How do I remove tics? Had tweezers but what if i didnt.?what could I use ?

Question

Was camping and in the morning were surrounded by sheep . Where there are sheep there are tics . happily the campsite manager managed to round up the sheep..but too late for me .We pulled the tic off with tweezers then dug out the mouth parts with a safety pin ...All your answers sound better ..thanks

Answer 1

Ticks are blood sucking parasitic insects. They bite into the skin and suck blood. If you try to remove them with tweezers you will leave the 'mouth' parts in the skin and start an infection. You have to get them to 'suck back ' as it were. The head of a burnt match is a good one as someone has pointed out. Or a wet red headed match......contains sulphur which the little beasties do not like. How did you get ticks anyway? You normally only get them from warm blooded mammals. Do you have a dog or cat. They are prone to having ticks from running through wet/damp undergrowth.

Answer 2

Go to the pharmacy and buy some liquid paraffin. Soak some cotton wool with it and then put it on the tic. After a few seconds the tic will loosen its grip and you should be able to pull the whole of the tic away. It does work.

Answer 3

Don't kill them while they are still dug in. Tweezers and burning them can do this. They breath through both ends of their body. If you put something like vaseline on their rear end, they will have to use their mouth. They will unscrew themselves so they can breath. Then you just pick them off using facial tissue or toliet paper.

Answer 4

Just pull them off with a paper towel and flush em away. Never just throw into a trash can. My grandmother almost died because of a tic so do it quickly.

Answer 5

Take a q-tip and apply vaseline petroleum jelly on and around the tic. It will not be able to breath and will back out on its own.

Answer 6

*** end held just behind it, it will drop off then and you can get rid of it. Brought up in Africa and we had them on the animals all the time and sometimes on us, worked like a charm and you can be sure the head is out.

Guess i have to write cigarette as *** has other connotations these days and its blanked out......

Answer 7

if there is a bullseye red circle around the tic, go to the doctor right away and get an antibiotic to treat against lime disease!!! once the bugger invades your central nervous system, it can't be treated. best to be treated either way, lime disease is for life. good luck.

Answer 8

Strike a match, blow it out and put it up to the back of the tic and they usually back themselves out.

Answer 9

take a paper bag and try to pull hard with the paper bag as gloves

Answer 10

SMother it in vaseline. It wont be able to breathe and will let go.