With the advent of warm days, few of the townspeople are in no hurry to go to nature. Parks, forests, gardens and groves - these are the favorite places that each of us loves to visit. However, outdoor recreation brings not only joy, satisfaction and fun. Picnics are often overshadowed by unpleasant insects - ticks.
The tick is one of the oldest insects, which has more than forty thousand subspecies. Most ticks feed on tiny organisms, fungal spores, and plant foods. Only a few species of these insects drink the blood of animals and humans.
Ticks live in forested areas, they settle in grass and shrubs. Most often, ticks are located along the paths along which people and pets walk. The insect feels the approach of a person thanks to its incredibly sensitive sense of smell. If you are at a distance of 8-10 meters from the tick, he already knows about your approach. The tick is conveniently located at the ends of the blades of grass and, when touched, tightly hooks on your clothes.
A tick does not bite a person immediately, first he needs to choose a suitable place for this. Most often, tick bites occur on the scalp, neck, shoulders, inner bends of the knees and elbows - that is, places with thin skin. The tick slowly rises to the head along the pant leg and, having chosen a suitable place, firmly digs into your skin. His proboscis is like the thinnest bolt that is screwed into the skin, getting to the delicious blood. A person does not feel the bite, because painkillers are present in the saliva of the tick. The body of the bloodsucker is flat and small, but after a meal, the tick inflates and increases in size several times. When the insect gets drunk on blood, it itself falls off the skin. However, in most cases, a person discovers a bloodsucker even before he has had enough.
Why are tick bites dangerous?
The fact is that ticks are carriers of a huge number of diseases and infections. According to statistics, every tenth tick is potentially dangerous. Biting one person with an infectious disease, and then digging into the blood of a second person, the tick easily transfers pathogenic bacteria from one organism to another. The greatest danger is encephalitis, which is successfully spread by ticks. The disease at the very beginning is similar to a common cold - aching joints, weakness, fever. As the disease progresses, the nervous system is affected, paralysis may occur, and signs of epilepsy appear.In addition to encephalitis, a person after a tick bite can become infected with monocytic ehrlichiosis, Lyme disease. All these diseases are extremely dangerous and in the absence of timely medical care can lead to death. Along with this, each person can individually respond to an insect bite. An allergic reaction can be manifested by vomiting, rash, fever. That is why it is so important to seek immediate medical attention after a tick bite. And if possible, bring the insect to the laboratory for research.
How to pull out a tick yourself
Of course, the doctor is the best person to deal with this task. However, most often ticks stick to a person in nature, when there are no medical facilities nearby. In this case, you need to be able to provide medical assistance in a timely and competent manner. So, how to get a tick out of a person at home?
Thread
Sometimes in field conditions there are neither tweezers nor a clamp at hand. Then a regular thread will do. Make a small loop and drape over the tick. Tighten the loop so that it is at the very base of the insect's proboscis. After that, carefully pull out the bloodsucker in a circular motion. Do not pull so that the proboscis does not remain under the skin!
Arms
If the situation requires a quick solution, you can pull the tick out with your hands, or rather, with your nails. Carefully grab the insect closer to the proboscis and twist it, as in the previous methods of extracting the bloodsucker with tweezers or thread. Be careful not to squeeze the tick with your fingers. Otherwise, he can inject even more poison into the skin.
Syringe
This is another way to safely remove a tick. To implement it, we need a regular medical syringe without a needle. At the syringe, you need to cut off the upper part where the needle is attached. The cut should be as even as possible in order to fit snugly against the body. Gently place the cap on the insect and then pull back on the plunger. A vacuum will arise inside the syringe, which will remove the bloodsucker.
Tweezers
When you pull out a tick, it is important to remember to do it carefully and carefully, so that its proboscis is completely out, and does not come off and does not remain in the skin. The best way to do this is with a medical clamp. It has sharp edges that can tightly capture the insect. Instead of a clip, you can use simple tweezers, which can be found in every woman's cosmetic bag, even in field conditions. Squeeze the tick tightly, but not too hard, otherwise you might just crush it. Grab the bloodsucker closer to the proboscis. It is not necessary to pull it out, the screwed-in trunk can simply come off. It is necessary to carefully scroll the insect around the axis in order to remove it along with the proboscis.
To date, the pharmacy has special devices in the form of curved tweezers. They are designed to safely remove ticks. If you are going on a hike or outdoor recreation, do not forget to put this necessary thing in your first-aid kit.
