About Tick's and distribution around coastal areas in Australia
Australia has 3 different ticks, Paralysis, Brown Dog, and Bush Ticks
1. Ticks are athrodods: They are blood-sucking parasites. They can feed on mammals, birds and reptiles. Generally divided into hard and soft ticks. The hard ticks belong to the class Ixodes and soft ticks to Argasidae.
2. Ticks have four life stages: egg, 6-legged larva, 8-legged nymph and adult. Both male and female larvae feed on hosts and go through two moltings before they reach adulthood.
Female adults will feed on a host and then lay their eggs. They are related to spiders and mites.
3. Ticks and other insects are extremely effective carriers of diseases they attach very firmly, and when they bite, they use an aesthetic substance so the host cannot feel the cut, and they can feed for quite a long period of time. This means that anyone who is bitten by a tick is at a increased risk for certain infections that are carried by ticks.
Not all ticks carry the disease. Not everyone develops the disease when bitten.
They are most active during the summer months, but tick bites can occur all year long.
4. Several things can happen after being bitten by an infected tick.
A healthy body's defence mechanisms can overwhelm and eliminate the infecting bacteria.
The bacteria can remain localised at the site of the bite and cause a localised skin infection.
OR
If the body’s defences are already compromised, the bacteria from the tick may suppress the immune system and may spread via the blood and lymphatic system to other organs and cause a multisystem inflammatory disease, subsequently there is no straight-forward, one-size-fits-all approach to treating it.
5. Erythema chronicum migrans the bullseye mark left by the tick bite, this rash does not happen in all cases.
6. Co- infections, The tick may deliver other bacteria which cause Borreliosis the Lyme like disease, other parasitic, bacterial and viral infections such as Rickettsia, Babesia and Bartonella. The co-infections complicate the illness and treatment of the Lyme like disease.
7. Borrelia is referred to as a great imitator. The clinical symptoms imitate many chronic diseases including motor neurone disease, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s, fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome, Thyroid Hashimoto disease.
8. Because of the complexity of symptoms tick disease also called Borreliosis has acquired many other names in Europe and America, Lymes disease, Bannwarth’s syndrome for neurological symptoms, chronic lymphocytic meningitis, poly meningoradiculitis, erythema migrans rash.
9. Tick Lyme disease is an old disease, not a new disease. In Australian research, ticks and related diseases have not been identified as Lymes disease at this time. Research in this area is to be established for correct diagnosis and treatment.
10. Testing for the Lymeslike diseaseis difficult,complex as it can be a multi-factorial illness, the bacteria can hide in the lymphatic and nervous systems, mouth, in the gums and nasal passages.
11. Tick related diseases can be successfully treated in the early stages of infection it you seek a tick disease literate health professional, through proper testing for specific symptoms for tick disease. About four weeks of antibiotics will treat this disease; or the alternative use of natural Homeopathic remedies, detoxing and other treatments may work better for some people. Including looking at your diet do you have a healthy diet? What stress is in your life that could be effecting your health?.
12. The complexity with this disease is when you are being treated the bacteria responds to this hostile environment of detoxing, by being able to form into a cyst and hide in the nervous and lymphatic system, until the environment of the host becomes less hostile or acidic and enables the cyst to burst out and spread the bacteria again through the system.
13. The longer it is left the more damage and a more rigorous approach to treatment may be necessary.
There is always a way, therefore it is necessary to find a tick literate health professional, eat the right diet, detoxing method and treatment that is right for you and your conditions.
1. Depiction of Borrelia bacteria as a spirochete. When active can be seen under a microscope wriggling, with a cyst in front of each one.
Depiction of Borrelia bacteria in three different forms in the body. A. Spirochete outside red blood cells. B. Spirochete inside a nerve cell. C. Cyst form outside red blood cells. D. Cyst form inside a nerve cell. E. Cell wall deficient form inside a nerve cell.
This is not a one size fits all
approach.
Just by trying things out to see what you can and can not do just may help.
This information may just change your life for the better.
Once you know and are informed then you are empowered to do what you know will work for you.
This is all so simple when you know how.
What about this one simple thing to do to help prevent a tick bite.
Change your diet, cook and eat more fresh organic food including meats with the fat on ...OMG yes that dreaded word in our adds, yes we do need the good fats to help the body matabolise protiens, eat lots of yummy butter on your vegies, cook in Ghee yumm your body will love you for it.
Cut down on the carbs and sugars, they are the poison in our diets, and bacteria love them so they can feed and multiply.
Surprisingly difficult at first to remove, because they are everywyhere and in most things processed and convenient.
Once you experience the difference to your health and energy, you will keep going.
Building up a stron immune system and then the toxins are removed naturally.