A clean solution...
Why did God give us the beautiful outdoors then populate it with man-eating bears, sneaky snakes, and those awful disease-carrying ticks? Ughhh...those ticks really suck! Well, here's a possible solution for getting them off of you: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 it's own and be stuck to the cotton ball when you lift it away. This technique has worked well consistently and frequently, and it's much less traumatic for kids, e.g., than unrooting them with currently known methods.
Sounds good but you need to know where they're on you first. Do you think the tick is smothered by the soap, needs to back out to breathe or what? Theories, please. We know you bug nerds are out there. Take a chance. Comment. Be imaginative.
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We also get these nasty little critters over here in the UK. when we were in Seattle we bought some insect repellent that worked on ticks, a great pity we can't get it here, I must try and get some sent over.
I still use the 'tweezer' method, that works as long as you take the whole tick out and it's great fun getting your 'other half' to get them out! we have had very little success with smothering the tick.
We still wear short sleeves and shorts as the ticks seem to get inside clothing anyway and so we prefer the comfort
Ugh I must go as I am itching already
Well, I could hardly wait to try this, so when I had a tick on Wednesday I tried it. AND? Well, it didn't work. BUT when my lady pulled the blighter out with tweezers, it was wonderfuly clean and I didn't have to wash my thigh for 3 days!
Thanks for the "field report" on the hygenic approach. We just returned from the South and need to switch the tick/soap debate to remedies for chigger attacks.
I had never heard of 'Chiggers' now I have looked it up they sound nasty, I wonder if we have them here in the UK.
Oh well, off to Exmoor today maybe I will find one. Anyone want to come to the Moor with us?
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