To think this is a tick? (Urgent!!)

[britneyisfree]

Please help, I'm not from the country so I know nothing about stuff like this.

My DD went for a walk with nursery and has come home with this on her leg. She says it hurts.

NO please don't do this.

You need to get it out without stressing it.

We get several ticks daily in the summer. No need to panic. You can just lift them with a nail, tweezers, or a tick twister. You get credit card device that is quite handy, I keep one in my purse.

And ticks do not start to exchange bloods with the human host immediately, so don't panic about lymes etc. If you get it out within the first day all will be fine; if you don't just keep an eye for a target rash.

Don't twist it, just pull up and out.

@detroitMC5 I've just taken her to the pharmacist and they've said it's fine to take out? The doctor can not see her. They've given me the tool to use. Not sure what to think now

I keep a couple of tick removers in my first aid kit. Always tick check at the end of the day when we've been out for a walk.
Note the date down in your calendar if/when you get them in case there are fluey symptoms a few days or weeks later. A few facts:

Most ticks don't carry lyme disease.
Lyme disease isn't the only zoonotic disease that ticks can transmit.
Lyme disease doesn't always present with the typical bulls eye rash. Sometimes there is no rash, sometimes it can present with a widespread disseminated rash, so if there are flu type symptoms after a tick bite it needs checking out.
If caught early, Lyme disease can be effectively and completely treated. (mine was)

It's NHS advice that it's fine to use tweezers. Chill.

Glad the chemist could help OP.

I've had no dealings with tic's as of yet and curiosity lead me to YouTube, big mistake. Yuck.

Looks like a tick to me

get the tool. I live in the forest and we have these all the time. Don’t try to just pull it out. We once left a tiny bit of a tick head and it had to be scrapped out with a needle on my daughter who was 4…..not nice.

Seriously. Use the remover. They are magic!

How do you do is put the tool against the tick and then begin to twist that you're winding up a clock clockwise clockwise clockwise, it then pops like magic! It's the most amazing tool about. I tried tweezers, burning, Vasoline all of it in the past but this works like a dream. You'll always want to have one in your house the rest of your life after this, I promise you!

All I can tell you, even with the fact I have no health insurance, I would be finding a doc. The longer you leave it in the worse it is, but if it vomits or you break it off it is a really bad thing. Why can you not get the child in to see a doctor as an emergency. To be frank, I would rather waste an ER's time than fuck that up and leave mouth parts in a child.

You can take it out, my husband gets ticks weekly. Just go for it - you can do it easily with the tick remover they've given you, just read the instructions and do it.

Follow the pharmacist, they've seen it. Best to get it out quicker rather than waiting for an appointment.
Pull out according to the instructions on the remover you got. When you pull it out follow nhs advice of cleaning the area and check you have the whole tick.

If you do get it out

you MUST twist it!! Don’t pull straight out.

Burning it, smothering it - they all lead to the tick vomiting and that is really not good! Get proper medical advice, OP.

"It's NHS advice that it's fine to use tweezers. Chill."

Terrible outdated advice.

The tool the chemist gave you will work 100%.

Tweezers are hit and miss. If you get it wrong they bout or leave the head buried. This twisty thing is just pure magic. Defies all knowledge!

DO not put anything on the tick (vaseline, nail varnish) . I recommend a tick remover which is a (cheap) little plastic prong available from any chemist, vet, pet store. It is the safest most effective way to get the whole tick off (easy and painlessly) . Anything else risks breakig off the body leaving the biting mouth embedded in skin.

Don't panic; the vast majority of tickbites produce no problems at all. We've been bitten scores of times (living in the Lyme centre of UK)

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I would try if I were you OP. Then if you’re not certain you’ve got all the head parts out then I’d go to A&E.
I’d have a look at some YouTube videos first to give you some confidence.

I really hope so - on both counts!

Hopefully you’ll have got rid if it now.
Ticks are common in many areas-
The tool will get the blighter off.

Then once off, kill it.
Horrid things.

Gosh - I think you should immediately inform the NHS that their advice (linked) is incorrect.

The tool is good to use.

Stop giving advice if you don't know the CORRECT advice to give. You DO NOT twist.

Put it in the tick remover thing, right close to the skin. You may take a couple of goes to get it right. Then twist it out and flush it down the loo. Put some antiseptic cream on the bite. Don't worry! They are very common, and easy to remove once you get the hang of it. We live near a heath where there's lots of them. They perch on the end of fern leaves and jump on people/animals as they brush past.

My friend's daughter was bitten by a tick a few years ago and has since developed Alpha-gal syndrome so worth being aware of this in the future.

All the talk of A&E is nuts!
They are so simple to remove oneself.
Absolutely no need to go to A&E to remove ticks-
If that was the case, A&E would be littered with mountain bikers, picnickers, dog walkers who brush through grasses and bracken.