Super easy tick removal!

We've all done it. Alcohol and cotton ball followed by tweezers, to no avail. Embarassed

BUT, there is a better way!

Put liquid soap on the cotton ball, a few swipes and that little booger is history! Twisted Evil

I got mine off in 3 swipes. Very Happy

Try it. It works. Cool

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Thanks, Flash. Ticks are headed to my neck of the woods. They have been found near the north shore of Lake Erie, and are expected to soon spread across southern Ontario. Sad

	BushRat wrote:
	Thanks, Flash. Ticks are headed to my neck of the woods. They have been found near the north shore of Lake Erie, and are expected to soon spread across southern Ontario.

They're here year round. Mad

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Flashlight... does that work with all types? Seed and regular ticks? Had never heard of using liquid soap, but I'll try.

I'm used to the match, or liquid nail polish bit (works with chiggers also). For overall body (when seed ticks are a problem), epsom salts bath works well.
For those not familiar with chiggers... don't get familiar! Wink

	Dobry wrote:
	Flashlight... does that work with all types? Seed and regular ticks?

Far as I know. Smile

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AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!! TICKS!!!! Shocked

I have had bad experiences with ticks Shocked

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never had any run ins with ticks around here.. thanks for the info tho.

	wildthing wrote:
	AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!! TICKS!!!! I have had bad experiences with ticks

Well, now you can get them off easier. Very Happy

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I posted some good info on another thread about ticks. Cool

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FYI - As far as I know, the only reccomended way to remove a tick is to use tweezers or a tick removal tool. The other methods mentioned here will probably cause more harm than good...

Just my .02!

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	CedroneS wrote:
	FYI - As far as I know, the only reccomended way to remove a tick is to use tweezers or a tick removal tool. The other methods mentioned here will probably cause more harm than good... Just my .02!

Actually no... to the contrary, the salt bath is an excellent way to get rid of seed ticks. Old Southern U.S.-pine-forest way. I come from a family of foresters. Never have had a problem, and it's quite safe.

Nail polish will suffocate chiggers (a.k.a. "red bugs"), another ol' southern remedy. I, and everyone in my family, including our physician, have done this countless times and never any problem. Also quite safe. Especially in the more "private" areas. Wink

Simply pulling on tick-bodies with tweezers is not recommended because a tick's head can remain under the skin and cause an infection or wound.

EDIT:
I went looking on the internet... never really thought much about tick-removal, because I've been doing it since I've been old enough to walk into the woods. Hot match-head on dog and deer ticks has worked well thru several generations of my family, with no problems, but now I read that it can trigger Lyme disease injection from the tick's saliva... go figure. Never heard of this, never known anybody getting Lyme disease this way, before. I've also pulled ticks with tweezers, but I think there's a huge CAVEAT with this method... it's got to be as close to the skin as possible, slowly, to safely extract the head... don't pull on the body, which most people would do in bad error. Otherwise, risk of infection.

Seed tick... tiny, tiny tick-larva, the size of a grain of salt... and when you find one, there are usually many elsewhere on you... can be easily, safely removed with a saltwater bath.

The liquid soap treatment... I'll give that a try myself next time I contract a tick.

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The problem is, when you "make" a tick extract itself, it will regurgitate what it has feasted on in order to help with unattaching itself from the host. If it is carrying disease, it has just transferred it to you...

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	CedroneS wrote:
	The problem is, when you "make" a tick extract itself, it will regurgitate what it has feasted on in order to help with unattaching itself from the host. If it is carrying disease, it has just transferred it to you...

CedroneS,

Edited my post, to stand corrected... apparently when you were posting... Smile

Please note my "caveat" in my edited post... to me, many people will misunderstand the "pulling out a tick with tweezers" to mean pulling on a tick's body... instead of carefully, slowly extracting close to the skin with tweezers to get out the head.
Trust me... I've known people trying to pull out a tick, only to leave the head in and result in an infection site.

I've never known anyone (at least from the woods-people I know, and myself) to get Lyme disease or infection from the match or alcohol method... but I'm willing to believe the medical experts on this.

I use pinetar soap when in the woods and that has always worked in removing the little ba$1@rds. Although after reading CedroneS' post I'm gonna look into this a little further. Thanks for the info.
Rick

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hay Dobry are you from the south it seems you know a lot of our tectonics. fingernail polish is almost heaven sent for the chiggers! Shocked

had 54 at one time. I have herd of toothpaste for ticks (never tried it) I just pull them off I've never had a problem with Lyme or infection. I have had hundreds of seed tics on my feet at once and just stuck them in the tub and scrubbed! Shocked

though I was pulling out heads all through the day. and the itching lasted for months!! I still have scars on my feet from scratching it bloody may times. but what surprises me the most is that my dog has had only one tick ever and he's an outdoor dog too. the match story is that the tick will let go to "say 'ouch'" and then you could get it off. that is the old wives tail. I'm sher the tick would not say ouch. Rolling Eyes

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	wildthing wrote:
	fingernail polish is almost heaven sent for the chiggers! had 54 at one time.

Wow

eric

wildthing wrote:

hay Dobry are you from the south it seems you know a lot of our tectonics. fingernail polish is almost heaven sent for the chiggers! Shocked

had 54 at one time. I have herd of toothpaste for ticks (never tried it) I just pull them off I've never had a problem with Lyme or infection. I have had hundreds of seed tics on my feet at once and just stuck them in the tub and scrubbed! Shocked

though I was pulling out heads all through the day. and the itching lasted for months!! I still have scars on my feet from scratching it bloody may times. but what surprises me the most is that my dog has had only one tick ever and he's an outdoor dog too. the match story is that the tick will let go to "say 'ouch'" and then you could get it off. that is the old wives tail. I'm sher the tick would not say ouch. Rolling Eyes

Wildthing,

Deep southern Arkansas... pine forests. Wink

54 chiggers at one time?! Ouch, and <itch>! I feel for ya!
Again, for those who've never run into these lil' buggers, they can itch worse than poison ivy.

Sorry to hear about the seed ticks. Yep, I know and understand.

For board members, most of whom seem northern U.S./Canadian... chiggers and seed ticks are extremely common in the southern U.S... especially in forests and brush. And they will often head in mass for the warmest/sweatiest body areas, i.e. the groin and "privates". Feet also. Use your imagination. Laughing

They especially like to live around pine needles, so think twice before using pine needles in the south for bedding during the late spring thru early fall months.

Man! I juct found a tick on the counter top so I flushed his stupid @$$ Mad

Apparently this year is super bad for ticks.
Some one my mom was talking to said that she had dogs for eight year and had no ticks until this year one dog had something like 10 ticks at once Shocked

Man ticks suck Mad

eric

	turd wrote:
	Man ticks suck eric

hahaha it's true haha

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	Again, for those who've never run into these lil' buggers, they can itch worse than poison ivy.

and they last longer if you don't treat it.

the ticks- a bandan is good while hiking, it keeps the buggers off. Very Happy

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My family has always used a cigarette moving slowly towards the tick or as someone mentioned a match head and the tick would come out and then you squish it with a cloth or paper towel, or grab it with the tweezers.

Nobody I know has every gotten Lyme Disease this way, and it has been done hundreds of times if note more. Though we don't have alot of ticks in our area, just up in the moutains were we would camp. We use to have to shower with someone to have them check out backside to make sure there wasn't a tick hiding, but I never got one in my life thankfully.