sestoppelman
AH ambassador
Well that doesnt sound like much fun!!![Eek! :eek: :eek:](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/twitter/twemoji@14.0.2/assets/72x72/1f631.png)
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Unless they removed it correctly you still stand a good chance of getting TBF.
If you take the meds the symptoms will last about a week & if you don't they'll last about 7 days! LOL
I just got back from SA and found a large green tick attached to....yes, my scrotum !
I immediately went to the hospital where it was cleanly removed
Some advice on Ticks from Africa...and I can presume elsewhere!
You get tick fever from the head of the tick staying in your body. When they bite, they bury their heads in your skin. when you pull them or scratch them off most often the head stays in you. This then becomes septic causing tick bite fever.
WHEN YOU FIND A TICK ON YOU...THINGS YOU CAN DO!
1/ Use a nail clipper or a small scissors and just clip the tick in half. Leave it...the head will then withdraw over a coupla hours and you're good to go!
2/ Use some liquid soap and smear it onto the tick/s...It'll come off very quickly. If you have pepper ticks, you can just cover yourself with the soap and then wait a coupla minutes....like 5 then shower.
3/ if you don't have either of the two above, get some diesel on a rag and wipe yourself down where the ticks are, wait a minute or two then shower. It doesn't smell nice but it gets rid of the ticks.
I don't know where that advice came from but it is NOT CORRECT for African ticks and such actions are VERY likely to give you TBF.
The correct way to remove a tick is;
Grab tick firmly with tweezers under it's head where mouth parts are embedded
Carefully push down to disengage the 'teeth' from your skin
Pull tick away
f it does not come off at once, rock it from side to side. It should definitely come off then.
Apply a little antiseptic cream
Lighted cigarettes, cutting them in two, cutting off their air supply and/or pulling them off of you etc causes them to vomit their bacteria-ridden gut contents into the wound which results in your contracting TBF.
I suppose she is a city girl had never seen a tick before :laughing: