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How to remove the mark correctly?
Hold the mite with tweezers as close to the skin as possible. If you don’t use tweezers by hand, use your fingers. Try to pull so as not to crush or leave the tick’s head on the skin. According to Aušra Bartulienė, an epidemiologist at the Center for Infectious Diseases and AIDS, squashing a tick causes even more potential wound infections, primarily tick-borne encephalitis or the cause of Lyme disease.
To prevent this from happening, pull the tick up in one sudden motion without twisting it. Turning the tick sideways increases the likelihood that it will break and leave the tick’s head and stem on the skin. True, if the stubble has stopped, don’t worry, it will disappear in just a few days.
Turning the tick sideways increases the likelihood that it will break and leave the tick’s head and stem on the skin.
In the past, there was a provision for the area to be lubricated with oil or other grease after the tick was absorbed. This is a myth. Do not do this under any circumstances as this will not facilitate the removal of the tick. Conversely, the mite can only penetrate even deeper into the skin. Furthermore, when exposed to danger, it can secrete even more toxins or their intestinal contents at the site of the sting, increasing the risk of infection not only with major diseases but also with other diseases they transmit, such as borreliosis.
After removing the mite, A. Bartulienė advises disinfecting the bite site. In the first days after a mite bite, the area is red, it looks like acne. Stronger redness can also occur. If it happens in 2-3 days, it was just an allergic skin reaction. However, if the resulting redness (even if it is barely visible) increases to 5 cm, does not go away for a few days, expands, migrates, it is worth checking the diagnosis of Lyme disease.
In any case, it is important to mark the day the mite was infested on the calendar and monitor it for about 30 days. If you develop fever, muscles or headaches, fatigue, a red spot at the site of the expanding bite, you should consult your family doctor.
When to do research?
Public health specialists urge to remain vigilant after the tick has been infested, mainly because in Lithuania about 10 percent. ticks are infected with tick-borne encephalitis or Lyme disease. Lyme disease spreads in approximately 24 hours, so by noticing and quickly removing the mite, we can prevent the disease. The tick-borne encephalitis virus can be transmitted immediately, within the first few minutes.
It is true that it is not really necessary to search for research on these diseases immediately after the tick bite, as they will be informative only after 3-4 weeks. However, even then, it is worth doing them only if the doctor suspects any of the tick-borne diseases. Also, most experts do not recommend carrying lying mites for testing, although such tests are done. Because even if it is infected, the mite will not necessarily transmit the disease. In addition, there is no prior treatment for these diseases, so it remains to be controlled.
Signs of Lyme disease usually appear in the first few weeks after a bite. The first and most common is redness of more than 3 to 5 cm, which can have a shiny, oval or irregularly shaped contour. Redness is especially pronounced when bathing.
Tick-borne encephalitis does not show any signs on the skin – the disease presents with flu-like symptoms. Your incubation period generally lasts 7 to 14 days, but can take up to a month. Tick-borne encephalitis can be prevented by vaccination. There is no vaccine against Lyme disease.
Where to look for sucked mites
When you return from nature, it is very important to inspect your entire body and remove the tick as soon as possible. The test is especially important because we generally do not feel the mite infestation, because its saliva has analgesic properties. Once embedded in our skin, a mite can last anywhere from a few days to a few weeks. The more it sucks blood, the more it swells and eventually falls off on its own.
According to experts, around 40 percent. In some cases, people do not notice ticks because it is not the adult mites that are absorbed, but the tick nymphs. This is the so-called intermediate stage between the larva and the adult mite. The nymph is much smaller (up to 1 millimeter) than the mite, making it practically invisible to the naked eye.
Ticks generally stick to the feet and calves, but find a soft, delicate area of skin for sucking. They usually like the hips, the groin, the inner surface of the elbows, the armpits, behind the ears. Because these places have many blood vessels and are convenient to eat. However, it is necessary to examine the whole body: those places that you do not see yourself or that you cannot see with the help of a mirror, ask your loved ones to do so.
It is advisable to shake the clothes that you have been in the wild and leave them in a dry and sunny place so that the ticks die and take a shower yourself. After all, until the mite finds a suitable place to suck, for a time it crawls under our clothes or on our skin.
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