We check for ticks every day you have been in the garden or just outside in the woods. Less than 2% of ticks carry Lyme disease, and there is even less chance you actually get a infection, and that the infection becomes a permanent infection. As far as I know, Lyme disease is not that dangerous, but the bacteria can enter stasis and "hide" in different parts of your body, until it suddenly becomes active again, then really blossom if you are weakened for other reasons. The point is just that there is a less than 2% chance of even getting a tick that is a carrier, even less chance you get sick, even less chance it ends up in the dangerous stasis state. One usually does not treat for Lyme, until enough of the symptoms have started showing.