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What To Do With A Tick Bite And Prevent The Diseases They Carry

Ticks are a bunch of tiny arthropods and their main source of food is the blood of animals which includes humans. Ticks live in tall grasses, trees, leaf litter, shrubs and sometimes in your own backyard. Ticks cannot jump or fly onto their host's body. Instead they burrow into the skin without detection and start drawing blood. Soft-bodied ticks usually have their fill after a few hours but their hard-bodied cousins may stay on the host's skin for up to 2 weeks.

Although it is very rare to contract disease from ticks, they have been known to transmit the following disease to man:

• Babesiosis
• Rocky mountain spotted fever
• Lyme disease
• Human Granulocytic Ehrlichiosis (HGE)
• Human Monocytic Ehrlichiosis (HME)
• Colorado tick fever
• Relapsing fever
• Q fever
• Tick paralysis
• Tularemia

The type of disease contracted depends on the location, type of tick, duration of the tick's attachment to the host's skin and season of the year.

How To Get Rid Of Ticks Yourself

1. Sterilize the tick bite area with disinfectant.
2. Put on a pair of PVC gloves if possible and use a pair of forceps or tweezers to clamp the tick close to the skin of it's head. Be careful not to twist, yank or crush the tick.
3. Pull the tick straight out and apply a constant amount of pressure until the tick cuts loose.
4. Use a sterilized needle to extract the tick's head or any other body part that was broken off in the skin.
5. Apply some antibiotic ointment onto the bite wound and area around it.
6. Wash your hands thoroughly with disinfectant soap like Dettol to kill any traces of germs on your hands and fingers.
7. If possible, insert the removed tick into a container and bring it to a doctor for identification.

When You Should Consult A Doctor

• You cannot remove the tick or part of the tick from the skin.
• You develop a fever, rash, headache, muscle pains, joint pains or flu-like symptoms 2 to 14 days after the tick bite.
• You develop widespread rashes 2 to 14 days after the tick bite.
• You develop redness, pus, swelling or yellow drainage from the tick bite wound 1 to 2 days after the tick bite.
• You develop a red-ring or a bull's eye rash around the tick bite wound 3 to 30 days after the tick bite.
• You have difficulty moving your legs.
• You feel unwell and want to make sure your illness is unrelated to your tick bite.

Visit Natalie's Skin Disease Archive for more tips on how to deal with a variety of skin diseases.

Source: www.isnare.com