Some helpful hints

Tick

Removal

Here is a good way to get ticks off you, your children, or your pets. Give it a try.

A School Nurse has written the info below -- good enough to share –

I had a paediatrician 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. Just make sure they aren’t allergic to the soap.