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How to determine if a tick has attached itself onto you?

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Dr. Heidi Fowler answered

Specializes in Psychiatry

Searching for ticks.: Visual and tactile inspection. Look at your nude body - any little brown ticks? Next feel with your hands - including places like the gtuteal (butt) cleft and all over the head. If you try to gently tug on the tick & he doesn't come off - then he is attached.

Answered 6/1/2013

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