After extraction
Remember that the whole procedure should be as safe as possible for you. Before removing a tick with improvised means, you need to disinfect all devices that will come into contact with an open wound.
After extraction, the wound must be disinfected. To do this, treat it with iodine, potassium permanganate, hydrogen peroxide, alcohol or other antiseptics. If, during extraction, part of the tick (its head or proboscis) remained inside the skin, additional measures must be taken. To do this, take a disinfected needle and carefully remove a foreign body from the skin, like a splinter. Treat the wound and consult a doctor in order to exclude the possibility of infection with serious diseases that the tick carries.
The insect itself can be burned, drowned or delivered for research. To do this, it is placed in a jar with a small amount of water so that the bloodsucker survives to the laboratory.
Is it possible to fill a tick with oil
There is an opinion that in order to fish out a tick, it must be filled with vegetable oil. At the same time, he suffocates and releases the skin himself. Indeed, a tick cannot be without air for a long time and he does not like such a procedure. However, doctors do not advise using this method of extracting an insect.
The fact is that when a tick gets drunk on vegetable oil, it can simply spit it out. And since its proboscis is in your skin, the oil, along with the poison, is injected into your bloodstream. This is extremely dangerous. Also, do not use ammonia and other compounds to remove the tick.
How to protect yourself from tick bites
In order not to get caught by this bloodsucker, you need to follow some precautions. When going out into nature, wear closed clothes, tie your sleeves with ribbons, tuck your pants into socks, put a scarf around your neck, and do not forget to wear a hat. Examine your skin and clothes regularly, the tick's path is long enough and you can throw it off yourself even before it has time to drink your blood. If you have children with you, check their skin and clothes every hour. After all, children most easily catch these insects, because they walk on the grass, and not along the path.Before you sit on the grass, be sure to lay a blanket. For a picnic, use special sprays, ointments and lotions that will help you repel ticks and other annoying insects.
And further. Before the summer season, it would be a good idea to get vaccinated against encephalitis. It will help you protect yourself from the likely disease that ticks carry.
Forewarned is forearmed. Knowledge about where ticks live, why they are dangerous and how to get them out of human skin is priceless. Take all precautions, act correctly and quickly to protect yourself and your children from tick bites.
Video: how to pull out a tick
Spring came. Nature wakes up, and with nature all kinds of harmful insects. For example, such as a tick. We suggest that you carefully read this article in order to be prepared for the sudden intervention of this harmful and nasty tick, if it suddenly happens.
When there is a tick on the human body that has already dug into the skin, a logical question arises about how to get rid of a dangerous insect. A variety of methods are used to extract a tick, but not all of them are safe for health. The insect penetrates the skin by screwing in, like a screw. In the process of improper removal of an arthropod, part of it may remain inside the human skin, which is very unfavorable to health. The tick is a carrier of viral encephalitis, but you should not be afraid of it.
Having found a tick on your body, you must immediately take measures to remove it. It should immediately be noted that if you do not have experience with this procedure, then it is better not to experiment and consult a doctor in order to avoid negative consequences.
The procedure for removing a tick from a person must be carried out very slowly and carefully. The main thing in this process is to prevent the insect from breaking into two parts, one of which will remain in the skin. You will have to try especially if a small tick has stuck to the body. In the process of removing arthropods, there is always one positive moment - the procedure is painless for humans.
How to get a tick out at home?
Method 1
You can try to unscrew the tick. This should be done in a counterclockwise direction, since the insect was introduced into the skin in the opposite direction. To do this, you need to gently grab the tick with your thumb and forefinger and slowly scroll it. If the arthropod is too small or there is no desire to touch it, you can use tweezers. Grab the tick as close to the surface of the skin as possible to avoid tearing it.
Method 2
The area of \u200b\u200bthe body where the tick has stuck can be lubricated with vegetable oil or other fatty substance. This action will create a suffocation effect for the insect and it will leave the skin on its own, getting out. Then it can be easily removed from the body.
Some experts, on the contrary, do not recommend using this method of removing ticks. They argue that when the oil clogs the respiratory tract of an insect, it dies, but at the same time it can burp its internal contents into the wound. This increases the risk of infection.
