Tick Removal Method

This has been a tremendous year for tick bites and we have seen more than the average compared to other years. Why is still unknown.

Here is a tick removal method passed along, but I cannot verify if it truly works. I see no downside in trying it. Other remedies include the match trick, tweezers, and excision.

This can be used on your children or your pets.

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 supposedly worked for some people consistently.

It is much less traumatic for the patient and pretty easy for anyone to try. So unless you have soap allergy, give it a shot now that we are in the tick season.