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My sister found this on the web and was asking about whether she could use this method to remove ticks.
What are the reasons to NOT remove tick this way so that I can tell her.
"Please forward to anyone with children... or hunters or dogs, etc!!
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 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.
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. Everyone needs this helpful hint. " Posts: 1950 | From New Mexico | Registered: Sep 2001
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For those too lazy to click on the first link, here is Ann's NEW email. We should ALL send it out to our friends and relatives.
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I am all for that. If everyone here would e-mail everyone they know, that would help.
Everyone who posts on another Lyme site could also post there to inform all those people.
Here is what I am sending out to my LD E-list.
[quote] Please e-mail everyone you know and any site where you post often to let them know about this problem.
A really bad method for removing ticks is being forwarded everywhere. It is supposed to be from a nurse who got the advice for tick-removal from a doctor.
To remove a tick by putting a cotton ball soaked in liquid soap will only make the tick panic and it will vomit all the contents of its gut into the victim.
Ticks should be removed using a pointed tweezers or a tick-remover that can grasp it by its mouthpart near your skin and by pulling steadily straight up, no twisting needed.
You should never use a hot match, vaseline, gasoline, or any other home remedy to remove a tick. You will get the tick off, but it will get you first! [end quote]
Ann - OH
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Here ya go buddy ............
Anyything that smothers the tick can make it throw up , puke, regurgitate, etc. into you ........ and well we know where that leads. The best way is to get under it and pull back the direction it entered. I have heard of some actually getting under it with an scalpel and cutting away the area it was attached to.... I would do this is if had a bit if lidocaine.
-------------------- Now, since I put reality on the back burner, my days are jam-packed and fun-filled. ..........lily tomlin as 'trudy' Posts: 2503 | From here | Registered: Apr 2004
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