Interesting Tick Removal Theory

[ChinMusic]

Again I ask the moderators to remove this thread entirely.

I agree. False medical information should be removed from this site.

[Fog Horn]

I agree. False medical information should be removed from this site.

I think this thread should stand. Amidst the catty arguments, there really is some useful information on this thread. I wouldn't have known without this thread, for example, the different kinds of tools released that are specifically to get a tick out. Or that a tick throws up in your wound, I always thought you wanted to twist it out so that you wouldn't get the head stuck in there.

Another thing that I took away from this thread is that I, and indeed every other hiker on this forum, should find the system that works best for themselves, and accept that others have other systems. This could be said of tick removal and of any other aspect of the hiking world.

I think that anyone who reads this thread gets by page one that the information on the OP may be less than helpful, so I don't feel it should be removed. No harm no foul, and we all learned something

[kanga]

whaa, whaa, whaa! i don't get my way so i want this thread removed immediately! whaa, whaa, whaa!

[ChinMusic]

whaa, whaa, whaa! i don't get my way so i want this thread removed immediately! whaa, whaa, whaa!

You really need to find something more healthy to fixate on

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[Skidsteer]

I agree. False medical information should be removed from this site.

Wait a minute.

The debate is all here in this nifty little thread for everyone to read, comprehend, and make their own decisions. You know, like grown-ups are supposed to do.

Removing it would just open the door wide open in the future for another thread just like this one. Like groundhog day for ticks.

Plus if we leave this one up, new members can more easily identify the dick heads on the site. Jus' sayin'.

[ChinMusic]

Removing it would just open the door wide open in the future for another thread just like this one. Like groundhog day for ticks.

There was already a thread on this from 2007. I posted the link. That thread didn't stop the Groundhog Day effect.

Plus if we leave this one up, new members can more easily identify the dick heads on the site. Jus' sayin'.

Dickheads can be right, ya know.......

[Sierra Echo]

Sierra Echo, I do not know you, but you started this mess and you continue to chastise me, why? Can"t you admit you are wrong? I can but in this case I am not. The advise you gave is wrong, admit it. Look at the facts on tick removal from any reliable source and they will tell you NOT to do what you recommend. You and that quack DOC are being childish and pig headed and cannot back up your facts. There are warnings out this year about the spread on Lyme Disease and AT thru hikers every year fall victim to this disease. Again I ask the moderators to remove this thread entirely.

Listen to you! LOL You sound like a 5 yr old that no one is paying too so you are stomping your foot in frustration!

[gungho]

oooooooooo for christs saks somebody needs their passy...............grow the****up

[ChinMusic]

I am the only one here that thinks karo is the grownup?

[karo]

Proper and improper tick removal method according to American Family Physician
http://www.shtfinfo.com/shtffiles/me...ck_Removal.pdf

Recent Pediatrics handout on Tick removal:
http://www.andorrapediatrics.com/ap_...val.htmhttp://

Proper removal of ticks according to JAMA
http://www.immumed.de/JAMA%20Borreliose.pdf

[karo]

I am the only one here that thinks karo is the grownup?

Thanks Chinmusic, at least someone on this thread has an open, objective and sensible point of view. As DOC said things change, and evidently he has not kept up with the changes in medicene. The last or latest use of the method of using a substance to sufficate a tick was 1984. At least this thread has some use after all, maybe people will learn to not believe anything on the internet and use their common sense to educate themselves on facts not conjecture, superstition and old wives tales.

[karo]

Then leave this thread up and everyone will see who the child really is. Ask your family physician if you don't believe me, call your local hospital, maybe you don't like the "old wives tale" remark I don't know what your problem is, but I am grown up and you are being the spoiled brat.

Listen to you! LOL You sound like a 5 yr old that no one is paying too so you are stomping your foot in frustration!

[karo]

oooooooooo for christs saks somebody needs their passy...............grow the****up

If you can't add any more that that you shut up, read something else if you don't like this thread, there are grown-ups here kiddo.

[Sierra Echo]

If you can't add any more that that you shut up, read something else if you don't like this thread, there are grown-ups here kiddo.

Well a least there was til you showed back up!!!

[ChinMusic]

Well a least there was til you showed back up!!!

I'll have to look at who had the first post of the day in this thread.

looking, looking, looking...........found it.

Dear God please save us from certified Red Cross First Aid Instructors and their minions. Thank you.

Hey that was YOU.

[kanga]

dear lord, please save us from red cross instructors and their minions. amen.

[hikerboy57]

Now, what was the question?

[kanga]

[ChinMusic]

dear lord, please save us from red cross instructors and their minions. amen.

From your previous posts I really thought differently of you.

Do you REALLY not agree that the OP has been sufficiently dispatched?

Why attack those that are right?

[karo]

Now that's funny I don't care who you are!