Tick protection for kids and families
Kids are lower to the ground, deeper in the grass, and worse at standing still for a tick check than anyone. They are also the ones you least want to spray.
What you are up against
Kids play at exactly tick height
Ticks quest at roughly knee height on an adult. On a six-year-old that is chest height. Children crawl through undergrowth, sit down in long grass and push into hedges because that is where the good stuff is. Everything about how a child plays maximises contact.
A tick check on a child is a negotiation
The check has to be thorough: behind the ears, the hairline, the neck, behind the knees, the waistband. It has to happen after every single outing. Anyone who has tried this with a tired seven-year-old knows how reliably it gets done.
You do not want to spray a child
The standard advice is permethrin on clothing and DEET on skin. Most parents are not comfortable doing that daily on a small body all summer, and if you have a cat at home, permethrin is not a debate: they cannot metabolise it at all.
How Bug Away handles it
Nothing on their skin
The protection is the weave. There is no insecticide, no repellent, nothing absorbed and nothing to reapply before they go out. You put the suit on and that is the whole procedure.
Built for how kids actually are
The kids set uses safe elastic at the hood instead of a drawstring, the foot cover is integrated so there is nothing to tuck, and there are deep pockets, because everything interesting found in a forest is coming home with you.
The check gets much shorter
Covered skin is skin you are not searching. The check becomes the gaps and the hairline instead of a full inspection, and a check that takes ninety seconds is a check that actually happens every time.
Built for this
Pick a size and add it straight to your cart. Free shipping on US orders over $150, and the combo sets come in under that on their own.
Worth knowing
- Make it the outdoor uniform, not a decision. It stops being a fight in about a week.
- Still check the hairline, behind the ears and the neck. That is where a tick heads on a child.
- Shower within two hours of coming in. Anything unattached washes straight off.
- If you have a cat, permethrin-treated clothing in the house is a genuine risk. This is not.
Protection that cannot wash out
No permethrin, no reapplying, nothing to wear off. Just a weave that ticks and mosquitoes cannot get through.