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Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.59,0:00:01.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hi, I'm Gary McDougall.\N(Penticton, B.C. and Area Lyme Group)
Dialogue: 0,0:00:01.93,0:00:07.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I wanted to show you one of the best methods for \Nremoval of a tick once it's embedded in your system.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:07.18,0:00:09.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let's pretend that this balloon is a tick
Dialogue: 0,0:00:09.10,0:00:12.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that's worked its way down in via its mouth parts
Dialogue: 0,0:00:12.38,0:00:13.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,into your skin.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:13.60,0:00:16.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So this is its body out here, and this is its mouth.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:16.59,0:00:19.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, hopefully you'll never find a tick this large in you,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:19.48,0:00:21.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because of course you'll have some problems.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:21.26,0:00:23.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But people come up to me and they say
Dialogue: 0,0:00:23.49,0:00:25.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Y'know what I've done is, I've used a hot match,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:25.76,0:00:28.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or I've used Vaseline to get rid of it".
Dialogue: 0,0:00:28.75,0:00:30.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The thing is, you don't want to do that
Dialogue: 0,0:00:30.49,0:00:31.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because remember
Dialogue: 0,0:00:31.42,0:00:33.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this is its mouth parts inside your skin,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:33.62,0:00:36.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and if you did that to it, they tend to vomit.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:36.97,0:00:38.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What then happens is
Dialogue: 0,0:00:38.52,0:00:41.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it then comes out in your system.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:41.13,0:00:44.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So its stomach contents will eject into your system.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:44.23,0:00:46.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You also don't want to grab it by the top
Dialogue: 0,0:00:46.71,0:00:48.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and pull it off with your fingers
Dialogue: 0,0:00:48.70,0:00:50.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because you've just squeezed
Dialogue: 0,0:00:50.39,0:00:53.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a dirty hypodermic needle into your system.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:53.14,0:00:54.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The best way to do it
Dialogue: 0,0:00:54.51,0:00:58.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is to get some small very sharp pointed tweezers.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:58.22,0:00:59.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These are very large for this demonstration,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:59.89,0:01:01.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but they'd be much smaller than this.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:01.72,0:01:04.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You work it in underneath the tick's body
Dialogue: 0,0:01:04.45,0:01:07.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because its head is down in your skin there.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:07.42,0:01:09.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you squeeze it, and that cuts off its throat,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:09.95,0:01:13.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so it can't regurgitate into your skin to begin with.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:13.94,0:01:15.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then very carefully
Dialogue: 0,0:01:15.23,0:01:18.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,without twisting and turning, just pull straight up.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:18.04,0:01:19.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the interesting thing is
Dialogue: 0,0:01:19.03,0:01:21.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it'll look just like this, as its head pulls out.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:21.86,0:01:24.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And hopefully it'll come out clean and in one piece,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:24.68,0:01:26.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then you put on an antiseptic on there,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:26.69,0:01:28.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you're done, that's all there is to it.