Tick Removal


Useful information for garden enthusiasts, campers, hunters, or those with children or grandchildren who play outdoors,etc!!

A School Nurse has written the info below -- good
enough to share -- it might work for you.

I had a pediatrician tell me what she believes is
the best way to remove a tick. This is great, because it works in those places where it's sometimes difficult to get to with tweezers:
between toes, in the middle of a head full of dark hair , etc.
Apply a glob of liquid soap to a cotton ball. Cover the tick
with the soap-soaked cotton ball and let it stay on the
repulsive insect for a few seconds (15-20), after which the tick will come out on it's own and be stuck to the cotton ball when you lift it away. This technique has worked every time I've used it (and that was frequently), and it's much less traumatic for the patient and easier for me.
Unless someone is allergic to soap, I can't see that this would be damaging in any way. I even had my doctor's wife call me for advice because she had one stuck to her back and she couldn't reach it with tweezers. She used this method and immediately called me back to say, 'It worked!'
It is that time of the year again. Just a reminder.

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If I ever decide to go hiking in the woods, that'll definitely come in handy.

Funny, in all my years of rolling around outside (and the Army likes us rolling on the ground) I've never had a tick. I'll try this method on my pooch though. She seems to be a magnet for those little buggers.

Thanks for the info!

Well then glad to be of service
I have had them but non got as far as biting
They do like to crawl to warm and hairy areas, not necessarily the head

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1.Don't apply any thing to a tick attached to your skin.This may cause the tick to regurgitate(vomit)any infection into you.
2.Attach tweezers to the head and gently pull out.Do not attach tweezers to the body and pull.By doing this you may also release fluids from the tick into your bloodstream.
3.Once the body is out,swab the area with alcohol.If you feel the head is still attached,take out the twezzers and remove.Swab again.
4.Not all ticks carry disease.Such as as Lyme,which is common up by me.
5.Getting a tick off early is important.The longer it stays on the more risk for infection.Check yourself,check the kids.Dogs,cats can bring them in the house as much as you walking in tall grass or the woods.
6.Symptons for the most part show in 3 to 30 days.A red rash at the site early on is common.Ticks need to be attached 24 to 36 hours before anything is past on.Most county health departments can guide you.
7.Last,I hate bugs.

According to Snopes.com, this won't work.

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Keep that diesel burnin' and those tires turnin', but get there safe to keep on earnin'!!

It's too bad that we all (myself included) can't remember our own short comings at the exact moment a fellow man or woman is having one of their own.

When I was a kid
My mom used to use a blown out match
She said the heat and smoke would make them back out

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We can always count on Scarecrow to check out Snoopes for us.

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My mom did the same thing when I was a kid.

Yanno, it just occurred to me.

Maybe that's how my old house caught on fire.

It had a tick!

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Keep that diesel burnin' and those tires turnin', but get there safe to keep on earnin'!!

It's too bad that we all (myself included) can't remember our own short comings at the exact moment a fellow man or woman is having one of their own.

I had one on the back of my neck when I was little, so my mother put me in the shower, and turned the hot water on, just enough for me to handle it, and it easily came out, i guess it did not like the water temp? Be very carefull with tweezers, sometimes it can break leaving the head in. Had to pull a bunch of one of my cats once, what a nightmare that was.

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