Always give yourself a pat down after going in to nature. Whether it’s flesh eating bacteria from water in an unknown cut, lyme disease from a tick, a little gnome hitching a ride — better to just play it safe and give yourself a twice-over.
Ideally the concept is to pat yourself down and find your tiny cuts, clean them, and then monitor them. That way you won’t be totally blindsided by it suddenly growing red and swollen.
That being said, yeah even finding and cleaning the cuts isn’t foolproof — just like finding the tick that bit you may not stop you from getting Lyme disease.
Sure does.
Always give yourself a pat down after going in to nature. Whether it’s flesh eating bacteria from water in an unknown cut, lyme disease from a tick, a little gnome hitching a ride — better to just play it safe and give yourself a twice-over.
So you know exactly where the bacteria is eating your flesh…
Ideally the concept is to pat yourself down and find your tiny cuts, clean them, and then monitor them. That way you won’t be totally blindsided by it suddenly growing red and swollen.
That being said, yeah even finding and cleaning the cuts isn’t foolproof — just like finding the tick that bit you may not stop you from getting Lyme disease.