Method 3
You can also remove the tick with a strong thread. To do this, you need to make a loop out of it and place it around the tick. You can make a couple of turns around the insect with the thread, and then tighten it. When the tick is captured, you need to start pulling it out with light movements. This process may take more than one minute. It is not recommended to use it if the tick is small, as it will be quite difficult to grab it.
Method 4
Actions after tick removal
After the tick is removed from the skin, the site of its penetration must be treated with an antiseptic, for example, iodine. It should not be much, otherwise you can burn the skin. The tool that was removed and hands should be washed thoroughly.
If, during the extraction of an arthropod insect, its head remains in the wound, one should not panic. Nothing wrong with that. If the head with a proboscis protrudes even slightly from the skin, then you can try to remove it with tweezers or by contacting a surgeon in a clinic. If part of the tick remains deeper, then a small abscess may appear around it. Soon, the remnants of the insect are evacuated to the outside with purulent fluid.
1. It is necessary to remove the tick very carefully, avoiding breaking off the proboscis, which is strongly and deeply fixed inside the skin.
2. You need to grab the tick with your fingers wrapped in clean gauze (pieces of bandage) or tweezers closer to his head. Holding the insect exclusively perpendicular to the skin, one should rotate its body around the axis and, thus, remove it.
3. It is necessary to disinfect the bite site with any suitable agent (cologne, alcohol, iodine or others).
4. Wash your hands thoroughly.
5. The extracted tick must be poured with boiling water or burned.
6. In the event that the head or trunk of an insect is torn off in the process of removing it from the skin, a black dot remains on the body. It must be lubricated with iodine and left alone until self-elimination.
7. Also, those ticks that are removed from the skin can be sent to the laboratory for research to determine whether the insect has or does not have viral encephalitis.
Rules for transferring the tick to the laboratory:
The insect must be alive;
- Do not lubricate it with any preparations and oils;
- the tick must be placed in a container with paper soaked in water to create the necessary humidity (so that the insect does not die during transportation);
- delivery of the tick to the laboratory must be carried out no later than two days from the date of extraction.
You can get help at the nearest emergency room. Go there immediately. If you do not know where he is and how to get there, dial the ambulance number - 103, they will give you the address.
If you can not see a doctor, remove the bloodsucker yourself.
What to Prepare Before Pulling a Tick
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First of all with soap, put on protective gloves and disinfect the tool.
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After that, wash your hands again with soap and water, and wipe the bite site with a disinfectant.
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Wash your hands in warm water and soap. After the bite.
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Clean your hands with soap and water, put on protective gloves, and dampen the thread with disinfectant.
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After removing the bloodsucker, wash your hands again with soap and treat the wound with a disinfectant.
What to do if the head of a tick comes off
The head looks like a black dot, so you will notice that it has come off. If it remains in the wound, wipe it with cotton wool or a bandage moistened with a disinfectant.
Then remove the head with a sterile needle, previously calcined on fire.
What Not to Do
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Many folk remedies are actually ineffective and even dangerous. It is forbidden:
Take the bloodsucker to any clinic where they do a tick analysis. You can view the nearest laboratories and seroprophylaxis points on the Encephalit.ru website. The analysis is paid, but in public clinics it is usually cheaper than in private ones.
When to see a doctor urgently
It would be nice right after they saw a sucking tick on the body. If you have not done this, then in the following cases you must go to the hospital.
- Within 3–14 days, a rash appeared next to the bite. This may be a sign. Even if the stains have faded over time, you are still at risk.
- Flu-like symptoms appeared. Usually it is chills, fever, weakness, muscle and joint pain, headache. They may indicate tick-borne borreliosis or encephalitis.
- The bite turned red and inflamed.
If cases of tick-borne encephalitis have been reported in your area, do not wait for the results of a tick test for infection. Immediately contact the point of seroprophylaxis (this is a method of preventing infectious diseases) or an infectious disease specialist. It will be necessary to carry out emergency prophylaxis on the first day or at least within three days.
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You can learn about outbreaks of tick-borne encephalitis and the epidemiological situation in general on the website of the Rospotrebnadzor in your region. Information is in the section "Sanitary and epidemiological situation".
How to prevent a tick bite
Going on a hike or just for a walk in the forest, take precautions, and no one will bite you.
