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In addition to ixodid ticks, the class of these insects has many other varieties. An army of arachnid harmful individuals lives with us almost everywhere: in our homes, on personal plots, into the forest park areas Oh. Are ticks dangerous to humans? What do they look like, how to detect them? What to do if you are bitten by an encephalitis tick? How to give first first aid to the victim?
Attacking varieties
These individuals are not aggressive, but they can cause harm. Among them:
- Argasid mites. They live in burrows, caves, and cracks. They can settle in the cracks of village houses and attack people at night, but episodes of daytime attacks have also been recorded. They are causative agents of various infections: hemorrhagic fever or relapsing fever. The infection is transmitted quickly, within a minute, and the disease progresses rapidly. If you are bitten by this type of tick, you should seek advice immediately. medical institution.
- Gamasid mite. They mainly bite birds, but if there are none nearby, they are capable of attacking people. They live in chicken coops or bird nests.
- Subcutaneous mite. This tick can live on the human body for a long time, without giving anything away. It feeds on dead cells. But with a decrease in immunity, they are able to penetrate deep under the skin, provoking various suppurations and rashes. Most often they affect the scalp and face. You can become infected with this tick in a household way or from animals.
- Bed mite. It is a mistaken belief among many people that this type of tick is capable of attacking. Its danger lies only in the fact that it can provoke allergic diseases. It feeds purely on dead skin cells and does not consume blood at all.
- Barn mite. From the name it is already clear that it lives in barns and food storage facilities. Feeds on grain crops. Entering the human esophagus through dirty hands or products infected with it, can provoke various food poisoning.
However, forest ticks cause the greatest harm to human health. Let's look at them in more detail.
Forest tick bites
They attack both animals and people, in most cases in forest plantations. However, recently ticks in the Moscow region are quite often found in park areas and squares. They overwinter in fallen leaves, but as soon as the snow cover melts, they begin their hunt. The peak of activity is observed in mid-spring, but they can attack and bite a person even in autumn period. Forest ticks are divided into two groups:
- Infected people are carriers of dangerous viral diseases.
- Sterile - individuals that do not pose a danger to the human body.
The consequences of a tick bite on a person can be extremely dangerous, since these insects are carriers of many different diseases. If it gets on the body, this insect may not bite immediately. Sometimes several hours pass before the moment of suction occurs.
What does a forest tick look like?
Small arthropod insect, resembling a small beetle. It has 8 legs, the body of the tick is covered with a shell. The length of the insect is about 4 mm. It is very difficult to see its blood-sucking parts (head and trunk) with the naked eye, since they are very tiny.
Males are even smaller in size. A well-fed female can reach a size of about 2 cm, since she is able to drink 10 times her own weight in blood from her prey while hungry. You can see what a tick looks like on the body in the photos given in the article.
Attention! The tick does not have eyes, but it has excellent spatial orientation thanks to its highly developed sense of touch and smell. Scientists have been able to prove that a tick is able to sense its prey, even when located at a distance of about 10 m from it.
How a forest tick attacks a person
There is a misconception: if a tick burrowed into a person’s head or stuck to the neck, then it fell from a height, for example, from a tree under which the victim was or simply walked past him. This is far from true, because the insect never rises above 50 cm.
General information about bites
The severity of symptoms depends on the number of bites and the body type of the person bitten. Bites are most difficult for the elderly, children, people suffering from chronic diseases, and people with allergies.
Main symptoms of a bite:
- Body temperature rises.
- A headache appears.
- In some cases, itching may occur.
- Blood pressure decreases.
- Heartbeat quickens.
- A rash appears on the skin.
- Lymph nodes enlarge.
- There is a general feeling of weakness.
The consequences of a tick bite in a person depend on the type of insect: infected (encephalitic) or sterile (uninfected). Much the bite is more dangerous encephalitis tick. The symptoms are very severe and extremely dangerous:
- Paralysis.
- Stopping breathing.
