Tips for removing a tick from yourself

by Jared Garrett

I remember the day in Pennsylvania, 26 years ago, when I thought I was going to die. I got home from a wild summer day in the woods and my mother took me aside, as she always did, and checked me for ticks. This time I had ...read more

by S J

Ticks may be one of the smallest insects around, but their bite is anything but harmless. Lyme's disease is the most common ailment attributed to the tick, but the little pest can cause nine other major diseases including...read more

by Stephen Alexander

Five, Six, Pick Up Ticks One, Two Buckle My Shoe This tale begins with my sister and me volunteering for a community watch program, which enlists people to clean up the roadside trash along our rural road. The first...read more

by Billy Sunshine

I happen to be lucky enough to live in one of the most forest-covered states in America, West Virginia, but along with all of that beautiful scenery comes all of the less desirable and/or dangerous parts of nature as well....read more

by Branwen Smith

When I lived in Scotland there were deer ticks and sheep ticks. Now in Australia we have kangaroo ticks and, oh joy, ticks that wait in trees and drop on anyone that walks underneath. It doesn't matter where on the plan...read more

by Cynthia Winfield

The newest remedy I've heard of for tick removal involves putting two drops of Australian tea tree oil (also known as melaleuca oil) onto the tick where it entered the skin, waiting a few minutes, then carefully pulling th...read more

by Justice Liberty

Ticks dig their little jaws into your skin and will not let go for anything. You cannot simply brush a tick off of you like you can another bug, and if you forcefully try to remove a tick, it can actually leave its jaws s...read more

by lilyo1019

Were you outside today going for a long walk through the woods and came home covered in ticks? Were you able to get most of them off, but you had one that had already starting to embed into your skin? If that happens, do n...read more

by turtling

When a tick latches itself onto you, your first response is naturally going to be to want to get it off immediately. It's important not to just attempt to rip it off immediately with a pair of tweezers, as if you aren't ca...read more

by Royce Radcliffe

Even though most ticks look like harmless little black dots, they bite into you as if life itself depended on it. Which, for them, it does. Once you identify the source of your annoyance as a tick, there are a few ways to ...read more

by Chris Con

With summer on it's way, it will soon be tick season. The little bloodsuckers will be hatching out and seeking food before long. Here are some ideas on how to remove a tick once it has attached itself to you. Forget a...read more

by M.L. Brooke

You want him off of you, but how do you do it? Usually you find the little suckers (literally) latched on and inflating their bladder-like bodies full of your very own blood. The natural reaction to rip it right off b...read more

by Richard Serra

However you got the tick is not as important as getting out of your skin as soon as possible. Infection usually begins to set in after a couple of hours, and the sooner you get to it, the better your chances of decreasing ...read more

by Dana Geis

As we all know, ticks are ick! There are many tried and true methods on removing ticks for your skin. Many tend to do more harm; such as, petroleum jelly, a hot match and nail polish to suffocate the tick. These products t...read more

by Linda Corby

The best and least painful way to get rid of a tick is simple and it only takes six steps! 1) Get a nice bottle of Brandy out. 2) Pour yourself a nice tot of the Brandy out. 3) Take a good slug of the Brandy yourself....read more

by Susan Nagy

Whether or not you can remove a tick from your own skin depends on where that tick has latched on. If it's somewhere easily visible and you can use your correct hand (your right hand if you're right-handed, and your left h...read more