My boyfriend had a tick. I lite a match, blew it out, and touched the tick with it. It started to come out...I pulled with tweezers....The head is still stuck in. Who/what do about this....how can get the head out....do I have to.
2006-10-18 13:38:50 · 8 answers · asked by Tara B 2 in Health ➔ General Health Care ➔ First Aid
The head has to come out! First clean the area GOOD with alcohol, the clean a sewing needle. Scrape the skin around the head of the tick, kinda like your trying to get a splinter out, until you scrape down enough to get the head out with the tweezers. If you just go digging with tweezers, the head will lodge deeper. Good Luck!!!!!!
2006-10-19 02:25:36 · answer #1 · answered by Jenna 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Here are the steps to remove a tick:
Here are tips on removing a tick:
do not burn the tick with a match! do not use gasoline, turpentine or any irritating chemical to make the tick “back out”. All of these actions will cause the tick to vomit on the skin near the wound it created to suck blood. That’s the way Lyme disease and RMSF enter the human body.
remove the tick by flipping it straight up from the skin using a pair of tweezers or multi-folded paper towel. Then pull outwards in a brisk fashion such that the entire head and a small piece of skin is still attached to the tick. Never use bare fingers to remove a tick!
Wash the bite area thoroughly with warm soapy water and apply Neosporin.
**Since you already touched the tick with a match and the head is still in, remove it as soon as possible with tweezers. If your boyfriend starts feeling ill, go to a doctor asap. He could have lyme disease.
2006-10-18 20:50:09 · answer #2 · answered by johnsredgloves 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The match trick is the not brightest idea.
Do the oil trick. Get veg oil, fill the cap with oil. Quickly cover the tick with the oil cap. Wait 5-10 mins. Ticks can't breathe so they come out.
If you don't get that head out, it will regenerate into another tick....
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2006-10-18 20:47:47 · answer #3 · answered by Chrissy: The Angry Typer a/k/a Mood Mole 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
put alcohol on a cotton swab and put it near his head the tick should come out because it cant breathe the fumes that the alcohol makes....
2006-10-18 20:47:11 · answer #4 · answered by kndykisz 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Our doctor put vaseline on a tick once, when our son had one. That smothers the tick and makes it die, so it is easily removed, they say.
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2006-10-18 20:46:31 · answer #5 · answered by mia2kl2002 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
why does ur bf have a tick!? u should get it out... (cut off the covering layer of skin ((just a little)) )
2006-10-18 20:47:07 · answer #6 · answered by LoneWolf 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You have to get it out, but u shouldn't have lit it on fire
2006-10-18 20:43:03 · answer #7 · answered by lololololohgkjopdeoin a;oinsnytt 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
GO YAHOO ASK THE DOCTOR
2006-10-18 20:47:14 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