- Stopping brain activity.
- Death.
If the victim is bitten by an uninfected tick, the diseases that may appear are of a slightly different nature:
- Suppuration of the bite sites.
- Allergies of various kinds.
- Edema up to Quincke's edema.
It is impossible to tell by eye which tick has attached itself.
Important! If you are bitten by a tick, treatment is early stages will help protect yourself from more dangerous diseases.
Tick bites: what they look like
The saliva of an insect contains a biologically active substance that has an anesthetic effect, so a person may not even suspect in the first hours that he has been bitten by a tick. Only after this time may the first symptoms begin to appear.
Site of an infected tick bite: skin redness and swelling. They do not appear immediately, but after some time. If the spot expands in a ring-like manner, immediate medical attention is required. This is the first symptom of Lyme disease.
What to do if you are bitten
A tick bite was detected. What to do, if general state getting worse? In this case, the patient should be given an antihistamine to drink. It would be better if it were the drugs “Zirtex”, “Suprastin”.
How to properly remove a tick from your body
The insect is attached to the human body extremely firmly. The fact is that its saliva acts as cement composition. The proboscis adheres quite firmly to the skin. Therefore, tick removal must be done carefully and with extreme caution. Recommendations for this procedure:
It is not recommended to smear the affected area with kerosene, gasoline and other liquids. If the insect crawls out of the wound, then after that it simply may not be accepted into the laboratory.
Diseases from tick bites and their signs
The consequences of a tick bite in humans are varied - from simple redness to severe and dangerous diseases:
- Encephalitis. initial stage very similar to the symptoms of a common cold. Incubation period can last up to 7 days. No examination can give an accurate analysis of the infection if 10 days have not passed since the bite. For an accurate diagnosis, you need to present the insect itself for examination, but only alive.
- Lyme disease (borreliosis). This disease can form if the tick was a carrier of the spirochete virus. Symptoms may not appear immediately, but after several months, they are usually: enlarged lymph nodes and aching joints.
Modern medical supplies can completely cure tick-borne infections with timely detection and proper therapy.
Important! There is no need to delay removing the tick! The longer he drinks blood from the victim, the more pathogens enter his body.
Signs of encephalitis development
According to experts, the symptoms of this serious and extremely dangerous disease begin to appear only after 10-14 days from the moment the tick bite was discovered in the patient. What to do? There is no need to panic or worry unnecessarily. And an increase in body temperature and unpleasant sensations, especially in the muscles, can be interpreted as a protective psychological reaction to the victim’s fear. The formation of the disease occurs in several stages:
- A sudden and short-term manifestation of chills, after which the body temperature rises to 40 degrees. According to the clinical picture at this stage, the signs of encephalitis formation are similar to an influenza attack.
- After some time, the victim experiences nausea and vomiting, severe headaches. At this stage, symptoms resemble food poisoning.
- Within a day, the patient begins to show signs of arthritis or arthrosis. The headaches go away and are replaced by aches in the bones and joints. Motor activity is severely limited, breathing becomes difficult. The skin on the face and body becomes red and swollen, and purulent masses are released from the lesion.
- Further, the symptoms only intensify, since at this stage the virus that has entered the patient’s blood begins its destructive activity in the body, and the consequences can become irreversible.
Therefore, if you find that a tick has burrowed into your body, you need to immediately remove the insect. You can do this yourself or contact the sanitary and epidemiological station. There doctors will be able to remove it and examine it. Only laboratory analysis can determine what type of mite this is. Treatment, if prescribed, must be completed in full.
Important! Take any tick bite extremely seriously, as it can be encephalitic.
