Have you found tick attached to your skin? Do not panic! Carefully remove it with tweezers or a commercial tick removal tool and put it in a container. Wondering why? Well, to know, which tick bite disease it is and seek for relevant medical help in order to get cure.
Tick bite cause a number of diseases that include Lyme disease, rocky mountain spotted fever, Colorado tick fever, babesiosis, ehrlichiosis and tick paralysis.
Tick bite cause a number of diseases that include Lyme disease, rocky mountain spotted fever, Colorado tick fever, babesiosis, ehrlichiosis and tick paralysis.
- Lyme disease: This disease is primarily caused by deer ticks. This disease is communicable, as it is transferable first by white-footed mice to ticks and later to humans. If tick gets attached to the human for thirty-six to forty-eight hours, it leads to Lyme disease. To judge its symptoms at early stage, one will feel rashes, fever, fatigue, headache, stiff neck, facial palsy, joint pains and numbness. To judge symptoms at late-stage, one will feel arthritis, numbness, temporary memory loss, confusion and lack of concentration.
- Ehrlichiosis: This is transmitted by the Lone Star tick, which if occur causes symptoms that include fever, headache, muscle and joint pains, and vomiting. Sometimes rashes may also appear.
- Babesiosis: Out of all deer ticks, this is most fatal one. It is generally transmitted by the deer tick, which causes fatigue, discomfort, fever, headache, and muscle pain.
- Rocky Mountain: This disease is not caused by deer tick, but by its species. Rashes, high fever, and flu are its few symptoms. Likewise, babesiosis is fatal disease, this health problem also cause death.
- Colorado tick fever: This is another type of deer tick, which is primarily caused by the Rocky Mountain wood tick. Same symptoms are bound to occur in this disease, which were found in Rocky mountain disease that includes rashes, high fever and flu.
- Tick paralysis: Likewise, Rickey mountain disease is caused by few species of deer tick, this disease is also caused by the few species. Early signs to detect this issue are fatigue and numbness. It can lead to convulsions and facial paralysis. If in case not treated at time, it can even cause death.
Walk in clinic specialists say that these all aforementioned diseases are caused when people visit tick-prone areas like mowing lawn grass, pet’s habitat area, environments where with tick-killing pesticide is put, area where leaves and bushes are all around.
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