Amongst all insect bites, flea bites are the most common experienced by humans and their pets. These can be treated with creams, but better yet, you can prevent them by keeping your pets and house clean!Humans can be bitten by variety of fleas, like human, dog or cat fleas. Fleas are blood-sucking parasites, and often cause annoyance by hovering and attacking you with their little proboscis. But often you will only realize the extent of this attack when your skin shows the result of that little bite with little clusters of itchy skin bumps and a central bite mark. Fleas usually reside and lay ...

Any experienced pet owner can tell you that every time spring and summer roll around, it’s time to break out the flea and tick collars. These pests cause more than just annoyance for people and pets. Many diseases are transmitted through tick and flea bites, and every years people literally spend millions of dollars trying to prevent their damage.Ticks are most abundant in forested mountain areas, but they cause problems everywhere in the U.S. Ticks are arachnids, just like spiders and scorpions, and they stand apart from fleas in their method of attack and diseases they spread. These para...

Margie has this problem that she is itching to get rid of. Unfortunately, Margie can't do about it and literally, her itching is getting worse. Most of the time, everybody can observe her scratching her head, the back of her ears and while she's doing it, she's crying because of excruciating pain and sometimes, due to excessive scratching, some itchy areas of her body would begin to draw blood. For some, having some itchy skin disease is just a doctor's appointment away but not for Margie. You see, little cutie Marge is a Maltese. Fortunately, for Margie, she has an owner who is very concerned...

An allergic reaction to one of many factors can cause some skin rashes, blemishes and growths. A virus or exposure to environmental elements can also be a cause. If you notice any change in the color or consistency of your skin it is important to check with your doctor to get a proper diagnosis. A rash that is associated with the early stages of lyme disease is erythema migrans. Within a month of being infected with lyme disease this condition will appear. The rash typically starts out small and red around the site of the tick bite before expanding. Individuals may develop more than one r...

Ticks can cause a great deal of harm to people and pets. Ticks infest areas with thick vegetation, and individuals and animals in these areas face the risk of tick bites. Tick bites occur when ticks attach themselves to a host. In humans, tick bites can cause diseases such as Lyme disease, Colorado tick fever, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, tularemia, and tick paralysis.Ticks vary in size and color; based on these factors, some ticks are easily noticeable while others are not. If a tick simply crawls on the skin, no disease or infection will be transmitted. Diseases may be transmitted if a tick...

Much like people, cats can suffer from allergies too. There are four types of feline allergies. They include flea, inhalant, food, and contact. Let's take a look at these four different types. Flea Most cats don't have much of a reaction to a flea bite. However, some cats can have a severe allergic reaction to just one bite. The intense itching will prompt your cat to chew or severely scratch himself. This can cause the hair in the area too fall out. Your cat can also develop open sores which may open him up to a bacterial infection. It is important to practice very good flea contro...

A wood tick is also known as a Rocky Mountain wood tick. Its scientific name is Dermacentor andersoni, and it is found in the Rocky Mountain States and the southwestern part of Canada. In the Unites States, wood ticks cause Rocky Mountain spotted fever, Colorado tick fever, and tularemia, while in Canada they cause tick paralysis.Wood ticks are either brown or grey in color. Although they resemble the American dog tick and the Gulf Coast tick, wood ticks are stronger and have a thicker body than either of the two species. Wood ticks are found in grass and shrubs; it is from these areas that th...

Deer TicksEverything you need to know about deer ticks was afraid to ask.Deer Tick SymptomsAlthough the symptoms vary deer tick bites are generally painless in fact you may never even see the tick that bites you because there usually as small as the period at the end of this sentence.  After being bitten most of the symptoms usually occur after the tick that bites you drops off.  These symptoms include itching and burning and usually the area where the tick bites you becomes slightly red. Rarely is there any kind of pain associated with the tick bite.  One of the worst things about tick bite i...

Do you want to go for some serious bargain shopping on your vacation in Madrid? Look no further than El Rastro! Set your alarm for 09:00 on a Sunday morning and head off to the Rastro flea market. Yes, it may be crazy to get up this early in the weekends, but for the thousands of people who wake up early to head to what is arguably the coolest flea market in the world, its nothing more than typical Sunday behavior in Madrid. If you are there early you can get the chance to pick up the best bargains. The Rastro is the largest flea market in Spain, and gets going every Sunday from 9 am...

Ok so you want to know about dog fleas, what they do, how they do it, and what dangers you should look out for if you're suspecting fleas on your dog or in your home. Well let me start of by saying there is over 2000 different varieties of flea in the world today, the female version of these small little pests can reproduce at the alarming rate of 50 eggs a day max and an average egg count is normally around 20- 30 a day. Fleas can start to lay eggs as soon as 48 hours after having their first blood meal which makes getting rid of these fleas early on essential. Around half of the flea p...