Home Remedies for Tick Removal
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Tick Removal Home Remedies:
Submitted by A.B. at 2008-09-14 16:51:28
Please keep in mind any remedies such as vaseline, hot matches, nail polish remover, etc- could actually make things worse. Anything that might cause 'shock' to the tick could result in the tick purging (that's the same as vomiting) the contents of its body into your bloodstream, infecting you with any number of diseases. Please just safely and quickly remove the tick with tweezers, cleanse the bite and watch for the symptoms of tick related sickness.
rating: 9 (14 votes)
Submitted at 2007-06-22 22:25:39
The part of the tick that carries disease is the body of the tick. When removing a tick the best thing to do is to take a pair of tweezers and carefully grab the tick with the tweezers. Afterwards you have to using an upwards motion pull until the tick lets go of the skin or the body of the tick has been removed from the rest of the tick. Don’t worry if the head is still inserted in the skin that part doesn’t carry disease and your body will eventually push the jaw out of your skin. Do not, however, try to burn the tick off or put anything hot near the animal. This could cause the tick to go into shock and cause it to regurgitate the contents of its body such as disease and other things the animal has pick up.
rating: 6 (23 votes)
Submitted by pert-plus...THIS STUFF OWNS! at 2007-08-25 15:40:55
listen up guys i just tryed this and i got grate results ...pert plus!! .
yes pert plus for dandruff...i just used it on my maltesse and all those bugs ran all the way to the back of her legs ....you have to wash your pet real fast though and start from the neck down ..because if you start from the back up the bugs will go right up to ur pets head and probably crawl up into thier ears and nose..so trust me it really works and be careful not to start around thir back!!(use the 2 in 1 ..shampoo and conditioner..
rating: 5 (10 votes)
Submitted by shanamay20@yahoo.com at 2005-11-21 21:37:52
Take a needle and get it good and hot,then touch the tick (behind the neck)with the needle, and it will back its head out on its own.
rating: 5 (3 votes)
Submitted at 2005-12-12 01:17:25
What I was told to do is use a credit card of some sort and place it above the head of the tick that is burrowed, push down on the card and slide it down. Or another thing I was told is nail polish remover, then save the tick and take it in to get checked to make sure it is not caring lyme disease or any other nasty thing (highly recomended)
rating: 5 (4 votes)
Submitted at 2006-05-25 15:29:30
For a tick that is attached just put a glob of butter all over the tick and let it sit for a few moments. The butter suffocated them and they just fall off.
rating: 5 (4 votes)
Submitted by Ell at 2005-11-22 15:20:47
When ticks bite, they bury their head in your skin so in order to breath, they actually breath through their back, the best thing to do is to apply enough Vaseline to cover the whole tick, he will immediatley die and let go. If he is well attached, try pulling gently with tweezers, if you still have a problem, you should go to the ER, some ticks carry Lyme Disease, and if the tiniest piece of them is left inbedded in your skin you can contract the disease.
rating: 4 (18 votes)
Submitted by mls at 2006-04-24 13:30:53
Using figure nail polish on a tick, will help get it out and off of you.
rating: 3 (19 votes)
Submitted by Old Beachcomber at 2007-06-19 23:35:37
Use a lit cigarette and hold the hot end close to the tick, just enough to make it uncomfortable for him but not close enough to burn yourself. They will release you and back out on their own, which you MUST do with ticks.
Do not as one person here said and try to get them off with a credit card, or any other method of forcing the tick out phicicaly. They attach themselves by their mouth parts and if they get broken off in the removal process it will most times cause an infection.
This also works good for blood suckers, leeches, etc.
rating: 2 (13 votes)
Submitted by Renee at 2005-11-17 15:46:50
A good sized dab of slightly stronger (maybe wood glue, or, if very careful, a dab of Super Glue). It smothers the tick and should pull it out of the skin if it is not too embedded.
rating: 2 (9 votes)
Submitted by Candra at 2006-05-25 10:22:17
What my family has done for years is get a match, light it, and blow it out. And as soon as it go's out put it on the skin right beside the tick. And it will come out on it's own. Either that or get hot candle wax. But it on the tick. Let it set for a couple of mintuts them remove the wax. The tick should come right of with the wax.
rating: 1 (10 votes)
Submitted by joseph at 2009-06-26 10:53:45
i found a new product to use for the safe removal of a tick from humans, pets, and livestock. and it is truly amazing. when all else fails and you have a tick on you. use tic-off, spray it once or twice on the tick. the tick is completely paralyzed, and is unable to regurgitate its infectious disease back into its hosts, and the tick fell off.
medical experts warn about using home remedies, disturbing or exciting the tick will induce the tick to regurgitate, or vomit the disease back into its hosts.
rating: 0 (0 votes)
Submitted at 2009-10-24 09:26:22
This worked faster than I could believe. Put some insect spray on a q-tip, apply it to the tick, (that was imbedded) I couldn't believe it, but the tick backed out.
I'm still amazed!!!
rating: 0 (0 votes)
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