Tick Removal

[Barmaid]

Ive been bitten by a tick. Unfortunately when trying to remove it it broke. Ive bathed with antiseptic. Is it best left on the basis my body will deal with it (save for watching for infection and lyme disease symtoms) or have i got to go and get it removed?

[rockyracoon]

Tick removal was on the news yesterday. Get tweezers, and get as close to head of tick, as possible, and pull out. Only twist if you have a proper tick remover.

Good luck.

[Khandro]

If it goes red and spreads to more than say, 1 cm, you must go to a doctor immediately and have antbiotics,

[steg]

I wouldn’t twist a tick, better with tweezers and firmly but not jerkingly pull the tick out

[Peter Pedant]

yes I think you should chase it ...

[where are the red hot cautery irons????]

[Rockrose]

As you have already attempted removing it and it has broken I suggest going to your gp to get the rest removed as soon as possible

[Barmaid]

Ive done that but the head is stuck

[Rockrose]

Actually according to this let nature take its course
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=tick+broke+off+in+dog&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-gb&;client=safari

[jourdain2]

Agree with Khandro - it should eventually grow out. Go to a pet shop and buy a tick hook for any future use. Slide hook under neck of tick and untwist in anti-clockwise direction. Been doing it for years for my dogs - once had to get someone to help when I got one on my bottom.

[Khandro]

https://www.ebay.de/i/362222405900?chn=ps
I have one of these on me at all times - we have the honour of living in one of Europe's most beautiful, but tick infested areas.

[KARL]

I have once had a tick, it was in my groin away from the important bits. I borrowed an ordinary hair removal tweezers and plucked everything out, including the mouth parts which were left visible as tiny black spots. This meant plucking bits of skin off too, not a lot but into the living part. To my surprise I felt nothing apart from the tugging doing this and ascribe it to the beast injecting some form of anaesthetic into me as it attached itself. I never felt the insect itself until I was showering and felt a bump - had a look and there it was. I am confident it had been there less than 24 hours and I never got any reddening around the site. Recently someone I know had one on her bottom like jourdain - these things appear to go for the oddest locations. I read somewhere that if they are infected with Lyme disease then it takes them at least 48 hours to transmit it into a human host.

[roopower]

I found one on my side when in the bath. I recommend lavender bath foam, it backed out of it's own accord. Had to catch the little blighter as it did the breast stroke across the bath.