Signs of the development of borreliosis
This disease is diagnosed more often than encephalitis. The disease is extremely dangerous and very often occurs in a latent form. In chronic forms it can lead to disability. The incubation period can last from several days to a month. The process of formation of borreliosis is divided into several stages of development:
- The first stage is a localized flow. A typical sign is redness round shape on the skin. The site of the tick bite, as the disease progresses, increases in diameter, especially its peripheral edges, from 2 cm at the beginning to 10 cm or more at the end. The edges of the skin at the epicenter of the lesion are slightly elevated in comparison with healthy areas. In the center, the skin becomes bluish, the immediate area of the bite is covered with a scab, and then a scar forms in its place. Lasts about 3 weeks, then slowly disappears.
- The second stage is disseminated, or, as it is also called, widespread. Symptoms begin to appear several months after the bite with central nervous system disorders, damage to the heart and joints, and pain in muscle tissue. Arthritis, encephalitis, and myocarditis occur.
- The third stage is chronic. Formed in the complete absence of treatment. At this stage, rapid damage to the central nervous system occurs with polyarthritis, multiple sclerosis, skin atrophy and other symptoms.
Forecasts are favorable if timely and proper treatment. The transition of the disease to a chronic form can lead to disability.
How does the process of infection with borreliosis occur?
Treatment for tick bites
The first is to remove the tick and examine it for the presence of the virus. After a confirmed diagnosis, the patient is prescribed comprehensive treatment. In acute forms, strict bed rest is prescribed in combination with intensive therapy, the purpose and purpose of which is to reduce intoxication in the body and suppress the activity of the virus.
The patient is injected intramuscularly with Gammaglobulin. The sooner this drug enters the body, the faster the therapeutic effect will occur. The drug acts for 24 hours, after which the patient’s temperature drops to normal, the symptoms of encephalitis and meningitis decrease, sometimes disappear altogether.
To reduce the symptoms of poisoning, you need to carry out infusion detoxification treatment. To do this, the patient is given fluids that help restore electrolyte balance, and glucocorticoids are also prescribed.
Antiviral medications
In the territory Russian Federation more often used:
- For adults and children over 14 years of age - “Yodantipirin”.
- For small children (up to 14 years old) - “Anaferon” for children.
Advice! If in right moment If you don’t have these drugs on hand, they can be replaced with Cycloferon, Arbidol or Remantadine.
- It is advisable to use the drug “Immunoglobulin” only in the first three days.
Emergency prevention - take a tablet of the drug "Doxycycline", but no later than 72 hours: for an adult - 200 mg, for a child aged 8 years and older - 4 mg per kilogram of weight. It is not recommended for small children and pregnant women to use the drug.
Preventive actions
Most effective method prevention of diseases from tick bites - vaccination. Especially for people at risk - living in unfavorable areas or near forest belts.
Six types of vaccines are officially used in our country, two of which are intended for children. It's best to get vaccinated late autumn. However, there are also urgent vaccination schedules provided for emergency situations.
During the warm period of the year, vaccinations can also be done, but with the condition that after vaccination the person will not visit places where insects live for a month. The effect of vaccination will occur only after the specified period. After this time, repeated vaccination is done. Then you can get vaccinated once every three years. If for some reason the period between vaccinations exceeds 5 years, then you will have to undergo double vaccination again.
How to protect yourself from bites
First of all, you need to have a clear idea of the places and areas where ticks can most often live:
- Favorable terrain for them are wet lowlands with trees and thick grass, ditches, forest edges, especially birch forests, ravines, and coastal areas near water bodies. Moreover, there are much more of them on the edges and forest paths than inside the forest.
- Trails and paths contain human and animal tracks - these are the most attractive places for ticks.
When going to such places on vacation, it is best to dress in light-colored clothes. Against its background, the clinging insect is easy to notice. Be sure to cover your head with a cap, scarf or Panama hat. Every 2-3 hours, carefully examine the body, clothing, especially the head. Buy special creams, ointments and sprays, use them before visiting places where these dangerous insects are likely to live.
Summer is coming very soon - the season of relaxation, walks and picnics. But it is in nature that vacationers can be in danger - ticks. They can not only ruin your vacation, but also infect you with infections, including viral encephalitis. NTV talks about what to do if you are bitten by a tick.
