Archive for Downsizer For an ethical approach to consumption
 


       Downsizer Forum Index -> Livestock and Pets
mochyn

Ticks: clockwise or anti-clockwise?

Does it matter which way I twist the tick-removing thingy?
mochyn

It's on a cat, by the way.
jamanda

I don't think it matters

http://www.lymediseaseaction.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/LDA002-4.pdf
mochyn

Cheers, me duck.
Mr O

We get loads of them over here, I have had at least 7 removed this year from me. It matters not a tosh how you remove them as long as you remove everything.
jamanda

We get loads of them over here, I have had at least 7 removed this year from me. It matters not a tosh how you remove them as long as you remove everything.


It does. You mustn't squeeze or cause them to regurgitate their stomach contents into your blood. We have at least one case of Lyme disease in town probably contracted locally.
dpack

the spray stuff that has benzocaine in a cooling propellant (tm wasp ease etc ) will ease the itch but more importantly if sprayed on the tick will render it inert making simple to twist off without squashing its insides into the victim.

spray, give it 30 secs to fully take effect ,remove tick
Treacodactyl

I've removed quite a few ticks and they don't seem to wiggle much. All the tick advice I've read is do nothing to the tick other than remove it by its head; spraying, smearing, singing etc with anything may make it vomit it's stomach contents into the host.

As for twisting I'm sure I was advised anti-clockwise at some point but the tick removal tools I've got say it doesn't matter.
BahamaMama

@dpack - brilliant tip, thank you. I wish I had known that last night when trying to remove one from himself's stomach (bleurch) after a day in the woods yesterday.

@others - where do you get these tick-removing-tool-thingies? I think I am going to need one this summer :-/

Downsizer - always brilliant!
sean



@others - where do you get these tick-removing-tool-thingies? I think I am going to need one this summer :-/


Pet shops, vets, pharmacies... Tavascarow

@others - where do you get these tick-removing-tool-thingies? I think I am going to need one this summer :-/

Vets or online.
(beat to the post by him above).
Smile BahamaMama

Thank you.

Hi ho, hi ho, it's off to Boots I go.... Pel

O'Tom, is the ones I buy for "my" lads at work (though Amazon seems to be the cheapest). http://www.otom.com/how-to-remove-a-tick Mr O

We get loads of them over here, I have had at least 7 removed this year from me. It matters not a tosh how you remove them as long as you remove everything.

It does. You mustn't squeeze or cause them to regurgitate their stomach contents into your blood. We have at least one case of Lyme disease in town probably contracted locally. You are quite right J, but I did mean with use of the removal thingy, not any other method.
       Downsizer Forum Index -> Livestock and Pets
Page 1 of 1
Home Home Home Home Home