Just ripped off a BUG sticking to my scalp!

[Squisher]

Better pic of the tick.

 

[isekii]

you have lyme disease now~

 

[James Bond]

Originally posted by: leftyman
or light a match and blow it out and quickly place the hot tip where you think the tick was.

repeat if necessary.

That would be a good idea if he hadn't, you know, ripped the body off.

It's not like putting a once-lit match on a corpse is going to "motivate" him to move...

As a side note, ticks are fucking gross. I went camping one time and found one in my scalp days later. My girlfriend didn't know what it was so she was trying to pull it out, literally stretching the skin on my scalp. Once those things get in, man, they really hang on.

I forget how we got it out now. I think we ended up reading some website that recommended to use tweezers, so we did. My girlfriend told me she did a good job getting the thing out, but I never will know for sure. I should probably get checked for Lyme Disease next time I'm at the doctor.

PSA: NEVER, under any circumstance, let a girl try to get a tick out of your head. I had two girls trying to get it out for me and literally every time they'd touch it they would both start freaking out and screaming. The entire time I was just looking forward, getting more and more annoyed. Bad experience.

 

[leftyman]

Originally posted by: James Bond

Originally posted by: leftyman
or light a match and blow it out and quickly place the hot tip where you think the tick was.

repeat if necessary.

That would be a good idea if he hadn't, you know, ripped the body off.

It's not like putting a once-lit match on a corpse is going to "motivate" him to move...

it was on his head..he cant see where it was...visualize him stabbing his head with a hot match..

 

[lxskllr]

Originally posted by: James Bond

Originally posted by: leftyman
or light a match and blow it out and quickly place the hot tip where you think the tick was.

repeat if necessary.

That would be a good idea if he hadn't, you know, ripped the body off.

It's not like putting a once-lit match on a corpse is going to "motivate" him to move...

You shouldn't do that period. You can get infections and virus' that way. The best way is to carefully work it out, getting all of the bits. Covering it in Vaseline /may/ work, but it would take awhile to suffocate it(if ever).

 

[Q]

He wasn't blue, was he?

 

[leftyman]

Originally posted by: lxskllr

Originally posted by: James Bond

Originally posted by: leftyman
or light a match and blow it out and quickly place the hot tip where you think the tick was.

repeat if necessary.

That would be a good idea if he hadn't, you know, ripped the body off.

It's not like putting a once-lit match on a corpse is going to "motivate" him to move...

You shouldn't do that period. You can get infections and virus' that way. The best way is to carefully work it out, getting all of the bits. Covering it in Vaseline /may/ work, but it would take awhile to suffocate it(if ever).

do you people NOT see the humor in this???

 

[RKS]

Did it look like this?

 

[Q]

Anyway, would the best way of killing it would be to spray it with rubbing alcohol??

 

[Udgnim]

after looking at some tick images, I didn't realize they could get so big

fuck mother nature and nuke that crap from orbit

 

[shiner]

Originally posted by: Quintox
Anyway, would the best way of killing it would be to spray it with rubbing alcohol??

Only if he then follows up with a lit match.

 

[Newbian]

Originally posted by: RKS
Did it look like this?

Oh god... if it was that the zombie invasion has begun.

 

[leftyman]

Originally posted by: shiner

Originally posted by: Quintox
Anyway, would the best way of killing it would be to spray it with rubbing alcohol??

Only if he then follows up with a lit match.

:thumbsup:

 

[wade3]

So yea I did some research and I should be fine. most ticks are harmless

Its a small kind, prolly got it from the woods I go hunting twice a week in.

 

[lxskllr]

Originally posted by: leftyman


do you people NOT see the humor in this???

I saw the humor in your original post, but the second seemed more serious, so my response was geared more towards that one :^)

 

[Platypus]

Originally posted by: wade3
So yea I did some research and I should be fine. most ticks are harmless

Its a small kind, prolly got it from the woods I go hunting twice a week in.

Size has NOTHING to do with it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyme_disease

I'd go get checked.

 

[ggnl]

Originally posted by: leftyman

Originally posted by: lxskllr

Originally posted by: James Bond

Originally posted by: leftyman
or light a match and blow it out and quickly place the hot tip where you think the tick was.

repeat if necessary.

That would be a good idea if he hadn't, you know, ripped the body off.

It's not like putting a once-lit match on a corpse is going to "motivate" him to move...

You shouldn't do that period. You can get infections and virus' that way. The best way is to carefully work it out, getting all of the bits. Covering it in Vaseline /may/ work, but it would take awhile to suffocate it(if ever).

do you people NOT see the humor in this???

what's so funny about vasoline and suffocation?

 

[lizardth]

Forget Lyme Disease you could have Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever!!!!

SRSLY!

 

[shiner]

Originally posted by: wade3
So yea I did some research and I should be fine. most ticks are harmless

Its a small kind, prolly got it from the woods I go hunting twice a week in.

You go hunting and you didn't know what a tick is?

I'm not sure what you've been hunting, but you seem to already have the legal limit on stupidity.

 

[CRXican]

oh snap, you got do aids!

 

[mugs]

You go hunting twice a week and you don't know what a tick looks like? How is that possible?

 

[nakedfrog]

Originally posted by: Platypus

Originally posted by: wade3
So yea I did some research and I should be fine. most ticks are harmless

Its a small kind, prolly got it from the woods I go hunting twice a week in.

Size has NOTHING to do with it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyme_disease

I'd go get checked.

Or at least give us a promise that if you end up with Lyme disease, you'll come back and tell us so we can say "Told you so"

 

[Dirigible]

Some people have given bad advice here.

To remove a tick you want to nab it way down by the head and pull it out with a firm steady pressure (do not yank). You want the tick to let go and not just rip it to pieces, leaving bits behind that can cause infection. There are special tools that make this more easy.

Do not pull on the body, use a lit match, a cigarette, or vaseline to remove a tick. Those methods can cause the tick to spit its toxins into you, increasing your likelihood of getting disease, or can result in tick bits being left behind to cause infection.

Once you've removed the tick, keep it for testing. Depending how cautious you are, you may want to get all ticks tested or just if you start having symptoms (note that the bullseye target rash that denotes lyme disease does not always appear).

Read up on lyme disease and its symptoms - it is serious shit and can mess you up. Be alert for them.

OP, as others have stated, you probably want to ensure all the tick parts were removed.

-Dirigible, not a doctor, but someone more experienced with ticks than he'd like.

 

[Squisher]

Originally posted by: Platypus

Originally posted by: wade3
So yea I did some research and I should be fine. most ticks are harmless

Its a small kind, prolly got it from the woods I go hunting twice a week in.

Size has NOTHING to do with it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyme_disease

I'd go get checked.

From that link:

Tick removal

Many old wives' tales exist about the proper and effective method to remove a tick, however it is generally agreed that the most effective method is to pull it straight out with tweezers.[82] Data have demonstrated that prompt removal of an infected tick, within approximately 36 hours, reduces the risk of transmission to nearly zero; however the small size of the tick, especially in the nymph stage, may make detection difficult.[68]

 

[wade3]

Originally posted by: mugs
You go hunting twice a week and you don't know what a tick looks like? How is that possible?

you gotta start somewhere

anyways it's more like chasing rabbits and turkeys at my friends farm with my bb gun