Ticks attack a person every summer when they go on hikes or go on picnics. In addition, a tick can bite a person during a harmless walk in a city park. The bite of a tick has a number of features. As a rule, he literally sticks to the wound and begins to drink human blood. The longer the tick remains on the human body, the deeper it penetrates the epidermis. At the same time, he injects toxic substances into the wound, which may contain pathogens of some very serious diseases. Therefore, each person must master the skills of rejecting a blood-sucking insect, so as not to get confused at a difficult moment and not to panic. If the removal of the tick is carried out illiterately, then this can become a serious problem later.
Application of tweezers
This method is not so simple, because it requires special skills and dexterity. If such a procedure is performed for the first time, then it is better to refuse it. The thread is used when there are no other devices at hand.
Procedure:
Such a device, designed to extract ticks, is sold in pharmacies. In appearance, the tweezers resemble a nail puller, but small in size. With it, you can effortlessly unscrew the tick that has stuck to the human body. When going out into nature, such a device can be more than ever useful.
How is it different from regular tweezers:
- Lovers often go out into nature.
- Travel enthusiasts.
- For lovers of picking berries and mushrooms.
- Residents of rural areas located within forest plantations.
- Lovers of hunting and fishing.
How to use Nippes tweezers correctly:
Everyone, take note! Since most citizens prefer summer outdoor recreation, everyone should have at least some adaptation. The same applies to lovers of picking berries and mushrooms, hunters and fishermen. No one is immune from tick attacks, even when walking in a city park.
To treat a wound, you can use:
- Chlorhexidine solution.
- Pure or diluted alcohol.
- Vodka or moonshine.
- hydrogen peroxide.
- Spirits.
- toilet water.
How to properly handle:
- The bite site is gently wiped, without effort, with a cloth or cotton swab dipped in any of the solutions.
- If this is not possible, then a plantain or dandelion leaf can be applied to the wound, after moistening the bite site with the juice of this plant and washing the leaf.
- In extreme cases, the wound can be washed with clean water and covered with a piece of clean cloth.
- It is mandatory to visit a doctor and as soon as possible.
- On the way to the doctor, you need to purchase an alcohol-containing liquid and carefully treat the wound.
As a rule, those who go on a picnic have no problems with alcohol-containing liquids, but those who go for berries and mushrooms would do well to stock up at least not a lot of alcohol by pouring it into a bottle. Cotton wool, gauze and brilliant green will not interfere either. In other words, the simplest first aid kit is as essential as air.
Most people do not know what to do in cases of a tick bite, so they are always driven by fear, which leads to panic actions. As a result of wrong actions, a person can seriously suffer, paying with his health.
Prohibited extraction methods:
Haste and panic are bad advisers when a person is bitten by a tick. The use of untested methods along with unprofessional actions can lead to negative consequences.
A tick bite can lead any person out of balance, into a state of discomfort, especially since everyone knows about the possible consequences.
Insect mite, though small, but very dangerous. You can catch it both in the forest and in the city park.
In order not to find a tick on yourself, you need to completely cover your body with clothes during a walk, put on high boots on your feet. It is necessary to periodically examine all parts of the body for the presence of a tick.
They especially like to hide on the body where large vessels pass: popliteal fossae, elbows, neck, groin. Before digging into the skin, the tick crawls and looks for a place to bite. This is the time to detect the insect in a timely manner before it crawls under the skin.
You can feel it, because the movements of the tick cause a tickle in a person. It is necessary to remove the tick from the body before it crawls under the skin.
What should I do if bitten by a tick?
Where are ticks removed?
If possible, it is better to remove the tick in a medical facility. There are special tools for removing ticks. .
If there are no hospitals nearby, you should act according to the following rules:
- Special devices for removal. With tweezers. It can be an ordinary women's tweezers, which can be found in almost every women's handbag. It is much more difficult to pull out a tick with ordinary tweezers, because it can be strongly pressed down and tear off the head from the body. Special tweezers have the advantage, they have special teeth. A tick is inserted there and with slow movements the animal is twisted out of the human body.
- Twisting. Ideally, you need to take a piece of gauze or bandage to firmly grab a small body, twist it with your fingers until it is completely released. It is unlikely to get infected from dirty hands. More convenient for those who have long nails.
- Thread. If there is a silk thread - very good. But another, no less strong thread is quite suitable.
