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Dental floss or thin thread can be used to remove a tick. Simply take your floss or thread and, getting at close to the skin as possible, loop it around the head of the tick. Tighten the loop and carefully and firmly pull your floss or string upward.

What to avoid. Do not try to: Smother a tick that is stuck to your skin with petroleum jelly, nail polish, gasoline, or rubbing alcohol.

Clean the skin with rubbing alcohol. Use a sterile needle to uncover the head and lift it out. If a small piece of the head remains, the skin will slowly shed it. If most of the head is left, call your doctor for help.

The best way to remove a tick is to use tweezers. The easiest and simplest way to make a tick back out is to detach it manually with tweezers. Grasp the tick with the tweezers as close to the skin's surface as possible. Pull the tick upward with steady, even pressure without twisting the tick.

Clean the area around the tick bite with rubbing alcohol. Get your tweezers right down on your skin so you can grab as close as possible to the tick's head. Pull up slow and firm. Don't jerk or twist; a nice, steady pressure straight up will do.

Dental floss or thin thread can be used to remove a tick. Simply take your floss or thread and, getting at close to the skin as possible, loop it around the head of the tick. Tighten the loop and carefully and firmly pull your floss or string upward.

The CDC discourages "folklore remedies" like nail polish, petroleum jelly (Vaseline), and heat that lift the tick away from the skin, since they rely on waiting for a tick to detach, which takes longer.

Touching it with a hot match is a common one. Others include covering it with petroleum jelly or nail polish (in theory to suffocate it), or freezing it off. These are all supposed to make the tick back out of the skin on its own.

Do not twist the tick when pulling it out. Do not try to kill, smother, or lubricate the tick with oil, alcohol, petroleum jelly, or similar material while the tick is still embedded in the skin.

Use clean, fine-tipped tweezers to grasp the tick as close to the skin's surface as possible. Pull upward with steady, even pressure. Don't twist or jerk the tick; this can cause the mouth-parts to break off and remain in the skin. If this happens, remove the mouth-parts with tweezers.