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A tick bite is not necessarily dangerous – but it can be. The DRK Children’s Clinic Siegen gives tips on what those affected should pay attention to.
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After winter, with the beginning of the warmer seasons, the ticks become more active again, actually as “common wood tick” designated. The insects are also widespread in our latitudes and are now looking for new hosts. The DRK Children’s Hospital Siegen provides information on what to watch out for in connection with the small bloodsuckers.
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The human being is the host for them tick only a substitute for the actual host animals such as mouse, hedgehog, rabbit, deer, dog or cat. Contrary to popular belief, fall Ticks not from trees – they can be stripped from blades of grass or bushes or run to people who are resting in the grass. Once on the host’s body, they run to spots amazingly quicklyto which they have particularly good access to the blood, i.e. exposed areas of skin. There they stab, suck blood for hours and then fall off again fully sucked.
Siegen-Wittgenstein: Ticks can transmit Lyme disease, among other things
“A tick bite is not dangerous in itself, docUnfortunately, these animals can transmit various diseases. In Europe can this the Early summer meningo encephalitis (TBE) and the Lyme disease be “, so senior physician Dr. Anna-Maria Klein, Specialist in pediatric and adolescent medicine at the DRK children’s clinic in Siegen. “With symptoms similar to those of a severe one Influenza is the FSME a treatable Viral diseasewhich unfortunately can also result in severe neurological deficits. ”So far, this form has only occurred in limited areas Europe on (south of the Main Line and Eastern Europe) and can be effectively prevented by a vaccination.
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Against it is Lyme disease a bacterial disease, which is spread throughout Europe and whose pathogens are usually only transmitted after a suction period of about 24 hours. If it is after the Tick bite If a transmission has occurred, diseases of the skin, meninges and joints occur, and very rarely other organs are also affected. Unfortunately, it also occurs weeks to months after the actual Tick bite Secondary illnesses like a Meningitis or one Joint disease on, these are rather rare and cure with an antibiotic Infusionstherapie almost always without consequences. Nevertheless, in 2019 almost 30 children and adolescents had to be treated inpatients in the children’s clinic because of the consequences of a tick bite.
Siegen-Wittgenstein: As a rule, a tick bite is not a medical emergency
“If you have a tick discovered it should be removed as soon as possible, but with great ease. This works fine if you put them close over your skin with a tweezers or one Tick tweezers grips and pulls it out of the skin. Sometimes the mouth tool gets stuck in the skin, but this is not dangerous because it is just a small foreign body in the skin, similar to a splinter in a finger, ”explains Dr. Small. She also recommends observing the sting site for four weeks in order to have a resident if there are changes in the skin Pediatrician to seek out. A tick bite is no emergency and usually no worse than a mosquito bite. The diseases mentioned, which can be transmitted by the tick bite, are the exception.
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For prevention, the paediatricians recommend from Wellersberg wear closed, tight-fitting clothing for longer stays in the open air. This should make it more difficult for ticks to get to their preferred skin areas. Furthermore, it makes sense to thoroughly search your children and yourself for ticks after a long stay in the country. The unwanted mite animals can be found before they have stung.
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