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Male Speaker: If you come home at night in the park, you see a tick on your skin, what would you tell the patient if you saw a tick bite? How would you approach to them?
Beth Gottlieb: The most important thing is that for people who go to camp or they go out to the beach, it's very important every night to shower or to bath and to use a wash cloth and just rub the wash cloth over the skin. You want to make sure that you do that around the neck all the way around the neck, under the arms and around the groin area where you bent your leg because those are places that the ticks like. The tick will attach on to the ankles crawl up to a nice warm moist spot and that's why those areas favorites of the tick and will sit there.
The tick has to be a attached for at least 24 hours in order to transmit the infection that causes Lyme disease so if you're in the beach in the morning or you're hiking somewhere where you know is an area that there are ticks they carry Lyme and you shower at night, even if you find the tick that falls off, it wouldn't be there long enough to cause the infection. So if you do that every night, you're really protecting yourself.
Male Speaker: So preventative key here, covering up the areas of the exposures to moisture --
Beth Gottlieb: Definitely. Definitely important.
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