easy tick extracting tool

[shootem]

Pegasus is correct that picture is consistent with Lyme Disease. The bullseye appearance with raised red edges and pale center is the classic appearing Lyme rash termed erythema migrans. Absolutely get tested.

[Pegasus]

Early treatment can save you years of pain.

[buckcanyonlodge]

My daughter is an R.N. and she says GET TESTED DAD...that is her shouting. probably have to address next time I'm at the dr.  By the way...that was the only tick that has ever bitten in to me EVER...and I've had hundreds on me.

[Pegasus]

My daughter is an R.N. and she says GET TESTED DAD...that is her shouting. probably have to address next time I'm at the dr.  By the way...that was the only tick that has ever bitten in to me EVER...and I've had hundreds on me.

Do NOT wait. Early treatment can save you a whole bunch of nightmares for years which won't go away easily. Guess which one was the only symptom I never had:

Bullseye rash
Severe headaches and neck stiffness
Arthritis, especially in the knees or other large joints
Muscle aches and pains
Heart palpitations or shortness of breath (Lyme carditis)
Facial paralysis on one or both sides (also known as Bell’s palsy)
Numbness or tingling in the hands or feet
Extreme fatigue
Neurologic features including vertigo or dizziness
Difficulty sleeping
Mental fogginess

[dilleytech]

The Manly way to get a tick off is to put a berm of Vaseline on your skin around the tick . Gunpowder will stick to the Vaseline. Use a very liberal amount of gunpowder...enough to make it look like a black circle around the tick. Touch the gunpowder with a lit match....WALLA...the tick comes off with the scab a few days later

These kind of techniques are how you get lime disease. Anything that kills the tick or heats the tick up is bad news. Just pull the thing out.

[71Shovelhead]

The Manly way to get a tick off is to put a berm of Vaseline on your skin around the tick . Gunpowder will stick to the Vaseline. Use a very liberal amount of gunpowder...enough to make it look like a black circle around the tick. Touch the gunpowder with a lit match....WALLA...the tick comes off with the scab a few days later

And if someone suffers a snake bite be sure to "cut a big deep X through the bite site and suck to venom out" 
and if someone suffers a burn "cover it with axle grease" to stop the pain   

need I say more   

[jackelope]

The Manly way to get a tick off is to put a berm of Vaseline on your skin around the tick . Gunpowder will stick to the Vaseline. Use a very liberal amount of gunpowder...enough to make it look like a black circle around the tick. Touch the gunpowder with a lit match....WALLA...the tick comes off with the scab a few days later

These kind of techniques are how you get lime disease. Anything that kills the tick or heats the tick up is bad news. Just pull the thing out.

Pretty sure he was being funny. I mean the tick would definitely come off with the scab I guess but ...

[buckcanyonlodge]

The Manly way to get a tick off is to put a berm of Vaseline on your skin around the tick . Gunpowder will stick to the Vaseline. Use a very liberal amount of gunpowder...enough to make it look like a black circle around the tick. Touch the gunpowder with a lit match....WALLA...the tick comes off with the scab a few days later

These kind of techniques are how you get lime disease. Anything that kills the tick or heats the tick up is bad news. Just pull the thing out.

Do you really think someone would do that?. Really?

[Ridgeratt]

The Manly way to get a tick off is to put a berm of Vaseline on your skin around the tick . Gunpowder will stick to the Vaseline. Use a very liberal amount of gunpowder...enough to make it look like a black circle around the tick. Touch the gunpowder with a lit match....WALLA...the tick comes off with the scab a few days later

These kind of techniques are how you get lime disease. Anything that kills the tick or heats the tick up is bad news. Just pull the thing out.

Do you really think someone would do that?. Really?

Nothing should surprise you anymore.

[buckcanyonlodge]

Yea, I guess you are right...just watch you tube....who in their right mind would crush their nuts on purpose??

[one more]

You can also get it through broken skin.  I was working as a vet tech when a sweet little spaniel came in with swollen joints and other problems.  She had been hunted in the midwest.  The vet was sure the dog had Lymes.  I held the pup for examination and X-rays.  The rubber gloves I wore had leaks to my chapped hands and soaked my hands with the scared pups urine.  I knew something was very wrong a few weeks later when I knocked on someone's door and I nearly fell to my knees with  pain.  My doctor tested me and said having symptoms in two or more systems (of the list mentioned above) is proof of Lyme.
That was in the '80s.  They gave me IV medication for a long time.
Get tested.  Even now I wonder if my symptoms are related.  Or maybe it's 'cause I'm old--er.

Diane

[dilleytech]

The Manly way to get a tick off is to put a berm of Vaseline on your skin around the tick . Gunpowder will stick to the Vaseline. Use a very liberal amount of gunpowder...enough to make it look like a black circle around the tick. Touch the gunpowder with a lit match....WALLA...the tick comes off with the scab a few days later

These kind of techniques are how you get lime disease. Anything that kills the tick or heats the tick up is bad news. Just pull the thing out.

Pretty sure he was being funny. I mean the tick would definitely come off with the scab I guess but ...

Idk a lot of people are givin bad advise on tick extraction and they do it and spread that info online. Just get tweezers and pull them out a little at a time. It’s not complicated.

[71Shovelhead]

buckcanyonlodge,
I hope you realize that I was playing along with you. If not I truly apologize. It was very clear to me that you were not being serious.

Terry

[GWP]

Hey! Rambo fixed a hole through himself with bloody gunpowder so we all know that was true! I am sure it will work!
I also heard baring the ends of a 110 cord and putting one bare end on each side of the tick while plugged in will work as well! Really! It will work! I am sure!

[buckcanyonlodge]

buckcanyonlodge,
I hope you realize that I was playing along with you. If not I truly apologize. It was very clear to me that you were not being serious.

Terry

No problem man..sometimes I don't know if my warped sense of humor is taken the wrong way. Thanks!! Rick