Experts unanimously say: there is no need to be afraid of ticks and deny yourself forays into nature. Worth using special means, helping to protect against tick attacks. Today the list of such drugs is quite wide.
Anti-tick treatment for humans
The most effective means for preventing tick attacks are chemical preparations for treating the area. But it makes sense to use them only for personal plots, because during periodic outings “out into nature” such compositions will be ineffective.
Such drugs are represented by the trade names “Tornado-anti-mite”, “Gardex anti-mite”, “Refamid taiga”, “Piknik-anti-mite”, “Taran”, “Breeze” and “Tsifoks”.
Tick repellent for humans
The most popular repellents include: “Off! Extreme”, “Reftamid Maximum”, “Medelis”, “Moskitol-Spray or aerosol”, “Biban”, “Deta-Vokko”, “Gardex extreme”, etc.
To protect children, it is better to give preference to special children's preparations that contain fewer toxic substances. Such products are represented by “Biban-gel”, “Camarant”, “Evital” or “Off-children”.
Folk remedies against ticks for people
The most effective means can be used as repellents homemade. It has excellent repellent properties.
So you can combine ten drops of tea tree essential oil with fifty milliliters of water. Mix these ingredients and pour into a convenient glass bottle. Before going outside, shake the contents well, apply a few drops of this mixture on your palms and rub the product on your neck, legs, arms and hair.
You can also use essential oils of clove, pennyroyal and lavender to prevent tick bites. Simply dissolve ten drops of your chosen oil in fifty milliliters of carrier oil and treat your skin. You can also apply pure essential oil to the edges of your clothing.
When you return from your walk, take a shower. In this case, use a mixture of five milliliters of soybean oil, thirty milliliters detergent(regular shower gel) and fifteen drops of tea tree essential oil.
Thus, it is quite possible to avoid a tick bite. When going outdoors, dress appropriately and use the above mentioned means to protect yourself from tick attacks.
To prevent infection, you can use special ones in the form of ointments, aerosols, creams or natural origins that help protect against bites.
Effective anti-tick products
Most commonly used medicinal plants which have a specific smell. It's the smell that repels you. Common herbs and spices that help protect against tick bites:- rosemary;
- sage;
- catnip and pennyroyal;
- marigolds;
- pink geranium;
- garlic;
- essential oils.
Essential oils should be diluted with water in equal proportions and then applied to open areas bodies.
An excellent remedy for ticks is a mixture of 2 tbsp. almond oil and 15 drops of geranium oil. The prepared composition can be stored in a cool place for up to six months. Before going outside or going into the forest, it is recommended to apply a couple of drops to your skin and clothes. Never apply the mixture to the area around the eyes, as it will cause irritation. Instead of geranium oil, you can use palmarosa oil, which has similar properties, but is an order of magnitude lower.
For more convenient use, prepare a solution for spraying clothes: mix 2 tsp. palmarosa or geranium oils, a glass of water, a small amount of alcohol. Pour the mixture into a spray bottle and use as needed.
To repel ticks and other harmful insects, you can lubricate your clothes before going into the forest. It is quite effective, but has a pungent odor. With such a “scent” it’s unlikely that you’ll be able to take a walk in the park without scaring away the people around you. But when going into the forest to pick mushrooms or berries, this method helps protect yourself from bites.
Tar is well absorbed into clothes, and the smell is quite difficult to get rid of even after numerous washes.
The listed methods reduce the risk of ticks getting on the skin, but do not give a 100% result. During the period when ticks appear, it is recommended to get vaccinated, which, even in the event of a bite, protects the body from infection with dangerous diseases.
The insect that poses the greatest danger to humans in nature is the tick. Compared to other blood-sucking creatures, a tick can cause much more trouble.
Mite( - arthropod, arachnid insect capable of carrying and transmitting infectious diseases such as: tick-borne encephalitis(disease affecting the brain) tick paralysis, typhus, borreliosis(Lyme disease - affecting the nervous system and musculoskeletal system) and others.
Specific prevention of tick-borne encephalitis
First of all, it should be noted that people who spend a lot of time in places where there is a possibility of infection with tick-borne encephalitis are recommended for specific prevention in the form of vaccination. Vaccinations do not protect against tick bites, but provide immunity to tick-borne infections.
