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

Put vasiline on them and it will sufficate them.

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.

What happens if the head gets stuck?

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.

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

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.

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.

A match,burn the mother.

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...