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I am passing this along from a school nurse...
If you find an attached tick, a very effective way to remove it completely, is to soak a cotton ball with dish detergent and put it over the tick. The tick will detach itself from the skin and become entangled in the cotton fibers. You can then remove it, cotton ball and all and flush or dispose of it. It stands to reason, that with very small children, you could also use baby shampoo or even baby oil. The tick should detach itself within minutes.
I did pull a dog tick off of my neck about 3 weeks ago. My skin was crawling for days afterward.
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Ticks are yucky and you have to be very careful with removal. The above story has been circulating over the last year. I work in the health profession I can tell you that this type of removal is an urban legend and false. I have included the links to
www.snopes.com that discusses this and links to the CDC for proper removal and signs to watch for. Ticks aren't something you want to take a chance with on partial removal.
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvrd/rmsf/Q&A.htm#tick
http://www.snopes.com/oldwives/tick.asp