What therapies does Dr. Weil recommend for Lyme disease?
Posing physical barriers to tick bites is the best preventive strategy. The highest risk of encountering deer ticks occurs in wooded areas. When you’re in infested areas, wear light-colored clothing with long sleeves and be sure to tuck your pants into your socks to keep ticks from crawling up your legs. As soon as you get home, wash yourself and check your body for anything unusual. Have a partner check your back. If you find a tick attached to your body or the body of a friend, do not pinch or swat it – use a tick-removal tool (available in drug stores or online) or tweezers to remove it. If you don’t have access to tweezers, use gloves, cloth or paper to cover your fingers. No matter what you use, here is how to proceed: • Don’t grasp the tick by its bloated belly. Squeezing the belly could inject infectious agents into the bloodstream. • Grasp the tick as close to its mouth (the part buried in your skin) as possible. • Slowly pull the tick straight out – your aim is to pull the int
