Tick Removal

TICK REMOVAL

Spring is here and the ticks will 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 swabit 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!"