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As someone who’s had leeches on me, North Eastern America, and never even heard of salting them I’ve always just treated them like a bandaid and ripped them off
by roxolotl 1y ago
As someone who’s had leeches on me, North Eastern America, and never even heard of salting them I’ve always just treated them like a bandaid and ripped them off quickly. The hardest part really is grabbing them since they are slippery. I assume there’s nastier leeches out there though where that might be a bad idea.
- themafia 1y agoI would always put the area with the leech back into the water and then use a sharp edged rock to scrape them off. They seemed a little bit more willing to leave my skin doing it that way.
- throwway120385 1y agoTweezers or tongs in a first aid kit are pretty useful for that and for removing ticks.
- xattt 1y agoIs there anything tongs can’t do?
- jorvi 1y agoLeeches will pop off easily. There's a nastier cousin of leeches (lampreys) that I think you'll rip a small chunk of flesh out if you'd yank them off forcefully.
- Terr_ 1y agoI'd like to emphasize that they are metaphorical cousins only, being segmented-worms and jawless-fish respectively. :p P.S.: "Would you rather fight one lamprey-sized leech, or 400 leech-sized lampreys?"