Tick Twister Won’t Leave Mouth-Parts of The Tick Implanted in The Skin

Designed by a French veterinarian in 1990, Tick Twister has been one of effective tick removal tools in the market. This little tool works almost all the time, we said almost, because it works best for engorged tick (it looks like grey raisins on the skin). For tick that is still in feeding process and not yet engorged, it would be a bit difficult to get it off.

Tick Twister removes the tick without having to compress its body while detaching from the skin, by doing this, we can avoid the possibility of the tick’s body fluids injected into the wound site. Do you know when tick bites, it injects hypostome (long, central mouth-part) into the skin? Well this part is covered with sharp spikes which help keep the tick tightly attached while feeding. Instead of pulling the tick, Tick Twister features twisting motion to remove the tick while keeping the tick’s mouth-parts intact, using the traditional tick remover, there’s possibility that the mouth-parts left in the skin.

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