What to do if you are bitten by insects
Tips / / December 19, 2019
Where summer, insects there. Where insects, there itches and hurts. After bites sleep peacefully and not to suffer from the consequences can be if you follow some rules.
The best help from insect bites - is the protection and prevention, but it is impossible to spend the summer, sitting River in a protective suit, not a walk in the evening away from the working fumigators, not to run barefoot on the grass. This means that you will bite.
There are some basic principles that apply to all insect bites.
- From itching and swelling help antihistamines and special ointments that are applied to the bite: "Fenistil gel", "Rescue" inside take "Suprastin" or "Zodak" (or any drug allergies).
- Most bites require only disinfection, clean the place and treat "Miramistin".
- All that hard or long hurts, it must be shown the doctor.
- You can not drink anything alcoholic, so as not to intensify edema.
Allergy sufferers! Talk to your doctor so that he appointed agents to be administered urgently with the strong progress of the reaction. And always carry them with you in the right dose, even if it will have to learn to do injections.
In other actions as appropriate.
Mosquito
At night, listening to the vile squeaking, many are willing to agree to the bites, but no one would have bothered to sleep. In the morning, the situation is changing, and severe itching is haunted. The best means - the same antihistamines.
Traditional methods We recommend washing the bite site with a solution of soda or juice to lubricate their herbs: lavender, parsley, mint, plantain. In an extreme case, look in the refrigerator and use the fermented milk products.
Bee
Bee stings easily identified by severe pain, a burning sensation in the site of the bite and sting abandoned. And it must be removed first of all, to stop the flow of venom into the bloodstream. Just snap your fingers or squeeze the stinger can not be, because it's a higher risk of destroying a capsule with poison and get a complete warhead.
If you know what the sting of tweezers to pick up, not touching the poison sac, can not, take any hard and flat object (a plastic card will do), firmly press the edge of the skin and clean away the sting.
Then proceed to the general and local therapy. The bite of plain soap wash, brine (teaspoon glass of water), treat with antiseptic and apply cold compress. Inside - a cure for allergies and plenty of fluids.
Wasp
Unlike bees, wasps do not leave a sting in the wound. On the one hand, this is a plus, since it does not have to be removed. On the other hand, the wasp can sting more.
In wasps have behaviors. If one shows aggression and begins to sting, can join her and others. Therefore, first aid for wasp sting - get away from the scene and not become bait for wasp swarm.
On wasp venom reaction at all different: may have a fever, and nausea or vomiting. To neutralize the poison and bring, you need to drink more, it is best to warm tea with sugar.
A bite on applying cold packs, process it soda solution or tincture of calendula and plantain.
Horsefly or gadfly
Large flies bite is very painful. But is not the problem, and in large numbers of bacteria, which carry gadflies and horseflies. The bite strongly swells, hurts can fester. Therefore, the bite to be treated with an antiseptic, to take an antihistamine. If there was a strong swelling, apply a tight bandage on it or a cold compress.
From unpleasant sensations for the first time will save any analgesic, such as ibuprofen. If the wound fester, it is necessary to go to the doctor for an ointment with antibiotics. Among other things, gadfly may delay wound in the larva. The chance is extremely low, but there is.
But plantain leaves is not exactly help. It is unlikely that they will be sterile, and add a bite to the new bacteria is not necessary.
Mite
Tick-borne encephalitis all fear, but fear is not enough. Therefore, go to the forest in the wrong clothes, which is not saved from tick bites. However, to find the tall grass, which inhabits a small colony of spider can in the city. Summer for prophylaxis after walking around the parks and gardens (and even more so after walking around the woods) Inspect the skin, especially in the natural folds. Ticks bite unnoticed, so they are detected when it becomes difficult to get a bloodsucker. If you're unlucky and it is still found:
- Nothing pull and do not smear with oil. Go to the emergency room, where you will draw the tick without problems and without risk to tear his head off, leaving her in the wound. At the same time the tick sent to a laboratory to find out whether he bore the disease. Doctors will tell how and what to do next.
- If you can not quickly go to the doctor, get that opportunity.
- When we decided to visit to the doctors to delay, pull the tick independently. To extract has invented special medical tweezers, with which you can remove the tick without leaving a wound in the head. If such a device is not present, use your fingers. Be sure to wrap your fingers with gauze, grab the tick as close to the skin and pull out the bit by turning around the axis.
- Disinfect the bite site. If left black dot, do not try to remove it.
- Managed to pull the tick alive? Put in a jar and sent to a lab to pass the blood-sucker on the analysis.
- Keep an eye on the bite site and their condition. An increase in temperature or the appearance of a round red spots around the wound - a reason to postpone everything and rush to the doctor.