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Don't burn off ticks with ligher fluid or kerosene.. use a tick remover

Reference #: 168
Submit Date: 25 Jun 2002
Browse Category: ticks
Author: carla
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Treatment used: tick remover
You can buy this remedy at: pet veterinarian
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Country of Remedy: USA
Remedy Source: alt.gathering.rainbow
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Remedy Description

When I went to the Missouri gathering (also tick country), I had this

great little tick remover I got from my veterinarian. It worked great

both on people and on heavy-coated dogs, who tend to be tick magnets out

in the woods. It looks like a small plastic measuring spoon with a

V-notch in it. I highly recommend it. Thanks for the reminder.



By the way, touching a hot match to a tick, or applying lighter fluid or

kerosene to one, are NOT recommended, for obvious reasons. The best way

to remove them is supposedly to grasp them firmly and pull gently - very

gently -- on them until they let go. Then throw them into a fire or

pinch them between two hard surfaces like your thumbnails (Eew, gross!).

They are like fleas in that you can't easily squish or crush them.

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Comment: Use tweezers to remove your ticks

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Submit Date: 25 Jun 2002
Author: Sanity
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Use tweezers to remove your ticks

Sanity



Those are okay if you are slow and gentle enough to wait until the little

parasites let go, but they can also break off the head of the tick and leave

it embedded in your skin, so, careful does it.



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> By the way, touching a hot match to a tick, or applying lighter fluid or

> kerosene to one, are NOT recommended, for obvious reasons. The best way

> to remove them is supposedly to grasp them firmly and pull gently - very

> gently -- on them until they let go.



I highly recommend using sharp pointy tweezers (forceps) to grasp the tick

by the "neck" i.e., between its body and the embedded head, then pull very

gently and steadily, etc. If you use your fingers to grasp the tick you can

squeeze its body injecting yourself with anything that's in there.....

YUCK!