Tick Nipper
Tick remover for people and pets
Quicker and safer than fingers or tweezersThe Tick Nipper®’s jaws are thinner than the tips of tweezers so they slide under the tick’s body without squeezing it. Then the big stops between the handles keep you from cutting the tick as you grip it. The jaws are nearly an inch long, giving you control you can't get with tweezers or fingers.
The Tick Nipper® doesn’t ‘grab’ the tick. Instead, its jaws ‘yoke’ loosely around the tick's narrow mouthparts. When you pull the tick out, those jaws exert pressure on the tick’s shoulders and pop it out. This patented action lets you remove any tick - even tiny nymphs - from any person or animal.
The Tick Nipper Features:
Made of tough lightweight engineering plastic.Long, thin jaws slide under tick without cutting or squeezing it.Bowl-shaped jaws cradle tick safely after liftoff.Washable with soapy water after use. Dishwasher safe.20X lens in hub let you examine the tick afterward.Holes in handle let you hang it on a hook.Big stops between handles keep you from cutting tick as you grip it.Slips easily into your pocket for quick use when you need it.Tick Removal Do’s and Don’ts
DON’T touch the tick with heat, such as a lighted cigarette or burnt match, or with chemicals such as Vaseline or nail polish. Why? These irritants make the tick back out of the wound in order to escape, and in so doing it injects a blast of saliva to lubricate its mouthpart so it can pull out its backward-facing barbs. The saliva can contain disease-causing bacteria, so the use of irritants greatly increases the odds of infection in the host. DON’T rotate a tick when removing it. Why? This action tears the tick's body from its well-anchored mouthparts, leaving those mouthparts behind in the victim's skin. DON’T remove a tick with your fingers. Why? A tick’s swollen body is like an eyedropper. If you squeeze it, you may inject the blood and any disease germs back into the wound.DON’T remove ticks with tweezers. Why? This may come as a surprise, but there are several reasons why you shouldn’t remove ticks with tweezers :
1. Regular tweezers are too thick to fit between a feeding tick's body and the host's skin, and will therefore squeeze the tick in the process of removing it.
2. Even fine-tipped surgeon's tweezers are tapered: only their tips can be used for effective tick removal. But because the 'safe' area of use is so small, it's difficult to control the action of these types of tweezers, so you will likely end up squeezing the tick anyway.
3. Even if you could place a tweezers tips between the tick's body and the host's skin without squeezing the tick, you would almost inevitably crush the tick's brittle mouthparts, leaving them in the host, in the process of exerting enough pressure to remove the tick. What to do after you've removed a tick:
1. Scrub the wound with antiseptic. Alcohol is best, because it swells exposed tissues, which flushes the wound and kills any germs left on the skin or just below. This is why nurses scrub an inoculation with alcohol after removing the needle.
2. Either save the tick for medical analysis or dispose of it. If you save it (a good idea if removed from a human) place it in a small container (this could be a sealable 'baggie') with a wad of wet cotton or other moist object to keep it from desiccating, and add a label that gives the date the tick was removed. If you dispose of the tick, wrap it in the alcohol-soaked tissue you scrubbed the wound with and burn it, or drop it into a little jar half filled with alcohol and periodically dispose of the contents. Don’t flush a tick down the toilet, since they like moisture and, although there's no research to prove that ticks can escape from a septic system, there's no sense taking a chance. Another good method is to wrap the tick in a piece of tape, from which it can never escape.
Actual Size:
4-1/4” L