Removing a Tick

If you are going to be spending any time outdoors during the Spring and Summer, it is important to learn to protect your family from diseases that can be caused by ticks, including:

• Lyme disease
• Rocky Mountain spotted fever
• babesiosis
• ehrlichiosis
• Q-fever
• Southern tick-associated rash illness
• tick-borne relapsing fever
• tularemia
• Colorado tick fever

Unfortunately, no matter how careful you are in trying to protect your kids from tick bites, you may occasionally find a tick on your child and you will need to remove it. Removing a tick quickly is important, because the longer it is attached to your child, the more likely that your child will get infected with one of the tick borne illnesses described above.