Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 7:44 AM
Subject: tick removal

TICK REMOVAL

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 beli eves 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 worke d!”

Please pass on. Everyone needs this helpful hint.