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Post by alyeska on Mar 16, 2019 14:59:42 GMT
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Post by The Dude Abides on Mar 16, 2019 19:53:02 GMT
Technically, I would consider it a sting, too. If you search Google Images for "Deer Tick Mouth Parts," you'll find some highly-magnified images that show the details of a tick's mouth. You'll find the mouth parts that are injected into us have hooks/barbs to keep the tick secured to us. I just found the following video. Have a look... WATCH: How A Tick Digs Its Hooks Into Youwww.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2018/03/20/594922001/watch-how-a-tick-digs-its-hooks-into-youThis is why pulling a tick away from the skin is not advised. Instead, it should be twisted/rotated first, in order to collapse the hooks/barbs. For this, there are plastic tools called "Tick Twister" and "Tick Tornado" that are cheap and available online and in stores. Tick Twister Official Video
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Post by alyeska on Mar 17, 2019 3:08:09 GMT
Technically, I would consider it a sting, too. If you search Google Images for "Deer Tick Mouth Parts," you'll find some highly-magnified images that show the details of a tick's mouth. You'll find the mouth parts that are injected into us have hooks/barbs to keep the tick secured to us. I just found the following video. Have a look... WATCH: How A Tick Digs Its Hooks Into Youwww.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2018/03/20/594922001/watch-how-a-tick-digs-its-hooks-into-youThis is why pulling a tick away from the skin is not advised. Instead, it should be twisted/rotated first, in order to collapse the hooks/barbs. For this, there are plastic tools called "Tick Twister" and "Tick Tornado" that are cheap and available online and in stores. Tick Twister Official VideoWait... I thought stings could only come from a stinger with some kind of poison in it which is generally on the back of an animal like a bee or a scorpion. Also, I thought spirochetes were basically regurgitated into us from the tick’s earlier, infected meal. If it’s a mouth attached to a stomach, I still don’t understand how it’s a sting. Great videos! The first one almost made me lose my dinner though. 🤮 THEY ARE DISGUSTING!!! I think I should buy some tick twisters for myself and my sibs. I’ve never heard of that before.
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Post by Admin/ Traveler on Mar 17, 2019 21:25:38 GMT
Actually, I don't recommend "tick twisters", because they do just that - twist the tick. In every "good" video/article, you will see that a person is supposed to pull straight up, in the direction the tick is laying - so if it's 'laying on it's stomach', grab just as close to the tick 'head'/mouth parts, and lift in the direction of it's rear end (as if you are pulling out a splinter laying like that).
I just use long nosed tweezers, and I have one set that has a curved head (similar to what a dentist uses for 'dabbing' the cotton inside the mouth), and use that for some areas that are harder to reach on the animal or myself.
I don't necessarily agree with the wording of it being a 'sting' either, when mouth parts are used, it's considered a bite, not a sting from a stinger - but, I sure wouldn't discard the possibility of learning something, since the rest of the information I basically agree with (on that pdf, anyway). Seems to me that I've liked the things I've read about this doctor too, but I do have to admit that I haven't read much.
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Post by alyeska on Mar 18, 2019 13:06:39 GMT
Do you have any knowledge about putting a blown-out-but-still-hot match on a tick to make it release? It’s been so long since I’ve actually had to pull a tick off of myself or a pet that I remember all of the things we did when I was little! I really believe my son and I got infected through mosquito bites in Virginia.
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Post by Admin/ Traveler on Mar 18, 2019 15:53:49 GMT
Do you have any knowledge about putting a blown-out-but-still-hot match on a tick to make it release? It’s been so long since I’ve actually had to pull a tick off of myself or a pet that I remember all of the things we did when I was little! I really believe my son and I got infected through mosquito bites in Virginia. Nope, putting anything on the tick (hot match tip, fingernail polish, alcohol, or others) may actually make the situation worse. When "agitated" like that, the tick actually will push more of their stomach contents into their mouth and then into the person/animal. So we can end up with even more pathogens being pushed into our bodies. Literally, there is only ine safe method to remove a tick that has attached. Thats to pull slowly, gently, yet firmly staight out...after grasping it as close to the skin as possible. This is actually one of the few things the CDC gets right about tick and the infections they carry. Just don't listen to their follow up advice! www.cdc.gov/ticks/removing_a_tick.html(I'm posting from my phone,so I hope that shows up as a link!)
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