{"id":7794,"date":"2019-07-29T10:20:39","date_gmt":"2019-07-29T14:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/ticks\/?p=7794"},"modified":"2021-04-07T14:58:25","modified_gmt":"2021-04-07T18:58:25","slug":"tip-4-check-below-the-belt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/ticksmart-tips\/tip-4-check-below-the-belt\/","title":{"rendered":"Tip #4: Check below the belt for poppy seed-sized or smaller ticks while sitting on the toilet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Doing DAILY TICK CHECKS is an effective way to prevent disease transmission. But INSPECTING all those places where tiny ticks might crawl is \u2013\u00a0<strong>DIFFICULT<\/strong>! We\u2019ve got sturdy\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/store\/\">Tick Check cards<\/a>\u00a0and a childrens\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/store\/\">learning kit<\/a>\u00a0for knowing\u00a0<strong>where<\/strong>\u00a0to look and\u00a0<strong>what<\/strong>\u00a0to look for. We even have an innovative BEST PRACTICE for making daily tick checks as easy as, well, sitting on the toilet! Try it next time; just look down. It\u2019s a lot easier to see many of those \u201cbelow the belt\u201d places where people commonly find nymphal and larval ticks than while leaning over or contorting to look in the mirror. And most people practice toilet-sitting at least once or twice a day.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"cl-wrapper cl-share-wrapper\"><div class=\"cl-share color  \"><div class=\"cl-share-label\">Share:<\/div><ul class=\"cl-share-buttons\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?text=Tip #4: Check below the belt for poppy seed-sized or smaller ticks while sitting on the toilet&amp;url=https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/ticksmart-tips\/tip-4-check-below-the-belt\/\" title=\"Share on X\" class=\"cl-share-twitter share-twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Share on X<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/ticksmart-tips\/tip-4-check-below-the-belt\/\" title=\"Share on Facebook\" class=\"cl-share-facebook share-facebook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Share on Facebook<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doing DAILY TICK CHECKS is an effective way to prevent disease transmission. But INSPECTING all those places where tiny ticks might crawl is \u2013\u00a0DIFFICULT! We\u2019ve got sturdy\u00a0Tick Check cards\u00a0and a childrens\u00a0learning kit\u00a0for knowing\u00a0where\u00a0to look and\u00a0what\u00a0to look for. We even have an innovative BEST PRACTICE for making daily tick checks as easy as, well, sitting on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1338,"featured_media":7803,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[493],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ticksmart-tips"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7794","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=7794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21204,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7794\/revisions\/21204"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}