Removing a tick

Summary of changes

• Examples of recommended agents for tick removal updated
• Added advice to grasp tick by it's mouth parts with tweezers

Primary references

1. Australia Government Department of Health (2015) Preventing and treating tick bites, Communicable Disease Factsheets, accessed 11 January 2022.

2. Australian society of clinical immunology and allergy (2019) Tick Allergy, accessed 7 October 2022.

3. British Columbia Centre for Disease Control (2016) Tick Bites and Disease, HealthLinkBC Files, accessed 7 October 2022.

4. Taylor BWP, Ratchford A, van Nunen S and Burns B (2019) 'Tick killing in situ before removal to prevent allergic and anaphylactic reactions in humans: a cross-sectional study', Asia Pacific Allergy, 9(2):e15, doi:10.5415/apallergy.2019.9.e15