Symptoms of a tick bite are cause for concern!

With the onset of warm spring weather, lovers of shashlik recreation in forest and park areas face the intensified inhabitants of the forest - ticks. These small and completely inconspicuous insects have become truly dangerous enemies of man, capable of delivering a lot of problems.

Doctors agree that the danger of this insect bite lies in the "bouquet" of possible diseases, the most common of which are Lyme disease, or systemic borreliosis, as well as viral encephalitis.

Because of the ability to mask tick-borne encephalitis is difficult to diagnose. In mild manifestations, this disease can resemble a cold. A person feels headaches, fever, dizziness. Severe form of encephalitis strikes a blow to the central nervous, cardiovascular systems and can even lead to death.

Symptoms of a tick bite

Symptomatic bite of a tick, vector of Lyme disease, is akin to the symptoms of an ordinary cold. It is a pain in joints and muscles, an increase in lymph nodes, an increase in temperature. If, before the onset of symptoms, a person has been in the forest zone, then leaving such attention to the body signal is not worth it. Symptoms of a tick bite in 70% of bitten people are observed after 14 days, possibly earlier, but they can remind themselves about themselves in two months. At the site of the bite, a red spot forms, eventually increasing to 30 cm. This is the first symptoms of a tick bite and an occasion to call a doctor!

The acute form of the disease is changes in the joints, nervous system, skin and heart. However, any organs can be affected. Symptoms of tick bite that have passed into the chronic form of borreliosis are characterized by brain damage, inflammation in the joints, irreversible changes in the skin, delay in mental and physical development in children, and this is not a complete list.

What to do?

If the first signs of a tick bite are found (the place of the bite begins to pinch and itch), and you see that it sucked, the best option would be to contact the surgeon. If it is decided to remove the mite on its own, then it should be done this way.

1. With a tweezers or fingers wrapped around the cheesecloth, hook the mite and lightly swing it from side to side until it is removed.

2. Make a loop of a strong thread and tighten it on the body of the insect. Slowly sipping, get the tick.

3. Treat the affected area with a green. If the insect's head remains inside, lubricate the bite with alcohol and a needle, remove it.

When extracting the tick, you can not put pressure on it, otherwise its insides, along with the infection, will get into the wound.

A dead tick is much more difficult to remove .

Removal of an insect does not guarantee the absence of infection.

Treatment

If the symptoms with a tick bite are detected within five days and the treatment is prescribed on time, the disease is eliminated quite easily. The treatment depends on the correct choice of antibiotics. The most commonly prescribed drugs are three groups - tetracyclines, penicillins, cephalosporins.