Health, Diseases and Conditions
What does the tick tick look like and what should I do if the tick was bitten?
The long-awaited spring days came, when you can go to nature. But do not forget that there, in the forest or in the glades, in the warm period of the year a person and all warm-blooded animals are trapped by small bloodsucking insects - ticks.
The tick bite can turn into a serious infectious disease - encephalitis. The consequences of the bite of this vector of infection are more than deplorable: paralysis, deafness, death. The probability of a meeting in a forest with a bear in an area of 1 square kilometer is negligible, but there are thousands of thousands of mites in the same area. Of course, of all the hordes of infectious mites, not more than 5%, but the fact is that in appearance the infected tick is no different from the usual, uninfected. Therefore, we have to be wary of all ticks. But many do not know "in person" this dangerous insect and do not know what the tick tick looks like.
Usually ticks dig in where the skin is the thinnest. The mite bites slowly, its bite is almost not felt - simultaneously with biting the skin, the insect anesthetizes the wound with a special substance. The pictures shown in the article show how the mite tick looks, which will be felt when the mite begins to energetically fill his body with blood, as if screwing his head deeper and deeper. Around him 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 encephalitis mite can not be distinguished externally. The mite is infected or not, it can be determined only in the laboratory of sanitary supervision if the insect that has been removed is delivered there alive (in a glass jar with a lid, where you need to put a piece of cloth moistened with water).
The drugged tick can not be pressed, pulled out sharply. It is necessary to pour the parasite and place around it with kerosene, fat, oil and a little (20-30 minutes) to wait. Very often after such treatment, the mite disappears by itself. If this method does not help, try another: grab the tick with gauze wrapped fingers or tweezers. Smooth slow movements try to extract it, trying not to cut off the proboscis. Or around the head of the tick is tightened a loop of thread, which pulls out the sucking insect. If the proboscis or even the head of the tick is torn off and these elements remain in the wound with a black mark, then the skin turns blue around the place of the bite, then the blush becomes reddish, swollen, itchy, and a burning sensation appears - that's how the mite bite looks, which it was not possible to extract completely.
The most correct measures will be preventive - vaccination against tick-borne encephalitis. If there is no vaccination, immediately after a tick bite, consult a doctor. Adhere to hygienic measures: after the tick is successfully removed, you need to wash your hands with soap, bite the place with greens, alcohol, iodine.
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