How to repel ticks on humans?

This is from Mother Earth News sept 2001 country lore
Mix 1/8 teaspoon of powdered sulfur with a little honey or molasses
Take this mixture once a day for a week in early spring
Next week take it every other day .
The next week take it every three days.
Thereafter take the mixture once a month during tick season.


Sounds gross I've never had to try it we don't have ticks, in all my years of being in the woods and trecking around I've only had to remove 1 and that was on my cat. You would probably also want to make sure you didn't have an allergie to sulfur. Good luck.

I live in southcentral Missouri (the Ozarks) and am surrounded by woods. Ticks are a big problem for me and for the dogs. Have pretty good luck with Frontline for the dogs and Deep Woods Off for me. That and a good hot shower as soon as I get in from putting up the chickens. Think I've had, maybe, 3 bites this year and I wasn't using the Deep Woods when I got them. As soon as the guineas are older the ticks will be history. There is no better cure for ticks than a hungry guinea.

We've had ticks everywhere this year. I've had so many that I'm now attuned to them. They can't stay on me more than a few seconds before I know it and pluck em off. Always before they bite in. Pulled one off one of the dogs and she bled enough to leave a 2" diameter red spot on her white fur. The other dog had a tick we missed until I thought she picked up a snail in the tall grass. The horse had one in his mane that got pretty big and now it looks kinda infected. Going to have to check it out if he'll let me close enough.

Guineas get here this week. Anyone know how long before they get good at tick eradication? We don't have much of a mosquito problem at least. Seems the little fish in the ponds keep them in check.

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Personally I don't think anything really helps much with ticks other than picking the little devils off.

I use DEET based repellents for mosquitoes. I'm a magnet for mosquitoes for some reason and simply get eaten alive while those around me aren't being bothered. I think it is because I am so darned sweet. Anyway, I tried "skin so soft" (worthless) and all sorts of other stuff and found that DEET was the only thing that worked. It seems to help a bit for ticks but nothing dramatic. I've been hosed down with DEET based stuff ever since I was a kid with no ill effects. In the summer evenings it was a ritual that all us kids would line up for a dousing of "OFF!" of whatever before we ran off to play. Just make sure you wash the stuff off every day and you should be fine.

Besides, I drive waaay too fast to worry about long term DEET exposure.

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By brown vinegar do you mean apple cider vinegar or something else, I'd like to try it since I'm a skeeter magnet.

Bounce fabric sheets work well for us. Just tie one onto a belt loop or stick it in your pocket.

I like using something like skin so soft on my skin and then 30% Deet on my clothes. Also keep in mind, when you come home for the night or back to camp, take a shower and scrub with a wash cloth. It takes 12-24 hours before it is really clamped on and it will come right off. Also have someone check you out, but it takes a tick 36-48 hours before it will transmit lyme disease. If you have been exposed, within 72 hours you can take a one time dose of doxycyline to prevent lyme disease. Once you start to experience the flu like symptoms, it turns into 20 days of antibiotics. I've confirmed all of this info with the Infectious Disease Specialist at work. That is aside from the creep out factor which is making me itch just writing this post. And tick bites don't even itch, and only about 30% get the "bullseye" rash.

B1 - 50 mg./da. for 2 weeks then continue - old fisherman's trick for skeeters.