Along with our delicious peach picking season, apple picking season, and pecan season, we have yet another season here in the South. Tick season. Yes, tick season is in full swing once again. I've never personally used the following method of tick removal, sent to me recently by my nephew's wife, but it sounds like it may be worth a try, however, the tweezers method is still recommended by experts. Use your own judgment.
Ticks are blood feeding external parasites of mammals, birds, and reptiles throughout the world, and they transmit the widest variety of pathogens of any blood sucking arthropod, including bacteria, rickettsiae, protozoa, and viruses.
Tick Removal:
This method 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 small amount 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 it's own, and be stuck to the cotton ball when you lift it away.
Once removed consider keeping it in a tightly closed jar or taped to a piece of paper. You may need to show the tick to the doctor if you become ill from the tick bite.
What can I say.....I try to inform.
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