What does the tick tick look like and what should I do if the tick was bitten?

The long-awaited spring days came, whenyou can go to nature. But do not forget that there, in the forest or in the glades, in the warm period of the year a person and all warm-blooded animals are trapped by small bloodsucking insects - ticks.

The tick bite can turn into a serious infectiousdisease - encephalitis. The consequences of the bite of this vector of infection are more than deplorable: paralysis, deafness, death. The probability of a meeting in a forest with a bear in an area of ​​1 square kilometer is negligible, but thousands of mites can be counted in the same area. Of course, not more than 5% of the whole horde of mites are infectious, but the fact is that the infected tick does not differ in appearance from the usual one, not infected. Therefore, we have to be wary of all ticks. But many do not know "in person" this dangerous insect and do not know what the tick tick looks like.

The tick does not snap like lightning, like a bee or wasp.He will not warn about his presence with hiss like a snake, or a ringing mosquito sound. First he crawls on clothes, headdress or uncovered head, then he will look for the most successful, in his opinion, place on the skin. If you are attentive to your feelings, you can feel the insect on the body and remove it in time.

Usually ticks dig in where the skin is mostthin. The tick is bitten slowly, its bite is almost not felt - simultaneously with biting the skin, the insect anesthetizes the wound with a special substance. The pictures shown in the article show how the mite tick looks, which will be felt when the mite begins to energetically fill his body with blood, as if screwing his head deeper. Around his skin reddens, the sensation can be compared with the beginning of an abscess - itching and burning around the bite.

The bite of encephalitis mites can not be distinguishedexternally. Whether the mite is infected or not, it can be determined only in the laboratory of sanitary supervision if the insect taken is delivered there alive (in a glass jar with a lid, where you need to put a piece of cloth moistened with water).

Не берите с собой на отдых в лес четвероногих friends - dogs. Dog hair is an excellent store of ticks. The dog will bring with his walk many ticks, both stuck in her body, and crawling, and will lose them around your shelter. How does a tick tick on a dog look like, you can see in the photo.

The drugged tick should not be pressed, pulled out sharply.It is necessary to pour the parasite and place around it with kerosene, fat, oil and a little (20-30 minutes) to wait. Very often after such treatment, the mite disappears by itself. If this method does not help, try another: grab the tick with gauze wrapped fingers or tweezers. Smooth slow movements try to extract it, trying not to cut off the proboscis. Or around the head of the mite tighten a loop of thread, which pulls out the sucking insect. If the proboscis or even the head of the mite is torn off and these elements remain in the wound with a black mark, then the skin turns blue around the place of the bite, then the blush strongly turns red, swells, itches, and there is a burning sensation - that's how the mite bite looks that you could not extract completely.

It is necessary to know that not only encephalitis, but alsoother diseases (for example, borreliosis, otherwise called Lyme disease), a tick bite is dangerous. Signs of the disease affect not immediately, but in a week or two or even later: it is a headache in the frontotemporal departments, high fever, convulsions, vomiting. In Lyme disease (otherwise borreliosis), the bite site begins to blush and swell as a circle, covering a significant area of ​​the skin. The edges of this circle are marked with a red color.

The most correct measures will be preventive- vaccination against tick-borne encephalitis. If there is no vaccination, immediately after a tick bite, consult a doctor. Adhere to hygienic measures: after the tick is successfully removed, you need to wash your hands with soap, bite the place with greens, alcohol, iodine.