Nonspecific prevention
Non-specific measures of protection against ticks are the use of special clothing, chemicals protection and a set of such measures.
Here we will figure out how to protect ourselves from a tick bite (its suction and penetration into the skin) and what to do if the tick does stick.
Chemical repellents
Chemicals designed to protect people from ticks,
According to the type of action, they are divided into three types:
- Repellent
- Acaricidal
- Insecticidal-repellent
Repellents against ticks
Repellent preparations against ticks, as the name of the group implies, they should repel a tick clinging to clothing, forcing it to unhook and quickly leave the place treated with the repellent. In addition to ticks, these drugs repel mosquitoes and other blood-sucking creatures.
The active ingredient in repellents is diethyltoluamide(DEET). Some of the repellent products in the form of aerosols and creams, can be applied to the skin, but you should remember that most often, They do not provide protection against ticks, since the tick has time to attach itself before the drug begins to act on it. In addition, under the influence of wind and rain, the effectiveness of these products quickly decreases, and the need for repeated treatment arises.
Popular repellent products on sale: “Biban”, “Medilis-from mosquitoes”, “Gal-RET-cl”, “Gall-RET”, “DEFI-Taiga”, “Deta-VOKKO”, “Reftamid maximum”, “Off! Extreme", "Ultrathon".
Acaricides against ticks
Acaricidal drugs against ticks, unlike repellent ones, are designed to have a fatal effect on the tick. The active substance in these drugs is alphamethrin.
A tick clinging to a tick treated with this product dies due to paralysis of the limbs, which subsequently disappear altogether. Given the toxicity of acaricidal agents, their application to the skin is not allowed.
As of 2011, more than 30 brands of anti-tick drugs with this effect were registered. Among them: “Picnic-Antiklesh”, “Reftamid taiga”, “Tornado-antiklesh”, “Gardex aerosol extreme”, “Gardex-antiklesh”, “Fumitox-antiklesh”, and others, as well as the acaricidal bar “Pretix”.
Insecticidal and tick repellents
These anti-tick drugs, due to the content of diethyltoluamide and alphamethrin, combine the action of the previous two, and protect not only from ticks but also from any blood-sucking ones. Insecticide-repellent agents are highly toxic and therefore can only be applied to clothing.
Some brands of such drugs: “Medilis-comfort”, “Kra-rep”, “Moskitol-spray Special protection against ticks”, “GardexExtreme Aerosol against ticks”, “Tick-kaput aerosol”.
The use and effectiveness of anti-tick drugs
Commercially available anti-tick products are produced and sold in the form of creams, aerosols and, less commonly, in the form of bars or “pencils” for delineating protective stripes on clothing, as well as in the form of kits for protection and first aid.
Any aerosol products lose their effectiveness over time in the open air and require re-application. The problem is that due to toxicity, they cannot be applied to clothing worn by a person, and changing clothes in the field or in the forest is not always possible. Products that can be applied to the skin, as mentioned above, do not protect against ticks.
Folk remedies against ticks
Unfortunately, we were unable to find reliable information about effective folk or natural remedies protection against ticks. There are many different recipes, but there is no evidence in their favor. Perhaps there is such a remedy, and it works, but we know nothing about it.
What to do if a tick has attached itself
First of all, there is no need to panic and try to remove the tick as soon as possible.
To prevent tick-borne encephalitis, it is recommended to take the antiviral drug Yodantipirin. But in order to completely protect yourself from unwanted consequences, it is best to visit a medical facility.
How to remove an attached tick
The tick can be pulled out using tweezers or special tools like a device "pincer twister"— Uniklin Tik Twister ( Unclean Tick Twister).
If you don’t have anything like this at hand, you can use a thread to remove the tick. A loop knot is formed from it, which is thrown onto the tick close to the skin at the site of suction. You need to act carefully, pull the thread while swinging the tick, so that its head does not remain under the skin.
If the head of the tick remains under the skin, it should be removed with a disinfected needle, similar to a splinter.
Video: Experiments with mites. Means of protection against ticks.
