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The ticks have occasions, not always, infectious microorganisms in his digestive tract (bacteria, virus and rikectsias), and when they settle in a guest can transmit these microorganisms to the blood stream of the same one.
ILLNESSES RELATED TO THE STINGS OF TICKS
- Fever maculosa of the Rocky Mountains
- Illness of Lyme
- Palsy for ticks
- Fever for ticks of Colorado
- Tularemia
SYMPTOMS
The ticks stings can produce "per" diverse symptoms, which can or not to be related to the illnesses that they transmit.
Between they are:
- Pains in the place of the sting
- Distension in the place of the sting
- General weakness
- Syndrome gripal
- Problems of mental coordination
- Extremities palsy
- Make difficult to breathe (Shortness of breath)
- Respiratory stop
TREATMENT
To extract the tick that one must anesthetize with ether olive oil with alcohol or to burn it with a cigaret etc... And then a few metal tweezers can be used to separate it in block of the skin.
Later he washes well its wound and iodine dyeing is applied to him to disinfect it better.
Later it is necessary to evaluate the injury a few days and before the appearance of an exanthema it is necessary to do a blood test study to diagnose the possible transmission of some illness and to treat with tetraciclina or penicillin; macrólidos, depending the case.
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