Never Salt a Leech

Some of the most repulsive animals in the world are leeches. The tiny abominations grab hold of your body and suck your blood till they get bloated with it. They can eat ten times as much as they do. That becomes a complete nightmare if you have a dozen of them on you. Even more horrifying is the fact that, in some extremely rare instances, leeches have entered human bodies and resulted in death.

There is a common technique for getting rid of leeches that involves applying salt to them. Actually, salt exerts pressure inside a leech's body, which draws moisture out and kills them. Sounds like a good, simple approach to get rid of them, especially if you're concerned about their tiny suckers doing extra harm to your skin. Nonetheless, you should give it some thought first.

As you might expect, a leech won't react well to being salted if the salt causes enough osmotic pressure for it to kill the leech. You might even make it simply puke back into your open wound. If you were concerned that it would suck your blood before, you should be more concerned that it will spit blood and its intestines into your wound.