With the first rays of the sun they appear again, the ticks. A small bite of the vampire is not only inconvenient but also for a number of diseases are transmitted. At the most feared are the meningitis called tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) and Lyme disease infection.
In tall grass and bushes may lurk ticks (Photo: photos.com)
Above a temperature of seven or eight degrees, the blood suckers to be active again.Ticks are not only living in the forest and the meadow, they are everywhere at home, where the vegetation is low. So also in the park, outdoor pool, in your own garden. They lie in the undergrowth, on bushes or tall grasses and "fill in" man and animal in passing.
The ticks found in Austria belong to the family of ticks, also called Ixodes ricinus "and are found up to a height of 1,400 meters. These ticks have a brown to black head with long, thin mouth parts.
Infections: encephalitis and Lyme disease
To gain access to their blood meal, the infected ticks all types of warm-blooded animals such as deer, birds, pets and even humans. transmitted a tick bite is harmless for the person concerned, in principle, if not with this trick might dangerous pathogens such as TBE viruses (found in the salivary glands) or Borrelia (found in the intestines).
While you can protect yourself against TBE by vaccination, this is not possible against the disease. On the other hand, the Lyme disease agent usually only after 24 hours transferred to the host, while the TBE infection takes place immediately after the bite.Protection against Lyme disease is therefore possible even after the attack by the tick.
The disease is more common than the TBE. At a TBE case come about 200 cases of Lyme disease! If an infection occurred, generated at the site of the tick bite after three days to five weeks, a red swelling. This reddening increases annular. can be accompanied by flu-like skin redness symptoms that can last for several weeks. Months and even years after a tick bite, it can then lead to inflammation of various nerves, such as a unilateral facial paralysis, heart rhythm disorders or arthritis.
The tick "infects" its host and starts body to migrate to the until suitable place for piercing and sucking blood is one: hot, humid and dark should be this. There remain, therefore, hair or pubic region armpits. If the tick stings she is simultaneously painful and blood clotting in the wound secretion from a. If she is tired of the tick falls off of itself.
Tick bite - What to do?
- You get a stitch not panic! Only about four percent of the cases, there is an infection.
- Remove the tick as soon as discovered. Squeeze the animal does not, so that the Lyme disease agent in addition to wound "down" is not.
- Use a tweezers or your finger nails and remove the tick in a steady slow train.
- If the wound proboscis stuck in, is not that bad, he falls even a few days later on.It contains no bacteria!
- Do not use oil or the like when removing the tick.
- Observe the injection site. First signs of a real disease occur earlier than a week after.
- A Lyme disease in the early stage it is almost 100 percent cured by antibiotic therapy!
Protection against the tick: attention
- Wear closed shoes and a walk as long as possible, tight fitting clothing. By bright shirts or blouses with long sleeves, pants with long legs, closed shoes and a hat is best before the "direct access" by ticks protect themselves.
- Provide additional protection to so-called repellents, which you spray or lotion to the skin and apply a few hours before the attacks to protect the ticks. For sensitive skin you should first agent in first-time application on a small area on the forearm apply only to clarify the possible allergic reactions. The funds, usually a duration of two hours only, should not be used in infants or young children with.
- After a prolonged period of rain ticks are very hungry, so that subsequent first hot sunny days, special caution is displayed on the.
- In the woods you should stay on the paths, through dense brush or tall grass are not, since ticks are usually located in the vegetation no higher than 1.5 meters.
- If you walk from one forest and field to return home from, you should knock off your clothes outside and search for ticks. In light clothing ticks are easier to identify than on darker.
- Then search your body for ticks off. These travel preference to such places where the skin is particularly thin: hairline to neck and ears, underarms, pubic area, knees.
- If you are unable to fully remove the tick, seek a doctor. This also applies to the case that the next few days, a rash around the injection site to determine in.
Because: Through a series of precautions, it is possible, a tick bite and an associated risk of infection and disease to reduce the risk. There is no absolute protection, it is not.
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