Prevention of tick-borne encephalitis and lime illness

Entsefalitny tick – mortally dangerous insect parasite. On the territory of the states of CIS and Baltic countries it is widespread practically everywhere, though очагово (not entirely). To recognize him it is not difficult, it has characteristic brown or brown coloring, an oblong trunk in diameter from two to five millimeters with a dark stain at the head basis. The tick slowly, only some millimeters a second therefore it still can manage to be noticed and cleaned from itself or the clothes moves before he will manage to choose a place and to stick.
From all quantity of pincers, messengers of viruses are only ten-fifteen percent. Thus fatal cases one is fixed only on seventeen infected patients. Certainly, the statistics statistics, but is better than troubles such to avoid nevertheless. For this purpose it is necessary to know and observe some rules which will help to prevent tragic consequences in time.

Than tick-borne encephalitis and lime diseases is dangerous?

The sting of an entsefalitny tick is fraught with such diseases, as tick-borne encephalitis, an illness Lima (a lime, лаймборрелиоз, tick-borne боррелиоз).
Tick-borne encephalitis – a virus disease, generally affects the central nervous system and within several days, about a week, is capable to lead to a lethal outcome. The disease negatively affects gray substance and a cerebral cortex, and also the spinal cord, responsible for musculoskeletal functions of an organism.
Illness Lima (lime) – the name occurred in honor of the city in the USA where for the first time this disease was revealed – the infectious transmissivny disease caused, as a rule, by bacteria спирохет and carried by pincers. Usually it is shown in the form of defeat of skin, the central nervous and musculoskeletal system, can bring to a lime arthritis and to serious heart troubles. At transferred this disease recurrence is possible.

Symptoms of tick-borne encephalitis and lime illness

Mirsovetov would like to inform to you information on symptoms of a sting of an entsefalitny tick, and is more true symptoms of diseases suffered by him.
Disease symptoms tick-borne encephalitis: the become frequent headaches, heat to thirty nine-forty degrees, an ache in a body. The incubatory period of a virus makes from two to four weeks.
Disease symptoms illness Lima: there are irritations in the form of small rash round the sting center in diameter, about, about ten-fifteen centimeters, is strongly scratched. The incubatory period of this infection about a month, but cases when the illness started to prove only in nine months are known.
Generally the tick attacks the victim, sitting on a grass or isn't high on branches of trees and bushes. When the person who is passing by, touches a plant, the tick appears at it on clothes. The parasite is widespread in the deciduous woods and even if the wood mixed, the tick will choose his deciduous part.

How to protect itself from an entsefalitny tick?

What it is necessary to do to avoid a sting of an entsefalitny tick? Gathering to a campaign, for example, correctly choose the clothes. Outer clothing – the jacket, a shirt, a windcheater – should be with the long sleeves which are fitting tightly of a wrist. All buttons should be clasped to the collar. Not the superfluous will tie round a neck a scarf which it is necessary to fill for a collar. It is very convenient to apply clothes with a hood, thus, you protect the head. The windcheater or a shirt should be filled in trousers which in turn refuel in boots or boots. If trousers there is no place to fill, they refuel in socks. A condition – to leave as little as possible open integument.
The tick never attacks at once. At first it clings to clothes, and then, during from half an hour till several o'clock creeps, making the way through folds of clothes and choosing the most convenient place for a sting. Gentle and warm sites of skin happen those places more often. Considering that circumstance that speed of movement of a tick isn't high, examine clothes and unprotected sites of skin during parking more often. It is necessary, also periodically протряхивать clothes. At a stop on a lodging for the night don't forget about tent which is necessary for examining before twilight.
Having returned from the wood home, take off from itself all clothes, take a shower, examine itself on a case of hit of an unnoticed tick. Don't forget to examine and shake out clothes.

How it is correct to remove a tick?

If the tick nevertheless bit, he is necessary for taking from skin. To do it it is necessary most carefully. By no means it is impossible to press it nails or tweezers, to comb and try to pull out force. In such cases there is a big danger of that the tick will inject into an organism a big portion of the saliva, and with it and an infection.
In house conditions recommend to delete a tick in the different ways, including "antiquated". These ways treat:
First way. To remove a tick from a body it is possible if to drip on it something fat or, for example, vegetable oil, any spirit solution. Then to undertake it cotton wool and, slowly, to try to take it from an integument.
Second way. To undertake a tick tweezers, trying to grasp at the place of contact, and rotary motions to try to get it.
Both that and other way provides physical pressure upon a parasite that as it was already told extremely it is not desirable.
And, at last, third way. Removal of a tick by a thread. For this purpose it is necessary to throw an ordinary thread between a body of the victim and a trunk of a tick, to make a thread pair of turns so that the loop turned out. An eyelet slightly to tighten on a neck of an insect, then to combine the ends of a thread and to start them to braid two fingers. During this process it is not desirable to make sharp twitchings for a thread and to watch that the thread wasn't too strongly tense. According to those who used this method, some minutes are required to remove a tick from skin.
At successful removal of a tick, don't try to crush, cut it, etc. Hands after extraction of a parasite it is urgently recommended to wash any detergent.
If aren't sure that can remove a tick independently, Mirsovetov recommends to address in the next fracture clinic where a tick will take, and to you will make an antibody injection. To be convinced of lack (existence) of danger to your health, the taken tick is desirable for bringing to a sanepidemstantsiya (SES) where for 1-2 c.u. within days you on hands will be given out results of examination. If everything is bad, immediately go to policlinic to the doctor-infektsionistu. Considering the short incubatory period of diseases, it is not necessary to delay: on a game your health, your life.

Somehow to protect itself from danger to catch the diseases carried by entsefalitny ticks, and to gain resistant immunity to its stings, apply so-called vaccinal prevention. She is led to three stages: the first – in the autumn, in October, the beginning of November; the second – in the spring, in March beginning of April. After that it is already possible to go to the wood bravely. 12 months later it is necessary to make the third inoculation, and and further to repeat vaccination with an interval in three years. If want to carry out vaccinal prevention to the children, surely consult to the doctor. The matter is that not all preparations are identical on the properties and have different restrictions on age of the child.
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