Tick ​​bite. Symptoms in humans when infected

Mite, which is classified as arachnid smallinsects, eats, as a rule, the blood of animals. However, there are its species that are dangerous to humans. The blood-sucking insect is the carrier of various diseases. When bitten, he can infect a person with tick-borne encephalitis or borreliosis, hemorrhagic fever or Lyme disease.

An insect mostly inhabits grass, sometimeslow bushes. On the feet of the tick are microscopic claws, which allow it to reliably fix on its victim. After hitting a person's body, the insect tries to climb as high as possible (to the area of ​​the armpits, to the back, neck or shoulders). That's why the bloodsucker does not immediately dig into the skin. The bite of a tick in a person (the photo you see below) does not cause pain. This is because its saliva contains a special substance. It has a strong analgesic property. That is why it is difficult to detect an insect that is sucked to a blood vessel and disappears only after saturation.

In the event that the human body appearssuspicious bump, it should be carefully considered. First aid with a tick bite should be provided by a doctor. Do not remove the insect from the skin.
In the event that a tick bite occurred, the symptomsa person who enters the blood of an encephalitis infection usually appears after ten days. Diagnosis of the disease can only be done by conducting laboratory tests of the patient's blood test. The initial measures taken after an insect bite should be aimed at preventing the further development of a dangerous disease.

After the tick bite occurred, the symptoms ofhuman encephalitis manifest themselves depending on the state of the immune forces, as well as virulence of the virus. Sometimes the disease runs quite easily. In severe form of the disease, there are signs of CNS damage.

After the tick bite occurred, the symptoms ofhuman encephalitis begin to appear in the second week of infection. The disease can have various forms: febrile and meningeal, as well as meningoencephalitic and poliomyelitis. Any of the types of infection at the initial stage is manifested by chills, aching all over the body, increasing the temperature to thirty-eight to forty degrees. Symptoms of a febrile form of encephalitis are also manifested in severe weakness, nausea, loss of appetite, and headache. This virus does not interfere with the CNS. The fever lasts up to ten days.

В том случае, если произошло заражение meningeal form of encephalitis, against a background of a feverish state, headache, photophobia, vomiting, as well as various manifestations of irritation of the brain membranes. Poliomyelitis and meningoencephalitic type of infection are supplemented by such symptoms of the disease as impairment of consciousness, paralysis, convulsions and mental disorders.

After the tick bite occurred, the symptoms ofthe person of another dangerous disease - borreliosis - is expressed by reddening in the focus of infection, which appears seven days later and gradually increases in size. Signs of the emergence of pathology are: fever and headache, constant fatigue and body aches. With the advanced form of borreliosis, joints, heart and CNS are affected.