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- Overview
- What causes tick infestations?
- What are the signs of a tick infestation?
- How can you control and prevent tick infestations?
- When should you contact your doctor?
It’s possible for you to come into contact with a tick if there are wooded or brushy areas near your home and you’re outdoors when the weather is warm.
Ticks are small parasitic organisms that live in wooded areas and fields. These arachnids need blood from humans or animals to survive. Ticks tend to be carriers of various serious diseases, which they may transmit to the people they bite.
Examples of diseases that ticks may transmit include:
•Lyme disease (especially transmitted by adult deer ticks)
•Rocky Mountain spotted fever
•tularemia
Tick infestations can occur when just one tick is brought into the home. The tick will attach itself somewhere on your body and bury its head into your skin.
If you find a tick in your house, you should look at it to determine the type of tick. Only certain ticks can live indoors. The most common is brown dog ticks (Rhipicephalus sanguineus). Most other ticks find an indoor environment too dry for long-term survival.
Ticks can attach themselves to any part of the body, including:
•the groin
•under the arms
•inside the ears
During a tick infestation in your home, you might find many ticks on yourself or your pet. Since ticks require blood from people or animals to survive, they attach themselves to you, your family members, or your pet.
Ticks move quickly across the body, but they prefer warm and moist areas. They are often found in the armpits, groin, or scalp. Once the tick has found a place it likes, it will bite you and burrow its head firmly into your skin. Unlike other insect bites, this bite is painless.
You should always check your body — and that of your children and pets — after being in an outside area known to have ticks. Make sure to examine any brown or black spots.
Don’t just focus on areas where ticks are commonly found. Ticks range in size from 1–2 millimeters (mm) in diameter (the size of a poppy seed) to as large as 10 mm in diameter (the size of a pencil eraser).
You may also have a tick infestation in your home if you or one of your family members develops a tick-borne illness. The effects of these illnesses can range from mild to severe. Many of them have similar symptoms, such as:
•fever
Ticks that aren’t attached to the skin can be vacuumed up. The vacuum bag should be tightly sealed and immediately discarded to a location outside of your home. You should check your clothing and body after vacuuming to ensure no ticks are on you.
You may also use spray or powder pesticide to help kill ticks inside your home.
Although it’s possible to control a tick infestation once it occurs, it’s far better to prevent an infestation from happening.
If you live or spend time in an area where ticks are common, you should check yourself and your children before returning indoors.
You can also wear long-sleeved shirts and tuck your pants into your socks while hiking on trails or in wooded areas. Try to use an insect repellant that works on ticks. You may also buy certain types of clothing that contain insect repellant in the fabric.
To remove a tick that is already biting you or a family member, grasp the tick as close to the skin as possible using tweezers or a tissue. Then pull it out slowly and steadily without twisting.
You should call your doctor if a tick bites you and you develop symptoms of a tick-borne illness. One of the first signs may be a rash accompanied by a fever.
Antibiotics are typically used to treat tick-borne illnesses, as many are bacterial. Your doctor can give you the correct diagnosis and prescribe the right antibiotic for treatment.
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