If you are bitten by a tick, you need to act immediately! How to properly pull out a tick and what to do next, said infectious disease specialist Nikolay Malyshev.

Nikolai Malyshev: - I advise everyone to buy special tweezers, devices for removing ticks. They are sold in many pharmacies in the city, according to the online publication for girls and women from 14 to 35 years old Pannochka. net I myself have used them several times. Firstly, it is convenient, and secondly, thanks to them, you do not tear off the head of the tick.

People who live in the country or often go there should have these tweezers in their first aid kit.

If you are bitten by a tick, but there are no special tweezers at hand, then it is important to remember that bare fingers should not be taken on the tick. It is necessary to wrap it at least with clean gauze or other cloth. We must try to take it as close as possible to the head and try to pull it out by turning your fingers.

As a rule, after these manipulations, the tick comes out. If not, then it is better to contact the doctors so that they remove it. Because any bite is dangerous. How? Ticks can carry microbes on their surface.

Also, a tick can be an allergen or an inflammatory process can begin at the site of the bite..

In any case, you need to pull out the tick very, very carefully, without crushing it..

Further, it is desirable to keep the tick alive and bring it to one of the many laboratories that are now working in your city.

To do this, try to place the tick in a closed container, put herbs and a piece of bandage moistened with water. If you can’t immediately go to the laboratory, you can store the tick in the refrigerator.

But we must remember that the analysis will be adequate only in the first three days.

How to remove a tick yourself?

If the tick has stuck to the skin of a person, then it should be removed especially carefully so as not to cut off the proboscis, which is deeply and strongly strengthened for the entire period of suction..

When removing a tick, the following guidelines should be followed:.

Grab the tick with tweezers or fingers wrapped in clean gauze as close as possible to its mouth apparatus and holding it strictly perpendicular to the bite surface, turn the body of the tick around the axis, remove it from the skin;

Disinfect the bite site with any means suitable for this purpose (70% alcohol, 5% iodine, cologne, etc.)..

After removing the tick, wash your hands thoroughly with soap and water.;

The removed tick should be burned or poured with boiling water.;

In case of separation of the head or proboscis of the tick (accidentally or during its removal), a black dot remains on the skin, which must be treated with 5% iodine and left until natural elimination.

Ticks extracted from the skin can be delivered to the laboratory, where they are tested for infection with tick-borne encephalitis viruses, subject to the following rules:.

Only live ticks are suitable for research..

Do not lubricate ticks with oils, creams, etc..

The removed tick should be placed in a clean container (test tube, vial, jar, etc.).. ), in which, in order to create high humidity, first place hygroscopic paper slightly moistened with water (filter, paper napkin, etc..

Storage and delivery of ticks in compliance with the above conditions is possible only within 2 days.

Anna Bokk.

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