With the advent of spring, not only nature blossomed, everything around turned green, but various insects, including ticks, became more active. Therefore, in the warm season, upon returning from a forest or city walk, you need to carefully examine the body for ticks. Ideally, before leaving for the forest, it is necessary to treat the clothes and exposed parts of the body with a special protective spray. The fact is that the symptoms after a tick bite are usually not immediately felt, they appear only after a few hours. Usually it is redness and swelling of the skin in this place. Removing the tick is much easier if it has only recently stuck to the skin, later it will be much more difficult to do.
If after examination you find a tick on the skin, then the main thing in this situation is not to panic, but to act.
Helpful information
The first thing to know if a tick is bitten: the risk that it is an encephalitis tick is almost zero. Of course, they are found more or less often, but mainly east of the Volga. If a tick has bitten, and you still could not overcome your panic and want to exclude this small possibility, consult a doctor within three days from the moment of the bite. There you will be given an antidote, and you can no longer worry about the fact that the tick infected you with encephalitis or another terrible disease. If you want, you can take the insect for examination to the laboratory.
And in order to get rid of unrest in the future, you should be vaccinated against encephalitis. Thanks to her, your body will produce antibodies that will defeat the virus in two counts.
Tick extraction technique
Immediately need to remove the tick. You can contact the doctors, they professionally extract it. But if it is impossible or difficult to get professional medical care at the moment, then you can pull out the tick yourself. Make it easy.
If the tick is stuck in a place that is difficult for you to reach, ask a relative or friend to do this procedure. Find tweezers and make a loop of thread. A drop of liquid oil must be applied to the tick. Then, carefully and attentively, you need to throw a loop on it or press it with tweezers. Next, you can proceed to pulling out the tick. This is done with the help of screwing movements. Care must be taken not to tear off the body of the tick from its head, since if it remains in the skin, it will be much more difficult to remove it. The prolonged presence in the skin of both the whole tick and one of its heads can lead to inflammation of the soft tissues. After removing the insect, it is necessary to disinfect the site of the bite.
Recommendations
In order to avoid a tick bite, you must follow a few simple rules.
1. When going to the forest, you need to dress in such a way that there are no open leg sections. The best thing is to tuck your pants in your socks. Or just go to the forest in boots.
2. It has long been believed that ticks are able to jump from plants to humans. But in fact, this is not entirely true. They live on the tips of the blades of grass, and from there they attach themselves to the body of a passing person, after which they crawl up in search of an accessible place for a bite. A tick may crawl to the waist in 30 minutes. That is why, whenever possible, you should examine yourself approximately every half hour. If a tick is bitten, you must immediately take it out.
3. When leaving the forest, it is necessary to shake off your clothes and carefully examine them for ticks so as not to bring the pest home, because there it will be able to continue its hunt.
And finally
Many people are shocked by the sight of these insects, trying to figure out in clutter - where to go with a tick bite. But you should not be scared in this situation. It is important not to forget about these recommendations, and the risk of a bite will be minimal. But, and if a tick is bitten, it is necessary, without wasting time, to take actions aimed at removing it.