To remove the stuck tick from the body – employment is troublesome, but by no means the most complicated or even impossible.
The most dangerous from the point of view of the threat of ticks of the time is the late spring and early summer.
These insects are waiting for their prey on grass along the roads and glades. They have an excellent sense of smell, and the victim feel they are 20-30 meters away. Stories that tick comes from the top, is fiction. He grabs the edge of the clothes, and then creeping up, looking for open site of a body to which to cling.
“By the bite of a tick secretes a huge amount of saliva, with which the body is unable to get the pathogens of dangerous infections — tick-borne encephalitis virus and Lyme disease. These diseases a life fraught with complications — irreversible changes occur in the nervous, cardiovascular systems and musculoskeletal apparatus.
How to remove a tick?
If a tick has already latched onto — act without delay. The sooner you remove it the better. It is best to seek help in the emergency room. If this is not possible, there are several ways to remove the tick independently.
1. Tweezers
To extract a tick better with the help of special devices, similar to the curved tweezers. With it, we take it as deep as possible and held perpendicular to the surface of the bite, gently rotate around the axis. You can then extract the insect.
2. Thread
Take the thread and tie a knot at the proboscis of the tick, and then swing it from side to side to fully remove the insect.
Than you can handle the bite?
After removing the lubricate the wound with iodine. If during the removal of the skin under the left head of the tick, it is necessary to remove — viruses that are transmitted by ticks, are concentrated in the salivary glands. Treat the area with alcohol, flame the bacteriological needle, remove the head, as usual splinter. After again, treat the affected area with alcohol.
After removal of the tick takes about three weeks to measure the temperature and pay attention to their personal wellbeing. For every ailment it is better to consult a doctor. If the bite is formed a spot — needed antibiotics.
How can I avoid tick bites?
To protect yourself from ticks, before going into the woods you need to:
treating clothes and open skin with repellents against insects. They give full protection against tick-borne infections;
to wear light (it is better seen mites) thick clothes with long sleeves and a hood;
from time to time inspect themselves. Tick, before dig into the skin, some time crawling through it, looking for a suitable place. Usually the person feels these movements. If the time to detect the tick — it can be easy to brush away;
when you are back home you need to inspect yourself, comb hair small comb, and check for the presence of mites brought with them flowers, branches, etc.
