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Jun 7, 2007 15:02:34 GMT -5
Post by sandsman1 on Jun 7, 2007 15:02:34 GMT -5
hell knows we love um haha -- a friend just sent me this
Tick Removal
> Please forward to anyone with children . or hunters, etc!! thanks!
> 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 let it stay on the repulsive insect for a few seconds (15-20), after
> which the tick will come out on it's 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.
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Rockygibraltar
fully equipped rock polisher
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Jun 7, 2007 20:10:14 GMT -5
Post by Rockygibraltar on Jun 7, 2007 20:10:14 GMT -5
I've tried a number of different ways to get them off, fire - ice, a little soap sounds the best. When they are off I put them on a piece of tape, fold it over and toss it in the garbage.
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Jun 7, 2007 23:47:07 GMT -5
Post by cina on Jun 7, 2007 23:47:07 GMT -5
I may sound dum dum here but what is a tick and how do you get them and do they live in Wyoming??
Steph
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Jun 8, 2007 5:19:01 GMT -5
Post by sandsman1 on Jun 8, 2007 5:19:01 GMT -5
well its a kinda bug that gets on ya and bites till it gets its head under your skin and sits and sucks your blood -- it can give you lime disease --- and yes if you have woods and grass around you could have ticks around
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Jun 8, 2007 6:00:30 GMT -5
Post by rockyraccoon on Jun 8, 2007 6:00:30 GMT -5
hope i don't get a tick but i'll try this if we do sands. last tick hubby got they tried the match removal method and the head remained and got infected. you can still see it years later.
cina they are land leeches! they carry disease and around here you get them in wooded areas or around pine trees.
kim
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Jun 8, 2007 7:28:41 GMT -5
Post by cina on Jun 8, 2007 7:28:41 GMT -5
oh yuck i just looked them up and they are ugly nasty things  |
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Jun 8, 2007 8:36:52 GMT -5
Post by takilasunrise on Jun 8, 2007 8:36:52 GMT -5
Yeah, they can be pretty bad up in Northern WI. I remember staying at my grandma's cabin, using the outhouse and having to jump in place just to keep them from crawling up onto our shoes. We removed quite a few over that weekend. My brother got one IN his bellybutton. He about passed out when my mom removed it!
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KG1960
has rocks in the head
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Jun 8, 2007 12:30:23 GMT -5
Post by KG1960 on Jun 8, 2007 12:30:23 GMT -5
They are a parasitic bug. The adult form lives 100% from sucking blood from warm-blooded animals. Around here and other places are deer ticks which are the size of the head of a pin. They are very hard to see on you. Other types are larger, maybe a quarter inch wide. The big problem is that they can carry disease such as rocky mountain spotted fever and lyme disease. I have encountered them in and around the Rocky Mountain Nat'l Park in Colorado so I would assume they are in Wyoming also.
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onewomanarmy
has rocks in the head
Carpe Silicis!
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Jun 8, 2007 13:53:53 GMT -5
Post by onewomanarmy on Jun 8, 2007 13:53:53 GMT -5
ugh ugh ugh. I can't STAND ticks. They seem to cause a brain freeze for me I hate them so much - and I'm typically fairly with it and clear thinking - even in "emergencies". I pulled one off my dog - and instead of doing something rational with it - like flush it (I'm not sitting on anything that might have a tick in it!) or burning it (I'd heard the diseases they carry can become airborn when burned - don't ask me where I got that!) - I decided to stick it in a ziplock bag and throw it away. Well as I'm looking at it in this plastic bag I start thinking - if this sucker could bite through skin - it surely could bite through this thin little plastic bag!!! SO I filled the baggy with water. Then proceeded to watch the nasty little thing NOT DIE! (Note to self - ticks don't drown - so not flushing was a good idea!) So I'm standing there - getting more and more disgusted by the varmint and less and less clear headed about the situation - so I decide to freeze it. That's right - I stuck the whole baggy, full of water, with a tick in it - in the freezer. I was pretty sure it couldn't get out of there. I shoved that sucker in the freezer and stood there looking at the freezer like a 4 year old expecting the boogy man to open the door and step out. Talk about having some explaining to do when my partner got home from her trip...now she loves to tell the story of how a little tick causes me complete brain failure. When there's a giant spider or bug of some sort - I'm the one called - when there's something nasty that needs to be cleaned up - it's always me - when there's a squirrel trapped in the attic - I'm climbing the ladder - when there's a tick - it's no longer my job.  Nasty little beasts. |
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Jun 8, 2007 14:22:31 GMT -5
Post by hermatite on Jun 8, 2007 14:22:31 GMT -5
oh god onewomanarmy...that made me laugh right out loud. I hate hate hate them too. Nasty little buggers. They make me crawl just thinking of it. I knocked one off my daughter (it was just crawling...not burrowed in) and STOMPED it and looked...still crawling...STOMPED and STOMPED and STOMPED...finally i got a stick and squished it. But they are hard to kill alright.
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