How to pull the tick correctly

Why is it better to ask for help

If possible, go to the doctor as soon as you see stuck tick on the body. The doctor did not just pull the parasite and will clean the skin, but also immediately send it for analysis.

If you can not see a doctor remove their own bloodsucker.

What to prepare before you pull a tick

To safely get rid of the parasite, you will need:

• Latex or rubber gloves or regular plastic bag. You need to protect your skin in case you accidentally crush the tick or saliva gets on you. Through the slightest wound, you can put infection.
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• Disinfectant and cotton, to treat the wound. Suitable alcohol, chlorhexidine, iodine or hydrogen peroxide solution.
• Tweezers with fine tips, strong thread or vykruchivatel. The last is very convenient to use, but difficult to find. He sold primarily in common and veterinary pharmacies and online stores. I buy a pair of tweezers or a thread easily in household stores and supermarkets. Be sure to pay attention to the tips of the forceps. They should be thin so as not to crush the tick. Flat and wide ends does not fit.
• A jar with a tight lid and a little cotton swab moistened with water. It is necessary to transport the parasite in the laboratory.
• Warm water and soap. Or at least wet wipes to wipe his hands.

How to pull the tick vykruchivatelem

First of all wash your hands with soap and water, wear protective gloves and disinfect the instrument.

Gently move the tick vykruchivatel to the calf, so that the parasite was caught between two teeth - in a crevice. Slowly turn the handle around its axis, until you get.

How to do it correctly, look at the video.

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Hands then again wash with soap and wipe the bite with disinfectant.

How to pull the tick with tweezers

Thoroughly wash your hands with soap and water, wear protective gloves and disinfect the instrument.

Carefully grasp the bloodsucker with tweezers as close to the skin. Slowly and gradually pull up the parasite, with no abrupt movements. Do not pluck and do not twist, otherwise the head can remain in the wound.

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Wash your hands in warm water with soap. After disinfect the bite.

How to pull the tick thread

Clean hands with soap and water, wear protective gloves and disinfectant soak thread.

Tie it in near the proboscis of the tick site. Sip smooth movements of the parasite up, not twisting it so as not to tear off the head.

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After removing the bloodsucker again wash your hands with soap and water and treat the wound with disinfectant.

What if the tick has come off the head

The head looks like black point, so you will notice that it separated. If she remained in the wound, wipe skin cotton or a bandage soaked in disinfectant.

Then remove the head with a sterile needle, pre prokalonnoy on fire.

Don'ts

This says Igor Spirin.

Many folk remedies are actually ineffective and even dangerous. Do not:

• Take parasite bare hands when removing it from the human or animal body. It is necessary to wear gloves or even a plastic bag.
• Pouring oil on the tick, gasoline, glue, petroleum jelly, alcohol, toothpaste and nail polish to strangle him. While you wait, the parasite begins to choke and get out, be a long time. And yet because of the lack of air he can put his saliva into the wound. This will increaseTick ​​bites: What are ticks and how can they be removed? the risk of infection.
• Set fire to the tick. This method is as useless as the previous one. The parasite does not come out, you just singe it, and will burn themselves.
• Click on the tick when it is on the skin. So you just squeeze it out of the saliva, and it gets into the blood.

How to deal with the mite

Do not dispose of it after extraction. Place the parasite in a jar with a wet cotton swab, close the lid. Keep the tick can be in the refrigerator, but no more than 1-2 days, otherwise simply leech dies.

Take bloodsucker in any clinic, where they make the tick test. View the next lab and seroprevention items on our website "Entsefalit.ru». Analysis of charge, but in government clinics are usually less expensive than in private.

So you know, infected ticks or not. The result will be known in 1-4 days, the exact time, ask directly in the laboratory. If the parasite is infectious, you can quickly start a course of treatment.

If you can not do a background check, burn parasite. And the state bitten watch carefully so as not to miss the symptoms tick-borne encephalitis or borreliosis.

When an urgent need to see a doctor

It would be good as soon as they saw the body stuck tick. If you have not already done so, in the following cases to the hospital to go necessarily.

• Over the next 3-14 days with a bite rash. This may be a sign Lyme disease. Even if the spots with time passed, you are still in danger.
• Developed symptoms like the flu. Usually it chills, fever, weakness, pain in muscles and joints, headache. They can point to the tick-borne Lyme disease or encephalitis.
• Bite reddened and inflamed.

If in your area registered cases of tick-borne encephalitis, do not wait for the results of the analysis of the mite infection. Immediately contact point seroprevention (a method of preventing infectious diseases) or to an infectious diseases doctor. It will be necessary to hold an emergency prevention in the first day or at least within three days.

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Learn about outbreaks of tick-borne encephalitis, and in general on the epidemiological situation is possible on site Rospotrebnadzor your area. Information, refer to "sanitary and epidemiological situation."

How to prevent tick bites

Going on a hike or just a walk in the forest, follow the precautions and no you do not bite.

• Treat clothing, shoes, tents, bags, and other gear spray containing permethrin 0.5%. For ticks this substance is extremely dangerous. Carefully follow the instructions.
• Apply on the body repellent one of these active ingredients: pikardin, diethyltoluamide, lemon eucalyptus oil. Be sure to carefully read the instructions.
• Avoid areas where ticks often sit - high grass and shrubs.
• Wear tight clothing with long sleeves. Ankles, waist and wrists must be covered, so that the gap between the body and clothing are not crawled tick.
• Inspect your clothing and your companions every couple of hours. If you find a tick - remove and burn it better.
• Upon returning home, once again carefully inspect all things. Then dry them in the dryer for the laundry for 10 minutes or just hang naturally ventilated.
• Tents, bags, backpacks, shoes, too, inspect and dry, if possible.
• Take a shower as soon as possible. If a tick on the body, but did not attach the water will wash away the parasite.