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Originally Posted by guldsmed
Teo T P
I has been bitten by leech too. It bite through my thick hiking sock! It's hard to keep away from leech in the rainforest. The only way is don't stand still and let them have time to climb on your legs. Use urmbella to avoid leeches dropping from tree on you.
Never put away the leech by force, it will make your wound bleeding for a whole day. Just put some salt on the leech or let it fed up, then it will let you go without breeding a lot. I used to bring a small pack of salt (those available in McDonalds). Dr Lee tried to stop bleeding for our members using AA-glue. It works!
Interesting, I have not seen leech drops from the tree. Probably they are too tiny to be seen. I believe those from the top are Tiger leech. They used to stay at the tip of the leave. If you go too near then they will crawl up to you.
It is difficult to keep moving when you are doing your photography or looking for butterflies and other insects in the rainforest. Although leeches always on the ground but it will crawl up to small scrubs and waiting for the opportunities when animals like monkeys, lizards, deer... to pass by and stick on them. Once it bites, squeeze the Kaffir lime juice on it and it will immediately drop off (so keep two or three Kaffir limes in your pocket).
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We have a lot of leeches here and we always encourage our staff to use non-harmful methods of removal. This is relevant only to land leeches. Before they have bitten you, you can simply flick them off. Sometimes they can be a little stubborn so a good, strong flick is required. If they have already bitten or won't come off by flicking, put the back of your finger against your skin, with the tip pointing towards the leech. Then scrape your nail across your skin through the position of the leech. The leech will come off onto you finger tip, from where you can click it off.
Guys: Don't have any problems with leeches here so I'm not familiar with what they do. Do they cause infection or are they just unsightly? In medieval times they used leeches for medicinal purposes. Here we have tiny ticks that drop down from above or crawl up your legs like leeches. Mostly unsightly, but deer ticks cause Lime Disease, a very debilitating disease that you must become familiar with if you visit the USA and go out into the field. William
As some members here will know, I seem to have a curious affiliation with leeches, they just love me. I was lucky in Khao Sok, and only got bitten 3 times, a new record, usually, it is much more. (1Tiger and 2 normal black ones)
I simply find them annoying, they do no harm, but if you manage to flick them off, there will be an itch for a couple of days afterwards. If they have managed to bite you, put a small amount of tobacco on the bite, and the bleeding will stop in 5 - 10 minutes.
From my body at Khao Sok ;-)
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Leech sock is one way , but they are rather expensive on the net except those sold by Malaysia Nature society at KL , which cost around MR $25 if I remember it correctly.Quote:
Originally Posted by MrGee
If you do not go into leech infested forest often, here is another cheap way of preventing them attaching to you, Secret Anti-Leech "Weapon" which cost less than SD $1 and can be used a couple of times.:) Knee length stocking is sufficient, wear it over your socks and the loose end of your trouser's legs.
Most of them stay in your shoes and try in vain to get through the stocking , but some adventurous ones will head up and go for your belly area. So tuck in your shirt , preferably T shirt as many a times they found the fold in button shirt and have a feast on you tummy area.
Do not leave your back pack on the ground on leech infested area , your sweat on the back pack is a magnet and they will head for it..........and you'll know what happen when you put your back pack on later.:whistle:
..... but Les has a problem as he is a leech magnet :bsmile: .... I remember he wore a full length panty hose and yet the leeches breached it at Selai , Endau Rompin, luckily missing his family jewels.:bsmile:
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So true, but it is not a problem! However, I do not seem to get bitten by Mosquitos. Which would I prefer? .... Let me get bitten by leeches every time. At least I known they are harmless!Quote:
Originally Posted by Silverstreak