NPO Gear Review – RID-A-TICK: A Safe and Easy Tick Removal System

NPO Gear Review – RID-A-TICK: A Safe and Easy Tick Removal System

By Tyler Frantz

I’ve put off this review long enough, and as helpful of a product as this system is, I just can’t wait any longer to get the information out there to the public. Normally, I won’t review a product until I’ve personally tried it myself, but unbelievably, I have yet to pick up an embedded tick this spring/summer (I suppose that’s a good thing).

Nevertheless, I have spoken with multiple outdoors enthusiasts who HAVE used the product, and they swear by it. I trust their honesty and will take their word for it. Allow me to introduce “Rid-A-Tick” by T. Martin Sales of Minneapolis, Minnesota.

The Rid-A-Tick system is a tick removal product made in the USA from 3M hypoallergenic, latex-free medical adhesive, which is safe to use on both humans and animals.

Since ticks breathe through their exoskeleton, this system utilizes a disc patch to smother the tick for several minutes until it backs itself out of the skin and the tick can be encapsulated within the patch with a fully contained blood transfer.

The folded disc can then be discarded or taken to a doctor for professional analysis, tick identification, and testing for Lyme and other tick-borne diseases. In fact, a single disc also can be used to remove multiple ticks that have not yet embedded themselves without risk of contamination.

With Pennsylvania being the number one state in the nation for ticks spreading Lyme disease, and June being one of the top months for spending time in the outdoors, it is worth picking up a box or two of the Rid-A-Tick system to keep in your vehicle or home medicine cabinet.

Six patches come in a kit, and each box retails for around $6. To me that is a wise investment for such a useful product that makes tick removal so clean and easy.

For more information, or to order, please visit www.rid-a-tick.com. 

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