With tickborne illnesses on the rise, experts are urging you to stay extra vigilant. Follow these six steps to protect yourself.

Those areas of skin may feel dry, scaly or itchy ... going to cause further symptoms. But tick-borne diseases contracted through a bite can cause flu-like symptoms, such as headache, fever ...

If you’ve developed a mystery mark on your skin after spending time outdoors, it’s fair to wonder if one of these critters has made a meal out of you. But what does a tick bite look like ...

and scaly plaques to develop on the skin. There are several different kinds of psoriasis. While some don’t resemble ringworm, other types, like plaque psoriasis and inverse psoriasis ...

Ticks are parasites, which means they live off a host. They feed on the blood of people and animals. Ticks might look like insects ... a dark scab forms on the skin, followed by a fever, muscle ...

Running your hands over those parts of your body ticks tend to bite is another way to find them before they’ve dropped off. (They’ll feel like small, unfamiliar, hard nodules on your skin.) ...

Spotting a tick on your body can ... more of that organism into your skin.” Eric Adkins, M.D., an emergency medicine physician at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, says you can pull the ...

Here’s how to remove a tick that’s attached to your skin, according to the CDC guidelines: Use fine, pointed tweezers to grab the tick close to the skin. Lift steadily without twisting the ...

When Christina Fleagle’s son Peyton was 18 months old, she noticed red scales on his skin ... it can become so dry that his skin cracks and “feels almost like tissue paper.” ...

will be repelled when donkey skin secretion is used to mask the horses’ smell. “So, to ticks, the horse doesn’t smell like the host they’re used to,” said doctoral student Eric Siegel ...

Spotting a tick on ... into your skin.” Eric Adkins, M.D., an emergency medicine physician at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, says you can pull the head “out like a splinter ...