Be Your Crevice's Best Friend

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People are a little bit just kind of stunned and don't know what to do. I think that people like they have the tick, it's been on them for, you know, an hour,. They take it off, they have a red mark and all of a sudden they're like, I need three weeks of doxycycline. Sometimes the red mark is just you’re having a reaction to a tick bite or, you know? It's knowing these small bits of information about how these ticks behave can really help you know if you need to run and get three weeks ofdoxycycline - which has its own issues.

It’s 2-for-1! Ticks AND Lyme: together in one helpful, disgusting, gossipy, empowering

episode. This pair of episodes is about tiny, thirsty ticks and the diseases they spit into you is wall to wall wisdom from Dr. Neeta Pardanani Connally of the West Connecticut State University Tick Lab and Dr. Andrea Swei of SFSU’s Swei Lab cover how to remove a tick, if you should spray your yard and with what, how landscaping affects tick exposure, why Lyme Disease is spreading, the Lone Star Tick rolling into town, how to protect your pets and why the CC ruined poppyseed muffins. Also: Powassan virus, meat allergies, paralysis ticks, and twin princesses Borrelia and Babesia.

Dr. Neeta Pardanani Connally and Dr. Andrea Swei will charm their way into your heart like a hypostome under your skin.

Dr. Neeta Pardanani Connally’s videos, website, Twitter and Instagram

Follow Dr. Andrea Swei and her lab SweiLab on Twitter

Donations were made to TickEncounter, Union of Concerned Scientists, and 826 Valencia