Preventing Ticks While Hiking

Of course, there are not many bugs that you would especially choose to have crawling around on your body, but out of all the bugs out there, ticks are some of the worst! After all, ticks not only crawl on your body, but they also try to make their home on your body. They live off of your blood, and they can be nearly impossible to get rid of once they have made a home! After all, even after you pluck a tick off your body, it will continue to harm you - and you can only kill them by burning them or drowning them. Because of all these things, the best way to keep ticks from making your body their home is to keep them off your body altogether.

Of course, you will have no real problem staying away from ticks if you do not have pets and if you are not the "outdoorsy" type. But it can be far more difficult to keep ticks off you if you enjoy hiking or camping; if you want to keep ticks away, here are a few tips to remember.

Firstly, know that there are two places where you are likely to get ticks: from trees, and from tall grass. If you are hiking or camping, you cannot exactly avoid trees - but if you avoid tall grass as best as possible, you can cut your exposure to ticks in half.

Wearing pants and long sleeves is also important, and even though you might think this will make you too hot in the summer, there are actually plenty of "performance apparel" items in which you can still stay cool. At the very least, you should keep the lower half of your body protected by making sure you wear pants.

And by using such bug sprays as Sawyer Maxi Deet Insect Repellent, you can not only keep ticks away, but can also keep away gnats, chiggers, fleas, and mosquitos.

If you spray this on your exposed skin before heading out into the great outdoors, you will be in much better shape to ward off ticks!

Of course, you should be fine as long as you have followed these tips - but all the same, you should always give your body a thorough check whenever you return home.