What are the symptoms of being bitten by a tick?

In recent years, incidents of tick bites have been frequently reported in the news media. Ticks are a type of insect that can cause considerable harm. After being bitten by a tick, people often experience symptoms such as nausea, dizziness, back pain, and eye pain. In more severe cases, it can cause vertigo and even death. Therefore, if you travel or go on an outing in the mountains, you must take protective measures.

What are the symptoms of being bitten by a tick?

The arrival of Qingming Festival is not only a good season for outings and tomb-sweeping, but it is also a season when ticks are active and tick-borne diseases are prevalent. Some people do not feel any discomfort after being bitten by ticks, but some people are nearly killed after being bitten. Ticks are so dangerous, how do we tell if we have been bitten by a tick?

Generally speaking, after being bitten by a tick, the mild symptoms are redness or bleeding at the bitten area. This redness is different from a mosquito bite, which is usually a large area of ​​redness. Moreover, the person who is bitten often has a long-term high fever, with the body temperature reaching over 40℃. When the body is under a high fever for a long time, it is easy to suffer from neurotoxicity, which manifests as headache, eye pain and back pain. In addition, a person's face, neck, and chest may become congested. Sometimes, the bitten person may feel dizzy, tired, nauseous, vomiting, etc. Then, when the condition becomes severe enough, death may occur.

Many people easily mistake the various conditions that occur after being bitten by a tick as a cold, but this is not the case. There are also many people who do not feel any discomfort at first after being bitten by a tick, but when the disease occurs, they often cannot remember when they were bitten by the tick. So moms, please pay more attention to mosquito bites. If you or your family members are bitten by a tick and feel unwell, you should seek medical treatment as soon as possible.

How to deal with tick bites

1. First of all, if mothers or babies find that they have been bitten by ticks, don’t panic. When ticks suck blood, it is a bit like a bee using its needle to pierce human skin. So if mothers or babies find that they have been bitten by a tick, they should not use their hands to forcibly pull out the little insects, so as to avoid breaking the stinger of the little insect and leaving it in the skin.

Since you can't just pull out a tick with your hands after being bitten, how do you pull it out? The method is to use pointed tweezers to tightly clamp the tick's head or near the head close to the skin, and slowly pull it out. Here, mothers are careful not to twist or yank the tick when pulling it out.

2. Although I carefully pulled out the tick with tweezers, I still broke the tick's sting. What should I do at this time? Mothers can continue to try to use tweezers to see if they can pull out the tick's stinger. If not, it will be removed by itself through skin metabolism.

3. In addition, after mothers or babies are bitten by ticks, they should be sure to wash the bitten area with soap and warm water. Alternatively, disinfect the skin with alcohol or iodine. In addition, if the following conditions occur after being bitten by a tick, you should seek medical attention immediately!