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How dangerous is a tick?
The tick poses the greatest danger due to the fact that it can carry dangerous infections. The most common of them are encephalitis and borreliosis. The infection is transmitted during a bite through saliva, which is injected into the human body.
In nature there are also so-called pure ticks that do not carry any infections. However, without the participation of specialists and a laboratory, it is impossible to determine which tick bit you.
What to do if you are bitten by a tick?
It is necessary to remove the tick from the surface of the skin as soon as possible. It is best to do this in an emergency room, and immediately send the tick to a special laboratory in order to find out whether it is a carrier of dangerous diseases or not. However, if you cannot quickly go to a medical facility, you will have to remove the tick yourself.
Remember that the tick does not burrow immediately: it can remain on the skin from 30 minutes to 1.5 hours. It is during this time that it can be detected and carefully removed without crushing it with your fingers. If you are bitten by a tick, under no circumstances should you pull it out, only carefully twist it out.
How can I remove a tick?
You can remove a tick by different means. For example:
using special tweezers. It is similar to a two-pronged fork: the tick must be squeezed between two teeth, and then carefully twisted. Using such a device, the tick’s body is not damaged, which means the risk of contracting infections is reduced. You can also use regular tweezers or a surgical clamp.
fingers. This method is considered less secure, but if not special means, then you can quickly remove the tick with your hands;
thread. Choose a strong thread that will not break when removing the tick.
Photo: TASS / Boris Kavashkin
How to properly remove a tick?
1. It is necessary to grab the tick with tweezers or fingers wrapped in clean gauze as close as possible to its mouthparts (that is, the bite site). Holding it strictly perpendicular to the surface of the bite, turn the body of the tick around its axis and remove it from the skin.
If you remove it with a thread, then tie a knot (loop) close to the tick's proboscis, and remove it by slowly swinging and pulling up.
2. The bite site must be disinfected. For this, 5% iodine, alcohol (a solution of at least 70%), brilliant green, and a solution of hydrogen peroxide are suitable.
Photo: TASS / Smityuk Yuri
3. After removing the tick, you should wash your hands with soap.
4. If after removal a black dot of any size remains under the skin, this means that the head or proboscis of the tick came off during the extraction process. The bite site must be treated again with 5% iodine. The remains of the tick should come out on their own.
If this does not happen, you need to treat the affected area of skin with alcohol. Then heat the needle over a fire, also wipe it with alcohol and carefully remove the remains of the tick in the same way as removing a splinter.
Be careful - not the slightest particle of a tick should remain under the skin.
5. After being bitten, you should consult a doctor. According to statistics, out of 10 ticks, 1 is infectious, and according to appearance infected and not infected are no different. The doctor will check to see if you successfully removed the tick and will give you a referral for a blood test, which can be taken 10 days after the bite. It will show the presence or absence in the blood tick-borne encephalitis and borreliosis.
Important to remember!
When removing a tick, you should never use oil; it will not only prevent it from being removed, but will also clog its respiratory openings, and the tick will die while remaining in the skin.
Photo: TASS / Bushukhin Valery
What to do after extraction?
If the tick is dead, it must be burned or poured with boiling water. If he is alive, then he can be taken to a special laboratory, where he will be examined for the presence of tick-borne encephalitis.
How to protect yourself from a tick bite?
To avoid putting your health at risk, try to cover your entire body when going outdoors. Don't forget the appropriate shoes and hat. In addition, vigilance will help protect against tick bites: examine yourself and your loved ones every hour, spend Special attention open areas body, hair, bends of elbows and knees.
Remember that outdoor recreation is not always fraught with danger. Follow our simple recommendations, be attentive to your health and the health of your loved ones.
What to do if you are bitten by a tick: simple recommendations from NTV
The main thing that makes a tick bite dangerous for a person is the infection with pathogens of serious diseases that may end up in his saliva. The most severe of them are typhus and borreliosis. Diseases resulting from a tick bite often have complications that destroy the gray matter and lining of the brain, heart, spinal cord, and central nervous system.
