My Tick Bite

[Tilly2]

...still hasn't popped. The infection has gone after taking the antibiotics but the tick head is still in there. I am bathing it with hot salty water and have had a go at squeezing it but all that happens is that the skin abrades and a clear fluid comes out. Yesterday, I resorted to a needle and tweezers but made a right mess and it's now very very sore sore.

Any suggestions as to how it can be drawn out?

[alavahalf]

Just Googled Clavicle.. Easy job.. Just apply more whiskey.

[sanmac]

Sqad, many, many years ago I had a summer job as an orderly in a local hospital, and in the ward prep-room there was a canister containing a mixture of mustard-seeds and other ingredients. We used to make a paste using that mixture and hot water and then spread in on a towel and fold the towel in such a fashion that the stuff didn't leak out. It was then applied to the affected area of the patient, but you had to check on it every so often to make sure that the skin wasn't blistering...I realize that it sounds really weird now writing about it:)

[Mamyalynne]

Mustard poultices/plasters were more for chesty coughs etc.

https://tipnut.com/mustard-plaster/


My Gran used to use a sugar and soap poultice to draw abscesses and the like, it also removed a lot of good tissue sadly.

[Sqad]

sanmac.....I would not have any objection to that line of treatment particularly as a home remedy. It is the heat that is effective rather than the mustard. I wouldn't use that method on an open wound,but might me beneficial in "bringing it to a head." Epsom or Magnesium works in a different way and is efficacious after the abscess has stated to burst.

[sanmac]

Sqad, in that same prep-room we used to whip up soap-suds enemas...I kid you not:)

[Mamyalynne]

That's why is was referred to as 'having a good clear out'.

[Sqad]

sanmac....wasn't it called the sluice LOL ?
Had many a snog in there as a student and even with the Ward Sister on one occasion.

[sanmac]

Yes, some staff-members did refer to that room at the utility-room as it did have many...eh...uses:)

[Tilly2]

Snogging in the sluice?

[Mamyalynne]

He was notorious for it Tilly.

[pixie374]

We've used poultices for horses, same method and principle. Cheap and easy.

[Toorak]

Tilly, is there a local minor injuries unit you could go to to get someone to help take it out?

[Tilly2]

Gness, I don't have any raisins. Will a sultana do?

[Vagus]

Not currantly...

[bednobs]

Last time I needed magnesium paste I had a lot of trouble getting some. None of the chemists had any and they had all never heard of using it for the purposes of drawing things out. They were all foetuses though:)

[Bazile]

//sanmac....wasn't it called the sluice LOL ?
Had many a snog in there as a student and even with the Ward Sister on one occasion.//

sqad - are you sure you weren't story consultant on ' carry on nurse ' :-)

[Peter Pedant]

Dr pimple popper ?
any glad to hear it is the head and not borrellia

[Peter Pedant]

snogging in the sluice?
which part of her were you er snogging

[shoota]

Got any crows...?

[shoota]

Or a vulture maybe?