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Do absolutely not "encourage them to let go on their own". When discovered use tweezers or a tick-removal tool to remove it as soon as possible. Make sure to p

Do absolutely not "encourage them to let go on their own". When discovered use tweezers or a tick-removal tool to remove it as soon as possible. Make sure to pull as close to the skin as possible. All old folk-remedy things with butter and alcohol only risks the tick to go into shock and spew saliva into you, increasing the risk for lyme disease/tbe or borrelia. Just pull it straight out, it's safe and easy, done it a dozen times. Also get vaccine for lyme disease if you are in an area where ticks pass it on, it is a horribly crippling disease and not worth the risk however low.

RandallBrown 3y ago
I don't think there's any Lyme disease vaccine available for humans, at least not in the US.
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daliusd 3y ago
You meant encephalitis vaccine , Lyme disease does not have approved vaccine but can be healed with antibiotics if noticed on time. I got encephalitis vaccine as I live in country that is one of the top countries where people get tick borne diseases.
CamperBob2 3y ago
The saliva injection occurs when the tick attaches. It's accompanied by an anesthetic that keeps you from noticing it in most cases. [1] Admittedly, there are a lot of articles saying "Don't try to suffocate or irritate the tick before pulling it out." They are written by doctors who have never actually had a tick bite. Once the tick is firmly attached, which takes several hours, you will often be unable to remove it cleanly without chemical assistance of one sort or another. We used coal-tar ointment (ichthammol) for that back in the day [2]. Some say alcohol works just as well, others say differently. The suggestion elsewhere in the thread to freeze them off with wart remover sounds like it could work well. For me personally, the ultimate remedy was G'ing TFO of that part of the country. 1: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcimb.2017.00281/full https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcimb.2017.0028... 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammonium_bituminosulfonate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammonium_bituminosulfonate

RandallBrown 3y ago

I don't think there's any Lyme disease vaccine available for humans, at least not in the US.

zoklet-enjoyer 3y ago
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daliusd 3y ago

You meant encephalitis vaccine , Lyme disease does not have approved vaccine but can be healed with antibiotics if noticed on time. I got encephalitis vaccine as I live in country that is one of the top countries where people get tick borne diseases.

CamperBob2 3y ago

The saliva injection occurs when the tick attaches. It's accompanied by an anesthetic that keeps you from noticing it in most cases. [1] Admittedly, there are a lot of articles saying "Don't try to suffocate or irritate the tick before pulling it out." They are written by doctors who have never actually had a tick bite. Once the tick is firmly attached, which takes several hours, you will often be unable to remove it cleanly without chemical assistance of one sort or another. We used coal-tar ointment (ichthammol) for that back in the day [2]. Some say alcohol works just as well, others say differently. The suggestion elsewhere in the thread to freeze them off with wart remover sounds like it could work well. For me personally, the ultimate remedy was G'ing TFO of that part of the country. 1: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcimb.2017.00281/full https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcimb.2017.0028... 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammonium_bituminosulfonate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammonium_bituminosulfonate