{"id":11634,"date":"2016-09-22T12:18:37","date_gmt":"2016-09-22T16:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/ticks\/?p=11634"},"modified":"2025-10-22T15:37:34","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T19:37:34","slug":"5-ways-you-may-be-putting-yourself-at-risk-for-lyme-disease-this-autumn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/tick-notes\/5-ways-you-may-be-putting-yourself-at-risk-for-lyme-disease-this-autumn\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Ways You May Be Putting Yourself at Risk For Lyme Disease This Autumn"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It’s officially not summer any longer! No more camping, pool parties, cookouts \u2026and no more ticks and mosquitoes biting either, right?? It’s true–summertime is the \u201ctickiest\u201d time of the year, especially in the eastern United States. But just because you haven’t seen many (or any) ticks lately, doesn’t mean that your risk for catching Lyme disease or some other nasty tick-transmitted germ is over for the year. In fact — and this may surprise you — it’s just about to ramp up a few notches. Here are 5 things to know as Fall begins to help keep ticks away:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. Not knowing that October and November are peak season for adult blacklegged ticks.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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It may surprise you to learn that by not knowing<\/strong> October and November are the months of peak adult blacklegged (deer) tick activity, you likely have let down your guard against ticks, and may have stopped any TickSmart habits that you were practicing in the summer. That puts you at a much greater risk for Lyme disease in Fall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here are 4 more ways that you might be putting yourself at risk for Lyme this autumn:<\/p>\n\n\n

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2. Not tucking your shirt in.\"\"<\/a><\/h2>\n

By not tucking your shirt in, you’re just inviting the adult stage deer tick that latched on about knee-level to crawl right up under your shirt. Once under there, it will continue to crawl up until its movement is restricted by your shirt…maybe mid-back, chest, underarms, shoulder, collar. Or bra, if you’re wearing one. Those are all likely places where the tick will stop AND BITE!<\/p>\n

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3. Going to bed without doing a quick tick-check. <\/h2>\n

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Whether raking leaves or on a fall hike, ticks are out there ready to latch on. And not remembering to do a quick tick-check, especially above the waist, before heading to bed could mean that an attached tick will be feeding on you all night long\u2014stealing your blood and increasing the chance that it passes on any germ it might be carrying.<\/p>\n

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4. Forgetting to use tick meds on your pets.<\/h2>\n

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Pets encounter ticks much more frequently than people, and are 10 times more likely to get Lyme disease. That’s why not protecting your pet from ticks with a quick tick-knockdown product puts you at greater risk of encountering loose and wandering<\/a> ticks hitching a ride on your pet.<\/p>\n

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5. Not wearing tick repellent pants.<\/h2>\n

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Adult stage ticks latch on about knee-high. By not wearing tick repellent pants<\/a> every time you’re in tick habitat, you’re giving ticks free and easy access to what they want\u2014your blood.<\/p>\n

Want to avoid Lyme disease? Then remember to be TickSmart all year around…even in Autumn.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s officially not summer any longer! No more camping, pool parties, cookouts \u2026and no more ticks and mosquitoes biting either, right?? It’s true–summertime is the \u201ctickiest\u201d time of the year, especially in the eastern United States. But just because you haven’t seen many (or any) ticks lately, doesn’t mean that your risk for catching Lyme […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1338,"featured_media":11646,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[448,555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tick-notes","category-ticks-in-fall"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1338"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11634"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25922,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11634\/revisions\/25922"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}