Continuing from Wednesday…
Take a cotton ball and place a liberal amount of liquid dish soap or antibacterial soap on it. You want to cover the cotton ball with soap, but you don’t need it to be dripping with soap. Next, you place the cotton ball on top of the embedded tick. Keep the tick completely covered with the soapy cotton ball. Within a very short period of time (usually a few minutes), the tick will back itself right out of the victim and it will be stuck to the cotton ball and ready for a quick trip down the toilet! No more tears for tick removal for this New Jersey family! Be sure to apply antibiotic ointment to keep potential infection away.
Just this past week, my children found something “gross” hanging from one of my dog’s ear. It looked like a strange brown earring. I quickly determined that the QUARTER sized creature was a fully engorged dog tick! We quickly grabbed the antibacterial soap and a cotton ball and gently placed it on his ear. Within a minute or two, the tick was out and enjoying a ride through the sewer system. Yes folks, New Jersey ticks are alive and well this summertime!
Deer ticks are vectors of Lyme’s Disease, which can be very dangerous for humans. It normally takes a least a few days for the symptoms of Lyme’s Disease to rears it’s ugly head. Live ticks are able to be examined for potential diseases because a culture can be taken from the tick’s bowel to determine if it is an actual carrier of the disease. Your doctor may also choose to order a blood test to check for Lyme’s Disease. With Lyme’s Disease, if you have kept the dead tick, researchers can only determine if it is a potential carrier, but not an actual carrier.
Keep deadly deer ticks and annoying dog ticks out of your yard and inside your home this year by having a New Jersey Home Protection Plan in place by a licensed pest control company. The experienced technicians at Allison Pest Control will be able to provide you with expert services to help you reduce the risks of these disease carrying creatures invading your home!