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[haddon9]

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@Witchy Woman wrote:

 @KitTkat 

While not the approved method, I've always just pulled them out with a tweezer if I could reach them. 

Normally, I'm so grossed out when one attaches, I don't want to fiddle around getting it out.  I just take hold and pull it off.

Of course, I cleanse the area with something and keep an eye on it for infection or swelling.  Mine have been mostly the larger ticks, not deer ticks, so easy to see.

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This is what I have done too.  I just want it off, and I'll also swab the area with alcohol and keep an eye on it.

[deb5555]

We have this, it works great!  It's a tick puller we got it at petco.

[KKJ]

So sorry you're going through this and seems to be deeply imbedded tick. Please get to a dr. asap, especially after reading Hedge's terrible experience!  Best wishes to you!

[KitTkat]

@geezerette  I'm heading in at noon. The walk in clinic is heavily screening their patients and only seeing people that do not have any respiratory symptoms. It's been 12 hours since my walk, so not knowing if it attached right away or crawled around my pants for awhile, it hopefully won't be in much longer.

[dulwich]

In my family we smother tick with Vaseline then use tweezers to carefully remove - cleaning well afterwards and making sure no swelling or infection.  Get them out ASAP.

[chiclets]

You need to get that tick out NOW, ASAP.

Call your doctor, or a clinic, or even a pharmacy and see if they know of an urgent care center that will see you and get it ALL removed. You have nothing to loose by calling a health contact.

A tick embedded in the skin is no laughing matter and CAN lead to serious consequences.

Hey do you have a friend who will be willing to try the lit match for you so at least you made the attempt of getting a hot butt. .  . just a silly concerning a serious matter.

Good luck, and do not wait.

[RedTop]

When you don’t have Vaseline, you can cover the tick with any thick substance that will cut off the air supply; crisco, preparation H, neosporin or Bacitracin ointment, Vick’s salve, Ben Gay, etc.  

I’ve only seen the hot match suggestion work with an engorged tick.  

[Kachina624]

Be prepared for it to itch for months.

[shaggygirl]

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@KitTkat wrote:

@geezerette  I'm heading in at noon. The walk in clinic is heavily screening their patients and only seeing people that do not have any respiratory symptoms. It's been 12 hours since my walk, so not knowing if it attached right away or crawled around my pants for awhile, it hopefully won't be in much longer.

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@KitTkat 

Please come back and update us on your visit to the clinic. Hope you are now tick free.

[aubnwa01]

Growing up in SoCal, I'd never even seen a tick before, but when I was about 14 in the mid-1960's, we took a trip to visit my aunt & uncle who lived in Western Arkansas, near the OK border.  I went out for a walk with my cousin in the woods & I guess I'd picked up a tick along the way.  I noticed it on my back while I was taking a bath & felt this hard thing back there & came out & showed my mom, who told me what it was.  My uncle used some kerosene on a cotton ball on the thing to get it to let loose & then, pulled it off of me.  It's been so long ago, I don't recall if the spot where it bit me itched afterwards or not.