Forest walks in the fresh air, picking mushrooms and berries everyone loves. However, in bushy thickets, though a small, but rather serious danger lurks. Together with a positive mood, you can accidentally come home with a forest tick on the body. This may obscure your visit to the forest. What to do if a tick is bitten, each of us should know in order to timely prevent the development of a deadly disease - encephalitis.
More About Encephalitis
When an encephalitis tick bites, the infection enters the body. For several days, nothing happens, but then the temperature rises, the condition worsens significantly, dizziness, nausea, severe headaches, cramps appear. If you do not consult a doctor on time, death can occur. Encephalitis affects the human immune system, blood, brain. Sometimes patients who turn to the hospital late remain disabled for life. Preventive vaccination is recommended to prevent the possibility of encephalitis infection.
Currently, an excellent tool, Iodantipirin, has been developed that effectively fights tick-borne encephalitis when using the drug for 12-14 hours after an insect bite.
Doctors know what to do if a tick is bitten
If you find a tick on your body - get ready, do not panic. His bite can not always be dangerous to health, because not every tick is a carrier of encephalitis.
If there is a medical facility nearby, you should immediately contact there. You should be given first aid with a tick bite, a preventive injection of immunoglobulin against an infection that an insect could carry was given. This procedure is carried out only if no more than 72 hours have passed after the bite. Later it is already useless.
It is recommended to put the extracted insect in a separate small container and take it to the sanitary and epidemiological station to check for infections.
Independent tick control
But it happens that you are cut off from civilization, to the nearest medical center a few hours away. What should I do if bitten by a tick? You will have to extract the insect from your body yourself. The first and one of the main rules: you can not drip oil on a tick. It blocks the air, and the insect can die right in the skin. And this is even more dangerous.
When a tick bites, you need to get it with curved tweezers. You can also make a loop of thread and wrap it around the body of a bloodsucker. Swinging movements need to get the tick out of the body. At the same time, make sure that the head of the insect does not remain at the bite site. After extraction, wipe the wound with hydrogen peroxide, brilliant green or iodine. Be sure to wash your hands thoroughly with soap.
How to prevent a tick bite
In order not to rush about in a panic and not think about what to do if a tick is bitten, you need to dress properly for a walk in the forest and behave very carefully. Wear clothing that is as closed as possible, tight-fitting to your body, and use a hat like a light cap or scarf. Use special tick repellent repellents.
Keep in mind that ticks are most common in April-May and September-October. Their favorite habitat is thick bushes, so try to walk in more or less spacious places in the forest.
While walking through the forest, inspect yourself often for unexpected insects. Most often, ticks are attached to the neck, skin behind the ear, in the armpits, in the groin. Arriving home, take off your clothes, shake it out, carefully examine yourself again.
By the way, you can pick up a tick even in a city park, train or train, in a country garden. Therefore, be careful, often check your body for the presence of bloodsuckers.