Subject: Tick Trick. 
May 4, 2011.

  Here's a way to get rid of ticks.

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Spring (JW It's already spring, now.) will be here soon and the ticks will
soon be showing their heads.  Here is a good way to get them off you,
your children, or your pets.  Give it a try.

Please forward to anyone with children... or hunters or dogs, or anyone who
even steps outside in summer!!

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. She
used this method and immediately called me back to say,  "It worked!"

(JW  If the tick is in the ear of the being then just pour a little liguid
peroxide in the ear and the tick will come running out. Of course you
have to hold the animal down because this tickles like everything.)

John Winston.   johnfw@mlode.com