Chuck Bryant

Yeah, a good thing to do, seriously, it looks super dorky, but what do you care, is to tuck your pant legs into your socks.

Yeah, sure.

And then when you come out, like, wear light colors, too, because you can see the ticks a lot more easily.

And then when you come out of the woods...

take your clothes off and take a shower as soon as you can and just inspect yourself.

Inspect your groin, your armpits, your scalp.

Part of the problem with Lyme disease, though, is remember you get it from tics in the nymph stage, which are really, really small.

So you've got to check really, really well to see if you have that tic on you.

Yeah, and just while you're at it, take off the adult tics as well.

Yeah, don't just leave those on.

And check your dogs, you know.

You check your dogs under their haunches, like on the armpit of their legs, whatever that's called, their leg pits.

Check behind their ears.

Check under their collars.

Because ticks are trying to, you know, they're not going to hang out just like on the top of their back.

They may start there, but they're going to try and find a place that's dark and warm and out of view.

Yeah, I don't mean to say you can't get Lyme disease from an adult, Chuck.

It's just that the nymphs are far more likely to feed on a human than an adult is.

But a Lyme-infected adult tick will transmit Lyme to you, too, for sure.

Yeah, a very important distinction.