Getting ticks off you?
 

I was wondering how people get ticks off themselves? I hear people saying they pull them off but I thought the heads stayed in if you did that? Thanks-Sam

RE: Getting ticks off you?
 

Put vasiline on them and it will sufficate them.

RE: Getting ticks off you?
 

I pull them off and sometimes the head gets stuck. I would try heating up a pin and holding it on them. I heard they will back out themselves if you do this.

RE: Getting ticks off you?
 

What happens if the head gets stuck?

RE: Getting ticks off you?
 

I just leave it in if it is a wood tick. However, if it is a deer tick you may be at risk for contracting lymes disease, in which case it would probably be too late.

The head just dissolves.

RE: Getting ticks off you?
 

Take alcohol with a cotton swab and put next to their head and they will back out.

RE: Getting ticks off you?
 

Just pull the dang thing out.........Unless it's been sucking on you for a couple of days the head won't be in very deep. Just grab it, and yank. No big deal.

RE: Getting ticks off you?
 

I always heard the using heat method but when I read an article in Field and Stream last year they said that doing that actually makes them dig in further... I usually just pull them out.

RE: Getting ticks off you?
 

A match,burn the mother.

RE: Getting ticks off you?
 

Pull it out, throw it in the toilet and piss on it. If it wants some of my body fluids let it swim in that for awhile...