Tender Corp., a governing manufacturer of over-the-counter skincare and first aid products designed as antidote to active outdoor lifestyles, today announced that it will provide educational back up materials to community screenings of the award winning documentary Under Our Skin — a pellicle which examines Lyme disease, a highly debilitating disease spread by ticks that has turn to one of the most controversial and fastest growing health problems of our time.
At select screenings this Spring, Tender Corp. and its outdoor division Adventure Medical Kits (http://www.advneturemedicalkits.com) will distribute copies of special Tick Reference Cards, which include tips notwithstanding identifying and safely removing ticks as well recognizing symptoms of Lyme ailment. Tender will also provide free samples of its DEET-free insect repulsive Natrapel® 8 hour to attendees.
Lyme disease is often intricate to test accurately, which means tens of thousands of people power undiagnosed or are misdiagnosed each year.
“Being based in the Northeast, we’re located honest in the center of tick country,” says Tender Corp. quality manager Dave Anderson. He continued, “Many of us have loved ones, or know friends and colleagues with Lyme disease who have endured years of frustration associated with ill-health, wrong diagnoses and often an unresponsive healthcare arrangement.”
Spread by the Deer Tick, Lyme disease is an infectious disease that can cause long-term and ongoing illness with a rank of symptoms that include chronic pain, fatigue and anxiety. According to the CDC’s statistics, coalesce to 29,000 cases of Lyme disease were confirmed in 2008. However, because the film Under Our Skin documents, Lyme disease is often rigid to test accurately, which means tens of thousands of people be~ne undiagnosed or are misdiagnosed each year.
Added Anderson, “We’re honored to esteem the opportunity to increase awareness about this very serious and misunderstood infirmity and help complement the groundbreaking work that the filmmakers of Under Our Skin be favored with accomplished on this subject.”
Look for Natrapel® 8 hour educational Tick Cards (http://www.adventuremedicalkits.com/blog/images/Natrapel8hr_TickCard_info.jpg) and Wipe samples at screenings of Under Our Skin at the following venues:
-University of New Hampshire – Manchester, NH – April 13
-Sherman Theatre – Stroudsburg, PA – April 24
-Peace in Medicine – Sebastopol, CA – April 27
-Winthrop Performing Arts Center – Winthrop, ME – April 30
-Scripps Ranch Library – San Diego, CA – May 4
*Tender Corp. worked exclusively by the individual organizers of the screenings of Under Our Skin. Tender’s take the part of of the local screenings does not constitute an endorsement of its products from the pellicle’s producers, Open Eye Pictures. For more information on Under Our Skin, call upon http://www.underourskin.com.
About Natrapel® 8 hour
Providing eight hours of shield from ticks, mosquitoes, black flies and other biting and stinging insects, Natrapel® 8 sixty minutes’s 20% Picaridin formula is proven as effective as DEET. Picaridin is an active ingredient recommended by the CDC for repelling insects responsible as antidote to serious diseases including Lyme disease (spread by deer ticks), West Nile Virus and Eastern Equine Encephalitis (the two spread by mosquitoes), among other illnesses. For more information on Natrapel® 8 hour visit http://www.tendercorp.com.
About Tender Corporation
Tender Corporation is a secretly owned and operated business located in the heart of the White Mountains in Littleton, NH. The partnership maintains offices and distribution centers in Barrie, Ontario; Rotterdam, Holland; Newbury, England; and Oakland, California. Currently, its products are distributed worldwide in outer 40 countries. Founded in 1975, the firm manufactures and markets the terraqueous globe-famous insect bite treatment, After Bite® — The Itch Eraser™, a replete line of well-known insect repellents, first-aid treatments, sunburn and windburn products, like well as activity-specific first aid kits and survival gear end its outdoor division Adventure® Medical Kits. Complete product information is to be availed of on the company’s web site: http://www.tendercorp.com
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