How to get a tick from a person at home

People walking in nature are surprised at how large quantities of mites have divorced today. There is no secret here. During Soviet times, forests were sprayed with insecticides from aircraft to control the number of ticks and caterpillars.After the collapse of this practice ceased and arthropods received complete freedom. Earlier, little attention was paid to the methods of extracting the sucked tick, since not only the number of arthropods was controlled, but also diseases of wild animals. Today, the knowledge of how to pull a tick has passed into the category necessary for life.

Where dug in

Once on the clothes, the arthropod within an hour can search for a place where it sucks. He usually finds places with thin skin and closely spaced blood vessels:

• popliteal space;
• groin area;
• arm elbow;
• underarm;
• ear space;
• temple;
• the back of the head;
• scalp on the head.

There is a chance to remove the tick before it gets to these places. But if necessary, he can dig anywhere. Freely crawling tick must be destroyed, stuck - to extract and take to hospital for research.

Important!

The parasite bite is dangerous due to the increased number of cases of borreliosis and tick-borne encephalitis. Cases of borreliosis are already found even in Moscow. But you can't just take and pull out the bloodsucker's skin, there are certain conditions under which a tick will be taken for analysis.

Conditions of admission to the laboratory

To analyze the tick, you need to pull it out correctly, otherwise there will be no sense from tests. On research accept:

• live arthropods;
• not smeared with any substances;
• no later than 2 days after extraction.

To prevent the bloodsucker from dying in the transportation process, wet paper is put in a jar with a tick to create a suitable moisture.

It is best if the doctors themselves take the tick out right in the hospital, but this is a lost time. Therefore, information on how to pull a tick from a person at home will not be superfluous. And then it all depends on the circumstances.

Important!

The longer the tick feeds, the greater the risk that it will transmit the infection.

Tick ​​removal methods

There are several folk and not very ways how to remove a tick from a person. Almost all of them require additional tools:

• tweezers;
• syringe;
• thread;
• industrial tick extraction devices;
• needle;
• ring and sunflower oil.

The only way that does not require any devices is to remove the tick with your fingers. For any extraction route, you need to pull out the head of the tick.

Tick ​​removal methods

What not to do when deleting

There are certain actions that will lead to the death of an arthropod. In this case, the tick relaxes the proboscis, and the blood sucked by it, together with the infectious agents, returns back to the victim's body.

Therefore it is impossible:

• pull the animal sharply;
• severely squeeze the torso;
• pick out something sharp;
• “Bite” teeth;
• cauterize;
• lubricate arthropods with gasoline, various detergents and other household fluids.

Ticks with any methods of removal do not pull out, and unscrew. Among illiterate methods of how to get a tick, variants with the use of oil or red-hot needles were common before. Today, you can also meet these tips, so it makes sense to start with them.

Butter

The parasite can really be pulled out with the help of oil. But do not. Spiracles of the parasite are located on the back of the body. To remove the tick in this way, you will need a vegetable oil and a wedding ring. The ring is placed so that the bloodsucker is inside the perimeter. Oil is poured into the ring and they wait until the choking arthropod comes out by itself. In the absence of a ring, it is proposed to simply anoint the tick so that it crawls out.

Important!

Arthropods can not get out and die right in the oil. The second scenario: an animal, frightened by suffocation, can burp the sucked contents back into the wound. The same thing happens if you just smear arachnopodobnoe oily liquid.

Even if the tick survives and crawls out, it will not be possible to turn him in to the clinic, as there are no “oily” animals for testing. For the same reason, it is impossible to lubricate arachnoid-like gasoline, cream, detergent and other chemicals.

Needle

An ancient way of the middle of the last century: pierce the tick belly with a hot needle.

Important!

This is not a valid method.

Pull out the pest in this way will succeed. Having received a portion of the saliva and intestinal contents with possible pathogens in the blood. A half burnt corpse will not be suitable for analysis. The same applies to burning cigarettes.

There are more reliable and safe ways to get rid of the mite on the body. But the level of security they have is different. You can arrange these methods to increase safety for humans.

Fingers

This method is not very reliable, since the abdomen of the bloodsucker will necessarily be squeezed.But the recently parasite can be pulled out on its own without resorting to other methods.

Finger extraction

Important!

You can not grab the tick for the body. Arthropods are captured with fingers so that the nails are located as close as possible to the skin and under the breast of the pest. After that, do not pull it out, but carefully unhook the tick. When removing it is important to remember which way to unscrew the tick: clockwise or counterclockwise. When sucking, the arthropod twists clockwise, so it must be removed by turning it counterclockwise.

Syringe

You can remove the sucked tick with a disposable syringe, although this is a time consuming method. From the insulin or 5-cc syringe cut off the tip with the spout, trying to cut was as smooth as possible. Then put the syringe to the place where the animal stuck and pull the piston.

It is claimed that the vacuum created will pull the arthropod from the skin. The method works if Ixod has not yet had time to bite into the skin (concerns the taiga) or did not have time to properly drink blood. Otherwise, there is a chance instead of a whole being to get a spray of the insides in the syringe and an empty shell from the parasite in the skin.

Tweezers

Not strongly sucked arthropods can quickly pull tweezers.

Important!

It should be tweezers, not tweezers for eyebrows.

The ends of the tweezers are brought under the body, having the tool perpendicular to the parasite. Ixoda is removed by turning the tweezers counterclockwise. Roughly pull it can not, because the head may remain in the skin.

Thread

The most time-consuming way to remove a tick, which requires considerable skill. A parasite can be obtained only if its head has not yet had time to enter the deep layer of the epidermis as in the photo.

While the head is still outside, it is covered with a loop. This procedure requires a certain skill and is not accessible to everyone, since a too small tick will “jump out” from the loop, and it is better not to bring it up to a large one. After the loop has successfully tightened on the head, and not on the abdomen, you can begin to get rid of the aggressor using the same method of twisting it from the skin.

Industrial tools

This is the most competent and safe way to get out of the body of arthropods. The most popular brand is Nippes tweezers, more like a nail catcher. There are quite a few such tools today.but they all have the same removal algorithm: the foot with a slit is fed to the parasite. To pull the animal, tweezers need to twist counterclockwise.

This tool is most convenient if you need to pull the parasite sucked from the head. It is very inconvenient to use any other options, except for the "oil", which is better not to use.

On a note!

The advantages of the tools are that the tick can be guaranteed to be pulled out unharmed for transfer to the polyclinic. They are inexpensive and useful to have in the house, especially if the family has a child.

What if the whole tick could not be removed

Do not panic. It is far from always with available means that Iksoda can be pulled out as a whole. Doctors recommend in this case to sanitize the wound and wait until an abscess forms. The remains of ixod will come out with pus.

Those who do not want to wait may try to pull out the remains of the tick with a disinfected needle. Just as they remove the splinter.

Doctor's recommendations

Doctors usually recommend the following sequence of actions:

• gently pull the tick;
• put it in a clean jar for analysis / burn;
• sanitize the bite site;
• if the head remains in the skin, smear the wound with iodine;
• Wash the hands.

If you do not remove the tick in time, it finally bites into the skin and it will be very difficult to pull it out until it falls off. The female can drink blood during the week. During feeding, the individual will inject a significant amount of saliva, which can be with the causative agent of the disease. If, after a bite, after a few days, there was an indisposition, a fever and vomiting appeared, you should contact the clinic, be sure to mention the bite.

It is desirable that experts should be engaged in the removal of the parasite, “in a simple way” it cannot be torn off. Although dog owners often remove blood suckers in this way.