People affected by the bites of these parasites often ask about how to remove a tick from a person, and can this be done on their own? In order not to languish with long expectations, I will immediately answer this question: of course you can. Let's try to understand this situation together.
There are several ways to get a tick out of the body. In principle, all methods are identical to each other. The differences are only in the tool used. But before I tell you about them, I would like to remind you how to remove ticks from a person!
How to remove the parasite
- Never use vegetable oil or glue. These are “grandmother's” methods, which today are not only not useful, but even have some risk. Oil clogs the parasite's airways and simply kills it, and also causes the tick to burp its saliva back into the wound, and this is the risk of infection.
- It is not recommended to touch the parasite with tweezers, as there is a risk of "breaking" the tick of the abdomen. Ideally, take it with your bare and soft fingers, although doctors themselves often remove parasites with just the same tweezers. Well, if the doctors work with tweezers, then you and I can!
- In addition, do not treat the wound with various chemical fluids (gasoline, ammonia and others), do not burn the parasite with a cigarette, do not pick the wound with a dirty needle, do not pull the tick (otherwise it will break), do not crush it with your fingers and do not apply compresses.
The right ways to remove a tick from a person
- Use special hooks to remove parasites. They are sold at any pharmacy. Outwardly, this hook resembles a double-toothed curved fork. The device is put on the tick so that it is between the teeth. Then everything is simple - the parasite gets out of the skin.
- There is one time-tested way to get a tick out of a person. We do this with a thread. This requires a coarse thread. Make a loop out of it and grab the parasite as close to your skin as possible. Pull the tick out of the body, gently swinging from side to side.
- Of course, not all of us will need knowledge about how to remove a tick from a person using a surgical clamp or curved tweezers, since such tools usually do not exist at home, but I will still tell you about this method. We grab the parasite with tweezers as close as possible to its proboscis and gently sip, rotating it around its own axis in a direction convenient for you (!)! Notice, it doesn’t matter - clockwise or counterclockwise. How convenient it is for you personally! After three turns, you can begin to extract the tick from under the skin. At the same time, it is removed entirely - no broken proboscis should remain under the skin!
But what if the removal failed and the parasite burst, leaving its front in your body? How to remove a tick from a person in this case? Now we will analyze this nuance.
What to do if there is a proboscis head in the wound?
In principle, there is nothing deadly wrong with this. In fact, the proboscis stuck in your wound is no worse than a splinter! We consider two cases.
- If the proboscis of the parasite sticks out over your skin, take tweezers, hold it to this proboscis and boldly twist it. You can go to the clinic and ask the surgeon to remove the remnants of the tick.
- If the proboscis remains inside, then a small abscess will appear on the wound. Due to the work of white blood cells fighting foreign bodies, the remnants of the tick after a while will come out on their own.