Preventing Tick Bites

Avoid Direct Contact with Ticks

• Avoid wooded and grassy areas.
• While hiking, stay near the center of trails.

Dress Appropriately and Use Tick Repellent

• Cover skin with long pants and long sleeves.
• Use clothing that have been pretreated with permethrin, or spray 0.5% permethrin on clothing.
• Spray footwear with permethrin. 
• Use repellant that contain at least 20% DEET, picaridin, or IR3535.

• Shower right after coming home.
• Check for ticks on body, gear, and pets.
• Tumble dry clothes on high heat for 10 minutes to kill any ticks.

Finding and Removing Ticks

• Shower right after coming home.
• Check for ticks on body, gear, and pets.
• Tumble dry clothes on high heat for 10 minutes to kill any ticks.

Tick Prevention for Pets

• Purchase over the counter spot-on medication. 
• Give once-a-month oral medications. 
• Bathe pets in medicated shampoo about twice a week.
• Tick collars can help prevent ticks from latching to the head or neck.
• Sprays and powders are topical medications that can be applied to repel ticks.