Krympress reports:
At the moment, on the Internet, a huge number of various information on the prevention of tick bites. What is important to know in the first place: there are special acaricidal drugs that allow ticks to scare away. They are widely available on free sale. But it is important to follow the instructions for these funds, since they can be toxic, especially for children. Folk remedies like petroleum jelly, kerosene, garlic, unfortunately, do not help. These are ineffective ways of combating ticks and you cannot rely on them.
Going for a walk in the forest, you need to take care of special clothes with elastic bands on the sleeves and along the bottom of the trousers so that the trousers are tucked into boots or other shoes. All this is necessary so that the tick does not penetrate from clothes to the bare areas of the body. Ticks do not jump and do not fly — they simply cling to contact. So, for example, if a person walks along high grass or through a shrub, the tick may well get into clothes above the ground level. There are anti -mosquito and antiencephalitis costumes with valves in which ticks are delayed. For those who like to walk in the forest, it is advisable to purchase such a suit.
If the tick is bitten, then you need to extract, as soon as possible, by contacting the traumopulce or independently. To extract a tick in pharmacies, special sets are sold. When going to the forest, you can put such a set in a pocket, in a bag, in a backpack, and, if a tick is detected, immediately remove it using a tool from this set.
Cauterization of the tick will not help with a match, but only aggravate the situation. The heat will not force the tick to unhook. A tick can be removed in an old traditional way — using a thread. In this case, you need to be very careful so as not to tear the tick head. That is why it is worth using special means. The extracted tick must be handed over to the laboratory for infections.
In addition, Russia is actively vaccinated against tick -borne encephalitis. In regions that are endemic for tick -borne encephalitis, vaccination should be carried out in a timely manner. The vaccine does not begin to work immediately, but after a while, so it is desirable to think about vaccination 1-2 months before the start of the tick activity, when the street is set +4 ℃. If you plan to leave to the region rich in ticks in spring and summer and in which cases of tick -borne encephalitis are recorded, you need to take care of vaccination in advance. Even now.
Source: Press Service of RNIMU
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