Encountering a tick is an inevitable reality if you hang out in the great outdoors in all but the cooler areas in North America.
Even then, in recent years, finding ticks have become more familiar and their “season” seems to have started a lot earlier than it used to.
Suffering from a bite from a tick is annoying and scary, but it also can lead to graver consequences.
Ticks are actually ectoparasites and arachnids, which translates to them being parasites that feed on their host. They feed on a host externally as opposed to tapeworms, for example, that feed on their host internally.
These annoying bugs can carry a host of pathogens, including viruses, protozoa, bacteria, and more. And depending on where you live the diseases a tick carries can vary.
Worse, if you do experience a tick bite the bite region can become infected from leftover tick parts.
This is why it's important to remove it from your person as soon as you can and if you do get bit by one it's vital to remove it carefully. The next page will show you how to remove a tick using an ingenious tool because some ticks have a hard time separating themselves from your skin — ick!
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Zack Gunny Keith: that’s an incredible idea!! I take it u stand in the tub while u pour the rubbing alcohol on u. Thanks for the great tip!
Kim Lutz Tom Lutz
You can do that. What I ussually do is get a wash cloth and soak it and rub myself down.
Pour dawn dish soap on the tick all around it. It will come out on its own
And will inject more infected “whatever-that-is” whilst doing so. Same procedure as burning them or putting plastic foil over them – not a good idea.
No man they can’t breathe if you soak them in dish soap. They come out on their own and leave nothing in your skin. If you burn them they rip their head off trying to get out and that left in your skin is what causes infection.
Pour lighter fluid or gas on one side of embedded tick, light on fire, take ice pick and stab the tick as it runs out the other side
Ticks breathe through their backs.
If you put petroleum jelly on their backs, they have to lift themselves out of the skin to breathe. That’s when you can just flick them off and step on them.
Tick bites can make you allergic to red meat. That would be a real bummer.
No tick dies from being stepped on though
I get some like that too on mine. If I don’t notice them for a few days they end up huge!
When a tick doesn’t come off you vote for Trump!
An easy way to remove a tick get a pin or needle red hot. Touch the hot metal to back of the tick. It will let go of whatever it’s biting and fall off.
Just pull it off and be done with it
heat the end of a needle it works
Just put dish soap over it, it will back itself right out. Don’t even try anything else
Strike a match and touch it to the bug’s little hinder.
Putting a hot anything on it really isn’t a good idea. Makes them spit stomach contents back inside you causing the bite to swell up be sore and itch. I always just grab it gently and pull it out.
just pulling it out like they say will break the head off inside your skin. We call that “natural selection”.
A cotton but soaked in metho, or soapy water used to gently “unscrew” them will generally get them out intact.
Kevin Orlin Johnson is right, Dawn Dish soap, give it 10min and the Tic will just wipe or wash off. There is no other better way I assure you. I get hundreds a year, most tiny seed tic that leave a terrible wound if picked.
vicks works very well also plus any oil base suffacats then and they back right out
Put fluoride tooth paste on it . 5 minutes and it’s dead
Whatever bro cause your the expert right get a life
Right back at you Fwit, I made a genuine comment and you’re too much of a moron to accept that other people have different ways of doing things. If you’ve had success with pulling them fine, I was always taught not to. So shove it where the sun don’t shine cause apparently you’re the expert!
Isabel Gomez
f**k you
No it all’s.$#%&!@*em
Yep, I think the bits of bug have effected you. 😛
Not hardly it’s Fuckin folks like you that think they know everything that bugs me. You came at folks with that natural selection Bullshit if they didn’t do it your way. I know better been there done it don’t need your opinion
I comment what I know, you comment what you know. Unlike you I’m here to learn. You apparently are here because the bits of bug in your head are telling you to be an Ahole to anyone who has a different opinion to you. If you don’t understand humor then perhaps there are more bug bits in your tiny brain than I thought.
Like I said dipshit it doesn’t have anything to do with the way you do it it’s the way you said it. I’ve not commented on anybody else’s post. Do it how you wish but don’t tell me it’s natural selection if we don’t do it your way that’s the problem
Are you really too stupid to understand that the natural selection bit is sarcasm? seriously? Get over yourself and grow a sense of humor.
Campho-Phenique.cCc
OMFG!! This dialogue between the two of you is the funniest thing I’ve read this year!
If y’all ever make it to Alaska I’ll buy you each one beer!
Thanks!
Cheers, I hope i get to take you up on it. I wasn’t offended, but if someone’s gonna attack me I’m not backing down. I’m glad you had as much fun reading it as I did writing my half 🙂
Lmao glad to make somebody’s day$#%&!@*Chris Kennewell hehehe
Thanks Randy, I haven’t had a good argument like that in ages.
Wasn’t no need to argue I guess I just don’t do well with sarcasm. Doesn’t matter how you get the little blood sucker out as long as it gets out right. Glad I could be of Service
I grew up in tick county and their itchy neighbors the chigger was right there too. Every summer we picked wild huckleberries, black berries, raspberries, wild strawberries and what ever else that was edible that grew in the woods. We wore leather boots or shoes with our blue jeans tucked inside, then we sprayed ourselves up to the waist with coal oil or kerosene this kept the critters away as ticks breathe through their feet and the oil stops up their breathing holes. This was before all this liquid soap etc. was even on the market. A quart of kerosene lasted all summer for three or four people. We saved our Vicks salve and camphor oil for bad colds etc. but a teaspoon full of sugar on coal oil was used for a sore throat. You can buy a gallon of kerosene for what a bottle of Vicks cost plus you can use it to start your camp fire or run your oil lamps or lanterns. Don’t forget when your drinking out of a fresh water creek to check up the creek to make sure there isn’t a dead critter in the creek. Hope you enjoy those wild straw berries the ones in the store don’t taste like the real thing.
One just attached to my belly button!
thtas funny i just rip em off,, no issues,, ur skins comes with it.. and u go on with your life
Fire works
Yep! And frogs gigged out of the strip pit behind my house were much better than these farm raised things!
Got one last July in Biloxi. Pulled it out with the head intact. Got infection from the forelegs buried in my skin. 14 days on Antibiotic cream and pills as precaution for Lyme disease. First time after hundreds!
Ticks breathe through their feet? Actually it’s small holes along their body.
I like Running Alcohol! Cools the bites. Less itchy after. I like the Kerosene sounds like a life saver!
I saw a show. Documentary. They recommended a ether based spray for wart removal. Freezes the little buggers. It you squeeze them at all they can be like a hypodermic syringe apparently. Every goes into your blood stream.
Hey Randy Lough, visited your homepage, just for kicks…beautiful photo!
It dosent take much on your jeans to work. We used an old time fly sprayer that you put the oil in and pump the handle. A fine spray works well. We got very, very, few tick and chiggers bites.
I’ve tried voting, and that won’t remove them.