PORTLAND, Maine -- Tick Tactic, a new product made by Portland, Maine-based Lyme Alert, is a pocket-sized kit designed to address the Lyme disease health threat to people and animals.
The company estimated that 30-60% of deer ticks carry Lyme disease and other dangerous co-infections. Every year, hundreds of people don't even realize they were bitten by a deer tick…until it's too late and they become very ill. The Tick Tactic tick identification and removal kit is a new solution that can help people protect themselves, their family members and their pets from being stricken with [image-nocss] this serious disease.
Packaged in a three-inch metal "mints-style" tin, Tick Tactic offers a source of tips and tools to identify tick bites and remove them correctly. It includes a "how-to" booklet, deer tick identification guidelines, tweezers, alcohol disinfectant, magnifier, bag for tick disposal or sending to a testing facility, pencil, a symptom record and resources for learning about Lyme disease. Using tweezers is the only known way to successfully remove ticks.
Tick Tactic is the first in a line of Lyme Alert Lyme disease education and support products created by two Lyme disease survivors, Mo Babicki and Jane Honeck, both from Maine. "We developed Tick Tactic to help prevent more people from suffering the way I have," said Babicki. "We must create more awareness about this debilitating, painful disease spreading across the United States and throughout the world. We must help people take measures to stop ticks from infecting them…or someone they love."
The product is manufactured in Richmond, Maine, and is offered at the suggested retail price of $5.99. It is small enough to keep on hand anywhere, including the home medicine cabinet, kids' backpacks, glove compartments, purses, golf bags, camping equipment or anywhere else. Tick Tactic can be found in convenience stores throughout New England and New York.Members help make our journalism possible. Become a CSP member today and unlock exclusive benefits, including unlimited access to all of our content. Sign up here.