If you have OTC triple-antibiotic antibiotic ointment in the house...use it. This is the perfect application for it.
Yes, it takes about eight hours for the tick to gorge enough to actually start backflowing bacteria.
But the really noxious resistances (methicillin and vancomycin) haven't propagated to these bacteria yet. And nothing in the ointment is a normal prescription antibiotic, so the resistance risk coming back to haunt the public later is minimal.
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Date: 2006-06-09 06:54 pm (UTC)Yes, it takes about eight hours for the tick to gorge enough to actually start backflowing bacteria.
But the really noxious resistances (methicillin and vancomycin) haven't propagated to these bacteria yet. And nothing in the ointment is a normal prescription antibiotic, so the resistance risk coming back to haunt the public later is minimal.