To prevent Lyme disease, if possible avoid contact with soil, leaves and vegetation, especially in May, June and July when ticks are not yet mature and are hardly noticed.
When you’re going for an outdoor adventure, follow the advice from the following lines:

• Wear shoes or dark boots, long sleeve shirts and long pants. Put your pants into boots to prevent ticks you get on your feet.

• Wear light colored clothes to see ticks easily.

• If you have long hair, keep it tight and covered with a cap or a scarf to protect it even more

• When you are outdoors, do not sit on the ground.
• When you are outdoors often look at your child and you do not have ticks.

• Wash all clothes after leaving the areas infested with ticks, bathe and shampoo your child's hair carefully to remove any ticks that have not seen.

• Insecticides that contain DEET (read the instructions to see if they are N, N-diethyl-meta-toluamida) can help in destroying ticks. Choose an insecticide DEET concentration between 10% and 30 for preventing symptoms of Lymes disease. Generally, DEET should not be applied more often than once a day and is not recommended for babies under two months. DEET be used on exposed skin, and clothes, socks and shoes, but not applied on the face, under clothes, or hands of small children.

Ticks can pick any area of the body, but rather some areas as:

• The area behind the ears;

• The back of the neck;

• the underarm area;
• Groins area;

• The area behind the knee.
If you find a tick on the child, tell the doctor, who can ask to keep the tick after a note from the child's body (one can put a jar of alcohol to kill it). Use tweezers to grab the tick close to the head or mouth, skin around the child. Pull firmly and steadily until tick off, and then wipe with alcohol the sting place.
Myths about ways to be killed ticks (using gas or a lit match), are abundant, but it is better not to try them - these methods do not work.

You can avoid penetration of ticks in your home and keeping the lawn cut and clipped lawns, cleaning the bushes, dry leaves and grass, storing firewood away from the ground. In addition, you can use a professional spray containing insecticide in the garden in May and September to prevent ticks multiplication.
-When you go to the doctor
If the child is a target-shaped rash or other symptoms of Lymes disease - swollen lymph nodes near the site of tick sting, body aches, headache or fever - go to the doctor immediately.