RE: Re: bug free cowboy camping

 Permethrin is an effective scabacidal and pediculucidal agent - scabies and body and head lice treatment. Used daily in medical practice. I suggest permethrin spray on or soak all hiking clothes in a 5 % solution. Spray on ground cloth. Can be used. Compare your hiking with and without treatment to evaluate benefit..
Thomas Murphy, M.D.

--- On Wed, 4/10/13, Jerry Goller <[email protected]> wrote:
From: Jerry Goller <[email protected]>
Subject: RE: [BackpackingLight] Re: bug free cowboy camping
To: [email protected]
Date: Wednesday, April 10, 2013, 8:03 AM




  I assume the clothes have been allowed to dry completely before wearing them. Since permethrin has no effect on mammals, what happens if the “excess” isn’t washed off?




 
Jerry
 


From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jim Marco
Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2013 6:30 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [BackpackingLight] Re: bug free cowboy camping
 
  




Hi Coosa,
Be careful. You should wash any excess permethrin off any cloths that are in contact with your skin. It does absorb, slowly, like anything else, through the skin. Ground cloths are iffy. If you use tyvec, I am not sure. It may not stay on some forms of plastics, like tyvec. It WILL stick to nylon. But, not treated silnylon. It will wash off quickly. Three or four times getting wet.
My thoughts only . . .
                                jdm 
 


From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Coosa
Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2013 8:28 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [BackpackingLight] Re: bug free cowboy camping
 






I plan to use my Tyvek ground cloth to lay my clothing on when I spray with Permethrin.  

 

Went for a 4 hour hike in a local Battlefield Park yesterday "pre-Permethrin" & found a tick on my leg afterwards.

 

TODAY I am spraying everything & I have a spray can I'm planning to put in a Mail Drop to a town where I plan a Zero. Hope it doesn't rain that day! 

 

Coosa







On Apr 10, 2013, at 6:35 AM, Mike Tamada <[email protected]> wrote:


  




>One way to avoid the creepy crawlers while cowboy camping would be too
>Use a Tyvek ground sheet that sticks out one foot beyond your sleeping pad and soak it in permathrin. 
>That will keep centipedes and ants at bay and will even keep most mosquitoes from coming near.



Fascinating idea, I recently got a bottle of permethrin and was going to use it to treat a shirt and pants; I hadn't ever thought of treating the groundsheet.  Is there a way to tell if the treatment has worn off, or do you automatically re-treat say once a year?



--MKT