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  2. How to Remove a Tick Head From Your Skin—the Right Way - AOL

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    Spread your dog’s fur, and grasp the tick as close to the skin as possible using fine-point tweezers or tick-removal hook. Very gently, pull straight upward, in a slow, steady motion. Dispose of ...

  3. How to remove ticks and what to know about these ... - AOL

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    Ticks are parasitic bloodsuckers, capable of spreading deadly disease, and they are becoming increasingly common. Here’s what you need to know about them. How to remove ticks and what to know ...

  4. How do you remove a tick? Here's your answer - AOL

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    Instead, the CDC says to get a pair of pointy tweezers, grab onto the tick and pull straight up and steady. And then flush it right down the toilet. And then flush it right down the toilet.

  5. Dermacentor variabilis - Wikipedia

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    Another removal method is a tick removal hook: one places the prongs of the device on either side of the tick and twists upward. [10] Tick removal hooks are recommended in areas where ticks are common. [10] Removing the tick with fingers is never a good idea because squeezing to grasp the tick could potentially inject more infectious material. [10]

  6. Tick - Wikipedia

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    Ticks are external parasites, living by feeding on the blood of mammals, birds, and sometimes reptiles and amphibians. The timing of the origin of ticks is uncertain, though the oldest known tick fossils are from the Cretaceous period, around 100 million years old. Ticks are widely distributed around the world, especially in warm, humid climates.

  7. Tick paralysis - Wikipedia

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    The tick is best removed by grasping it as close to the skin as possible and pulling in a firm steady manner. [5] Because the toxin lies in the tick's salivary glands, care must be taken to remove the entire tick (including the head), or symptoms may persist, although this is not true at least of Ixodes holocyclus (Australian paralysis tick).

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