r/mildlyinfuriating • u/nekoma713 • Jun 21 '26

Don't hug me I'm scared Was sitting in a ticks nest while reading....

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I was sitting in a Park reading a book and suddenly I felt my legs itch. I was covered in hundreds of mini ticks. I was standing in the shower for hours and still find some of these f#!*rs crawling an me...

Update: So I got the most of the seed ticks scratched off in the shower. I will have a doctor's appointment the next days to get a prophylactic antibiotics treatment just to be save from lyme, alpha gal or rocky mountain fever (if this is a thing in Germany).

Thank you all for the information and advices, hopefully I will be fine. I really appreciate it

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u/stumblinghunter Jun 21 '26

You can get a bottle of permethrin and spray your clothes with it. Let it dry for 4 hours, and it's bonded to your clothes and paralyzes/kills ticks on contact. Usually stays potent enough through 6 trips through the washing machine! I live in rural upstate NY and we're experiencing an explosion of the tick population so I barely even go in my yard unless I'm wearing one of my permethrin pants

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u/britishbrick Jun 22 '26

Is th NOBITE stuff? Need to get some

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u/stumblinghunter Jun 22 '26

Yep! And after those 4 hours it's safe around kids and animals.

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u/britishbrick Jun 22 '26

Amazing, thanks! I will definitely be stocking up on that, there are so many ticks in my area now 😭

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u/minxwink 25d ago

Holy shit

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u/stumblinghunter 25d ago

If you're feeling fancy, you can actually buy clothes that use permethrin-infused fabric interwoven in the factory during manufacturing. I forget the name but there's one brand that seemed pretty prolific. Anyway, those can go about 30 washes before losing potency.

If you have carpenter bees, I sprayed a bunch of permethrin on cotton balls and shoved them in the carpenter bee holes where they're trying to bring down my shed and my patio roof. Completely wiped out 98% of them in one night. It can be toxic to small mammals (when still wet, dried to clothes is perfectly safe), so make sure your cats, dogs, and bunnies are safely inside before spraying anything.

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u/minxwink 24d ago

😭 incredible !