What should you do after being bitten?

What should you do after being bitten?  It’s the tick-infested season again!  Be careful and protect your kids.

When it comes to ticks, some people may not be familiar with it. The scientific name of this kind of bug is called tick, and it is commonly known as grass worm in life. It is a blood-sucking bug with the size of a grain of rice.

They generally live on grasses or plants in shallow hills and hills. In May, ticks become active gradually, and after autumn, the temperature drops until the ticks slowly disappear.

It is the season of ticks, so the doctor reminds: take your children out to play, if you accidentally bitten by a tick, you must not do something as below mentioned.

1. Harmfulness of ticks

Normally, a tick is shaped like a grain of rice, but once it finds a parasitic place, such as the neck and ears of animals or humans, as the amount of blood sucking increases, it can grow several times or even dozens of times, and the virus in the body It will quickly invade the human body, affecting the capillaries and small tissues of the body, causing organ edema, and symptoms of skin and mucous membrane congestion or bleeding throughout the body.

2. Do not do this if ticks are parasitic.

Under normal circumstances, many people encounter this problem, they will use tools or even directly take the toilet paper to pull out, but in fact, this method is very undesirable, because the use of brute force will only cause the tick to fall apart and make it not clean. The limbs of the patient remain in the skin, causing skin inflammation and even fever and infection symptoms.

3. If you are bitten by a tick, you should deal with it this way.

The doctor reminded that if you find a tick attached to the skin of your body, you should first stabilize your emotions, don’t panic, and don’t use rough methods such as patting, burning, or dragging;

This is because it is not only impossible to remove the ticks correctly, but it is also easy to stimulate the ticks to secrete a lot of saliva, increase the release of pathogens, and cause the body to infect more toxins.

At this time, it is recommended that patients use turpentine or ether spray on the head of the tick, and try to let it fall off naturally, but if the tick has been attached to the skin, you can use tweezers or paper towels to wrap the spleen and take it off, and then wash your hands with soapy water. clean.

In addition, for patients with conditions, it is best to store the bitten ticks in a plastic bag or a sealed container. Once you have symptoms of discomfort later, you can give it to the doctor as a reference standard.

4. How to avoid tick bites

1. Pay attention to dress

When outing, it is best to wear long-sleeved shirts and trousers that are smooth, light-colored and tight to prevent the skin from being exposed, especially the ankles and other parts that are not easily detectable. Protective measures should be taken.

2. Spray mosquito repellent

When the weather is relatively hot, the exposed parts of the body can be sprayed with an appropriate amount of mosquito repellent, and when leaving the field, carefully check all parts of the body, from the scalp to the ankles to see if there are ticks attached, so as to prevent the flukes from being taken home , Hurt yourself or others by mistake.

3. Location selection

Try not to sit and lie for a long time in the shade of grass, trees, pavilions and other places, so as to reduce the possibility of being injured by the worms.

All in all, a tick is a relatively harmful animal, and the incubation period of the disease it carries is relatively long. The relevant information shows that it can last as long as one month. Even if there are no obvious symptoms after being bitten, it cannot be taken lightly.

Of course, if you want to avoid similar problems, you must first take protective measures. At the same time, after a tick bite, it is recommended to spray with turpentine or ether as mentioned above to let it fall off naturally.

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