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535822 tn?1443976780

how long

My daughter told me she has read that the tick has to be inside for 24 hoiurs for you to get any infection is this correct, I cant remember how long the tick was stuck in my leg until we pulled it out, .Do you have any information about the time frame.
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535822 tn?1443976780
Oh Boy I think it may have been a few hours ...certainly not over 24 hours, yet I was sick a week or two later..I am still going to assume and get the tests done., so many differing answers.. drives you daft..Thanks guys.
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428506 tn?1296557399
As with everything else with Lyme, the question of length of attachment before infection is possible has no universally accepted answer.  

Like JackieCalifornia, I've read varying times from varying sources, but have no idea how to check the validity of the claims.

I'm reading Bruhner's book "Healing Lyme" and he talks about what happens when the tick attaches at takes its meal, but I can't recall if he said much about "how long."
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666921 tn?1254990618
No - I don't think there is an answer to the 'how long attached' - question.
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I've read different things in different places:  some say 24 hours, some 12 hours, but I have not read anywhere on what basis the statement is made -- that is, has anyone done a study to know for certain?

As in, 'how long does the mosquito's sticker have to be in your skin to give you malaria?' and 'how long does the bee's stinger have to be in to give you bee venom?'

There's something about the deer tick spending some time and effort to cement itself to the skin (with tick spit?), and perhaps that is the window of time on which the statements are made, but still I've never seen any evidence proving that X hours is the magic cut off.

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