Spray
Mask skin with the Tick Tox® bookmask. Put the nozzle close to the tick and press the button for 1 second or less.
Freeze
The temperature of the spray is well below freezing.
Tick Dies
The tick is instantly frozen and dies.
Steps to using Tick Tox®1. Locate tick (or ticks).
2. Remove cap of Tick Tox® and practice controlling duration of a squirt.
3. Mask skin with the Tick Tox® “bookmask” and warn the tick’s victim that it may sting!
4. Aim nozzle at the tick taking great care to not touch the tick.
5. Spray Tick Tox® for short as possible – less than 1 second is plenty – do not over-use.
6. Tick is now dead. Dab (or better) spray the bite site with antiseptic.
7. WAIT for a minimum of 10 minutes or so. During this time the jaws release – NOTE : the Australian paralysis tick Ixodes holocyclus has the longest jaws of all known ticks. Sometimes these massive jaws take a long time to release. Be patient and NEVER squeeze the tick with blunt tweezers – even when it has been snap frozen and killed with Tick Tox.
8. Brush dead tick away.
9. Dab some more antiseptic on the bite site.