[GeoStL] Re: Tick Removal
- From: "Ryan Welker" <ryan.welker@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 10:51:09 -0500
In July my national guard unit is sending me to a preventative medicine
school in Texas. About a month ago I finished an online class on ticks and
mosquitoes from the CDC. I found this article on snopes.
http://www.snopes.com/oldwives/tick.asp
Stuff from the CDC.
You don't want to use heat, acid or base products, and petroleum products to
remove ticks that have attached themselves to the skin.
-Heat and acid/base products will make the tick regurgitate everything back
into the person/animal and releasing any disease that they are carrying into
the person as well.
-Using petroleum products to "smother" the ticks is useless, the idea is
that petroleum jelly cuts off the oxygen to the tick causing the tick to
back out or die. Ticks breath through their mouths and when they are sucking
on blood, they are getting their oxygen supply through the blood and not the
outside air.
-ryan
On 5/11/07, tnsl <sydstyr@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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This was obviously not written by someone who has a kyd who has actually
discovered a tick on herself. 15 - 20 seconds? You've got to be kidding.
Might as well be 15-20 minutes.
Fifteen to twenty seconds in the life of a kyd with a tick can be
harrowing
for all involved. I might prefer to be the insect that loses its head
than
have to endure those 15 -20 seconds.
Nancy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Laura D" <festive@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Geocaching E-List" <geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, May 11, 2007 5:46 PM
Subject: [GeoStL] Tick Removal
> -
> This was on a mom's list I am on. I figure you guys are the experts on
> this. Would this method work?
>
> ==============================
>
> 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!"
>
> ==============================
>
> Laura (a.k.a. purple)
>
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