Monday, February 10, 2014

Is tick bite mystery for you? Here is answer to your question!

Deer ticks are next to mosquito that carry an infected virus called Lyme, which leads to health issues, if infects on the body of an individual.

This disease causes fatigue, flu, and joint pain, as well as might also lead to neurological and heart damage.

Tick bite symptoms

Tick bites are painless. Therefore, you may not come to notice it, if it infects you. However, certain symptoms that might occur are itching, local redness, and burning, as well as intense pain.

The effect of this disease starts after few weeks. This is the basic reason why most of the doctors may not be able to suspect the illness.

Usually, this disease is caused when an individual go for outdoor camping or hiking where tick infection is common.

Few symptoms that individual get after bitten by deer tick are: flu-like symptoms, fever, rash, numbness, confusion, weakness, pain, swelling in the joints, palpitations, shortness of breath, nausea and vomiting.

Diagnoses

As discussed above deer tick bite is not noticeable when caused. Therefore, no concrete tests are there that might detect the tick bite. Hence, walk in clinic doctor or any health care center specialist will first physically examine the patient, the body part where mosquito like tick had bitten, and then look for the symptoms before starting with the treatment process.

Tick bite treatment

At time when you have bitten by deer tick bite, here is the treatment procedure suggested by most of the doctors that you must follow:

  • Calm down the individual and examine the site of the tick bite.
  • If tick is attached to the body, doctor will prick the tick and put it into the contained that contains alcohol in it. 
  • Apply dab tree oil on the bite. As it is natural oil, which is antibacterial that help lowers the further problems caused by tick.
In case, the aforementioned things do not work out, then there is no other alternative besides visiting physician. He or she will start a course of antibiotics that will help give some relief to patient. Besides the antibiotic treatment, doctor will wash the affected area with cleansing liquid and apply antibiotic cream.

To reduce itching, doctor prescribes Benadryl cream or oral preparations. Furthermore, to reduce pain and discomfort certain oral medications are provided. Moreover, in case, if the problem is serious then doctor will tell patient to get hospitalized.

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