With what impatience we are waiting for a series of summer holidays! Waiting for warm days is akin to that thrill, which visits us only in childhood. We consider the days before your favorite time of the year, more often we look at the calendar and upset if the weather forecasters will read the rainy summer.
Hot season manits perspective to get a portion of a bronze tanning, visit the beloved country, stroll through the nearest prolesta in search of mushrooms, berries. Yes just like barefoot on fresh grass. And here we stop ourselves to the thoughts that the walk through the grass is hardly bringing the expected pleasure. After all, with the arrival of long-awaited heat «come to life» and dangerous carriers of infectious diseases who have chosen not only forest parking areas, but also city lawns.
Habitat, active time
Where did this attack come from? Increasing the number of victims gave rise to rumors that tick-borne encephalitis is almost a newly new biological weapon and the sabotage of foreign intelligence services. Meanwhile, work on the study of tick-borne encephalitis began in the 30s-40s of the last century. At the same time, strains of the pathogen of this dangerous disease were identified and the carriers of infection - ticks.
From the school year of zoology, we remember that ticks belong to the class of spider-shaped. And it began to be a direct threat to expect from an insect on eight legs. That's just the size of the bloodstream so small that it is sometimes difficult to notice where the paws are considered there! The oblong body of the tick is covered with chitine armor, the cover color varies from light-brown and gray to black.
Especially rich in the ticks areas lying to the east of the Ural Range. However, over the past few years, the area of the distribution of ixode ticks - carriers of the pathogen of encephalitis and borreliosis, expanded. Cases of bites spread in the territory of the European part of Russia, not passing the Moscow region and the capital.
Pliers, contrary to the views of the inaders, do not fall from the trees, their habitat is grass, less often - shrubs. Chooms, birchings, but there are bloodsuckers and in the undergrowth, in thick grass.
The period of tick activity falls on a spring-summer season. Two peak cases of diseases, whose carriers are ill-fated arthropods. The first is celebrated in May-June; second, less strong - at the end of the summer.
Bitches and possible troubles
Tick-borne encephalitis and borreliosis are dangerous and, unfortunate, rather common diseases transmitted by ticks.
Bite of a harmful insect often provokes symptoms characteristic of ORVI: general weakness, nausea, temperature. Therefore, the disease is not always possible to diagnose. Sometimes symptoms include skin numbness, muscle pain. The development of the disease can lead to the defeat of the central nervous system, paralysis, coma, fatal outcome.
The incubation period in infecting borreliosis (Lyme disease) is about from 2 to 30 days. The most common feature of the disease is a red spot that appeared in the bite area. It increases significantly in size, and a few weeks disappears. However, the disappearance of skin redness does not mean that the disease passed. The consequences will manifest several months later, and even years. Lyme disease is striking the nervous system, joints, heart.
How to protect yourself (preventing bites)
Pliers have become a real misfortune. City authorities are doing everything possible in order to prevent meeting with dangerous insects. Preventive work under the processing of forest land and park zones with special means. Activities are carried out to collect ticks and their destruction. There is a planned job on the briefing of the population, items of receiving affected by bites. However, the number of appeals to medical facilities does not decrease.
Therefore, it is not necessary to progressively treat prophylactic measures, because it is easier to warn the danger, rather than fight with its possible consequences.
Being in nature, carry out inspections of clothes and open areas of the body. Upon returning home after a picnic or walk through the meadow, carefully inspect yourself. Mortifying depressions, neck, paha region, the inner side of the elbow bend - especially loved by bloodsuckers.
Use repellents in the form of aerosols, sprays, lotions. These special tools have a wide range of action and protect you not only from ticks, but also from mosquitoes, midges and other annoying insects.
Lovers of many hours «Quiet hunt», As otherwise, they call the collection of mushrooms, it is necessary to carefully close the body, without leaving the chance of a tick. Sleeves jacket must be long, cuffs tightly make a wrist. Turtleneck or shirt with a deaf collar fuel in pants. Pants fuel on the top of the boot. Do not forget to throw a hood. The smaller the folds and pockets will be on clothes - the less chances of the tick remain unnoticed. On the set of light tone easier to notice the cracked insect.
Most likely, the type of pants filled into socks is unusted for you. But think about the fact that safety and conservation health is more important than prejudice.
Be careful and attentive. Do not fall into another extreme: imperisibility is able to reduce the pleasure of collecting mushrooms and walks on the promissory. If concerns to be branched prevail over the desire to breathe fresh air, taste strawberries or assemble a bouquet of medicinal herbs, - stay at home. As they say, wolves fear - not to go to the forest.
If you do not imagine your holiday without a backpack behind my shoulders, songs by the fire, multi-day tourist hiking, makes sense to think about vaccination against tick-borne encephalitis.
Homemade pets are subject to careful inspection. Returning from the walk, carefully inspect the animal wool. Ask the veterinarian about additional measures of protection. Currently, manufacturers of animal products produce a wide range of ticks. These are collars impregnated with special composition, aerosols and other goods.
How to neutralize a tick
Dimted ticks on clothes? Carefully remove the insect. How cruel it did not sound, but you will have to burn it. There is no other way to neutralize a possible threat. As they say, with all the wealth of choice...
Determine the eye, whether the tick is a carrier of encephalitis, borreliosis and other unpleasant things, it is impossible. So the decision is final, there is no appeal. Act carefully, do not fall apart by nonsense dry or last year's foliage. Saving humanity from the bloodstream creature, it is easy for anything, nor about what to deprive his pairs-troika hectares of the useful forest.
Urgent Tick Removal Measures
If the parasite has already managed to settle on the body, do not panic. It is necessary to take urgent measures to remove the tick, and this will require a cold head and clean hands.
If it is possible to promptly appeal to the medical point - it is not worth neglected. The specialist will quickly remove the sucking tick, gently treat the bite.
In the field will have to act independently. To effectively remove the tick, you must tighten the loop from the thread around the insect's trunk and carefully pull it out. Take place to handle iodine. Do not forget to wash your hands thoroughly.
The seized insect should be placed in a clean hermetic container and transport to the laboratory. Before obtaining the results of the study, it is necessary to prevent possible diseases. Treatment will prescribe a turbulent therapist.
