Not the kind of ticks that teachers want their students to have!

 

 

A teacher went on Facebook to relate a story about a student in class who complained about itchiness in their ears.

 

The teacher observed the student poking a pencil in their ear to relieve the pain - this drew blood. 

 

So the teacher took the child to the doctor. 

 

Ten ticks were found inside the boy's inner ear. 

 

Another teacher checked a different child and found the same thing. 

 

Daily News reported that the ticks would have come from pets and advised parents that children should not do things such as sleep with cats and dogs. 

 

The story featured on the Facebook page of Chakhrit Phoonpherm. 

 

Source: Daily News

 

-- © Copyright Thai Visa News 2018-12-17

Bet they were all Ticked off about it.

This teacher deserves a medal,saddly not even named in the article...This is one of the few storys that actually warrants a photo opp ...

Only ever had one stuck on me after an afternoon on the beach. Behind my knee. Was still at the little brown/red stage but really didn't want to come off.

Both me and she had a mutual full body search in the shower when we got home.

The problem with the tick infection was not sleeping with the pets.

It is that the animals were not given anti tick, worm, parasite skin disorder vaccine shots.

I wish there was some leadership in Thai govt to control too many dogs and cats, give rewards to those that nueter their pets,

and subsidise vets to innoculate the pets.

Sigh, sorry, silly post by me 

1 hour ago, Prissana Pescud said:

The problem with the tick infection was not sleeping with the pets.

It is that the animals were not given anti tick, worm, parasite skin disorder vaccine shots.

I wish there was some leadership in Thai govt to control too many dogs and cats, give rewards to those that nueter their pets,

and subsidise vets to innoculate the pets.

Sigh, sorry, silly post by me 

But very true.

+10 kanen for the teacher.

but where were the parents?

ticks are a manace. If people looked after their dam dogs and cleaned them they wouldnt be so bad. We have to pay a fortune for medicine for our dogs to protect them against ticks purely because our neighbours dont give a sht and let them on our property. There always looking sick, scratching themselves and such. Disgusting. Its cruelty to animals to let them suffer. The other issue is ticks carry sone pretty dangerous diseases. Thanks thais (some) for being lazy, non caring pigs.

16 hours ago, overherebc said:

But very true.

involves responsibility..................totally  lacking in Thailand

Don't believe everything you read on Facebook. 

It is hard for many Thais unfortunately. The only really effective stuff is 750 baht 3 months (cannot buy in monthly instalments). Considering so many Thais complain about having to pay 20 baht to have their garbage collected, we can imagine how they would feel spending that much money on a dog. Most will even wait to vaccinate rabies to save less than 100 baht and just get the local officials to do it instead of taking the dog to a vet when a puppy. The cheaper tick prevention stuff that Thais will opt for, judging from personal experience and countless threads on this forum doesn't work very well in Thailand.