Video: Methods of protection against ticks in the spring-autumn forest
An urgent problem for regions where tick-borne infections are endemic is the fight against ticks and protection from their attacks. It happens that preventive measures(vaccination against tick-borne encephalitis, acaricidal treatments) are limited, so people have to use alternative methods. There are folk remedies for protecting against ticks.
How to protect yourself
Formic acid can be used as a biological means of combating bloodsuckers. There is evidence that red forest ants are destructive to ticks. Experienced hunters recommend placing outerwear into the anthill so that the insects saturate it with their acid. After this, things can be put on, after shaking off the ants.
As a protection in forest and field conditions, popular experts recommend eating garlic. They say that after this its smell appears in the blood, which ticks really don’t like.
The mixture of oils should be rubbed onto exposed areas of the body immediately before walking through areas that are dangerous for ticks. But we should not forget that natural remedies only work for a few hours. During your stay in nature, it will be necessary to carry out treatment 3-4 times a day.
Folk recipes
Since ticks do not like strong odors, products prepared for folk recipes can be used as repellents. To increase the effectiveness of oils, they are used in mixtures that are suitable for protecting both adults and children.
- Combine aromatic oils of eucalyptus, cloves, lavender with any base oil (peach, olive). At 2 tbsp. l. base oil you need to take 25 drops of essential oil.
- You can make a spray. For this, 2 tsp. aromatic oil should be mixed with 1 cup warm water and add 1 tbsp. alcohol The prepared mixture should be shaken well and poured into a spray bottle. The spray makes it easier to treat skin and clothing.
Thus, folk remedies to protect humans from ticks can be used instead chemicals, but they do not last long and serve only to scare away.
These tips do not constitute a recommendation for treatment.
Be careful when applying these tips from popular experience.
Over the course of a century, residents of endemic regions, geologists, loggers, and shift workers have accumulated experience in combating tick-borne diseases.
No one has studied their effectiveness, and possibly harm, but nevertheless, they are alive among the people and many prefer them to traditional treatment!
Sometimes there are such circumstances that people who, by chance, find themselves in areas with tick-borne encephalitis and are bitten by an encephalitis tick, do not have any medicine.
In this case, a bath or other method of intensively warming up a patient with intense sweating for 2 hours for 3 days can help.
At the same time, the victim should definitely drink a decoction of pine needles with aspen bark.
To prepare it, 1 tbsp. spoon of pine needles and 1 tbsp. A spoonful of finely ground aspen bark should be poured into 0.5 liters of boiling water, wrapped and left to infuse for 1 hour.
Take the infusion at warm a glass 8 times a day. In this case, complete rest must be observed.
Along with the medications prescribed by your doctor, it is useful to use traditional medicine.
- Tincture of golden root (Rhodiola rosea): the finished 10% tincture is taken 15-20 drops, diluted in 1 tbsp. a spoonful of warm boiled water, 3 times a day before meals for a long period until complete healing.
- Royal jelly in its pure form or mixed with honey is taken sublingually or orally: 20-30 g of jelly (on the tip of a knife) is placed under the tongue until completely dissolved 3-5 times a day an hour before meals.
- Black poplar (sedge) buds are taken orally as an infusion: 1 tbsp. a spoonful of crushed buds is infused for 2 hours in a glass of boiling water and taken 2-3 tbsp. spoons 3-5 times a day before meals.
- Take equal parts of wormwood herb (picked in May) and Rhodiola rosea root crops, carefully chop, mix and prepare a 25% tincture with 70-proof alcohol. Take this tincture 25-40 drops, diluted in 1 tbsp. spoon of warm boiled water.
IN To avoid complications and serious consequences after suffering from an illness, it is recommended to use preparations from the following medicinal plants.
The fruits of Echinops sharogola in the form of a 2% tincture: take 10-20 drops orally, diluted in 1 tbsp. spoon of warm boiled water, 3 times a day before meals in courses (10 days - intake, 10 days - break).
Infusion of purslane herb: 1 tbsp. Infuse a spoonful of fresh chopped herbs for 2 hours in a glass of boiling water and take 1-3 tbsp (with honey to taste). spoons 3-4 times a day before meals.
The fruits (seeds) of the common harmala are taken orally in the form of powder, 10-15 pieces (crush the seeds), washed down with warm boiled water, 2-3 times a day before meals.
