What harm do ticks do to the human body

What harm do ticks do to the human body? Ticks are common on many animals. They like to bite people and lurk in secluded places such as forests and prairies. The virus of ticks is quite powerful and can cause infection if it is serious. So once infected, it must be cleaned professionally. Don't be too careless and pay attention to it.

Ticks usually do not feel pain when biting and sucking blood, but because the chelicerae and hypothalamus pierce the host's skin at the same time, it can cause local congestion, edema, acute inflammatory response, and may also cause secondary infection. The neurotoxins secreted by some hard ticks in their saliva during the blood-sucking process can cause conduction disorders in the host's motor fibers, leading to ascending muscle paralysis, which can lead to respiratory failure and death, a phenomenon called tick paralysis. It is more common in children. If the tick is discovered in time and removed, the symptoms can be eliminated. Human cases of this disease have been reported in Northeast China and Shanxi.

Ticks can bite people. Generally, ticks lurk in forests and grasslands. They are particularly sensitive to carbon dioxide and human sweat. Ticks themselves carry pathogens. If they are not checked in time, if you are infected with a tick carrying pathogenic bacteria, it will cause forest encephalitis or other nerve-damaging diseases.

If you are bitten by a tick, do not treat it yourself! It is not scientific to burn the tick with cigarette butts or to pull it out directly with hands, because once the tick's head enters the human skin, it will hook deeper into the skin and secrete more saliva (the saliva may contain pathogenic viruses). At this time, the hospital's treatment method is: first use iodine to disinfect the area near the wound, then anesthetize the tick bite to slow down the grip on the skin, and then pull it out with medical tweezers.

Because tick viruses can cause nerve damage, if you develop a fever or cold-like symptoms after being bitten by a tick, I hope you will go to the hospital for treatment.

Ticks often attach to the human scalp, waist, armpits, groin and below the ankles. Once a tick is found to have bitten and burrowed into the skin, apply alcohol on the tick to relax the tick's head or kill it, and then use pointed tweezers to remove the tick. Do not pull hard to avoid injuring the skin or leaving the tick's head inside the skin.