Picked up some good information from another forum. A local country doc in our fishing club mentioned that old wive's tale methods or typical home remedies often tend to make the parasite puke tick juice into your blood stream. This makes a worse, more itch and greater chance for lyme disease bite. Typical Wally World tweezers usually are not good.
CDC recommendation on tick removal:
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvbid/lyme/ld_tickremoval.htm
Remove a tick from your skin as soon as you notice it. Use fine-tipped tweezers to firmly grasp the tick very close to your skin. With a steady motion, pull the tick’s body away from your skin. Then clean your skin with soap and warm water. Throw the dead tick away with your household trash.
Avoid crushing the tick’s body. Do not be alarmed if the tick’s mouthparts remain in the skin. Once the mouthparts are removed from the rest of the tick, it can no longer transmit the Lyme disease bacteria. If you accidentally crush the tick, clean your skin with soap and warm water or alcohol.
Don’t use petroleum jelly, a hot match, nail polish, or other products to remove a tick. He talked about some different tick removal tools and I happened to find some examples here after searching the net. He mentioned a set of very fine tweezers are the best if you can find them.
Anyway just trying to help.
http://placervillevet.com/ticktools.htmAlways a good idea to read the science....read what doctors read.
http://www.aafp.org/afp/20020815/643.html
