinated. When he let go, she couldn’t walk.

A few hours later, our vet announced that every joint in her body was inflamed and she had a fever. No wonder our puppy couldn’t move. She hurt all over. Samantha had Lyme disease.

National Lyme disease risk map with four categories of risk: This map (courtesy of the Centers for Disease Control) demonstrates an approximate distribution of predicted human Lyme disease risk in the United States – and corresponds with the approximate location ûof Lyme-bearing ticks. Darker colors equal ûhigher risks.

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