N Traditional medicine recommends, along with drug treatment for headaches, tinnitus and hearing loss, the following recipes:In a meat grinder you need to grind 3-4 thin-skinned lemons and the same number of heads of garlic. Add 0.5 liters of vegetable oil (unrefined), preferably olive oil, and 200 grams of honey to the resulting mass. Place in the refrigerator for 10 days to infuse.
Take this remedy before meals, 1 tablespoon 3-4 times a day for a month. After this, take a break for 2 weeks and repeat the course.
Prepare a collection of the following plants: 50 grams of crushed licorice roots, fireweed leaves, dill seeds, meadowsweet flowers and clover flowers. To prepare the infusion, you will need two tablespoons of the collection, which you need to pour with 2 cups of boiling water and leave for 30 minutes, then strain.
Take the infusion four times a day, half a glass after meals, as well as at night. The course of treatment is one month. Tar, garlic and some essential oils are used as folk remedies against ticks. Tar and essential oils, in particular tea tree oil, are used externally, that is, they are rubbed on open areas of the body. And garlic is internal, it is usually eaten before a hike. Anti-tick mixture:
10 drops tea tree essential oil
50 ml water (or Chypre cologne)
Preparation: Mix water and essential oil and pour the mixture into the bottle. Shake before use. Apply a few drops of the mixture to your palms and rub them on your neck, arms, legs and hair. After returning from the forest, treat your clothes with the solution (using a spray bottle). Anti-mite shower oil.
15 drops tea tree essential oil
30 ml shower detergent.
5 ml soybean oil.
Preparation: Mix vegetable oil and washing oil in a suitable container. Add essential oil and mix thoroughly again.
After a walk in the forest, take a shower with this oil. In general, field experience shows that the best remedy from a bite is a timely periodic inspection - the main thing is to remove the tick from yourself in time.
After all, a tick is not a bee and will not bite immediately; it takes up to 2 hours for it to attach itself.
Therefore, timely inspection most often eliminates all problems. And further. I want to tell you an old proven method of experienced taiga dwellers.
Make sure to buy two pairs of cheap nylon tights suitable size. One pair is worn under outerwear in the usual way, the other is irreparably damaged by cutting off the feet (or whatever they are called) and cutting a fairly large hole in the crotch area.
The edges of the cuts are treated with nail polish or other folk remedies so that the threads do not creep, after which you have a tight, but not very restrictive T-shirt. This kit will not save you from mosquitoes, but it will protect you well from ticks. In it you are like in a tank! Only the head remains open, which you treat with tea oil and put on a hood.
Although if you find tights that are larger in size, you won’t need a hood. At the same time, you will scare away everyone you meet.
It may indeed be hot in the summer, but your health is worth it.
Encephalitis is a very serious disease.
Let's look at some some traditional medicine recipes for encephalitis.
With such a terrible illness, it is necessary to use medicinal plants that have antispasmodic, vasodilating, antisclerotic, nootropic and sedative effects. Such medicinal plants include: mint, lemon balm, periwinkle, motherwort, valerian roots, peony, cyanosis, Baikal skullcap, hop cones, etc. Moreover, these medicinal plants must be selected individually, trying one or the other for about 2-3 weeks, then combine them in 2-3 plants. For example, in the morning and throughout the day you should drink infusions of mint, lemon balm, or periwinkle herbs.
Preparation of infusion from these medicinal plants: 1 tbsp. pour a spoonful of raw materials into 0.5 liters of water. Boil over low heat at closed lid 15 minutes. Leave for 30 minutes. Drink 1/3-1/2 cup depending on body weight 2-3 times a day, regardless of meals.Soothing decoctions and infusions.
From the second half of the day to the evening, you need to prepare infusions and decoctions of soothing medicinal plants, for example, an infusion of motherwort herb, a decoction of the roots of cyanosis, peony or skullcap. The decoction is prepared as follows: 1 tbsp. pour a spoonful of raw materials into 0.5 liters of water. Boil for 30 minutes over low heat with the lid closed. Leave for 60 minutes.
