TICKS removeal

pk · 04-23-2007, 10:48 PM

A good friend of mine just sent this to me. With Spring in the air and time to start really hiking in the woods this may be something good to remember. I have not yet tried it but will certainly do so if we find a tick.

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 some times 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 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!"
Please pass on to everyone needs this helpful hint.

**j10asen** · 04-24-2007, 07:35 AM

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Originally Posted by pk

A good friend of mine just sent this to me. With Spring in the air and time to start really hiking in the woods this may be something good to remember. I have not yet tried it but will certainly do so if we find a tick.

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 some times 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 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!"
Please pass on to everyone needs this helpful hint.

Thank you pk
Now I will not be ticked off when I get a tick off of me! :lol: :lol: :lol:

ps : gosh if that doesn't sound like you are suffocating the little bugger :wink:

pk · 04-24-2007, 10:43 AM

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stuck to the cotton ball when you lift it away.

There you go j10asen, just cover your firewood with soap and cotton balls and then life all the bugs away! lol

Then they won't 'bug' you anymore! :lol: :lol: We all know that a 'bugged' person will get 'ticked' off easily. lol

**AJE** · 07-27-2007, 08:11 AM

My experience was I'm so mean, had a wood tick implant itself to the back of my hand one-time rockhounding Marathon County. I let the thing gorge on my blood before I lit the match & burnt its butt. It came right out but so did the bloody mess. Whoops! The next few days I applied Benadryl ointment to sooth any itchiness much like a mosquito or spider bite.