Ticks are little bloodsucking bugs, and they only diet on your health preserving blood. When a tick bites, just its mouth enters your skin. Generally this is a painless process. Once a tick is gets its fill on your blood, it drops off on its own.
If you discover one of these blood sucking insects on your person or your pet, don’t panic. Tick removal needs to be precisely performed.
Calmly take a pair of tweezers and grasps the ticks head as close to the skin as possible. Slowly and firmly pull this blood leaching creature’s head straight out.
Be careful not to squeeze a ticks body in the tick removal process. Should you break its head off, no worries. Your body will fester and eject it in due course. Kinda like a splinter type reaction.
The health issue with experiencing a tick bite is its potential for transmitting disease. Some common diseases you may end up with after a tick’s bite are:
- Tularemia
- Babesiosis
- Ehrlichiosis
- Lyme disease
- Colorado tick fever
- Tick-borne relapsing fever
- Rocky Mountain spotted fever
- Southern tick-associated rash illness
The majority of those bitten by a tick do not contract a disease. Might simply be because their blood sucking tick was not infected.
In the weeks following your tick bite episode, contact your physician immediately if you should experience symptoms of:
- fever
- headache
- weakness
- stiff neck
- flu-like symptoms
- muscle or joint aches
- swollen lymph nodes
- red spot/rash where bitten
Some ticks are so small that seeing them is difficult. In an order to protect yourself against these tiny blood suckers:
- tuck pant legs into socks
- avoid suspected tick infested areas
- wear light colored clothing to allow you to see ticks more easily
- apply chemical or natural tick repellent to your exposed body parts
Finally, ticks can inject a toxin, which can cause a child’s body to exhibit paralysis type symptoms, such as:
These symptoms initially develop in your child’s lower extremities. Treatment is removal of the tick, and a full healthy recovery from tick paralysis can be expected in short order.
