Encephalite tick - deadly insect parasite. In the territory of the states of the CIS and the Baltic States, it is distributed almost everywhere, although focal (not solid). It is not difficult to find out, it has a characteristic brown or brown color, an oblong torso with a diameter of two to five millimeters with a dark spot at the base of the head. Mite moves slowly, only a few millimeters per second, so you can still have time to notice and remove it or your clothes before he has time to choose a place and disappear.
Of all the amount of ticks, the pedicakes of viruses are only ten and fifteen percent. In this case, only one for seventeen infected patients is fixed. Of course, statistic statistics, but better trouble of this kind to avoid. To do this, you need to know and comply with some rules that will help in time to prevent tragic consequences.
What is dangerous mite encephalitis and lime disease?
The bite of the encephalitite tick is fraught with such diseases like tick-borne encephalitis, Lima's disease (Lime, Limborreliosis, mite borreliosis).
Tick-borne encephalitis - viral disease, mainly affects the central nervous system and within a few days, about a week, can lead to a fatal outcome. The disease adversely affects the gray matter and cortex of the brain, as well as the spinal cord, which is responsible for the musculoskeletal functions of the body.
Lima disease (Lyme) - the name occurred in honor of the city in the United States, where for the first time this disease was identified - an infectious transmissible disease, called, as a rule, by bacteria spirochet and a multicolored tick. It is usually manifested in the form of lesion of the skin, the central nervous and musculoskeletal system, can lead to lime arthritis and serious heart disease. Have a relapse who have suffered this disease.
Symptoms of tick-borne encephalitis and lime disease
Our site would like to convey to you information about the symptoms Ukus Encephalite tick, or rather the symptoms of diseases carrying them.
Symptoms of tick-borne encephalitis: frequent headaches, heat to thirty nine and forty degrees, lubrication in body. The incubation period of the virus is from two to four weeks.
Symptoms Disease disease Lima: An irritation appears in the form of shallow raishes around the leaf of the bite in diameter, about ten and fifteen centimeters, strongly itching. The incubation period of this infection is about a month, but there are cases when the disease began to manifest itself only after nine months.
Mostly tick attacks his sacrifice, sitting on the grass or not high on the branches of trees and shrubs. When a person passing by, touches the plant, the tick turns out to be on his clothes. The parasite is distributed in deciduous forests and, even if the forest is mixed, then the tick will choose a deciduous part of it.
How to protect yourself from encephalit tick?
What you need to do to avoid the bite of the encephalitite tick? Going to the campaign, for example, choose your clothes. Outerwear - jacket, shirt, windbreaker - should be with long sleeves, tightly fitting wrists. All buttons must be fastened to the collar. It will not be superfluous to tie around the neck of the handkerchief, which must be fed for the gate. Very conveniently applying clothes with a hood, so you protect your head. Windbreaker or shirt must be refilled in pants, which in turn are refilled in shoes or boots. If the trousers are not enough, they refuel into socks. Condition - Leave as few open skin cover as possible.
Tick never attacks immediately. At first he clings to clothes, and then, for from half an hour, it crawls up to several hours, making his way through the folds of clothes and choosing the most convenient place for bite. Such places most often there are tender and warm skin. Considering the fact that the speed of movement of the tick is not high, more often inspect the clothes and unprotected areas of the skin during parking lots. It is necessary to periodically protrude clothing. When stopping for the night, do not forget about the tent, which is necessary to inspect before the onset of twilight.
Returning from the forest home, remove all the clothes from yourself, accept the shower, inspect yourself in case of a unnoticed tick. Do not forget to examine and wone clothes.
How to remove ticks?
If the tick still bitten, it must be removed from the skin. Do it you need as much as possible. In no case can you put it with nails or tweezers, comb and try to pull the force. In such cases, there is a big danger that the tick will injure a large portion of their saliva to the body, and with her and infection.
At home, it is recommended to remove the tick in different ways, including «Dedovsky». These methods include:
First method. Remove ticks from the body, if you drop something fat or, for example, vegetable oil, with any alcohol solution. Then take on it with a vat and, slowly, try to extract it from the skin.
Second way. Take up ticks tweezers, trying to grab the very place of contact, and try to get it rotational movements.
And the one and the other way provides physical pressure on the parasite, which, as already mentioned it is extremely not desirable.
And finally, Third way. Removing tick thread. To do this, it is necessary to draw an ordinary thread between the body of the injured and the torso tick, make the thread a couple of revolutions, so that it turns out the loop. Looping slightly tighten on the neck of the insect, then fold the ends of the thread and start twist them with two fingers. During this process, it is not desirable to make sharp twitching for the thread and ensure that the thread is not too tightened. According to those who used this method, you will need a few minutes to remove skin ticks.
With a successful removal of the tick, do not try to crush it, cut and t.NS. Hands after extracting the parasite is strongly recommended to wash any detergent.
If you are not sure that you can remove the tick on your own, our site recommends contacting the nearest traumopuncture, where the ticks will be removed, and you will make an injection of immunoglobulin. To make sure that there is no danger of your health, the extracted tick is desirable to be taken to SanEpidemstation (SES), where 1-2.E. During the day, you will be given the results of the examination. If all is bad, immediately go to the clinic to the infectious doctor. Considering the short incubation period of diseases, it is not worth a break: your health is your health, your life.
In order to somehow protect yourself from the danger to infect diseases that are transferred by encephalitic ticks, and acquire persistent immunity to its bite, the so-called vaccine-philatics are used. It is held in three stages: the first - in autumn, in October, early November; Second - in the spring, in March-early April. After that, you can already go to the forest without fears. After 12 months, it is necessary to make a third vaccination, and further repeat vaccination with the interval of three years. If you want to spend the vaccine-philaxcies to your children, then surely consult a doctor. The fact is that not all drugs are the same in their properties and have different restrictions on the age of the child.
We wish you health and a pleasant summer holiday!
