Ticks what to do when bitten

You can pick up the parasite not only in the country or in the park. Does the dog live in the apartment? Examine your four-legged friend carefully after each walk. He can bring a tick into the house. The pest easily crawls onto the new owner, who it will be, a person or a dog, the parasite is indifferent. A tick is able to hide in a bunch of flowers, and therefore, if you want to decorate your house with plants, carefully examine them.

Ticks do not fly or fall from trees. Their favorite place to ambush is grass. When walking in a forest or park, try to avoid the thickets.

Remember that pests are much more active in the evening and morning hours, in the daytime they prefer to rest, hiding from the sun.

When going to the dacha, prepare clothes with elastic bands on the sleeves and legs. The fact is that, having jumped on its prey, the tick begins to climb up, choosing the most suitable area of ​​the skin to which it can cling. By covering the body with a thick cloth, you can create a barrier against ticks.

But even if you are walking in closed clothes, check yourself regularly. Found a tick – remove it immediately. Gently grasp the parasite with tweezers. Holding and turning the tick around its axis, pull it out. After completing the operation, lubricate the bite with alcohol, iodine, or cologne.

It is not the tick bite that is dangerous, but the diseases that it carries. Most often it is encephalitis – a disease in which the nervous system suffers. Borreliosis can also be contracted. In this case, the state of the cardiovascular and nervous systems is threatened.

To understand how dangerous a tick is, it is better to take it for examination. Take the parasite to the laboratory of the Center for Hygiene and Epidemiology in the Moscow Region. It is located in Mytishchi, st. Semashko, 2.