How to identify a tick bite

Ticks are often painless when biting and sucking blood. if you find that the bite looks like a black mole, or there is obvious redness and swelling around the bite, or the skin surface of the bite feels hard, it means you have been bitten by a tick. Find a way to remove the tick after being bitten, and then use iodine or alcohol to do local disinfection. If there are symptoms such as fever, bite inflammation, ulceration and erythema, you should see a doctor in time.

What is a tick?

Ticks are also known as ticks, ticks, dog beans, grass seeds, cow lice, etc., mainly divided into hard ticks and soft ticks. Hard ticks are mostly distributed in open nature, such as forests, bushes, grasslands, semi-desert areas, while soft ticks live in livestock sheds, caves of wild animals, bird nests and crevices in human rooms.

Ticks like to suck blood, larvae, nymphs, male and female adults all suck blood. Hard ticks mostly attack the host in the daytime, sucking blood for a long time, usually takes several days; soft ticks attack the host at night, the feeding time is relatively short, usually a few minutes to 1 hour. When not sucking blood, the small ones are as small as mung beans, and some are as thin as rice grains; after sucking enough blood, some are as full as soybeans, and the big ones can reach the size of the fingernails.

Second, how to identify being bitten by ticks?

1. Moles: ticks cling to human skin all the time, even biting into the dermis and subcutaneous tissue, revealing only a black tail outside the skin, which looks like a black mole.

2. Obvious redness and swelling: ticks will bite the skin and blood, and there will be obvious redness and swelling around the bite.

3. Hard texture: ticks belong to beetles, and the surface of the skin where they bite feels hard.

Third, what if I get bitten by a tick?

First of all, apply alcohol on the tick to relax or die, then use pointed tweezers to remove the tick, or gently burn the exposed part of the tick with cigarette butts and incense, so that the head can slowly withdraw. Do not pull hard, so as not to hurt the skin, or leave the tick's head in the skin.

Then, use iodine or alcohol to do local disinfection, if there are fever, bite site inflammation, ulceration and erythema and other symptoms, you should see a doctor in time to diagnose whether suffering from tick-borne diseases.