Having attached itself to an area on the human body, the insect gradually absorbs blood and increases in size; it is at this time that its presence can be determined.
In most cases, signs of a tick bite are found in those areas of the body where the skin is especially thin: armpits, inner side knees, part of the head covered with hair, neck. It is in such places that a tick does not immediately become noticeable in humans. But there are times when insects are attracted to other parts, for example, a hand.
Understanding that a tick has bitten, as already mentioned, is quite difficult. Since a tick bite does not cause any unpleasant sensations in humans, it is not immediately detected. After visiting forests or park areas, you need to carefully examine your body in order to prevent possible intoxication of the body in time.
First symptoms
Let's look at the main symptoms of a tick bite in humans:
- chills;
- decreased performance, weakness;
- constant fatigue and drowsiness;
- pain in the joints;
- fear of light.
The most important and accurate sign of how to recognize a tick bite is the detection of the pest on the body. You need to look for it exactly where we have already said. First aid for a tick bite involves removing the insect. If infected, the patient undergoes treatment. This way you can avoid negative consequences.
Symptoms appearing the next day
If the attached organism was not noticed on the first day, then on the second, the symptoms after a tick bite in a person will intensify. In some cases they resemble colds, but you should be careful.
After a tick bite, the temperature usually rises to 38 degrees. This reaction is accompanied by increased heart rate and decreased blood pressure. There is itching, swollen lymph nodes, and skin rashes. Sometimes the infectious agent entering the body causes other symptoms:
- dizziness and severe headache;
- the appearance of hallucinations;
- breathing problems;
- feeling of nausea, turning into vomiting.
If a change in temperature occurs immediately after the bite, this means that allergic reaction on saliva. If heat persists and does not go away for a long time, which means that an infectious agent has entered the body.
Symptoms of an encephalitis tick bite
Without timely treatment, the consequences of a tick bite can be disastrous; this also applies to encephalitis, which is a viral disease. The incubation period after a bite lasts about a month. Characteristic features will become:
- headaches and fainting;
- disruption of the heart and digestive system;
- the temperature rises to 40 degrees.
Symptoms of Lyme disease
Borreliosis is infection, which negatively affects the heart, central nervous system, and musculoskeletal system. Here it is important to know what a tick bite looks like on the body. IN in this case we have a red spot that is rapidly increasing in size. If first aid for a tick bite is not carried out, then in the absence of infestation the spot disappears after 3 weeks. Lyme disease can be recognized by the following symptoms:
- headaches, joint and muscle pain;
- constant fatigue and weakness;
- hearing loss, sleep disturbance;
- sore throat, paralysis.
Everyone probably already understands what to do if they are bitten by a tick. You need to quickly contact a specialist with the problem and undergo a treatment course, if necessary. Otherwise, the disease can provoke the development of serious diseases, often leading to death.
How to recognize a bite
If the study showed that the insect is not infected, but a lump remains on the body after a tick bite, then this is a sign of improper removal or an allergy to saliva. If the lump after a tick bite does not go away and bothers the patient, it is necessary to contact a medical facility.
Most frequently asked question, of course, how to treat a tick bite? Anything will do for this. antiseptic: hydrogen peroxide, alcohol, brilliant green.
What not to do
What should you never do after a bite, so as not to aggravate the situation:
First aid
- This is scratching at the site of the bite. If the insect was removed incorrectly and its head remained in the wound, this can cause inflammation, itching and burning. If, after removing a tick, the damaged area itches and the itching does not go away for a long time, you should consult a doctor.
All that remains is to tell you how to treat a tick bite. Any alcohol-containing product is suitable for this: brilliant green, iodine or vodka. After 10 days, you should do a blood test.
