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🔥🚨 This is the correct method to remove a tick using only a thread! They loop the thread around the base of the tick and pull it out completely, including the head, mouthparts, and all other parts. Most people twist or yank the tick, leaving behind parts that can...

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Tom Fawcett6 months ago

@dom_lucre Just use rubbing alchohol on a q-tip. Rub around the tick in circular motions. Rub the tick too. If will come right out and it sanitized the area. If the tick gets away the alchohol will kill it.

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D. Bruce Crawford6 months ago

@dom_lucre Back in Pleistocene Era when I was in Boy Scouts, we were taught to light a match, then blow it out & quickly touch hot match head to tick. It would back itself out, totally intact.

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🔆Silios Sez🔆 🇺🇸6 months ago

@dom_lucre I usually put Vaseline on it and wait until it starts to suffocate and loosen its grip then it comes off easy. Then I take the little fucker and put him between two pieces of scotch tape. Bye bye.

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ℂ𝕣𝕪𝕡𝕥𝕠𝔼𝕞𝕡𝕣𝕖𝕤𝕤🤍6 months ago

What did I just watch! 😩

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Witness ☦️6 months ago

You take a lit cigarette, you hold it near the ticks ass, they back themselves out. THAT is the correct way to remove a tick.

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Flat Earth McSprinkle6 months ago

You first world people are weird. There are millions of ticks here and you just pull them off when they bite. There is no trick to it. They come right off.

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Crazy Chicken Farmer 🇺🇸6 months ago

Once you have been bite by the tick you are infected. Pull it off any way you like. It won't keep you from getting Alpha-gal or Lymes. I had one for only 15 minutes and got it all the way out. Still ended up with Alpha-gal and terribly sick.

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Blue Shack Comics6 months ago

Don’t they usually have heads??

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Steven M. Belknap, MD PGY446 months ago

That's not proper technique. Using fine-tipped tweezers, grab the tick close to the skin. Pull gently and steadily. Don't jerk or twist, as this may leave the mouthparts embedded in the skin. Be patient. After a bit of time, the tick will release and can be removed.

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Duffy Domino6 months ago

Well, back in the day........... We just used a lit cigarette. Put it on the tic's butt, and it backed out.

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God of Neodymium Dr Dave6 months ago

Looks like you already have a Bulls eye lesion there it’s time to start the doxycycline

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Buildinawall6 months ago

@EveWhite1968 Just put a freshly blown out match head on there ass... the back right out...

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Kyle P6 months ago

@Roscoewoody73 Don’t matter if the head is left in or not, it usually isn’t and people think it is. If that tick is carrying something and it’s been on you for a while, you’re already exposed. Has to be quite a while tho

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timbuck636 months ago

just put 90% rubbing alcohol on it for 2 or 3 minutes . it kills them and they just fall off . this is where you tell me that it doesn't work because I've done it more times that I can count .

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Nick6 months ago

@dom_lucre Why don’t they just grab the damn thing and yank it out?

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Hoopy Frood Dude6 months ago

Mineral oil or other non-irritating (to humans) oil. The tick backs out on its own, because ticks breathe through their abdomen and the oil clogs the breathing pores.

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onewayout6 months ago

@dom_lucre All you have to do is cover it in cooking oil and it will let go on its own.

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Antidoomerstablishmentarianism6 months ago

No just get a pack of tick tornadoes. Super easy multiple sizes for even tiny ticks and works perfectly, ticks come out alive with head so no risk of Lyme etc.

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Brian Eastwood6 months ago

A match works way easier

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Jana Herndon6 months ago

The South.

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Brauma J6 months ago

My mom used to smear the tick with bacon grease, suffocating it. When it’s back legs start to kick, you can easily pull it off. At that point it released its bite because it was suffocating. If you just grab it and pull, you risk pulling off its head because it has a strong bite

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Creatio Ex Nihilo 🇻🇦6 months ago

I have always “burned” them out. The just back out themselves when a little heat is applied

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LoneStarMedic6 months ago

Or.... just pluck it off and throw it to the chickens, or burn it w the tweezers and Crack lighter, either way, it sends a message to the other ticks

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ThisChick6 months ago

@Girl777Cali There's a gadget that does this. I think it's called tick twister.

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Dumb_Marketing_6 months ago

There are at least three hands involved in this process. Sadly I have only two at my disposal.

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Butterfly Pentimento6 months ago

@BrendaFran16534 This is stupid. Just pluck it out with your fingers or a tweezers and destroy the tick. Put some alcohol or neosporin on the bite. If it itches, put a dab of tea tree oil.

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Amanda AMDG6 months ago

Better to soak in alcohol and get them to back out. Takes a couple minutes longer, but I did it recently on two, and they did, indeed loosen up and were easily pulled entire.

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Ron Swanson6 months ago

We used to just put a flame to them and they come out on their own…

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The Amish Texter™ ❌🇺🇸6 months ago

@dom_lucre I love reading THREADS like this.

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Ope Wood Works6 months ago

@dom_lucre I usually just hack the arm off, gotta make sure

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zander6 months ago

Never seen so many tick removing videos in my life. I wonder y?

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Jon Heron 🇨🇦6 months ago

These work perfect too and I have one on my keychain

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Richard Eichinger6 months ago

@JulesUSA6 My Mom would light a match, blow it out, then touch the hot tip to the tick. It backs out of your skin, shrivels up & dies. Lots easier.

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StarDustWarrior!6 months ago

@dom_lucre They are super tiny ones that look like speck of dirt too tea tree oil

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