Risk of catch the ticks.
Ticks can transfer you the Lyme disease and tick-borne encephalitis (TBE). To keep the infection risk as low as possible, a mite should always be removed as soon as possible. Although the transmission of TBE virus begins immediately after the tick bite. Lyme disease is transmitted by viruses, but it can take between 12 and 24 hours.
If you have found a tick bite on your body, it is important that the tick has been removed correctly. Otherwise increase the risk of transmission of pathogens. Remove tick only with a tick card, a tick remover or special tweezers. In a pinch, you can also rely on a commercial tweezers. From other home remedies, such as rubbing the tick with oil or nail polish you should however refrain.
Tick Card and Tweezers.
Tick Card and tweezers among the customary auxiliaries items which are used for removing ticks. The tick remover is first placed on the right and left of the tick on the skin. Then the insect is as close grab on the skin and slowly pulled out of this. Gently shaking may help to make it easier to remove. You should never try to remove tick with a jerk.
When a tick card is a plastic card is a V-shaped there is omission on one side. The card is pushed under the body of the tick, that this will be fixed in the omission. Subsequently, the tick is removed by a movement forwards and upwards. The advantage of ticks cards is that they did not pull the body of the insect when removing it. A disadvantage, however, that the ticks may partially slip through the slot.
Remove tick with tweezers.
In addition to ticks card a ticks can be well removed by a special tick forceps. If you dont have special tweezers on hand, you can also use a commercially available pair of tweezers. In principle, the forceps is used similarly as the tick remover: Grasp the insect with the tweezers to the skin as close as it possible and then drag it slowly and carefully out of the skin.
Whether with tick remover, ticks card or tweezers: If you remove tick completely, you should disinfect the bite area. It is best to take alcohol or an iodine. Small black dots into the wound, this is usually not a cause for worry: In most cases these are harmless remnants of biting tools.
Stay away from oil.
At a tick bite are often recommended home remedies such as oil, gasoline, alcohol or nail polish. But you should better do without this home remedies. Namely, they provide generally that the tick dies. It can happen that it vomits contents of his intestinal into the site where is situate his sting and thus increase the risk of transmission of pathogens. So appropriately rather remove tick by means of a card or a tick forceps.
What to do in case of complications?
Not always can be removed a tick without problems. We reveal what you can do:
- If the tick can not be removed for the first try, you should stay calm. It is quite normal that during removal of the insect, are needed several attempts. Even if you are in frantically in no case you shouldn’t try to remove tick by force.
- If the tick is at the body area that hard to reach by yourself, you should ask another person for help.
- If you don’t trust this process to other person you must looking for a doctor as soon as possible. Generally, the liquidation of the insect from the tissue should not be a problem.
Advice: If you have found a tick, you should also examine the rest of your body carefully. Indeed, it is quite possible that you have more than just one a tick.
If you in doubt, see a doctora.
if the puncture site is very very red or propagates the redness, to see a doctor after a tick bite always makes sense. Even if the puncture site is swollen and over-heated or hurts, you should consult a doctor. If a circular redness around the injection site occur during a few days to a few weeks after the tick bite, you also need to see a doctor. This symptom indicates namely on a Lyme disease infection.
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