Tick protection- heads up on Permethrin treated shirt bargain

[Bum Luck]

For ticks, at least, you want Picaridin for your skin. Same benefits as Permethrin, but not poisonous to humans. Do NOT use Permethrin on your skin...NOT good! If you go outdoors with a dog, it's a good idea to also treat your sleeping bag, or other bedclothes, with Permethrin. Your pooch may have them, and snuggling against you will transfer them to you while you sleep. I'm fairly certain that's how I was bitten in Wyoming. I always treat my sleeping bag, now, and also the cushions in my old camper.
Jim

Thanks Jim, but I heard the same about Permethrin on skin and so checked carefully on the Material safety sheets and the National Pesticide center for real data. All I came up with is that skin metabolizes (breaks down) the stuff, rendering it ineffective. It is chemically close to pyrethins, a natural compund found in chrysanthumums, only altered to make it last longer.

It is the same stuff that you get from a prescription when kids come home from school with head lice, only a very dilute solution not a concentrate.

I use Picaridin on my skin and it's good. Here's the data on it. Ticks mostly come in down lower, but I don't work in the woods and swamps in shorts though.

 

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[Jim in Idaho]

I'm must repeating what the inventors of Permethrin say in their instructions for its use. That's good enough for me.
Jim

 

[A#1]

If you don't live your entire life, isolated and sealed in a perfectly sterile, organic, amish fallout bunker......then you're at some risk of anything and everything every minute minute of your life.

I ride a motorcycle, sometimes I don't wear a helmet, I fish during thunderstorms, sometimes I don't wash my hands when I pee, I don't wear a yellow vest in Walmart parking lot, and I don't use sunblock ......I've even eaten a taco while driving.

Every moment is some form of risk, something is gonna happen sooner or later, that's just the way it goes, but I won't worry about it all, all the time.

Live your life, know and judge your risks accordingly.

 

[Bum Luck]

I just don't like bugs, except dead ones.