Treating Tick Bites with Aspirin?

[LancesMom]

Treat Tick Bites with Aspirin

Of course, step one is to get the creepy little pest off of you -- no small feat if its head is already embedded in your skin. Avoid yanking or twisting (you’ll make the tick panic and throw up its bacteria-laden contents into your skin). Instead, calmly grip it near the neck with tweezers and pull gently until it slips out. Then, to quash pain, immediately crush an aspirin, add just enough water to make a slush and dab it onto the inflamed area. Leave it there until you feel relief -- approximately 10 minutes.

Why it Works: Aspirin’s salicylic acid is a powerful anti-inflammatory that helps reduce redness, inflammation and itchiness in as little as 20 minutes, say doctors at Pennsylvania’s Thomas Jefferson University. One caveat: Watch for signs of infection (like headaches, fever, chills, a rash or muscle weakness) within four weeks of the bite, and report them to your doctor if they do crop up. These symptoms can signal Lyme disease -- a tick-transmitted bacterial infection that, according to researchers at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, NY, can drag on for years if left untreated.

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Wow! Who new!

[LifeCafe42]

I'd still go to the Dr. Tics carry all sorts of diseases at the office I work at we have a huge work up if someone comes in with a tic

[Jess1231]

I'm terrified of ticks

[jen113000]

 Ticks are the worst!

[deedee3849]

I had never been bit by a tick until this past spring. I was pulling my hair back into a pony tail and I felt something on my head. I thought a bud from a tree had fallen in my hair and when I pulled it out it was a tick!!!!!!!!! I freaked!!!!!! It was one of the grossest things that has ever happened to me. I was so worried I'd get Lyme's disease. The particular one I had on me wasn't a deer tick, it was another kind. After asking around I found that it is unlikely that I would get an illness but it still freaked me out lol! I just watched the area (had my dh check my scalp) for redness.

[Vertical15]

Great now I have the heebie-jeebies!  I can't stand ticks.  My youngest has had two on him, both in his hair this year already.  Good to know about the aspirin.

[WildCat73]

i hate ticks