Spring is here and the ticks will soon be showing their heads. Here is a good way to get them off you, your children, or your pets. Give it a try.
A School Nurse has written the info below--good enough to share--and it really works!
"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 swab it for a few seconds (15-20); the tick will come out on its 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.." Also, if you just pull a tick off, their heads sometimes break off and are left under the skin so this is much safer.
Be aware
also that a tick with a white speck on its back is a Deer Tick, these can cause Tick Fever so check yourself and your family good if you see any of these!
"Unless someone is allergic to soap, I can't see that this would be damaging in any way. Please pass on. Everyone needs this helpful hint.See More
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What if your tweezers are the Zircon-encrusted kind?
Of course, our dear sister Marique wrote this discussion way back in June 2012, but as we enter Spring time proper, 2014, there is still that rare possibilty of Lyme disease being transmitted by ticks....especially in long grass, in natural locations near deer tracks.....
Lyme disease can be a great problem for sufferers and occurs when people enter the countryside in ignorance....Even parks in central London have been known to allow the transmission of Lyme disease...
To remove a tick properly, using tweezers, is good advice, considering that the virus can be spread further, if the whole tick body is not removed......
If anybody is worried about Lyme disease, my advice is to tuck in your pants/trousers, into your boots, when navigating spring woodlands, or grasslands.....Wear insect repellant of the non-toxic type...and wear a hat....
Thank you so much for this advice, my pets catch these bugs often, so this will be very helpful.
...Lol...
I do the same thing but use tea tree oil on a cotton ball...seems the little buggers do not like tea tree oil and you kill two birds with one stone...you're disinfecting it and getting it to pull out at the same time.
This post goes straight into the "household remedies"-file. :)
Yea!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Lol, I am quite the storyteller I guess, haha!
~To Get Them Buggers Out~
..................apply to the wound/bite......................
~grain alcohol
~peraxide
~olive oil
~burn their asses , sticking out of your skin
, with whatever burns like match,lighter , etc........................................
they are dangerous only if a mind allows it...........................................
I have tried the burn their arse with a match method and just ended up with the head still in my skin and the arse burnt off the tick, and ended up burning my skin in the process (I am a klutz) and ended up with an infection in my butt cheek that the burn ointment did not fix. (That is where the tick was and it was before I learned of the liquid soap trick, lol) and still had to go to the doctor to get the rest of the engorged tick head out of my butt cheek because no one in my family wanted to do tweezer surgery on my butt, haha. The tick had crawled down my bathing suit bottom in the yard to get there and did not want to leave my squishy warm backside..... I did not have good luck with this method, but some people are better with their hands and matches and getting a good aim at their butt in the mirror with a lit match than I. lol.
I have since used this soap method several times when I got a tick in my hair and it worked like a charm. I do a lot of gardening and I live in the woods and the trees overhang my fence over my flower garden and I think they smell me a mile away and love to paraglide into my hair.
I use dawn dish detergent and it works so fast it is incredible, but I think any liquid soad would work.
I am not sure however that they are dangerous only if one's mind allows it. My cousin picked up a spotted deer tick and did not know it, and after several months almost died of Lyme disease complications, and now she has rhumatoid arthritis from the lyme disease and all of her joints are knarled and she is crippled from the Lyme related RA. She did not get that because she believed the tick could make her sick, the tick was in the back of her neck for a long while before she discovered it and she had already become very ill but did not know why. So in her case I do not believe it is because her mind allowed that tick to make her sick as she had no idea at all that it was imbedded in her. I think in her case there was no allowing involved, lol. I do however agree with your line of reasoning.
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