And motherwort infusion can be prepared in two ways: 1 tbsp. pour a spoonful of chopped herbs into 0.5 liters of water. Boil over low heat with the lid closed for 15 minutes. Leave for 40 minutes. Or: 1 tbsp. pour a spoonful of herbs into 0.5 liters of boiling water. Leave in a thermos overnight. Drink 1/2 cup of infusion or decoction of soothing plants in the afternoon, evening and at night.
Drink half a glass of infusion or decoction of soothing plants in the afternoon, evening and at night, regardless of food.
Motherwort should especially be used when intracranial pressure increases, or when there is a tendency to increase blood pressure towards evening or night.
Homemade motherwort tincture. From medicinal plants of this group, for example motherwort, you can prepare alcohol drops at home: pour 100 g of raw material into 1 liter of 45% alcohol. Leave for 20 days at room temperature in a dark place. Drink, for example, drops of motherwort 20-30 drops 3 times with 1/3 glass of water in the afternoon in the evening and at night.
We are preparing drops for encephalitis.
Periwinkle improves arterial blood flow and microcirculation in the vessels of the brain, and also prevents the deposition of atherosclerotic plaques in the walls of blood vessels, which is also important, especially with age. In addition, it is actively recommended for Parkinson's disease, the consequences of previous encephalitis, headaches and dizziness. But periwinkle is not only an anti-sclerotic and vasodilating plant, as it also has a nootropic effect, that is, it improves brain function.
You can prepare alcohol drops from periwinkle at home: pour 100 g of crushed herbs into 1 liter of 70% alcohol. Leave for 20 days in a dark place at room temperature. Drink 10 drops in the morning and afternoon with 1/3 glass of water in courses of 5-6 months. You can use ready-made drops “Sclerovish”, which contain periwinkle and other “brain” medicinal plants.
For borreliosis (Lama)
Herbal tea helps strengthen the antibacterial activity of the body. To prepare it, you need to take one tablespoon of the herb, pour 500 ml of boiling water over it and leave for half an hour. You need to drink a whole glass of tea at a time. The herbs from which the medicinal drink is prepared are calendula, birch leaves, and red rowan.
Infusions have a good effect. You can prepare infusions according to the following recipes:
Take one tablespoon of beech herb, pour half a liter of boiling water over it and leave for two hours. Strain the resulting infusion and take 2 tablespoons 3-4 times a day half an hour before meals.
Another no less effective infusion is prepared as follows: take one teaspoon of wild strawberry leaves, pour 20 ml of boiling water and infuse for 4 hours, then filter. Take the resulting healing infusion three times a day, two tablespoons before meals. The treatment period is one month.
Treatment of encephalitis with golden root and wormwood
Tick-borne encephalitis can be cured with a 10% tincture of Rhodiola rosea, otherwise called “golden root”. Drink it three times a day before meals, 20 drops, after diluting it in a tablespoon of boiled warm water. The tincture has a strengthening effect, so it should be taken until complete recovery.
Wormwood tincture also has a healing effect. The herb is mixed equally with golden root roots, crushed, mixed thoroughly and poured with 70% alcohol (25 g per 100 ml). Before taking, 25-40 drops of tincture are mixed with warm boiled water(1 tbsp).
Tea from black poplar buds also has a beneficial effect: brew a tablespoon of the raw material in a glass of boiling water for 2 hours and drink 2-3 sips before meals three times a day.
Treatment of encephalitis with valerian and burnet
An aqueous infusion of valerian root is an effective folk remedy for the treatment of encephalitis and meningitis, and burnet root extract concentrate is rubbed into the scalp three times a day. It is prepared in this way: the roots are crushed, poured with alcohol and left for 3 weeks. When the roots swell and become like liquid pulp, they are squeezed out and the medicine is filtered.
Such procedures are combined with taking peony tincture. The root of the evasive peony is ground and a tablespoon is filled with 100 ml of vodka. Then the product is infused for 9 days and drunk 40-50 drops three times a day. The course of treatment is 30 days, after which a break is taken for two weeks.
During treatment, it will be useful to drink an infusion of wintergreen. A teaspoon of dry herb is brewed in 100 ml of boiling water and left warm under a lid for a couple of hours. Take tea 3-4 times a day, a tablespoon. Medicinal properties Dandelion juice also has benefits if you drink it a tablespoon half an hour before meals.
