So, according to him, we should not neglect the rules of storage products, especially milk and meat, as well as the need to minimize the consumption of those products, which have not been properly transported without temperature control. This will help prevent indigestion. Besides, the doctor noted, it is important to carefully monitor the cleanliness of hands and good hygiene.
to protect yourself from ticks in the woods or a city Park, need to use special repellents and think clothes – closed, tight trousers, high shoes. “Tick bites are usually not immediately – getting from the grass on the clothes, stays on your body not above half a meter from the ground, about an hour looking for a suitable place and then clings to the skin,” said Lukashev.
He noted that after a walk you need to carefully examine myself – ticks often hide in the folds of the body and underwear. In the case of the bite is required as soon as possible to remove the insect. It is better to go to the emergency room. Yourself to remove a tick have tweezers with soft lips smooth porochivshimi movements, trying not to tear the body from the head to prevent further inflammation.
Lukashev noticed that from the time of bite depends directly on the risk of Contracting Lyme disease. In poor regions of the encephalitis victims from the attack of mites injected immunoglobulin: the sooner the better, preferably within 24 to 48 hours, but no later than 72 hours after the bite.
this way the tick-borne encephalitis is not available in all regions of Russia, such as Moscow. But Tver oblast disadvantaged region by encephalitis, said Lukashev. As for Lyme disease, they can be infested with ticks throughout Russia. In the Moscow region on average every third is infected with the mite.
“Lyme Disease is a serious disease that can become chronic and cause severe damage to the joints and nervous system. It treated with prescribed antibiotics, but they are only effective in the early days with the onset of the disease,” concluded the doctor.
