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May 2, 2009 12:11:51 GMT
Post by rikita on May 2, 2009 12:11:51 GMT
well when i was little we would drop some oil on it to make the tick suffocate, but later we were told pulling them out alive is the best option, because if they die, they first release something or other into your skin which will make the bites itch and turn red a lot more than otherwise.
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May 2, 2009 12:44:44 GMT
Post by happytraveller on May 2, 2009 12:44:44 GMT
When I was in Mexico, I once had 8 ticks on me at once. The whole group of people was covered by ticks! My ex bf and I did a "body search" on each other and he found 8 on me and I found 13 on him. Ugh !
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May 2, 2009 14:32:11 GMT
Post by spindrift on May 2, 2009 14:32:11 GMT
Rikita - I think you have to be careful when you pull ticks out of skin. It's best to do it with your fingers and manouevre the head out in its entirety. You don't want the head left in the flesh. I imagine it might be difficult to get a tick out with tweezers since the tick might burst open.
Whilst in Zanzibar some years ago, I revolted my boyfriend by my propensity to remove ticks from stray dogs!
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May 2, 2009 16:30:27 GMT
Post by Deleted on May 2, 2009 16:30:27 GMT
Everybody knows that you absolutely must get the head out, but I am not sure of the exact dire consequences of not succeeding. I don't think they grow back like earthworms or starfish, but probably you can get a bad infection.
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May 2, 2009 17:03:08 GMT
Post by spindrift on May 2, 2009 17:03:08 GMT
Yes, an infection would inevitably follow if the head remained in the flesh.
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May 2, 2009 18:39:11 GMT
Post by bixaorellana on May 2, 2009 18:39:11 GMT
No one has mentioned the time-honored method of touching the tick with the lit end of a cigarette. Is that because fewer people smoke nowadays?
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May 3, 2009 20:33:35 GMT
Post by rikita on May 3, 2009 20:33:35 GMT
with the fingers? how can you get them out with the fingers? they are difficult to get out...
i never had one on me that was full enough for there to be bursting-danger, i tend to find them when they are still small.
but yes, obviously i know about the head - usually i manage to get them out with the head (the trick is to give the tweezers a little twist while you pull, and of course to ensure that you grab it right above the head - not somewhere higher up at the body. my dad even has special tick-tweezers, that are particularly long and thin at the end, and have a magnifying glass attached...
i once didn't manage to get the head out, but then i basically used a needle to get it out - like the way i might get a very small splinter out...
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May 3, 2009 23:36:25 GMT
Post by Deleted on May 3, 2009 23:36:25 GMT
rikita,why are you opposed to the smothering thing with dish soap?. I got the info from a woman entomologist. Please don't try to manually pull it out.
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May 4, 2009 2:10:43 GMT
Post by welle on May 4, 2009 2:10:43 GMT
Ticks-yuck. If I need to, I pull them out with tweezers the way rikita said.
But, back to the roaches-in Atlanta we had cockroaches so big you could ride them! Joking aside, those roaches were bigger than any roach I'd ever seen.
Funny story from college times: We used to have roaches live in the answering machine. When the phone rang, they scattered in all directions! Pretty funny, and a bit gross.
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May 4, 2009 4:49:33 GMT
Post by Deleted on May 4, 2009 4:49:33 GMT
I had a clock radio next to my bed, and I could see the roaches crawling across the luminous red numbers in the middle of the night.
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May 4, 2009 6:22:14 GMT
Post by rikita on May 4, 2009 6:22:14 GMT
casimira - as i said above - i am opposed to smothering because what i learned is that if the tick dies while still attached to you, it will release something or other into your skin, that will increase the itching of the bite, and i think might increase the risk of you catching something from the tick. pulling it out manually (with tweezers though) is what i always learned you have to do with ticks. but obviously they are dealt with very differently by different people, i can only say what i learned... no idea whether it is right or wrong.
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May 4, 2009 8:35:04 GMT
Post by happytraveller on May 4, 2009 8:35:04 GMT
I have learned the same as rikita. I have also learned that the sooner you find them and remove them, the smaller the chance of you catching something from them.
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May 4, 2009 12:08:59 GMT
Post by Deleted on May 4, 2009 12:08:59 GMT
Those giant cockroaches are German cockroaches,the smaller ones are American.Seriously. My senior year in college a professor of mine in Neurobiology was doing a study on them. Apparently they have a very sophisticated nervous system. Anyway,when she heard I took frequent trips to New Orleans (I was in St. Louis at the time and would hitchike to N.O. for long weekends) she asked me to bring back some of the big (German) cockroaches for her research. Boy, that was fun,ugh,I cringe to think about it. But I did it and aced the course.
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May 4, 2009 20:02:44 GMT
Post by Deleted on May 4, 2009 20:02:44 GMT
There are a few bugs that might make me back away. Lymantrid moth (Dasychira pudibunda) Damselfly (Ischnura heterosticta) Calleta Silkmoth (Eupackardia calleta) Hercules Beetle (Dynastes Hercules) Giant Camel Spider (Arachnid Solifugae) Giant Water Bug (Belostomatidae)
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May 4, 2009 21:25:09 GMT
Post by rikita on May 4, 2009 21:25:09 GMT
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May 5, 2009 12:44:55 GMT
Post by Deleted on May 5, 2009 12:44:55 GMT
Last night while lying on my back doing my exercises straight up over me on the ceiling one of these,come back to haunt me for transporting his/her family members to St. Louis. It's antennae moving all about.
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May 5, 2009 22:12:16 GMT
Post by Deleted on May 5, 2009 22:12:16 GMT
I was rewarded today with visions of the lovely Eastern Black Swallowtail who will undoubtedly lay her eggs on my bronze fennel.
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May 6, 2009 4:37:52 GMT
Post by hwinpp on May 6, 2009 4:37:52 GMT
I think you get the tick infection if you press the contents of the tick accidentally into the bite (guts, blood, shit etc.). It's not the head per se that causes the infection.
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May 6, 2009 5:02:46 GMT
Post by Deleted on May 6, 2009 5:02:46 GMT
I would imagine that many ticks carry diseases and pulling the tick out incorrectly spreads the disease. However, I doubt that they are actually toxic in themselves, so if you have 'healthy' ticks it's probably not a problem other than being irritating.
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May 6, 2009 12:49:38 GMT
Post by pookie on May 6, 2009 12:49:38 GMT
I have used nail varnish remover on my old dog, Dip cotton bud in it and then on the tick where they dig in,it is cold and they retract. Then burn them .
That was when we lived in Northern Australia where they were a big problem. A vet told me you can give dogs an injection to stop them but NOT to Border Collies it will kill them.My dog was Border Collie.
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May 6, 2009 13:04:02 GMT
Post by Deleted on May 6, 2009 13:04:02 GMT
I saw a nice comb on the kitchen tool thread that could rid a collie of ticks.
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May 6, 2009 13:10:28 GMT
Post by pookie on May 6, 2009 13:10:28 GMT
Lmao . Yellow was her colour too, pity she went to god 2 years ago
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