Tick Removal Hoax

One of my friends recently contacted me regarding tick-removal techniques. He noticed someone reposting a certain picture/status post promoting a very wrong tick removal technique: coating the little critter with soap.This is so wrong on so many levels.
First, Facebook. While some Facebook-users may be true geniuses and their status updates truly helpful, a whole lot of Facebook-users is in fact dumber than the back-end of a cow. It's up to you to decide which post contains helpful information and which post is absolute gibberish.
Second, coating ticks with soap, alcohol and anything else is a very bad idea if you value your health. In the Dutch First Aid curriculum, we're taught to remove the tick using tweezers and not to rub ANYTHING onto the little pest.
Shame on you if you decide to paint your tick with soap, alcohol or anything else. Even high school-going children know not to drown a tick in whatever funky goo you wish to smear on it.

Rubbing anything onto the little creature might cause it to release extra saliva. Its saliva may contain pathogens, causing lyme disease or any other tickborne disease.
If anything, you don't want it to pump more pathogens into your body.

DON'T COAT THE STUPID TICK WITH NAIL POLISH, PETROLEUM JELLY OR ANYTHING ELSE!