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The other day someone posted something interesting about leeches. Apparently you can use anti-mosquito spray to make them detach from the skin in minutes.
by amelius 1y ago
The other day someone posted something interesting about leeches. Apparently you can use anti-mosquito spray to make them detach from the skin in minutes.
- jt2190 1y agoSaw that comment and I’m pretty sure that it is a bad idea since the article explicitly mentioned that stressing the leeches causes them to “vomit blood back into your bloodstream” and introduces a risk of bacterial infections. The advice was to use a credit card to quickly break the suction seal and force the leech to detach.
- stanislavb 1y agoWe've used pocket hand sanitiser to make Leeches to detach.