How To Remove A Tick

I’m posting this in honor of Lyme Disease Awareness month.

This good old-fashioned tweezer method reduces stress on the tick and therefore reduces how much of its stomach contents it regurgitates into you – which reduces infection rates.

Push into the skin with tweezers to get well underneath the head.
Slow, steady pressure.

It will back itself out – because it doesn’t want its head to pop off inside you either.

I recommend testing. Check out my video How To Submit A Tick For Testing for more information.

(thanks to my son Torin for donating his body for science!)


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Get well under the head and then you pull gently and it will eventually back itself out. It has to inject some glue dissolver. Oop I took skin on that one. Sorry Torin. But I have a complete tick. And then you put it in your baggie with a little bit of moistened, where did he go, he keeps trying to crawl out, with a little bit of moistened paper towel and seal it up good so he can’t get anywhere. And send this in for testing.


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