May is Lyme awareness month<\/a> and for all of you who enjoy the countryside it\u2019s important to know a little bit about it. As a dog I have tick treatment regularly to keep me safe from ticks, but you humans are at risk too. Ok, so you don\u2019t run off into the long grass nose down in search of the finest sheep poo to eat, but ticks can hide away in any long grass, even in your garden and are so small you may not be aware you\u2019ve been bitten by one. Ticks carry disease and I\u2019ll come back to that in a minute. They can be as small as a poppy seed so you may not see them as easily as you would larger flies and stingy things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Check your dogs and yourselves for tick bites after time outside. You humans can help yourself by wearing long trousers and socks so it isn\u2019t so easy for the ticks to get to your exposed skin. That\u2019s one of the reasons it can be so difficult for us dogs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Wear insect repellent if you are a human. Also treat us dogs against the risk of ticks to help reduce the problem. It is also work carrying tick removers and learning how to use them. If you don\u2019t want to carry everything then your dog will probably be happy to have a rucksack and carry them for you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Lyme disease is a bacterial infection which can cause serious illness with many symptoms overlapping with Covid-19. There are 3000 new recorded cases each year in the UK. However the real number is likely to be much higher. You can find out more about what to look for and what to do at the Lyme Disease Website<\/a>. There’s also more about about their Wake Up to Lyme campaign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Love<\/p>\n\n\n\n Wilma<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Wilma wants to tell you about Lyme Awareness month. It’s important for both dogs and humans to stay safe from tick bites.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23929,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[113],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-26310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","tag-health","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alfiesdiary.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Check for Bites<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
What is Lyme Disease?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n