The first step to an enjoyable yard season is knowing how to protect yourself from Lyme disease
The warm months of the year mean more time outdoors. Unfortunately, these same seasons are also responsible for a higher risk of contracting Lyme disease. One of the most important questions to ask when thinking about how to enjoy your warm season is how to protect yourself from Lyme disease. When decreasing your concern of risk, you automatically increase your ability to enjoy the season.
Lyme disease concerns don’t need to derail the season for you. As long as you follow the proper prevention steps, you can lower your risk of Lyme disease to nearly zero.
The essential measures: How to protect yourself from Lyme disease
Avoiding Lyme disease means avoiding ticks. These tiny creatures are a nuisance that can appear when you least expect them. Dodging them all together can be a challenging job. Remaining proactive and aware will be the best assets. Check out our tips to help you avoid ticks so that you can protect yourself from Lyme.
Cover up
When going outside, the best thing is to make sure you cover up your body as much as possible. Wearing thick layers in the hot weather isn’t required, but you can save yourself a lot of trouble by covering as much of your skin as possible with light cotton clothing. Tucking your pants into your shoes or socks can especially be effective since ticks usually make their way up from your legs to your head. Ticks aim to get to the thin-skinned vulnerable areas of our bodies like behind the ears.
Tick-proof your yard
Get rid of the kind of places that ticks love to go. By eliminating dark, damp areas and tall grass, you make it harder for these miniature pests to find a comfortable place to rest on your property. Wet stacks of wood are ideal places for ticks to hide.
The professionals at Kinder Spray know exactly what to look for. The focus of our spray packages is to knock out ticks and other pests at their source. By eliminating the places that these pests like to nest and lay eggs, our spray will remove the first generation of pests and dramatically reduce the concerns of future critters being born.
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Check self, clothing, and pets
Regardless of the tick-proofing and covering up you do, you should still check yourself for ticks anytime you come inside. You never know what a tick could latch on to or how it could get close to you. Especially check your pets and children when they come inside to ensure their safety.
No matter how many measures you take to eliminate the ticks on your property, there is nothing you can do more important than checking yourself regularly. Even with the effectiveness of regular spraying from a three-season package, wandering into bushes or tall grass on your property brings risks that no treatment can account for. The safest thing to do is to take all precautions possible. In figuring how to protect yourself from Lyme disease, the safest thing is the best thing.
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