My cats bring those fucker inside my house all the time. :/
Cant I use olive oil or something?, I think I heard something about it for some time ago...
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I live in the fuckin stick so my kids and pets get them all the time. There is an art to removing it so that the head does not break off and stay in. Causing pain. Use twezers and grab as much of the tick and pull up or down depending on the ticks position. pull hard and hope it doesnt break off.
Make sure when you pull that you pull in the direction on the ticks back on underside( it will break off)
Dont use nail polish, or burn it. You will only fuck yourself up.
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we always used the match method... just burn a match and place it near the head, you may feel it a little but the idea is to get the tick to feel enough heat to retract its bite so you can gently pull him off without breaking the head.
Originally posted by More Booze I got a fucking tick in my belly button, how do I get rid of it?
I cant just grab it cuz its hard to get 2 fingers all the way in there hehe
Originally posted by JSA Matt we always used the match method... just burn a match and place it near the head, you may feel it a little but the idea is to get the tick to feel enough heat to retract its bite so you can gently pull him off without breaking the head.
I live in a "ticky" area and that's what we do, too. Burn a match, blow it out, and stick the hot end against its butt. However, it rarely works, unless it's just latched on. The main thing is to make sure you don't leave the head. If it's been there awhile, the head could literally be buried down in your skin. You gotta get it out, though. The school nurse always made our parents take us to the doctor if the head didn't come out, but my dad would just get a needle and tweezers and dig it out.
I live in a tick area and have had a few in the past. The way to get them out is to first cover the tick in oil like tea tree oil. This makes it difficult for the tick to breathe so it loosens its grip a little.
Then get hold of its body with a pair of tweezers and turn it anti clockwise. Do not pull it as it will break and leave its head inside you. Just keep turning anti clockwise and it will come out. I have no idea why it's anti clockwise, but it always works.
You can catch Limes disease from ticks so after you have got the tick out you must check the area to see if a red ring appears around where the tick was. If it does you might have Limes disease so get to your doctors. They can give you something which gets rid of it. If you get a red ring and you don't see it, the ring eventually goes away and you never know you have got it until a few years later when some pretty bad stuff starts happening to your body.
Okay, this is an amusing story and this thread seems an appropriate place to put it:
My encounter with the greater bostonian satchel dwelling tick.
Part 1
I had just returned from spending the weekend at my fathers place in the country, I had brought my wife out there to hang out while I went away for business for a week. While there I had done my laundry and dried it on the clothes line in the backyard (this is important later). So I'm in Boston staying with friends, I'm getting ready to crash in the guest room, changing my clothes etc. I reach down to adjust my sack and am shocked to find a big ass bump on the side. It's hard to explain in retrospect the sheer horror of grabbing your own sac and finding something wrong. So any way, it's a fucking tick, and a well fed one I might add. She's HUGE from sucking my satchel blood. I am assuming that she was a she because, well frankly I'm worried that a dude being on my sack, even an insect dude, might make me gay. Anyhoo, so I get some tweezers and yank the fucker out. But I can't tell if I got the whole fucking thing and I am reading on the web that some ticks will leave their head behind and still live, or cause infections, and the idea of an infected sack is not something I want to fuck with. So I decide that I should go to the doctor and have him take a look. It's evening so my only option is the er, but the idea of waking up to a horribly swollen infected sack is not very appealing so I decide to go. On the way I'm trying to figure out how she got there. All I can figure is that she was hiding in my boxers drying on the line at my dads house in the country.
Part 2
I arrive at the er and march up to the triage nurse and tell her I would like to see a doctor. She asks what is wrong and I suddenly realize that I have to tell another human being about the parasitic bug on my sack. I tell her, as best I can, stumbling over the word scrotum: I have a tick on my scrotum, I think.
She turns bright red and laughs at me. Which honestly made it a little easier. We joked about it for a minute and she told me to have a seat and wait for a free doctor. Obviously I'm low on the priority list. People are bleeding and dying and what not, so I settle down and read the book I brought with me.
Some time later they have me come back and strip down to my birthday suit and wait for the doc in a little room. So here I am buck naked, with a tick head stuck in my balls, freezing my ass off waiting for the doc, some 50 year old grandfatherly figure that will have a quick peek at my boys tell me everything is great and send me on my way. At least that is how it went in my head.
In walks the doctor. She is sooooooo hot. She is younger then me, like late 20's, she must be doing her residency. Soooooo hot. She asked me what the problem was, and I asked her if maybe there wasn't another doctor that I could see. She said no, there wasn't. i tell her the story, and bless her, she tried as hard as she could not to laugh at me as she examined my sack for signs of insect life. In the end it turns out that I had gotten the whole tick out, and she prescribed some drugs to prevent infection and sent me on my way.
Originally posted by TheLegacy time to get either a new bed or girlfriend - where the fuck do you pick up shit like that anyways??
You get them from awlking through the bush..
You can do a few things man... Try salt on it, or put a lit cigarette on it. Ticks can pass on Lyme disease, and you don't wanna fuck around with that stuff, I tell you.
Originally posted by Buddy Okay, this is an amusing story and this thread seems an appropriate place to put it:
My encounter with the greater bostonian satchel dwelling tick.
Part 1
I had just returned from spending the weekend at my fathers place in the country, I had brought my wife out there to hang out while I went away for business for a week. While there I had done my laundry and dried it on the clothes line in the backyard (this is important later). So I'm in Boston staying with friends, I'm getting ready to crash in the guest room, changing my clothes etc. I reach down to adjust my sack and am shocked to find a big ass bump on the side. It's hard to explain in retrospect the sheer horror of grabbing your own sac and finding something wrong. So any way, it's a fucking tick, and a well fed one I might add. She's HUGE from sucking my satchel blood. I am assuming that she was a she because, well frankly I'm worried that a dude being on my sack, even an insect dude, might make me gay. Anyhoo, so I get some tweezers and yank the fucker out. But I can't tell if I got the whole fucking thing and I am reading on the web that some ticks will leave their head behind and still live, or cause infections, and the idea of an infected sack is not something I want to fuck with. So I decide that I should go to the doctor and have him take a look. It's evening so my only option is the er, but the idea of waking up to a horribly swollen infected sack is not very appealing so I decide to go. On the way I'm trying to figure out how she got there. All I can figure is that she was hiding in my boxers drying on the line at my dads house in the country.
Part 2
I arrive at the er and march up to the triage nurse and tell her I would like to see a doctor. She asks what is wrong and I suddenly realize that I have to tell another human being about the parasitic bug on my sack. I tell her, as best I can, stumbling over the word scrotum: I have a tick on my scrotum, I think.
She turns bright red and laughs at me. Which honestly made it a little easier. We joked about it for a minute and she told me to have a seat and wait for a free doctor. Obviously I'm low on the priority list. People are bleeding and dying and what not, so I settle down and read the book I brought with me.
Some time later they have me come back and strip down to my birthday suit and wait for the doc in a little room. So here I am buck naked, with a tick head stuck in my balls, freezing my ass off waiting for the doc, some 50 year old grandfatherly figure that will have a quick peek at my boys tell me everything is great and send me on my way. At least that is how it went in my head.
In walks the doctor. She is sooooooo hot. She is younger then me, like late 20's, she must be doing her residency. Soooooo hot. She asked me what the problem was, and I asked her if maybe there wasn't another doctor that I could see. She said no, there wasn't. i tell her the story, and bless her, she tried as hard as she could not to laugh at me as she examined my sack for signs of insect life. In the end it turns out that I had gotten the whole tick out, and she prescribed some drugs to prevent infection and sent me on my way.
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