According to German media reports, ticks spread in Germany again as the weather heated up. This year, the risk of tick bites is particularly high.
Everyone needs special attention when playing and exercising outdoors. It is very dangerous after being bitten by ticks: because it can transmit dangerous diseases such as tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) or Lyme disease.
TBE is a type of meningitis that can cause neurological and psychological damage, and in the worst case, death. Lyme disease is an infectious disease that can cause joint pain and nerve damage.
(Screenshot of German media report)
So what are the general symptoms? If you find yourself bitten by a bug, with a bean-sized blood bubble, and look closely at the irregular shape of the blood bubble, accompanied by symptoms such as fever and fatigue, severe shock (typically high fever above 38 degrees Celsius, or even up to 40 degrees Celsius, accompanied by fatigue, headache, muscle soreness and diarrhea), then it is very unfortunate that you may be bitten by ticks!
In fact, in the eyes of pathogenic biologists, ticks are definitely an important and fierce role, it plays a great role in the epidemic of many diseases, and even only mosquitoes can win over it in terms of the type and wide range of diseases it spreads. Although being bitten by a tick in most cases does not have any serious consequences as if you were bitten by a mosquito, once you are unlucky, you may encounter 81 viral, 31 bacterial and 32 protozoal diseases such as Lyme disease, maculella fever, Q fever, tick-borne encephalitis, hemorrhagic fever, Babesiosis, Taylor's disease, Rocky Mountain spotted fever and so on.
In addition, the most common health problem after being bitten by ticks is skin infections, because ticks have complex mouthparts that suck blood, with barbs on them, and once the tick that is sucking blood is improperly removed, it is likely to break its mouthparts in the skin. In addition, there is a case of "tick paralysis", some hard ticks in the stinging blood sucking process saliva secretion of neurotoxins can lead to the host motor fiber conduction disorders, causing ascending muscle paralysis, can lead to respiratory failure and death, called tick paralysis .
Have to see the prevention method, have to learn the treatment method:
In the face of ticks, prevention is the best solution, 4 prevention awareness must have:
1. Enter the mountain and forest areas, wear a wide-brimmed hat, wear a long coat and pants with a light fabric smooth, tie the sleeves of the trouser legs, and do not wear sandals.
2. Avoid sitting and lying down for a long time in the wild, check the neckline, cuffs, pants and other parts in time to avoid tick invasion.
3. Apply safe insect repellent products to bare skin, replenish in time to maintain effective protection.
4. After returning home, carefully check your child's clothing for ticks attached, and carefully check your child's body for bite marks.
What needs special reminder here is that pets are easy to be parasitized by ticks, and it is necessary to take pets to do regular deworming care, go back to the wild, and carefully check to avoid bringing ticks home.
Of course, readers who like to play should not worry, they can still have fun doing these four. In case of being bitten by a tick, do not panic, remember 4 do not:
Don't pat it, don't pull it hard
Don't pinch it, don't stimulate it with fire or anything else
Due to the complex structure of the tick's mouth, with barbs on it, it can bite dead into the meat, and once it is improperly removed, it will bring 2 major hazards:
First, it is likely that leaving the head in the flesh will cause skin infections, causing symptoms such as allergies, ulcers or inflammation; Second, it will stimulate ticks to secrete more saliva that carries pathogens, increasing the likelihood of infection.
Tips：
So what do we do after being bitten by a tick? The only safest way to do this is to remember:
Find a pair of pointed forceps, clip it to the root near the skin, and pull it out vertically upwards, avoiding rotation and twisting. (The handicapped party still goes directly to the doctor, so as not to pull clean and cause infection!)
The complete removal of the tick head mouthpiece can reduce or eliminate the human body's infectious diseases. After removing the tick, disinfect the wound with alcohol, and observe the physical condition at any time, if there is fever, swelling and pain at the bite site, ulceration and erythema and other symptoms, it is necessary to seek medical treatment in time so as not to miss the best time for treatment.
If possible, do not throw away the plucked tick, put it in a sealed plastic bag or bottle and freeze it in the refrigerator. In this way, if the symptoms of tick-borne disease are unfortunate, it can also help doctors find the cause of the disease more easily.