Lyme

In this episode of the Patoka Sportsmen, Gene discusses the various types of ticks that are in Indiana. He also discusses the process of removing them.

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would the vet’s remove the tick and the head so that it doesnt get infected with a serious disease and if they removed the tick would they give my dog a type of treatment such as spray to prevent ticks from coming back again? Many Thanks!

Yes they will, and they will prescribe you a treatment.

BTW: I see no reason why you could take it off, letting the tick stay lodged in the dog, uppens the threat of disease and parasites spreading, all you need is Tweezers and sanitizer, there are plenty of methods to getting ticks off….

My dog got ticks and i don’t know if with powder the ticks come off by themselves or some one has to pull them off.

Thank U !LoL!

You need to pull them out.Make sure you grab them and slowly pull staright out.You want the whole tick.Do not leave the head in as this will give him Lyme diesease.When your done go get some Frontline and put this on your dog to prevent further infestation..

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my puppy has about a hundred.

Follow these:

Don’t remove the tick with your fingers.
In many areas of the country the tick is likely to be carrying lyme disease or other pathogens that can harm humans.

Don’t squash the tick.
The spirochete that causes Lyme disease hibernates in the tick’s intestine, sometimes for years, waiting for a signal that a new host is available. This signal, an influx of fresh blood, triggers an enormous increase in the spirochete population. After filling the intestine, spirochetes move to the salivary glands and enter the their new host along with anticoagulants and anesthetics produced by the tick. Squashing the tick spreads spirochetes everywhere.

Don’t try to burn the tick or smother it with Vaseline etc..
Once that tick is firmly fastened in place, it takes time for the tick to detach itself and depart. No matter how badly the tick may wish to leave quickly, it simply can’t. A burning cigarette may kill the tick but won’t make it fall off. Ticks can live without air for a long time, so attempts to smother it allow disease transmission to continue for several hours. Anything that upsets or harms the tick without removing it can theoretically cause the tick to regurgitate its stomach contents back into the host, increasing the likelihood of disease transmission.

Don’t twist the tick out.
Ticks aren’t threaded. Your best chance of removing the head is pulling straight out with steady traction. Twisting invariably leaves the head behind. Because tick-twisters don’t feel the head break off they think it has been removed.

Clean the area with an alcohol-soaked cotton ball.

Using blunt tweezers, grasp the tick as near to its mouthparts and as close to the skin as you can. Steadily pull the tick up and out, but do not squeeze or twist the tick.

Do not attempt to pull the tick off with your fingers, as the head may break off from the body and become embedded in the skin.

Do not use heat from a match or a lit cigarette to remove the tick, as the heat may cause the tick to embed itself even farther into the skin.

do not burn the tick with a match! do not use gasoline, turpentine or any irritating chemical to make the tick “back out”.

If the tick’s head is embedded in the skin:
With your thumb and forefinger pinch up the fold of skin with the embedded tick head.

Using a scalpel or a sterilized single razor blade, carefully scrape the skin containing the head and mouth of the tick, or use a sterilized needle to break the skin and remove the head and mouth. If you are tick squeamish, ask you doctor to perform this tick extraction.

Cleanse the bitten area thoroughly with an antiseptic.

two tick from my cat

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…Besides having to actually remove them. I have been searching and everything says they need to be removed. So is there an alternative? Something I can put on the dog so they can just fall off? Please help…it is sad to see Noi like this. I don’t know what to do, it is crazy. Suggests something to me please. There are too many.
How much do you think it will cost me to get him to the vet and get something that works?
And when i say too many i mean A LOT i cant do it… :/
Oh yeah one more thing, so they get removed then what? He’s an outside dog. What should i do about the land?

Shampoos, tweezers (make sure you get the head of the tick buried under the skin or it will get infected).

Another home method is to light a match, blow it out, then press the hot match against the tick and it will release its hold and fall out. However, for this you will need a compliant dog who will sit still so you don’t burn him. Apple cider vinegar and lavendar are two other methods that may repel ticks, if you give your dog a bath and put some of these in the area of the ticks during the bath.

But if there are multiple ticks in a concentrated area, I’d recommend going to the vet to get them removed. If it was just a couple, doing it yourself at home would suffice. But with many of them, it’s more likely you could break off the head under the dog’s skin and you don’t want that to get infected.

i hate ticks and am afraid of pulling or burning them off.

Here’s an email I received about this just today; hope it’s helpful. 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.

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!’

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I just removed a tick from my dog. I used to tweezers to get it off. Is there anything I should do to make sure there is nothing left of it there?

Just put a dap of antibiotic cream on the bite site. Never burn a tick out of your dog. The possibility of burning the dogs skin is to high and it not any better than just using the tweezers.