Tick season: how to protect yourself from bites
How to protect yourself from ticks?
Do not be in nature in spring and summer it is impossible, but you can reduce the risk of tick bites to a minimum, if you close all your body and clothing wear headgear.
Choose light-colored clothing, because dark ticks are difficult to see.
Charge t-shirts into trousers, and those areas of the skin that remain open, deal with insect repellents.
Coming home after a walk, a good shake off his clothes on the balcony. Regularly inspect your skin and the skin of their children, to make sure no ticks.
Carefully inspect and his head of hair is particularly difficult among notice tick.
What should I do if bitten by a tick?
There are plenty of tips on how to remove ticks yourself, but you will never be completely sure that the tick was removed completely. Is it worth risking health because of the unwillingness to spend half an hour in the doctor's office? ..
If, however, you are not able to turn to a professional, remember that removing the tick should be sterile gloves. Try not to squeeze the tick's body, otherwise it will penetrate even deeper. Take the tweezers, or a clean gauze, gently grasp the body of the tick as close to the bite site. Keep it perpendicular to the skin and start to rotate - the only way a tick can be removed from the wound.
Be sure to wash your hands afterwards with soap and water, treat the wound with iodine or alcohol, and recovered the tick, it is desirable to put in a glass jar and give it to the laboratory for analysis.
If a person is bitten by a tick, a few days after the bite should watch his health, and in case of any alarm symptoms (fever, headache, dizziness or nausea), immediately consult your doctor.
If you find a tick on yourself does not necessarily go to the doctor, but it can not be touching hands, and you need to use a special method to safely remove this tick, says infectious disease physician Hope Illyuk.
On the advice of a doctor if you find a tick on clothing need not touching him, his coward, if the tick has stuck to the skin, it is necessary to act very differently.
"We must remember that it is not necessary to handle the bite of the tick with oil, alcohol, or other means - nothing good will come of it is desirable to remove the tick alive." - Said the expert.
The doctor explained that pull the tick to be careful not to pull out, otherwise there is a risk of contracting Lyme disease.
"In order to pull out the tick, it is necessary to tightly embrace as close as possible to the skin, it can be done with tweezers or two sticks, the ideal is to take a tight thread to make a loop and tighten at the base of the proboscis, and swinging and rotating remove this tick. in no case it can not be separated Because if you talk about the possibility of infection, the causative agent of borreliosis is in the stomach of a tick and the pathogen is encephalitis in saliva, "-. a specialist warned.
"If you are not sure you can do it yourself, it is better to contact the doctor Ideally, the tick must be removed within days after it sucked." - She added.
Meanwhile, doctors warn that tick bites, intensified this spring, may subsequently lead to severe disability and even death.
"As a rule, ticks are activated when the air temperature exceeds 10 degrees Celsius. This is where the second half of April, May and June, "- says chief pediatric infectious diseases specialist of Ministry of Health of Ukraine Sergey Kramarev.
This infectious disease noted that Lyme disease is very dangerous for human health and life, so you need to carefully protect themselves from tick bites.
"This is - a very dangerous disease. If left untreated, it can result in severe disability. To protect yourself, you need to follow certain rules: for a hike in the woods or park requires special clothing, tightly buttoned collar, fixed rubber sleeves and pant legs. Clothing should be light, to mites were visible on it. Do not walk on untrodden paths, go deep into the thicket. There are also special repellents, mosquito repellents ", - he said.
Experts remind that after each outing in the park, the park or the woods you need to carefully examine not only themselves, but also pets. Tick ??bite can kill a dog for a few days. Borreliosis symptoms - headache, fever, weakness, and on the site of the bite there is a characteristic ring-shaped rash.
Do not be in nature in spring and summer it is impossible, but you can reduce the risk of tick bites to a minimum, if you close all your body and clothing wear headgear.
Choose light-colored clothing, because dark ticks are difficult to see.
Charge t-shirts into trousers, and those areas of the skin that remain open, deal with insect repellents.
Coming home after a walk, a good shake off his clothes on the balcony. Regularly inspect your skin and the skin of their children, to make sure no ticks.
Carefully inspect and his head of hair is particularly difficult among notice tick.
What should I do if bitten by a tick?
There are plenty of tips on how to remove ticks yourself, but you will never be completely sure that the tick was removed completely. Is it worth risking health because of the unwillingness to spend half an hour in the doctor's office? ..
If, however, you are not able to turn to a professional, remember that removing the tick should be sterile gloves. Try not to squeeze the tick's body, otherwise it will penetrate even deeper. Take the tweezers, or a clean gauze, gently grasp the body of the tick as close to the bite site. Keep it perpendicular to the skin and start to rotate - the only way a tick can be removed from the wound.
Be sure to wash your hands afterwards with soap and water, treat the wound with iodine or alcohol, and recovered the tick, it is desirable to put in a glass jar and give it to the laboratory for analysis.
If a person is bitten by a tick, a few days after the bite should watch his health, and in case of any alarm symptoms (fever, headache, dizziness or nausea), immediately consult your doctor.
If you find a tick on yourself does not necessarily go to the doctor, but it can not be touching hands, and you need to use a special method to safely remove this tick, says infectious disease physician Hope Illyuk.
On the advice of a doctor if you find a tick on clothing need not touching him, his coward, if the tick has stuck to the skin, it is necessary to act very differently.
"We must remember that it is not necessary to handle the bite of the tick with oil, alcohol, or other means - nothing good will come of it is desirable to remove the tick alive." - Said the expert.
The doctor explained that pull the tick to be careful not to pull out, otherwise there is a risk of contracting Lyme disease.
"In order to pull out the tick, it is necessary to tightly embrace as close as possible to the skin, it can be done with tweezers or two sticks, the ideal is to take a tight thread to make a loop and tighten at the base of the proboscis, and swinging and rotating remove this tick. in no case it can not be separated Because if you talk about the possibility of infection, the causative agent of borreliosis is in the stomach of a tick and the pathogen is encephalitis in saliva, "-. a specialist warned.
"If you are not sure you can do it yourself, it is better to contact the doctor Ideally, the tick must be removed within days after it sucked." - She added.
Meanwhile, doctors warn that tick bites, intensified this spring, may subsequently lead to severe disability and even death.
"As a rule, ticks are activated when the air temperature exceeds 10 degrees Celsius. This is where the second half of April, May and June, "- says chief pediatric infectious diseases specialist of Ministry of Health of Ukraine Sergey Kramarev.
This infectious disease noted that Lyme disease is very dangerous for human health and life, so you need to carefully protect themselves from tick bites.
"This is - a very dangerous disease. If left untreated, it can result in severe disability. To protect yourself, you need to follow certain rules: for a hike in the woods or park requires special clothing, tightly buttoned collar, fixed rubber sleeves and pant legs. Clothing should be light, to mites were visible on it. Do not walk on untrodden paths, go deep into the thicket. There are also special repellents, mosquito repellents ", - he said.
Experts remind that after each outing in the park, the park or the woods you need to carefully examine not only themselves, but also pets. Tick ??bite can kill a dog for a few days. Borreliosis symptoms - headache, fever, weakness, and on the site of the bite there is a characteristic ring-shaped rash.