My sister sent me the following email message that I thought was interesting and useful enough to bother putting out here, in hopes that it might help some one out in their time of need.
HOW TO REMOVE A TICK AS PASSED ON TO ME
A School Nurse has written the info below — good enough to share, And it really works!! I had a pediatrician tell me
what she believes is the best way to remove a tick. This is great, because it works in those places where it’s
some times difficult to get to with tweezers: between toes, in the middle of a head full of dark hair, etc.
Apply a glob of liquid soap to a cotton ball. Cover the tick with the soap-soaked cotton ball and swab it for a few
seconds (15-20), the tick will come out on its own and be stuck to the cotton ball when you lift it away.
This technique has worked every time I’ve used it (and that was frequently), and it’s much less traumatic for the patient and
easier for me. Unless someone is allergic to soap, I can’t see that this would be damaging in any way. I even had my
doctor’s wife call me for advice because she had one stuck to her back and she couldn’t reach it with tweezers.