How to remove lots of ticks from my clothes?

Question

The other day I noticed I had a lot (probably almost/around 100) of baby ticks on my feet ankles, and more in my sox and jeans. Got them off my feet, but how do I get them off my clothes (they are very small and very hard to see, especially on the jeans). Something tells me the usual washer dryer routine may not work....do I spray clothes with alcohol....do i simply wait a certain amount of time to let them die? thanks.

Answer 1

I would wash the clothes like 3 times and dry them twice.

Answer 2

throw it out....

Answer 3

Burn your clothes!

or throw them out!

how did you get all those ticks?!

Answer 4

Have you tried washing and drying them?  Try that first.  That'll kill a surprising amount of things.  

As far as waiting on them--those suckers can live for WEEKS without feeding.  You'll be waiting 'til next year for them to die...

I'd wash and dry them and spray them with bug-killing spray (not repellent, a bug-killer marketed for fleas and ticks on upholstery, carpet, or fabrics) if they're still around, then wash and dry again to remove the bug-killing spray residue.

Answer 5

put them in a plastic bag and let no air in and wait about a week or two! Or pick them off!

Answer 6

where were you where there was ticks everywhere?

Answer 7

Put them in the Freezer for 2 days !

Answer 8

You will need to run the clothes on the highest heat setting in your dryer for at least an hour.  You may wash them first, but if you do, also run on the hottest setting, then run them in the dryer for two hours.  The washing machine will not drown them - it's the heat, and more importantly, the drying, that kills them.  Which is why alcohol kills them - because it dries them out.  That's pretty much the only way ticks die in the environment - by drying out.  They can survive summers, winters, rains, snows, etc.  Only when it gets very hot and very dry will a tick die of environmental causes - otherwise, it will live it's full two-year lifespan.  Indeed, you'd be waiting a long time.  I would just throw away your socks - seal them up in a bag and put them outside in the trash.  They're just socks, after all.  And unless those jeans are your favorites, I would throw them away too.  Use them as kindling for a bonfire.  However, if you want to keep them, again, drying them in the dryer on the hottest setting for a hour or so should do the trick.

I have a terrible fear of ticks and the diseases they carry, so you can rest assured those socks and jeans would never come near my body again.  But I encourage you to do what you're comfortable with, just keep yourself safe.  And like the others have said, stay away from tick-infested areas.

Answer 9

I'd throw them out. Its not worth all the work.

Answer 10

wow um go get tested for lyme disease. but alcohol should get them off, but its not going to kill them, at least not right away. be more careful next time

Answer 11

boil your sock lol

but umm is it really worth it?

its jeans..

buy a new pair

Answer 12

Wash them in hot water, the water will definitely drown them. Wash them twice if you want to be sure. And stay away from wherever it is you've been picking up ticks!

Answer 13

soak the jeans in alcohol

where did you get all these ticks?

yuck!

I would get checked out for lyme disease

Answer 14

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Answer 15

Soak the clothes in vinegar, water and a LITTLE bit of bleach/detergent.  Soak for 2-3 days and see if they come off.

Next, put them in a HOT washer on a double cycle.