WHY SAVE THE TICK?

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Any tick can transmit a disease. 

It doesn't matter how big it is, or how long it has been attached.

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Tick testing is reliable, affordable, and fast.

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Tick-borne disease testing for humans (especially Lyme Disease) is unreliable, expensive, and it can take weeks for results. 

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By saving and testing individual ticks, we are able to detect whether the tick itself carries the certain pathogens, helping with early detection and proactive treatment regimen. 

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Treating a tick-borne disease in it's early stages is vital to healing properly. Undiagnosed and/or untreated tick-borne illness can lead to a lifetime of debilitating health issues.

 

Determining whether your tick was infected provides you the opportunity for your physician (or veterinarian) to offer lab-based confirmation services or recommend a proactive treatment regimen.

 

Tick testing is not a substitute for physician diagnosis of disease but it can be a useful aid in deciding whether or not to treat in the absence of disease symptoms.  Tick testing results can often be returned to you within 72 hours.

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Remember, that just because the tick may test positive does not mean that the pathogen was transmitted. 

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SaveTheTick.com is not a tick testing service - We are simply a free resource for those seeking information about tick testing.