Removing ticks can be a difficult task for even the most skilled hands. You always want to be careful to not leave the mouth and head still embedded in humans or pets when you remove a tick. Urination, defecation, or injectile vomiting from a tick can be very dangerous as you run the risk of transferring infectious pathogens to the tick bite victim.
Common tick removal practices include using a small fine-tipped pair of tweezers. You will need to carefully grasp the tick by its jaws (if you can get to it) and gently tug the tick until it detaches. Sometimes the victim’s skin is torn during this procedure. Another method you could use is to heat a needle and then poke it into the engorged belly part of the tick. Usually the tick will back out of the victim during the procedure.
Squeezing the tick with tweezers could cause the tick to vomit into the victim. Using the heated needle could cause the gases and liquids in the tick’s bowel to expand, which could then also induce vomiting. If you choose either of these tick removal methods, you will have no way of knowing if injectile vomiting has occurred, so it is imperative that you keep the tick in case you need it for further examination.
We had our own tick encounter recently in our household. One of my young daughters had a tick that was so badly embedded that we were not able to remove it by the ways previously mentioned. It was determined that medical intervention was needed. Once we arrived at our pediatrician’s office, I was amazed to find that there was a completely painless new technique that is now being used by many doctors and nurses for tick removal. Now parents can expertly remove ticks on their children without causing any tears to be shed! You’re going to love it! Here’s what you do…
Please check back on Friday for the conclusion.