Thursday, April 24, 2014

Sorry - the bees! And not only...


Sorry - the bees! And not only..."The most dangerous are the bite of a hungry man and beast..." - wrote Avicenna in the Canon of medical science". Fortunately, times have changed. The prospect to get the tooth to the eater or the tiger looks like in our day quite illusory, but that there may do such evils that will not seem a little!


The ancient Japanese have had a painful punishment. Naked gangster was left in the swamp to be eaten... mosquitoes. No matter how harmless they may seem, one couple bites of the whole clouds of these insects are dangerous to life. Allergic to mosquito bites suffer many residents. To hide from the blood-sucking can do that in Antarctica or Greenland, on Wrangel island. That's there for them cold! But there is hardly want to spend your summer vacation in the permafrost zone.





Tip:
Buying a ticket in the humid subtropics or tropics, ask whether your hotel special handling territory against insects - all decent hotels in mandatory dispersed them using smoke screen 2 times a day - at dawn and at sunset. And rightly so!




The malaria vector mosquito, Anopheles - since the stone age has brought to the grave is not a small number of people! In our climate, malaria bloodsuckers still not found, although sometimes fly in the aircraft together with tourists returning from their respective latitudes. But with the usual mosquito problems. Winged tenants Mosquito bite can cause allergies - from small itchy red dots to blisters, similar to burns: how the body reacts to the saliva of a mosquito that gets under the skin of the proboscis of the insect. This was proved by Finnish scientists, revealed in mosquito saliva-specific proteins that trigger allergic reactions. One consolation is quite a 250 times in life to get to the mosquitoes "proboscis" to develop immunity against blood-sucking and stop paying attention to their bites!





Tip:

If the bitten place strongly itches, not razdiraya his nails - you can make the infection. Use home remedies that reduce itching. Dissolve 1 h. l. soda in half a glass of warm boiled water and pour this solution trace of bite every hour. Apply to the sore spot cloths soaked in cold water, vinegar, ammonia or ethyl alcohol, or folk remedies - the inner surface of the feather green onions, fresh leaf plantain, small pellet clay. Passed 12 hours, but the itch does not pass? Try lotions with furatsilina. Dissolve a tablet of this medicine in half Cup of warm boiled water and refrigerate. Moisten a cold solution of fleece or bandage and apply to the inflamed places. When it dries, make a new lotion. Treat the trace of the bite Zelenka. If the discomfort concerned about more than a day or bitten place was greatly inflamed, consult your allergist - may need special ointments or tablets. Lean on tomatoes - your blood will be mosquitoes not to taste. American scientists have found in tomatoes substance repellent blood sucking insects.



Heavy artillery


Mosquitoes are not the only insects that plagues us in the summer. The stings of bees, for example, is not only harder, but also more toxic. Fortunately, each of these attacks only once. The exception is the African bee: because of the large number of plotted bites she could kill a man. In the venom of bees, wasps, Bumble bees, hornets and other Hymenoptera contains a particular substance is a biologically active amines. They cause severe allergies and destroy red blood cells, erythrocytes, followed by kidney. However, from one or two bites nothing bad will happen - only a local reaction in the form of pain, swelling and inflammation. Fastest swollen eyelids, ears, hands, feet. Some starts to persit throat, sits voice, it becomes difficult to breathe. The most severe of the possible consequences of anaphylactic shock. Allergy to insect bites is inherited from a parent: you need to know about their specific reactions, because the consequences can be fatal.




Protect yourself, Lord!




The long-awaited summer season brings us together with many joys from communion with the nature of the specific threat to health from exposure to blood-sucking insects and mites. Only special means of protection against these insects are necessary


condition comfortable and relatively safe outdoor recreation in the modern world. Repellent means (spray, lotion, gel, cream, milk and others) are applied to the exposed parts of the body or clothing. They consist of active substance called N, N-diethyltoluamide (DETA), which deters from human insects, but does not kill them. When choosing a repellent means pay attention to the term of protection specified on the label, and precautions. The higher the content of DEATH metal, the longer term protective actions.





Tip:
If you are allergic to bee stings do not eat honey, the sweetness of honey and other bee products. Avoid outdoor summer kitchens in the country, when there are compotes and jams. Don't flap your arms and show no concern, if the bee came near you. Not argonaute her freeze and wait when she will fly away.




Angioedema




Bites to the face or even worse! - mouth (bees and wasps get stuck in honey, gnaw moves in a left to mind apples and other sweet products) can cause sudden swelling, including the larynx, is fraught with suffocation. This type of allergic reaction is named after the German physician, Quincke, first described it in 1882. That events after the bite take a serious turn, will inform the following symptoms. The voice becomes hoarse, worried rough, harsh, barking cough. People hardly breathe air breathing becomes noisy, his face turns blue, and then fades, he is torn, not finding a place. Do your best to help him in this case! Urgently dial 03! The diagnosis of laryngeal edema brigade ambulance leaves immediately.





Tip:


Until the arrival of the doctor give the victim a diuretic (you can also make field horsetail, cranberry leaf), drug potassium, 500 mg of vitamin C and anti-allergic agent - but better not tablet and syrup to cure faster absorbed and get to work. Open wide the window or the window, turn on the fan.


- Moisten the air: open the hot faucet in the bathroom - let your patient will breathe in this improvised "steam room". Can hang in his room wet blanket, boil and make him a pot of water, to which add a little camphor or eucalyptus leaves.


- Help the patient calm down. Give him 30 drops of valocordin, Corvalol in a small amount of water or natural sedative plant-based.


- Ask alkaline drinking: warm milk, in which dissolve a little soda - literally at the tip of a teaspoon, warm alkaline (bicarbonate) mineral water without gas ("Borjomi", "Slavyanovskaya", "Smirnovskaya"): it can be drunk neat or half diluted with milk.


- Make distraction procedures: hot baths for arms and legs (the water temperature is 38-40) lasting up to 10 minutes or every 10 minutes warmer feet.


- Wrap the hot water bottle with ice in a towel and apply to the swollen place. Obturate edematous skin with alcohol or vodka, a solution of benzocaine or menthol.




First aid for a bee sting, wasp or bumblebee




To minimize discomfort and prevent swelling, tweezers from manicure set, carefully remove the stinger, being careful not to damage the capsule of poison at the end. Wipe the point of the bite swab moistened with hydrogen peroxide or alcohol, vodka, vinegar, and then attach the wrapped towel bubble with ice - cold will reduce pain, swelling and inflammation. Attach to this place currant leaves, cabbage, parsley or cheese. Take an antihistamine (in the summer it should always be at your fingertips). Hypersensitivity to bee poison immediately call an ambulance!






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