The long-awaited spring days have come, when you can go to nature. But we must not forget that there, in the forest or in the clearings, during the warm period of the year, small blood-sucking insects - ticks lie in wait for humans and all warm-blooded animals.
A tick bite can result in a serious infectious disease - encephalitis. The consequences of the bite of this carrier of infection are more than deplorable: paralysis, deafness, death. The probability of meeting a bear in the forest on an area of 1 square kilometer is negligible, but thousands of ticks can be counted on the same area. Of course, no more than 5% of the entire horde of ticks are infectious, but the fact is that in appearance an infected tick is no different from a normal, uninfected one. Therefore, you have to be wary of all ticks. But many do not know "by sight" this dangerous insect and do not know what a tick bite looks like.
A tick doesn't bite like a bee or a wasp. It will not signal its presence with a hiss like a snake or a ringing mosquito sound. First he crawlsby clothing, headdress or uncovered head, then he will look for the most successful, in his opinion, place on the skin. If you are attentive to your feelings, you can feel the insect on the body and remove it in time.
Ticks usually dig in where the skin is thinnest. The tick bites slowly, its bite is almost not felt - at the same time as biting through the skin, the insect anesthetizes the wound with a special substance. The pictures in the article show what a tick bite looks like, which will be felt when the tick begins to vigorously fill its body with blood, as if screwing its head deeper and deeper. Around it, the skin turns red, the sensation can be compared with the beginning of an abscess - itching and burning around the bite.
The bite of an encephalitic tick cannot be distinguished externally. Whether a tick is infected or not can only be determined in a sanitary inspection laboratory if the removed insect is delivered there alive (in a glass jar with a lid, where you need to put a piece of cloth moistened with water).
Do not take your four-legged friends - dogs - with you on vacation in the forest. Dog hair is an excellent accumulator of mites. A dog will bring a lot of ticks from a walk, both clinging to its body and crawling, and will lose them around your home. You can see what a tick bite looks like on a dog in the photo.
A stuck tick should not be pressed, pulled out sharply. It is necessary to fill the parasite and the place around it with kerosene, fat, oil and wait a little (20-30 minutes). Very often, after such treatment, the tick disappears by itself. If this method does not help, tryanother: grab the tick with gauze-wrapped fingers or tweezers. With smooth slow movements, try to remove it, trying not to break off the proboscis. Or, a loop of thread is pulled around the head of the tick, which pulls out the sucking insect. If the proboscis or even the head of the tick came off and these elements remained in the wound as a black mark, then the skin around the bite site turns blue, then to the edges of the spot it turns very red, swells, itches, and there is a burning sensation - this is what a tick bite looks like, which could not be removed completely.
You need to know that not only encephalitis, but also other diseases (for example, borreliosis, otherwise called Lyme disease) are dangerous tick bites. Signs of diseases do not affect immediately, but after a week or two or even later: this is a headache in the frontal-temporal regions, high fever, convulsions, vomiting. With Lyme disease (otherwise borreliosis), the bite site begins to redden and swell in the form of a circle, covering a significant area of \u200b\u200bthe skin. The edges of this circle are marked with more red color.
The most correct measures will be preventive - vaccination against tick-borne encephalitis. If not vaccinated, see a doctor immediately after a tick bite. Observe hygiene measures: after the tick is successfully removed, you need to wash your hands with soap and treat the bite site with brilliant green, alcohol, iodine.