Health care
The question of where to go if you are bitten by a tick sounds rather strange. Of course, any medical institution where an infectious disease specialist deals with such problems will do. Treatment after a tick bite should only be prescribed by a qualified specialist, so you should not take any medications at your own discretion. It should be noted that immunoglobulin is often prescribed for tick bites to prevent the development of encephalitis.
Antibiotics are also often used to prevent the proliferation of pathogens in case of a tick bite. It is important to remember that a specific course of treatment is formed only after a blood test is taken, which will help identify the presence of infection.
The consequences for a person after a tick bite can be very different, even leading to death. We must understand that the speed and competence of the measures taken are important here. If you do everything correctly after a tick bite, the risk of developing life-threatening diseases will be minimized.
Ticks can attach themselves to the skin of a person of any age: be it a child or an adult. All they need is fresh blood. Why do they need her? It’s simple: for reproduction, and therefore these insects, no matter how strange it may sound, adore people. If we talk about what needs to be done first at home if you find that you or your family have been bitten by a tick, the insect should be removed by unscrewing it or using circular movements.
What if the tick did not have time to attach itself, but bit?
Interestingly, this is quite possible. This is exactly what males do. After all, they don’t need a lot of blood compared to females. But it is more difficult to detect on the body. For example, a female, having had enough blood, increases in size many times over and becomes the size of the phalanx of the little finger.
What to do when a tick bites but does not bite:
- We treat the site of the tick bite (suction) with an antiseptic, which is iodine, brilliant green, hydrogen peroxide, alcohol or Chlorhexidine.
- Be sure to wash all the clothes you were wearing at the time of the bite.
- It’s a good idea to spend time in the house general cleaning, so that your household members are not bitten by a tick, which, most likely, is in search of a new victim.
- Be sure to monitor your condition throughout the month. If for no reason the temperature begins to rise, regional nodes have enlarged, and the bite site has become inflamed, be sure to consult a doctor. He may refer you to get tested for tick-borne encephalitis and borreliosis. There's nothing scary about the last two. Even if they are found in the blood, you will be prescribed a preventive dose medicines, the main task which - to save you from an infectious disease.
What to do and what are the symptoms if a tick bites and sticks?
Ticks can attach themselves to a person’s groin area, stomach, lower back, neck, and chest. To the armpits, as well as to the ear area. The bitten area has a round redness.
First aid in this case:
It would seem that you have done everything, but it seems that the head of the tick has come off and a black dot is visible at the site of the bite? To get rid of it, treat the affected area of skin with alcohol and remove the head with a sterile needle in the same way as you would get rid of a splinter under the skin. Managed? Then we carefully treat the wound with antiseptics. We wash our hands with disinfectant. And we burn the tick itself or drown it in boiling water - this is how you can be completely sure that you have gotten rid of the pest.
What to drink and take if bitten by a tick?
Remember that you should not take any medications on your own, without a doctor’s prescription. After all, their prescription depends on the test results and individual intolerance to the components of the drugs. If we talk about basic therapy, it should be mentioned that antibiotics are usually prescribed (children under 12 years of age are contraindicated), as well as antiallergic drugs. To prevent borreliosis, doxycycline is prescribed (an antibiotic contraindicated in children and pregnant women).
Of course, there are no people who would not like to spend free time in the lap of nature: Fresh air, nature - all this allows you to relax and spend time usefully for your health, however, there, as always, various risks await us, among which the most dangerous and insidious is a tick bite. In this article, we decided to tell you what to do if you are bitten by a tick, as well as what precautions should be taken to prevent this from happening to you.
The tick's habitat is grass and low-growing shrubs, and it would be logical to assume that ticks mainly prefer to “attach” to a person’s legs, however, in fact, having initially firmly attached themselves to our clothes with their microscopic claws, ticks climb as high as possible . The most favorite places for ticks on our body are the armpits, back, head, and neck. It is almost impossible to feel the bite, because the saliva of this insect contains a strong anesthetic substance.
