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If you attempt to remove a tick but its head or mouthparts are left behind in your pet, don't panic. You've killed the tick and removed its body, preventing any serious risk of disease transmission. The residual parts, however, could still lead to an infection at the attachment site.

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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.

Smother a tick that is stuck to your skin with petroleum jelly, nail polish, gasoline, or rubbing alcohol. Burn the tick while it is stuck to your skin.

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.

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.

If You Can't Readily Reach the Tick "We recommend using tweezers, because it's the simplest and best way to grasp close enough to the mouth parts and pull out a tick without breaking off the head," he says.