As every year, foresters and doctors warn against ticks. Be careful when going for a walk in the forest or meadow. These inconspicuous arachnids can transmit diseases that are dangerous to our health. That is why it is so important to examine your body carefully after each walk. How else can you fight ticks? The forester suggested a clever way!
- Doctors and foresters warn against ticks. Research has shown that 10 to 40 percent. of them may be carriers of diseases that are dangerous for humans
- Before going to the forest or to the meadow, we should use preparations to repel these arachnids. It is also worth taking care of the appropriate outfit
- After a walk, you should look at your entire body, including, in particular, your groin, bends under the knees, as well as the abdomen and breasts
- Foresters advise you to use a clothes roll as well when you return home. Thanks to this, we will catch the ticks that hid on them
- Ticks can transmit Lyme disease and tick-borne encephalitis, among others. The sooner we get rid of them from our body, the greater the chances that they will not infect us. However, you have to do it the right way
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How to protect yourself from ticks?
The right outfit is the key. If we are going to the forest, for example, we should choose clothes with long sleeves, high socks and built-up shoes. As a result, ticks will not have easy access to our body. The color of our outfit is also important. It’s good if our clothes have bright colors. Thanks to this, it will be easier for us to see the tick that appeared on them.
It does not hurt if we spray or apply a tick repellent before going to the forest, park or meadow. Thanks to this, it is more likely that none of them will stick into our skin. At medonetmarket.pl you can buy, among others liquid for ticks Tick Stop, Antikleszcz – a mix of natural essential oils for ETJA ticks, as well as a MUGGA spray 50%. DEET against ticks, mosquitoes and black flies.
After the walk, we must not forget to carefully examine our body. Let’s check especially places such as the groin, bends under the knees and the abdominal and breast areas. This is where ticks most often find their home. That’s because it’s warm and humid in there. When it comes to children, we should check their heads and necks first.
One of the foresters shared his own way of fighting ticks on the internet. According to him, the most effective way to get rid of these insects from our clothes is to use… a clothes roller. This is a smart and cheap trick worth knowing!
«A clothes cleaning roller is a proven agent for removing ticks from clothes. The idea was tested by Krzysztof Bisaga, a forest inspector from KPN »- we read on the profile of the Karkonosze National Park on Twitter.
What diseases do ticks transmit?
If you find a tick on your skin, you should get rid of it immediately. The longer it stays in our body, the greater the chance that it will infect us with one of the dangerous diseases it can transmit. Some of them are:
- tick-borne encephalitis,
- Lyme disease,
- anaplasmosis,
- babesiosis,
- kingdomshoza,
- bartonelloza.
Fortunately, not all of them spread pathogens. Specialists say that the infected may be 10 to 40 percent. ticks. If we see an erythema around the place where the tick has bitten us, we should immediately consult a doctor. There is a risk that we have been infected with Lyme disease. We should also see a doctor when we notice flu-like symptoms, including muscle and joint pain, general weakness and low-grade fever. This may mean that our body is developing tick-borne encephalitis.
Medonet Market offers PCR mail-order tests for Lyme disease – the tick should be removed from the skin and sent to the laboratory.
How to get the tick out?
Our first aid kit should always contain a special forceps extraction kit, which we can buy at any pharmacy. You can also buy such a tick removal kit HERE.
We grab the intruder as close to our skin as possible. However, we must be careful not to grab him by the belly, which is filled with blood. This can cause the tick to give its contents back to our body. This is especially dangerous when the arachnid is a carrier of dangerous diseases.
We should remove the ticks with a firm movement along its line of penetration into the skin. We don’t twist it. It threatens to break the arachnid and leave a fragment of it in our skin. We also do not use any greasy products to get rid of the tick, including petroleum jelly or butter. They can make the arachnid vomit and give poisoned food to our body.
Simply removing the tick from the body may not be enough. To get rid of toxins that have already found themselves in our body, try For ticks and insects – a herbal set consisting of dietary supplements supporting immunity and detoxification.