What Should You Know As A Patient?
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] What should you know as a patient? Be Tick Aware! Many victims of tick-borne diseases never recall being bitten. Ticks secrete an anesthetic-like substance in their saliva that numbs the skin, so that you may not feel the bite. The size of some ticks that can transmit disease are as small as a poppy seed or the period at the end of this sentence. Ticks can be easily missed even with frequent tick checks. Ticks that cause Tick-Borne Relapsing Fever in Colorado and other western states often feed at night while their victim sleeps in rodent infested or previously rodent infested buildings. Unlike the more common hard-bodied ticks, these "soft-bodied ticks" feed quickly and then retreat (much like a bed-bug); people may not even know they...