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 ...

Recommendations: wash the area with soap and water, and apply cold presses and topical antihistamines in case of intense itching. Symptoms: immediate pain, slight swelling, intense stinging. Bees ...

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 ...

Ticks aren’t like bugs that bite you and then fly away. When a tick gets on your body, it sets up camp. It finds a place to eat, then burrows its head into your skin and starts feeding on your ...

There are a few safe ways to dispose of a tick. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommendations include drowning it in alcohol or wrapping it tightly in tape. Don’t crush it with your ...

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 ...

And where there are ticks, there are surely tick “nests” to be found. These gelatinous, caviar-like clusters of eggs ... from burrowing further into the skin by removing it with a pair of ...

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 ...