Tick removal the easy way! Save the hide and eliminate the rider!
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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. ..or 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!"

Please pass on -- Everyone needs this helpful hint.

Thanks - sure beats applying a hot match to it.

Thank you this is great info...

I am a nurse and have never heard of this one.

same result only I use vaseline to suffocate the little monster :D

Thanks I sent this to my friends.

I use tea tree oil to try to keep them at bay. It keeps my friends at bay too. :o)

Good to know!! Thanks for sharing!!!

Thanks soooo much! I hate those little blooding sucking creatures. <shivers>

I had one crawling on me after a hike the other day, Thank Goodness he hadnt gotten in my skin yet. Yuck! Great tip!

We twist them off. You just take a tissue and just give it a little twist they come off every time this method for us.

I'll try your soap method next time.

Ticks are AWFUL!

Vicky

Ditter, this is a wonderful tip, thank you so much. We're about to move to a house out in the country and if there's as many ticks as there are biting flying insects then this will come in VERY handy.

I detest wood ticks...thank-you for this removal method...will keep it in mind for the next time a tick is found on myself or someone I know.

Just saw a PBS program on Lyme disease, very scary what ticks can cause. Thanks for the info.

Thanks so much. Will try this with my dogs!

Thanks for the info!

Thanks for the great info Ditter! When you're not brightening our day with a funny, you're watching out for our health with your great tips! You're a gem! :-D :-D

We took Woody to the park last week and he came home with 4 ticks. Luckily they hadn't attached yet, but I saw one in his ear this a.m. Will try your method. Thanks!

This seems to be "THE" year of the tick. Have never seen/had so many so early (started in April). What I do is have a can of Off handy and give the attached tick a nice dollop of spray, wait a few minutes, grab with the hemostats and gently pull. It gets the head every time. What the OFF does I have no clue but it sure works in getting them to release their death grip. Will try the dish soap remedy though - less expensive. Thanks, Ditter.

Thanks so much Ditter!

thanks Ditter, I'll bookmark this. Barb

Thank you. :D

What a great tip. Thanks Ditter.

It is an insect repellent, and the tick is an insect. So the tick is going crazy trying to get away from itself!!

I've long used this trick with the vasoline.... it works well..

If u simply twist them off u tend to leave the head and it can cause a knot and cont to itch for several weeks.

They say ticks are goin gto be bad this yr in our area!

Good info to know!

Thanks for the tip. I'm going to pass it on to my daughter who lives in a wooded area, and says the ticks are bad this year.

Ticks are really bad this year. I was bit two weeks ago and now have Lyme. It took 10 days for the bulls-eye to show up! And it was a big tick, not small, and only on me for a few hours at most. I'm amazed at how much I did not know. Now on tetracycline and tired as heck :) Be careful everyone. Mine was hiding behind my knee

Thanks, Kookla - they are out there in droves this year. I lost count how many my DH and I have removed from each other - he's in the midst of getting firewood for this winter and that means felling big old dead trees which also means he's out tromping through the woods. I go over the dogs every day and haven't found many on them BUT they don't go into the woods like we do. Hang in there - it takes awhile but you'll be fine in the long run - just not a whole lot of fun getting there!