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Tick Removal
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.
Please forward to anyone with children, hunters or dogs; or anyone who even steps outside in summer! 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... 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!"
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And if you develop a ring shaped rash around the bite in about 7-10 days, congratulations you have Lime disease. Getting this treated early is very
important. Suppose to be bad this year due to the mild winter.
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Huh, never heard of that before. Hope I never have to use it but if history repeats itself I will get to try that at least 1-45 times this year. LOL
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Was wondering if a cotton ball soaked in alchohol would work too....just hold it on long enough to kill the tick...
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Nebrios
Was wondering if a cotton ball soaked in alchohol would work too....just hold it on long enough to kill the tick... |
I was wondering if I drink enough alchohol, would that work... I think I may try that this weekend. 
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Thanks a little to late, that rash thing just sent me to call a doctor tomorrow. They are bad where we were at the lake, might be the first time I got
a tick, the dog did not get any though.
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Do not take any chances with Lyme Disease. My brother in law got it from a tick over 15 years ago and has been fighting all sorts of complications
from it still to this day. They thought he was developing alztimers recently, (Spelling) but after three weeks of tests it is another side effect
from the Lyme disease. He is on a very strict diet and super strong antiboitics now to try and clear the infection that the Lyme has caused. It is
nothing to take for granted.
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I hate those little pest's... Most creatures have a purpose, i have yet to figure out the purpose of ticks? I have seen two already this year at my
house and we have all young trees, i'll bet the lake will be really bad.
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Have already had several ticks on the dog. Saw one crawling up the bathroom door two weeks ago after we had been down to the lake for the weekend.
Took a little hike through the woods and connellyhp had one crawling on him but not yet attached. Def going to be bad.
Thanks for the tip! I will try that next time. I am always worried about the head not coming out and my dog getting an infection.
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We live in Eli area of Russell County and our two dogs have had ticks on them all thru winter months, have never had that happen before. Treated them
with tick medicine and they still get a couple when they go outside.
Gotta make it home before the chairs do!!!
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If it's embedded in bare skin, I use really sticky tape - like shipping tape, duct etc. I gently flatten the tape over the affected area and then peel
it off. The tick will remain stuck to the tape and be lifted from your skin.
BTW, Lyme disease is primarily northern ie. Great Lakes and New England. I've not heard official reports of cases in the south.
http://www.cdc.gov/lyme/stats/maps/map2010.html
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The reason I first mentioned it was that one of my employees just got it. He had spent a week in NC on vacation and did some hiking. He commented on
getting a bunch of chiggers, then the rash showed up 7 days later.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Brian
If it's embedded in bare skin, I use really sticky tape - like shipping tape, duct etc. I gently flatten the tape over the affected area and then peel
it off. The tick will remain stuck to the tape and be lifted from your skin.
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I don't know if I would trust that method since it lifts with the body and you are supposed to lift at the head. Every tick I have ever pulled that
was stuck, pulled a chunk of skin with it. I am going to try the soap trick though since that seems like less of a risk as any.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by whitenights
The reason I first mentioned it was that one of my employees just got it. He had spent a week in NC on vacation and did some hiking. He commented on
getting a bunch of chiggers, then the rash showed up 7 days later. |
Interesting idea. I guess it's possible chiggers could transmit diseases as well...provided that the skin is broken and germs or viri could enter into
the body.
Hey E...I always heard that the whole "head remaining in the body" was baloney. For a critter whose life cycle depends on attaching to a host and
embedding...well, I think millions of years of natural selection would have rendered ticks extinct if their heads easily separated from their torsos.
They've got a brilliant design...flat, smooth, clingy, mear impossible to squash without using a tool.
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Tick's are abundant this year. I don't usually get any but have had a few this year. Fritzi and the dog get several, but they say I must taste like
s@#$ why I don't get many. 
Thanks for the tick tip, I'll let all our campers know.
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Which ones CampinMan? The big ticks or the microscopic deer ticks? I've gotten several already, but strangely they are the large ones - which I've not
seen in quite a few years.
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They have all been the little ones (deer ticks). I havent seen a big one for several years.
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| Quote: | | Originally posted by BrianHey E...I always heard that the whole "head remaining in the body" was baloney. For a critter whose life cycle
depends on attaching to a host and embedding...well, I think millions of years of natural selection would have rendered ticks extinct if their heads
easily separated from their torsos. They've got a brilliant design...flat, smooth, clingy, mear impossible to squash without using a tool.
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Nope, even I have pulled one before and had to then tweeze the pinchers out of my skin. Remeber they are designed for themselves not for a giant
pinching them and pulling them out. Our heads stay on quite well but take someone 4000 times our size and I bet they pinch off quite easy. lol
Here are example of what happens when you do not get the whole tick.
http://www.badspiderbites.com/tularemia/
go to the site above it shows the stages of the bite.
 I know it says badspiderbites.com but it is a tick here.
Here is a pic of the head in someone's skin early on before full infection
Another good site
http://livingindryden.org/2006/05/tick_warning.html
So be sure to get it out.
I don't normally use tweezers but if I don't see some skin come out with the tick I make SURE they area is checked well.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Brian
If it's embedded in bare skin, I use really sticky tape - like shipping tape, duct etc. I gently flatten the tape over the affected area and then peel
it off. The tick will remain stuck to the tape and be lifted from your skin.
BTW, Lyme disease is primarily northern ie. Great Lakes and New England. I've not heard official reports of cases in the south.
http://www.cdc.gov/lyme/stats/maps/map2010.html |
I was wrong, our employee was at Red River Gorge when he got the tick bite. So according to the CDC map this is unusual.
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Went to my MD today, just to be safe he gave 10 days worth of Doxycycline 2 a day. Dag gone tick!
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A couple years ago while in Key West we discovered an engorged tick on our dog. I tried everything under the sun to get it to release. I went to the
pharmacist and he recommended a very high % alcohol which I tried to no avail. I tried applying a heated small screwdriver tip, tried pulling with
tweezers and even soaked the area with Tequila. No luck. Eventually I pulled hard enough with the tweezers to get it out but I was dam near lifting
the 15 pound dog off the ground.
I didn't try soap but I'm not sure it'd have made much difference as I believe the tick was already dead. The dog was on tick/flea medication which
could have killed the tick after it attached but prior to discovery. Sure doesn't sound like the pets should be roaming' the shoreline this year.
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When it came to ticks on dogs, my Dad used to use gasoline. He'd dip a Q-tip in gas, then paint it on the tick. He claimed they came right out.
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Thanks for the graphics E...... NOT. 
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A couple of us have found ticks once we got back from being down to our lake property last visit. Taking it they must be bad this year.
My daughter is a nurse and she tried the soap on the cottonball thing. Told me it didn't work very well. Tick didn't respond. Had to use tweezers
anyhow.
I just pulled mine off, didn't think about the cotton ball thing, just wanted it gone! Ick!
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