What should I do if bitten by a tick

Forest walks in the fresh air, the collection of mushrooms and berries like everything. However, in bush thickets there is a small but serious danger, though small. Together with a positive mood, you can accidentally come home with a forest mite on the body. This can overshadow your visit to the forest. What to do if a tick is bitten, each of us should know in order to prevent the development of a deadly disease - encephalitis.

More about Encephalitis

When an encephalitis tick is bitten, the infection enters the body. Within a few days nothing happens, but then the temperature rises, the condition worsens, dizziness, nausea, severe headaches, convulsions. If you do not consult a doctor on time, a fatal outcome may occur. Encephalitis affects the human immune system, blood, brain. Sometimes patients who late apply to the hospital remain disabled for life. It is recommended to carry out preventive vaccination to prevent the possibility of encephalitis infection.

Currently, an excellent tool Yodantipirin is developed, effectively fighting tick-borne encephalitis with the drug during 12-14 hours after the bite of an insect.

Doctors know what to do if the tick is bitten

If you find a tick on your body - gather, 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 an immunoglobulin against the infection that an insect could carry. This procedure is carried out only if no more than 72 hours have elapsed 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 epidemiological station to check for infections.

Self-control of the tick

But it happens that you are cut off from civilization, to the nearest medical station a few hours drive. What should I do if bitten by a tick? You will have to remove the insect from your body. The first and one of the main rules: you can not drip oil on a mite. It blocks air access, and the insect can die right in the skin. And this is even more dangerous.

When you bite the tick to get it you need a curved tweezers. You can also make a loop of thread and wrap around the body of the bloodsucker. Rocking movements need to get the tick from the body. Take care that the insect's head does not stay in place of the bite. After extraction, wipe the wound with hydrogen peroxide, zebrafish or iodine. Be sure to wash your hands thoroughly with soap and water.

How to prevent a tick bite

In order not to rush into panic and not think about what to do if the tick is bitten, you need to dress properly for a walk in the forest and behave very carefully. Wear the closest, tight fitting body, use a headdress like a light cap or headscarf. Use special repellent repellent from ticks.

Keep in mind that ticks most 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.

During a walk through the forest, check yourself often for the presence of unexpected insects. Most often ticks sucked to the neck, the skin behind the ear, in the armpits, in the groin area. When you come home, take off your clothes, shake it out, and carefully examine yourself again.

By the way, you can pick up a tick even in the city park, train or train, in the garden garden. Therefore, be careful, try to check your body more frequently for the presence of bloodsuckers.