{"id":24652,"date":"2022-12-28T10:33:18","date_gmt":"2022-12-28T15:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/?p=24652"},"modified":"2022-12-30T09:53:07","modified_gmt":"2022-12-30T14:53:07","slug":"tip-12-dont-dread-the-broken-head-on-your-tick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/ticksmart-tips\/tip-12-dont-dread-the-broken-head-on-your-tick\/","title":{"rendered":"Tip #11: Don&#8217;t dread the broken &#8220;head&#8221; on your tick"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p id=\"brokenhead\">The second greatest fear people have about tick bites, after contracting Lyme disease, is leaving the tick\u2019s mouth or head in their skin. The 2 most common \u201cbreaking points\u201d during tick removal are at the base of the hypostome and the head capsule. Not to worry though. Once either \u201cbreak\u201d happens, there\u2019s no greater risk for disease transmission just because that part of the tick is still sticking in you. Breaking the tick at either point breaks the connection with the salivary glands, which are back further in the tick\u2019s body and where the germs flow from. Squeezing the back end of the tick during removal is riskier. Check out our tips for safe tick removal <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/pointytweezers?fbclid=IwAR0OCSpiRaaIJviennUh2PPpcVQQMXcKIspHGZ71vVqd-I3b9D4YuaJdAYs\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/pointytweezers<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"cl-wrapper cl-share-wrapper\"><div class=\"cl-share color  \"><div class=\"cl-share-label\">Share:<\/div><ul class=\"cl-share-buttons\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?text=Tip #11: Don&#8217;t dread the broken &#8220;head&#8221; on your tick&amp;url=https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/ticksmart-tips\/tip-12-dont-dread-the-broken-head-on-your-tick\/\" title=\"Share on Twitter\" class=\"cl-share-twitter share-twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Twitter<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/ticksmart-tips\/tip-12-dont-dread-the-broken-head-on-your-tick\/\" title=\"Share on Facebook\" class=\"cl-share-facebook share-facebook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The second greatest fear people have about tick bites, after contracting Lyme disease, is leaving the tick\u2019s mouth or head in their skin. The 2 most common \u201cbreaking points\u201d during tick removal are at the base of the hypostome and the head capsule. Not to worry though. Once either \u201cbreak\u201d happens, there\u2019s no greater risk [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3983,"featured_media":24651,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[493],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ticksmart-tips"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3983"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24652"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24786,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24652\/revisions\/24786"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/tickencounter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}