best tick removal kit

tick removal kit? I have been googling all different ones and am now obsessed with finding the "ideal" one. IS it best to have blunt tweezers or the scraping tool?We will be heading out on many camping trips this summer and I am ,well, freakin' out at the prospect of my family being around so many of those little buggers.

Thanks!!!!

AMY

Clayton posted a site about The Tick Tactic. Each kit is $5.99. It looked like a great kit to have. It has blunt tip tweezers. I pick tweezers. That's what we used to remove my latest tick. They worked great, got the mouthparts and all. Lovely, just lovely. ugh..

What will you use for tick repellent?

Connie

http://www.allterrainco.com/insect_repellent.html

my daughter used it in tropical forests of Costa Rica last year and it ourperformed the DEET!!!

I agree that tweezer type better than scraper types--dont want to squash the tick or do anything that makes it more likely it injects more juices into you!!

Whole Foods carries All Terrain insect repellant if you don't want to order online.

AMY

I use Lemon Eucalputus it has right on it, "For deer ticks" I get mine at Drugstore.com I used it the other day and I did not get one mosquitoe bite and I was out in the woods all day not one tick on me...I LOVE IT

msds http://www.repel.com/ProductCategories/Insectrepellents/ LemonEucalyptus/MSDS/default.htm

relatively safe...but has ethanol and hydrocarbon propellant---so watch it with little kids--not to breathe in or ingest accidentally

a few are allergic to this plant---and you can plant it too---also many lemon scented herbs claim to be protective as well against various pests

with anything--evn deet--still do tick checks, shower,avoid underbrush and be vigilant

F