After the tick bite, the disease may manifest itself even in a few months.
Ticks can be carriers of dangerous infections, including one tick-borne borellis, or Lyme disease. What kind of disease how to cope with it.
Signs and course of borelioza
The causative agent of borelioza – group of pathogenic bacteria, United called Borrelia, which belong to the family of spirochetes. Carriers of microbes are warm-blooded animals such as rodents, cattle, predators, including dogs and even birds.
Ixodes tick, which drank the blood of an infected animal or bird becomes a carrier of bacteria, and, in the body of the insect germs do not multiply, but only remain viable until a meeting with another victim of the parasite.
First signs of Lyme disease can occur a few days after the bite, but often displays delayed for a long period of time – from two weeks to a month. At the time of the tick bite produces in the victim’s blood, saliva, which contains a small amount of Borrelia that are beginning to proliferate, at high concentration of the blood can penetrate into various organs, including the Central nervous system, heart, joints, liver and others. Borrelii are able to sporulate, and when death emit hazardous endotoxin, which causes the General intoxication of the organism.
If a child is bitten by a tick, watch for bite – if the redness appeared immediately, it is probably just a reaction to the defeat of the skin, which passes within a few hours. When infected with Lyme disease the redness appears a few days after the bite – round spot that gradually expands and changes shape. Gradually the spot becomes pale ring in the centre of which red raised above the skin level education. With the appearance of erythema migrans (the so-called this spot), you need to urgently see a doctor – the sooner the treatment, the better the chances of recovery without consequences.
The development of erythema may be accompanied by fever, it is also quite rare, but it happens that Lyme disease without erythema develops, but there are signs of bacterial infection – fever, headache, aching joints, General weakness.
Treatment of Lyme disease
Erythema migrans is one of the main features that allow to diagnose, but to confirm it by laboratory methods at an early stage is not always possible. If you suspect borellis will require hospitalization, because the treatment is not only to antibiotics but also the total cleaning of organism from intoxication with endotoxins of Borrelia.
The insidiousness of Lyme disease lies in the fact that erythema may spontaneously disappear 2-3 weeks after the occurrence, but this does not always mean that the disease is defeated. After 1-2 months, after that may well show signs of internal organ is the second, more serious and dangerous stage of the disease, which is treatable much worse.
Infection with Lyme disease is dangerous during pregnancy, because there are known cases, when the bacteria overcome the placental barrier and struck tissue of the fetus.
Preventive vaccine against Lyme disease does not currently exist, but the treatment is quite effective, especially if started at the stage of cutaneous manifestations.
Prevention of Lyme disease
First of all, you need certainly to try to avoid tick bites. Remember that these parasites are waiting for their prey in the grass, on the leaves and branches of shrubs, as a rule, they do not climb higher than 1 meter. Ticks do not like Sunny open places, stennie prefer cool and moist areas. The maximum activity of ticks in may and June and the second wave in September-October.
Regularly inspect the child, especially paying attention to exposed areas of the body – louse does not bite at once, he can wander in search of a comfortable place to several hours.
Going into the woods or Park, use insect repellents, approved for use in children. It is enough to handle the clothes and shoes of the child, causing the drug on the delicate skin to ward off parasites.
If the parasite is still stuck, try to remove the tick as quickly as possible, but gently, without crushing his little body. Because borrelii are mainly concentrated in the digestive system of an insect, they enter the bloodstream gradually, which means that the longer the tick feeds, the more gets into the blood of bacteria.
After removing the tick, try to keep it alive – put in a container and close the lid. You can use any jar, as well as pharmacy containers for the collection of urine and feces. Take the tick for analysis – if you get it, treatment can be started without waiting for the appearance of symptoms. Well, if the insect will be healthy, you can breathe a sigh of relief.
Write down the date when the trouble happened, this is important because the symptoms of Lyme disease and other tick-borne infections may manifest after a long time.
