How I Found Relief for and Healed a Persistent Tick Bite

[shawn beightol]

How to Heal a Persistent Tick Bite (I'm not a doctor and this shouldn't substitute for medical care/advice):

This is not a commercial. I am not affiliated with the remedy I found in any way.

Back on the weekend of February 23rd, I did a latitudinal traverse of the Big Cypress - 44 mile hike over 4 days with members of the Florida Trail Association. We came in at Hwy 29 and the north boundary of Bear Island and came out at I-75 and the L28 Interceptor Canal (see https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10153062715725482 ).

Somewhere along the way, I was bit by an insect on the backside of my thigh. It was no big deal as typically, I come out of the woods with a variety of bites and scrapes.

However, within a few days of being home, this bite began to itch severely. Furthermore, the tissue inside the bite seemed to harden, while the bite itself remained open. My scratching the bite insured that it remained opened. It was moist with blood and the normal wound fluid that serves to flush wounds as they heal...but it remained so...a week...2 weeks...3 weeks.

It would periodically begin to close then I would be hit by intense itchiness, deep in the wound.

I began to research the topic and read that the symptoms match very closely a variety of insect bites, particularly tick bites, both involving broken head removals and clean removals. I read that people went months with open bites that followed the same cycle - begin to heal, become very itchy, scratch and break open and remain open and irritated until their will power to ignore allowed it to close. For some the cycle had gone on for years.

Doctors were little help, except where they provided antibiotics, which seemed to work in some cases, but not in others.

I read about Tea Tree oil on a particular outdoors site and ordered some through Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00PHVXINI - but there are others)

I put a dab on the open wound and immediately it soothed and the itchiness stopped.

I did this a few more times over the course of the week and by the end of 4 days, the wound had closed, the red irritation disappeared. A week later I can barely tell the wound was there.

The funny thing is, Tea Tree Oil is made from Melaleuca Trees!

[Swamp Hunter]

I never had a bad tick bite but I have been bitten by various spiders incuding the tiny Recluse. I once had a spider take up residence in my ear. The remedy was to drown him and he came out. I have some melalueca tree oil but I havent tried it on a tick bite.There are still plenty of melalueca trees in the woods but I never tried to extract the oil but I used to rub leaves as a cover scent when they were more plentiful in the areas i was hunting. Can you extract the oil? What is the process?