How to protect yourself as much as possible from a tick bite
Before going to the forest park area, you should do a few things: simple rules In order to protect yourself as much as possible from a tick bite:
It is preferable to choose clothes light colors, this will help you detect the tick in advance;
shoes should be chosen closed type, while it is recommended to tuck the trouser legs into the shoes;
another prerequisite is a headdress;
Consequences of a tick bite
Even though the tick bite was short-lived, it is impossible to rule out the possibility of contracting some kind of tick-borne infection. In fact, ticks are carriers of many infections, but in our country, cases of infection with only two diseases have been identified, which will be discussed in detail below.
Tick-borne encephalitis is the most common disease that can be contracted from a tick bite. Its insidiousness lies in the fact that it is not possible to detect this infection in the first days after the bite; The first signs of infection appear around the tenth day:
chills, increased body temperature;
numbness in the face and neck;
general muscle weakness;
Strong headache;
vomiting and nausea;
staining the face, neck, mucous membranes of the eyes and oral cavity red.
The virus initially affects the central nervous system and spinal cord. It is worth noting that in approximately one third of cases, neurological problems cannot be completely cured, which sometimes leads to disability. In order to diagnose this disease, it is necessary to do a laboratory test of the victim's blood.
However, despite the fact that you still could not avoid the bite, the risk of contracting tick-borne encephalitis can be minimized if you are vaccinated against this disease in advance. To prevent this infection, they are used in medicine. the following types vaccines:
Encepur Adult and Encepur Children;
FSME-Immue Inject;
Tick-borne encephalitis vaccine cultural purified concentrated dry.
2. Lyme disease or borreliosis is another quite dangerous disease that is transmitted from a tick to a person. This infection affects the cells of the central nervous system, skin, heart, and musculoskeletal system. This disease can be successfully treated, which is especially effective in its initial stages, but untimely treatment can lead to chronic forms of the disease.
The first signs of Lyme disease are:
redness of the bitten area of skin;
a fairly rapid increase in the size of the redness;
transition of redness from a round spot to a ring with a bluish center.
If similar symptoms are detected, you should immediately visit an infectious disease specialist, or, in his absence, a general practitioner. It is worth noting that the insidiousness of this disease lies in the fact that it is possible to detect this infection in a person’s blood only three weeks after the bite itself.
What to do if tick absorption does occur
So, what to do if you are bitten by a tick? Initially, you need to consult a specialist by calling 03; there you will be told in detail about what actions you need to take in order to correctly remove the tick. However, if you are unable to seek help from a medical professional, you will have to remove the tick yourself. Below are some of the most common methods for removing a tick.
Method one.
It is necessary to take a segment regular thread, which should be tied in a knot, getting as close as possible to the tick’s proboscis. Next, with smooth movements, you should pull the thread towards yourself, as if unscrewing the tick from the skin. If, when removing the tick, its head comes off, then this place should be wiped with an alcohol-containing product, and then try to remove the head with a sterile, previously heated needle.
Method two.
In order to expel a tick, you need to pour a little vegetable oil or any other fatty substance. The essence this method is as follows: an insect suffering from a lack of oxygen independently gets out. However, you should be careful with the dosage of the product, because from an excessively abundant amount of fatty liquid, the tick can simply suffocate without having time to get out.
It is worth remembering that diseases that are transmitted from a tick to a person are diagnosed in 2-3 weeks, so in order to be sure that the tick that bit you is not contagious, after removing it, it must be placed in a container with wet paper, after why the tick must be shown to a specialist within two days.
After you have removed the tick yourself, the area around the bite must be treated with any antiseptic - iodine or alcohol, and the resulting wound itself must be treated with brilliant green. Also remember to wash your hands and tools thoroughly.
What not to do if you are bitten by a tick
Under no circumstances should you crush a tick with your fingers - this increases the spread of infection into the wound;
Do not use kerosene or candle wax to push the tick out. These drugs clog the wound and block the air flow, which ultimately leads to its death during the bite itself.