Recently one of our kids had a tick with its mouthparts embedded. It took awhile, but we were able to get it out with tweezers. It made me wonder if there are methods to make tick removal easier when they are missed and get embedded. I spray the fabrics of our outdoor furniture with permethrin spray, and it got me wondering if it would help to spray a little bit of permethrin on a Qtip, then gently apply it to the tick that's embedded in the skin. I don't know if permethrin would automatically cause the tick to "let go", or if it would cause it to "regurgitate" its stomach contents into the host as it dies, thus increasing the chance of infection if it already feasted on an infectious host. I can't find much info on a tick's response to permethrin (besides dying), so this could be a cool research question to explore if someone doesn't know the answer.