Well won't help prevent them but got an email with easy removal directions:
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 some times 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.
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 some times 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.
