Remove Ticks From Human Skin With a Thread
Intro: Remove Ticks From Human Skin With a Thread
Always bring a piece of thread when going outdoor adventures because that is what you need to pull out a tick without any pain and little chance to get infected. Watch the video for the instructions!
24 Comments
RobertP78 8 years ago
Just paint the back end of the tick with finger nail polish or some other liquid that will seal off the breathing tube on the rear of the body, they back out when they no longer have air to breathe.
doo da do 7 years ago
we use Vaseline, it closes the breathing tubes like the other solvents
MDZPNMD 7 years ago
I demand sources. Common sense tells me an angry tick is a bad tick. Stories of this method using oil instead of nail polish are well spread where I live but lead to higher infestation rates. Might be because of the tick suffocating and vomitting while still in your skin. Also this might only works for ticks with tracheae systems while others might not even breathe at all.
Woolley, Tyler A.: Acarology. John Wiley & Sons, 1988, ISBN 0-471-04168-8
antioch 8 years ago
If you knew where those tubes really are located, if you knew how long a tick can live without using them and if you knew how nasty both the tick and the sore skin around the incision will react to nail polish or similar liqids you would definitely not spread this advice.
tickbait 8 years ago
The tick mouth parts are breaking off. It's not spiral.
MDZPNMD 7 years ago
Twisting is more effective even though the mouth parts are not spiral.
De Boer, R., Van Den Bogaard, A. E. J. M. [1993]. Removal of Attached Nymphs and Adults of Ixodes ricinus [Acari: Ixodidae]. Journal of Medical Entomology, 30(4), 748–752
Julie716 8 years ago
HRA444 8 years ago
Another way to do it is to take a quie tip and dip it in bleach. Rub the bleach on the tick and it the intire tick will drop off.
thequara 8 years ago
Jobar007 8 years ago
That would be a problem if you didn't get the thread close enough to the skin. My guess as to why it works is that you can see the tick revolving with the thread. It looks like you use the gentle but constant pressure from the rotation to twist the tick out. I could be wrong though.
vitallyz 8 years ago
If by "pressure" you mean pulling the tick out, then there should be no pressure at all. Twisting the tick forces him to release itself from the skin and making for him impossible to grab your skin back again. Thus he gets out naturally.
Jobar007 8 years ago
Thanks for the clarification!
vitallyz 8 years ago
Twisting the tick forces the tick to release his head out of the skin. That is how the original tick twister work, I just did not have any at the time so I used a thread instead to twist the tick's body. Infection is still possible if the tick squished too much at it's stomach when putting the tread on.
petestrash 8 years ago
Most methods that require you to physically remove the tick, run the risk of either emptying the stomach into your skin or leaving pieces behind. The best method that I have found is to use a freeze spray. They are available in Pharmacies and usually sold to remove warts or other skin blemishes. just spray the tick. it dies immediately and just drops off.
vitallyz 8 years ago
Does he drops off with his head or without it?
petestrash 8 years ago
Here are some details:
http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/4177191.htm
tiunkabouter 8 years ago
guess you need 2 hands to do the removal of the tick?
blakehx 8 years ago
tisaconundrum 8 years ago
i've heard of a lot of different ways, one including wiping them with some kind of liquid that they don't like that will make them take there heads out.
vitallyz 8 years ago
I heard about wiping them with mosquito repellent should make this effect, but never got the chance to test it myself.