Ticks and MSM

[Al Dente]

With the Spring turkey season about to kick off here in NYS, I had a question about ticks.  I use different things to keep ticks off of me, but have about MSM.  It is usually paired up with Glucosamine and Chondroitin in supplement form.  Supposedly, the MSM, which is a form of sulphur will repel the ticks from your skin. I heard it takes about 2 months of using the supplement to work effectively.  Has anyone tried this?  I know it's too late to try it now for the Spring season, but maybe something to think about.

[BOWMARKS]

This would be nice to know.      

[fmscan]

Great question... I understand that they are really getting to be a problem in New York... when I was a kid ( a long time ago), we never heard of them. Hope someone will educate us Northerners who have little experience with them.

[lpcjon2]

A supplement would be good, but what would the long term affects of using be, and for those on certain cardiac or other medical meds is there a compatibility factor involved.

 Until then just use Sawyers on your clothes it works great.Tim

[Ruff Hewn]

I've used a Hatrz Flea and Tick Collar before. Seemed to work for me. I put it around my leg.

[Bjorn]

Been Googling-there definitely seems to be something to this. Wondering if the amount in the Glucosamin is enough? And maybe repel other insects too?

[Coonbait]

I don't know what it is. Maybe the end is coming and they are a plague thing, but they are terrible here in SW Pa. NEVER saw a tick on me or our dogs until a couple of years ago. Now they're everywhere. Heck if there was a pill I could take I would!
Glenn

[dragonheart]

I have taken Glucosimine, condrotin, and MSM for many years now to help with sore joints.  I have not really thought of it until now, but I have not found a tick on me in quite sometime.  Interesting.

[mongoose]

Sawyers is a good solution in the meantime      

[limbshaker]

This may be a little off topic, but a few years ago a friend of a friend of a friend of mine came up with an insect repelling patch (like a nicotine patch). Last I heard he was trying to patent it, but I havent seen or heard nothin since. I believe he told me they were packed with some form of B vitamin or somethin. The guy was in the medical field some kind of way. Anyway, i tried a couple on a fishin trip, and it seemed to help keep the skeeters from biting me. They weren't absolutely 100% effective, but did seem to work well enough to consider using. Maybe these were based on the same idea as far as what was actually in em? Sorry if I butted in..    

[LookMomNoSights]

Not sure if it has to do with anything,  but I do alot of strength training....have for years.   Been taking Glucosamine/Chondroitin/MSM supplement for YEARS as a joint health/preventive messure for the stress my joints and connective tissue are subjected to from training.  These supplements are proven to promote joint health and are deemed safe.  I've spent lots of time in the field....have had lots of tics on me.  NEVER been bit yet to date (nock on wood!)  Maybe Im just lucky,  coincidence,  whatever?   This would be great to know about though.....and even greater if it were true!  Tics are just plain NO GOOD   :mad:

[PowDuck]

Best thing for ticks is to properly treat your clothes with Permanone (pyrethrin.) ArkyBob and I were in our "hidey hole" waiting for a turkey a couple weeks ago and he was getting eaten up. I didn't have even one tick on me. Needless to say, he sprayed his clothes when we got back to camp.

[Atennishu]

The pyrethrin is really a good product, and you can get it in a synthetic formula also,  and not toxic to humans,  we spray it on our range here, and although we dont get them all, it thins them out,
As far as the MSM I have not heard of this, but I know a guy that feeds his dog and him a teaspoon of brewers yeast every day with food, and he swears it keeps the fleas and ticks off the dog and him, ?????

[landman]

I don't know it for a fact but I have hunted quite a bit in the deep South, where the Brazilian fire ant is well established, and I don't recall being hit by a tick.    Chiggers are another story but I think the fire ants keep them in control.

I'm accustomed to fire ants but ticks....never.

[iohkus]

I understand MSM can also be purchased as an independent supplement, if anyone wants to go that route............may be cheaper than in a combination.

[screamin]

I've been taking msm for a couple of years and have yet to get bit by a tick, 1000mgs a day. It will not repel mosquitos, they still like me as much as ever.

[sagebrush]

I don't know if MSM will keep off the ticks but I have some MSM cream that I use when I get stung by wasps. I just put a gob on the red mark from the wasp and within five minutes, no pain at all and the red mark is gone. MSM is very helpful to a lot of people for arthritis and joint maintenance. But it can have a side effect on some people (I'm one). It can give you diarrhea. So I use glucosamine and chondroitin without the MSM. I read a whole book on just MSM. MSM is DMSO that has been brought to a boil which adds a molecule of oxygen. DMSO was brought out in the sixties as an analgesic and anti-inflammatory. It never made it through the FDA because of lack of funding. The people who were pushing it abandoned it. You can now buy it at feed stores. It is used to treat horses with sore joints. It only costs about five bucks for a pint. Gary

Ticks started up early this year due to the mild winter--dogs were coming in with them most days. The recent cold snap seems to have slowed them down. A tick collar called "preventic" works very well--for humans? Long sleeves and tied-up pants legs, a thorough scrub in the shower after hunting.

[2Blade]

Try Original Listerine. Put in spray bottle and use it as a Bug Spray. Repels ticks black flies and musquitos. It worked great today in the blind!

[ron w]

I took glucosamine for long time....then I was told I have type 2 diabetes. I had to stop it because it raised my glucose levels to an unacceptable level. So be careful........On another note,I eat a lot of garlic, I love the stuff. When we go stumping all my friends are picking ticks of all day long and I get none or maybe one.....garlic may work, seems to keep the black flies from biting also!