Article warns fans of an outdoor recreation about danger of stings of pincers of messengers of encephalitis.
Attention!
So, there came a time when the pincers which sting can cause serious infectious diseases – encephalitis and Lyme-borrelioz become more active. It is not necessary to think that to risk to be bitten those who got out on walk in the wood are exposed only. Small and dangerous parasites became long ago gorodskimi "inhabitants", having got over in parks and squares.
How not to suffer from a sting of a tick
Going on the nature, especially to traditionally "tick-borne" places, it is necessary to make a special inoculation from tick-borne encephalitis. Vaccination should be carried out not later than in three weeks prior to departure that in an organism specific immunity managed to be developed. It is necessary to remember that pincers are especially dangerous at the end of spring – the beginning of summer.
The best way to avoid dangerous penetration of a parasite – to put on clothes with a deaf collar and skintight cuffs, trousers to fill in footwear, and hair to clean under a kerchief. Having come home, it is necessary to examine carefully itself and to take a shower.
As a rule, the dangerous sting is necessary on inguinal or axillary areas, the person usually doesn’t feel it, because during a sting the tick allocates anesthetizing substance. The most widespread mistake – attempt to remove a parasite by means of sunflower oil. The tick thus dies directly in a wound, and to take it from there extremely difficult, the sting comes to an end with a strong inflammation.
To get rid of a tick independently follows duly – sharp breakthrough forward and up, having seized an insect as it is possible closer to skin. After that it is necessary to check, whether there was in a wound a hobotok, and to grease an affected place with alcohol or iodine.
It is necessary to know that sometimes the tick gets on a body of the person the most unusual ways – for example, from a bouquet of wood flowers and the branches brought in the apartment. Often insects in the house bring from walk of a dog and a cat. By the way, for them the sting of a parasite too can tragicly end.
(On newspaper materials Truth of Ukraine).