Saturday, September 17, 2016

If you are bitten by a tick ...

 If you are bitten by a tick ...
What to do and where to go - the rules of first aid in sucking insect


How to remove a tick?
If no nearby trauma center, try to do it yourself, recommends Rospotrebnadzor. To remove a tick should be very careful not to break the proboscis, which is deeply and greatly strengthened the entire period of suction. If you remove the tick, observe the following guidelines:
- Grab the tick with tweezers or a clean gauze wrapped fingers as close as possible to its mouthparts and held exactly perpendicular to the surface of the bite to turn around the axis of the body of the tick, remove it from the skin;
- Bite disinfect any suitable means for this purpose (70% alcohol, 5% iodine, alcohol-containing agents);
- After removing the tick you must wash your hands thoroughly with soap and water;
- If the remaining black dot (separation of the head or proboscis) process 5% iodine and leave to the natural elimination (ie exit from the skin of the head).
Mites taken from the man placed in a sealed container with a small piece of slightly damp wool and sent to the laboratory.
If unable to study the tick should be burned or pour boiling water.
Where extra ukolyut
Unvaccinated persons held emergency seroprevention - the introduction of human immunoglobulin against tick-borne encephalitis no later than the 4th day of tick suction (hours):
* adult   - At the front desk Research Institute of emergency medical assistance to them. Sklifosovsky (Moscow, Sukharevskaya Sq., D. 3);
* children   - The Children's Clinical Hospital № 13 named. NF Filatov (Ul. Sadovaya - Kudrinskaya, d. 15).
Where do we draw the tick encephalitis and Lyme disease?
Research taken from people infected with the virus in the tick borne encephalitis can be carried out in the department of especially dangerous infections microbiology laboratory «Center for Hygiene and Epidemiology in Moscow" at the address: Moscow, Count per., D. 4/9 (entrance from the yard, 2nd floor ), tel .: 687-40-47.
The reception is held from 9-00 to 15-30 everyday except Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays (break for lunch - from 13-00 to 13-30). On the results of the research can be found from 15-00 to 18-00. When handling the laboratory must be given information on the date, and the territory in which there sucking mite (region, state, city).
Where conduct laboratory studies of blood?
Persons affected by sucking ticks in endemic areas can be carried out laboratory studies of blood (serum) for the tick-borne encephalitis in the parasitological department of microbiology laboratory «Center for Hygiene and Epidemiology in Moscow" at the address: Moscow, Count per., D. 4/9 (administrative building, 2nd floor), or in any other laboratory performing this type of research.
Delivery on the day of blood sampling from a vein in an amount of 4-5 ml., On an empty stomach, dry, clean tube without preservative held: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday - from 9-30 at 12-00, issuing a daily response to 16-30 . When handling is necessary to give information about the date and the territory in which there sucking mite (region, state, city).
According to Rospotrebnadzor.



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