Steps to take to properly remove the tick:
- when the tick is captured with tweezers or fingers closer to the proboscis, you need to hold the insect so that it is perpendicular to the bite. Then we scroll through his body, while slowly pulling it out of the human skin;
- movements with a thread are similar to movements with tweezers or fingers. Only here the thread should be as short as possible. You should slowly swing the tick and pull it out;
- Be sure to disinfect the bite site. It can be alcohol, iodine, any cologne.
What can not be done when removing ticks?
You can not take the animal with your fingers, especially with dirty hands, pull it sharply, as you can tear off the head from the body.
Many, probably, have in their memory the grandmother's way, in which oil is used. So, in no case should you do this, because the oil will clog the respiratory organs of the tick, and he will die. In this case, it is impossible to pull it out on your own. After a tick bite, you need to take a blood test. This should be done only 10 days after the bite.
After the animal is removed, it is necessary to process the hands. If possible, wash your hands with soap. No - wipe with alcohol or in extreme cases with an antibacterial damp cloth. If the process was unsuccessful, the mite proboscis remained in the skin, then this place should be anointed with iodine.
How much worse if the entire head of the tick remains under the skin. In this case, you will have to try hard. First you need to treat this place with alcohol.
- Hold a sharp needle on fire, then wipe it with alcohol.
- Carefully, slowly, remove the head. If the head is not pulled out, the likelihood of contracting the encephalitis virus will increase significantly.
- After all the manipulations, you must consult a doctor. Statistics say that 1 out of 10 ticks are infected, it is impossible to detect this outwardly. A tick can infect a person with two diseases: tick-borne encephalitis and borreliosis. Blood is donated for the encephalitis virus after 10 days, for borreliosis - after a month.
What to do after removing a tick?
After tick removal:
- you can pour boiling water over the tick or burn it;
- if the tick is still alive, it can be taken to a laboratory where specialists will test for the presence of viruses.
Removing a tick from a dog
Ticks are most dangerous in the spring. At this time, there are incredibly many of them, this is facilitated by favorable weather conditions. In autumn, when the weather is warm, there is also a danger of a tick bite.
The first, most serious signs that are:
- Increased body temperature (39-42 ° C).
- Decreased appetite or complete loss of it.
- Inactive dog, phlegmatic state.
- Changing the color of the white of the eyes to yellow.
- The presence of blood in the dog's urine.
Here are the most important guidelines to follow when dealing with a tick bite problem:
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If the head of the insect remains under the skin of the dog
As long as at least some part of the tick is in the body of the animal, the process of getting sick with the virus grows many times. It is difficult to see the black dot of the head, which is under the skin, if the dog has a black coat.
You can remove the head with a sharp needle, pin. First you need to hold it over the fire (matches, lighters), then treat it with alcohol and remove the head of the tick, like a splinter. After the head is pulled out, anoint the wound with any antiseptic.
To avoid a tick bite in a dog, it is best to beware and use protective equipment:
- sprays - Bars Defendog;
- drops - Frontline, Advantix;
- tablets - ;
- collars.
Rules for transferring the tick to the laboratory
It is better to send the tick to the laboratory so that experts can make an examination for the presence of diseases - this is what to do after removing the tick from the dog. Only a live tick is suitable for this, so it must be transported very carefully, preserving its vital activity.
Features of removing ticks in dogs and cats
Methods for removing ticks in dogs and cats are identical, only cats are a little more sensitive and are able to almost immediately let the owner know that something is wrong with them.
A little about the disease piroplasmosis
However, if the dog has been at home for a long time without the supervision of a doctor, then the course of the disease may worsen. Rescuing a dog in this case can be very difficult. Therefore, after a tick bite in an animal, body temperature should be measured several times a day. If it keeps around 38-40 ° C for more than a day, urgently hospitalize your four-legged friend.
In the body of a dog under the influence of piroplasm, the following changes occur:
- erythrocytes break down;
- a large amount of hemoglobin is released;
- the work of internal organs is disrupted;
- sometimes the disease can lead to the death of the animal.
Ticks also carry many other diseases:
- demodicosis;
- sarcoptic mange;
- otodectosis.
Conclusion
Let's talk about the type of ticks that often fall on dogs.
Most often, tick bites occur on such parts of the animal's body:
- places between the toes;
- skin folds, neck.
The presence of a tick on the body can cause a slight tantrum, fear. You need to immediately pull yourself together and act according to the rules. Remember - only 1 out of 10 ticks is infectious. Along with the acquisition of a dog, it is appropriate to buy special tweezers to remove the tick.
