Got this in an email, I believe a dob of Vaseline is also good, see;
To get rid of a TICK
A nurse discovered a safe and easy way to remove ticks, making it less traumatic for the patient and easier for you. Here's a way to eliminate them on you, your children and your pets.
Apply a small amount of liquid soap on a cotton ball Cover the tick with the soap soaked cotton ball Blot it for a few seconds ( 15-20 ) The tick will spontaneously detach and stick to the cotton as you remove it.
Notify everyone! This may help so many, especially with those hard to reach areas.
Tip: Keep liquid soap & cotton balls in your summer first aid kit
I have read that putting stuff on ticks to make them detach might make them disgorge into their host causing more toxins to be injected.
As far as my experience goes, you should pull them out with very fine pointed tweezers or a special tick-remover gadget. Apply disinfectant and if it has been there for more than a day or two, see a doctor.
-- Edited by Gerty Dancer on Friday 19th of December 2014 03:03:24 PM
Igo said
04:46 PM Dec 19, 2014
Thanks Gerty, sounded good until I read the Snopes link you provided!
So tweezers it is !
A couple of other methods shown here too, not too sure how well they would work, see;
Got this in an email, I believe a dob of Vaseline is also good, see;
To get rid of a TICK
A nurse discovered a safe and easy way to remove ticks, making it less traumatic for the patient and easier for you.
Here's a way to eliminate them on you, your children and your pets.
Apply a small amount of liquid soap on a cotton ball
Cover the tick with the soap soaked cotton ball
Blot it for a few seconds ( 15-20 )
The tick will spontaneously detach and stick to the cotton as you remove it.
Notify everyone! This may help so many, especially with those hard to reach areas.
Tip: Keep liquid soap & cotton balls in your summer first aid kit
Sorry Igo, this is actually a hoax. see...
http://www.snopes.com/oldwives/tick.asp
I have read that putting stuff on ticks to make them detach might make them disgorge into their host causing more toxins to be injected.
As far as my experience goes, you should pull them out with very fine pointed tweezers or a special tick-remover gadget. Apply disinfectant and if it has been there for more than a day or two, see a doctor.
-- Edited by Gerty Dancer on Friday 19th of December 2014 03:03:24 PM
Thanks Gerty, sounded good until I read the Snopes link you provided!
So tweezers it is !
A couple of other methods shown here too, not too sure how well they would work, see;
http://www.wikihow.com/Remove-a-Tick
-- Edited by Igo on Friday 19th of December 2014 05:00:01 PM
When I was a child, all we did was swab it with Kerosene. The tick would back out on it's own, complete with head.
There were never any problems with infection etc.
Cheers,
Sheba.
Yep... !
The kero trick used to do the job , it will be good ,
I will try soap next time i encounter a tick problem .I don't always have kero handy .