Currently in Ukraine began the "tick season".Several reasons for this. This global warming, and life cycles of the mites themselves.
It is no secret that in Soviet times the processing areas crowded parks, holiday houses, pioneer camps - was performed using DDT (dust), which not only ticks were dead, but all live in the district. Now apply more soft drugs based on plant extracts. They are harmless to humans and animals, but quickly "weathered" and ticks scare for a while.
Now, many residents of large cities reached on the nature, began to build villas, to go on picnics. Thus, people became closer to ticks, and mites, don't be a fool, pulled to human habitation.
Changed and contingent bitten. If earlier from bloodsuckers suffered mainly Le sorubi, hunters and foresters, now victims of ticks increasingly become summer residents, including children and pensioners.
The first active adult mites appear at the beginning or the middle of April, when it begins to warm sun and in the forest formed the first patches. The number of ticks increases rapidly, reaching a peak at the beginning of the second decade of may, and remains high until mid or late June, depending on weather. It then decreases sharply as the ticks end backup nutrients and they die. However, a single active parasites can swallow up to end of September.
What is dangerous sucking mite? These arthropods carry many infectious diseases, but the most dangerous to humans and the most common of these is tick-borne encephalitis and Lyme disease.
How to protect yourself from tick bites
If you live on the territory, which is a hotbed of borreliosis or encephalitis, children and adults need to go to the district hospital and to be vaccinated against these diseases.
Ticks dank and therefore prefer moderately shaded and moist deciduous and mixed forests with thick grass and underbrush. It is important to know that, contrary to popular belief, these arthropods do not fall on people with trees and jump from the grass and low, up to half a meter, bushes. Often they focus on forest paths and tracks covered on the edges of the grass.
Properly dress. Ticks, waiting for the victim on the grass react to movement and jump on the person who passes by, and then crawling on the body up. Therefore it is very important fully covered. Pants tucked into rubber boots; a shirt or sweater tucked into pants; gate tied at the neck, sleeves, tight cuffs, and on a head - scarf. It is especially important to protect the neck, head, groin area and armpits: here the skin is the most delicate and delicious for parasites.
"The bite of the tick completely painless: in the saliva of these arthropods contains an anesthetic substance. Therefore, to feel the presence of the "enemy" is almost impossible.
However, tick - being rather slow and finicky - hour can wander around the body, looking for a place more comfortable. So, if you examine yourself and your loved ones every 20 minutes, it is possible to avoid the "bite". If you are properly dressed, the tick will remain somewhere on the clothing, and you will notice him - he looks like a small brown spider.
Remember that you can bring ticks into the home on clothing, so do not enter street clothes in the living room. Use protective sprays and creams from insects.
Often mites attack people in the forest when he sits down to pee under a Bush. Be careful, choose a place where there is no grass, posterite newspaper and carefully inspect yourself after using the toilet.
Remember that 10% of people who are sick with tick-borne encephalitis, 't seen any mites. The fact that long feed on the victim only female mites: they need to stock up on nutrients to produce offspring, so these "ladies" sometimes stick to the man for a week. But males can finish "lunch" in an hour, so often the victim of their visit does not even suspect. However, the vector of tick-borne encephalitis can be male. Therefore, if after a picnic if you or a child has a fever, seek immediate medical attention.
What if the tick is still stuck?
If you find yourself or child sucking tick, do not waste time, take it as soon as possible. Infection with the virus encephalitis occurs with the first drops of saliva of the tick, so here efficiency doesn't matter. In the case of Lyme disease every minute counts: the Borrelia to attack human cells, it is necessary antigenic rebuilt, it sometimes takes 18 hours. So the sooner you remove cronopio, the less the risk.
A very common misconception that arthropod should be lubricated with oil, gasoline or ointment. To do this in any case is impossible. When you override the tick oxygen, it produces more saliva, and the probability of infection increases.
It is better to hire a thread, make it loop and cast it as a lasso, on the body of the tick as close to the proboscis. By tightening the loop, try to turn arthropod back and vykruchivalsya movements to pull out of the skin. The same can be done with tweezers.
Then you need to handle the place of the "bite" any disinfectant, put the wool ointment containing an antibiotic (tetracycline, levomitsetinovym), and plastered on the day.
Remote tick should not be condemned to instant death. It would be good to check for the presence of harmful viruses and bacteria. Place the bloodsucker in a clean jar with a blade of grass or a slightly water-dampened cloth as quickly as possible and take it to a specialized laboratory for testing. Such examination is carried out in the centres of hygiene and epidemiology.
Ticks: how to protect
Author:
Kurganova,
Source:
The health of the schoolchild
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