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After a walk in areas with high risk, check your clothing, hair, shoes and fabric items like tents for ticks. Immediately wash apparels and fabrics in hot water washer and put them in a high heat dryer for 30 minutes.
Ticks Can Transmit Various Kind Of Tick Borne Diseases
All About Ticks On Humans And Tick Removal
Malaysia offers a stunning landscapes, but amidst the beauty in nature, tiny threat must not be ignore. Ticks are insects, this notorious little bloodsuckers that causes more than just a nuisance to many. Their bites can impact serious health complications such as Alpha Gal Syndrome (AGS), Lyme disease, Anaplasmosis. Ehrlichiosis, Babesiosis, Powassan (POW), Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, and Tularemia.
These parasites resides in forested areas, parks and gardens, with over 70 different type of species in Malaysia. The most common tick feeds on the blood of humans and animals causing allergic reactions they transmit to hosts. Tick attach to the skin and pierce their mouthparts into it and draw blood on soft areas like the under arms, groin, neck and scalp. While most tick bites can be harmless, some can actually leave you with severe allergy reactions.
Knowing Their Appearance Can Help With Proper Identification
How Do The Ticks Look Like?
As a pet owner, it is important that you know how ticks look like to keep your pets safe. Ticks can inflict serious and in some serious cases, fatal diseases in pets. Important to keep and up to date knowledge on these unwanted parasites, this will include ways to protect your pets.
Paralysis Tick
Bush Tick
Brown Dog Tick
Removing Tick On Head In The Skin or Ticks on Cats and Dogs
Removing Tick The Correct Way
Remove tick safely as soon as possible after noticing during tick check, it can help prevent tick related illnesses. Take note of the symptoms that develop and worsen after the tick is successfully remove. Before you begin the removal, prepare a pointy tweezer and rubbing alcohol or soap and water. Make sure that the tweezers are not those typical tweezers with a square tip.
Ticks can be quite small and closely similar to the sesame seeds in comparison. Using a regular tweezer might accidentally tear them, which you need to avoid at all cost. Once you have prepare the require items, this is what you need to do:
Thoroughly clean the tick bite site area with rubbing alcohol or soap water.
With your tweezers, grab as close as you can to reach the head of the tick.
Hold firm and pull straight and upwards slowly without twisting on a steady pressure.
Clean the tick marks and bite area with alcohol swipe or soap water and wash hands thoroughly.
Ultimate Tips For Removing Tick On Human And Pets
Tick Bites, Do Not Squeeze The Tick Out
During removal, do not squeeze the tick out or use force to avoid detaching the head from the body. The latest advice from experts in Malaysia, who encounter an attach adult tick.
Use tweezers with a special J hook shape tools to get close to the skin, it lowers the risk of tick being squeeze or disturb. Resulting them injecting saliva and potentially leaving behind infected tick diseases in your body system, experts shares. It exposes you to various harmful diseases like tick fever, lyme disease and even severe allergic reaction. Here are the 4 important things that you need to avoid doing:
Avoid applying methylated, kerosene, petroleum, nail polish to suffocate the tick. Chemicals are ineffective to detach tick from the skin, they may choose to burrow deeper and inject more toxins.
Do not use lighter or any hot object and attempt to kill the tick in hopes it detach itself. Besides risking burning yourself, this method of approach will not be effective to remove ticks.
Avoid using square blunt household tweezers that are use for plucking brows. You will potentially harm yourself by squeezing the body of the tick too hard causing it to break apart.
Do not handle ticks with your bare hands as allergens can enter your body through open wounds or rubbing of eyes. Wash your hands thoroughly with soapy water after handling a tick.
What Is The Life Cycle Duration For Ticks To Grow From Eggs to Adults?
Blacklegged ticks (deer ticks) take a whole 2 years to complete their life cycle from eggs and larvae. A whole calendar to change from nymphs to an adults tick. You can encounter them in forest as well as grasslands and shrub.
Symptoms From Tick Bites
Tick Borne Illnesses And Symptoms To Lookout For
Most tick bites do not aggravate any symptoms, for some tick bites can be quite a problem. In severe cases complications. Below are the list of symptoms and conditions that can develop from a tick bite.
Skin irritation such as swelling and redness or pain in movement of joint.
Allergy can involves itch, red and sore or swelling surrounding the area lasting for a few days. Anaphylactic is a life threatening reaction with a widespread itch, throat swell, breathing problem and collapse.
Developing allergy to red meat and gelatine after paralysis tick bites. This species of tick induces mammalian in our system for a meat allergy reaction.
Most tick paralysis cases are amongst young children, rare in adults, a transfer of neurotoxins from ticks saliva. Tick paralysis is often experience in animals or pets.
Ultimate Protection Against Tick Bites
Effective Ways to Prevent Tick Bites
If you live in a high infested tick areas, make sure to keep some permethrin cream in your first aid box. Always be ready to tackle the problem if you have to go through a tick or tick larvae infested area. While being outdoors, please note of the following precautionary measures to help prevent you from tick bites.
- To avoid being bitten by a tick, do not enter tick-infested areas at all cost.
- Try avoid land that has bushy and long grass, especially after it rains.
- Keeping the grass in your garden mown short to help reduce the risk of ticks infestation.
- Make sure your outfit covers your arm and legs such as long sleeves and pants. Choose lighter colour clothes to easily spot ticks that are trying to latch on.
- Tuck in trousers into your socks and shirt into your pants to reduce skin exposure.
- Apply an insect repellent to protect your skin, clothes and hats. Follow the instructions provided on the product description.
- Protect your hair, ears and head by wearing a wider brimmed hat.
- Apply an insecticide cream often available from outdoor and camping retail outlets.
- Upon returning from the outdoors, swat your clothes to remove any ticks before entering.
- Shower and inspect for ticks as soon as you return from outdoors, areas that may have ticks.
- Apparels worn in tick infested areas must be place in a dryer for 20 minutes to kill any ticks.
- If you have allergy reactions to tick bites and live in a dense ticks population, consider moving.
Professional Ticks Control Services
Innovative Pest Blog Summary
At Innovative Pest Sdn Bhd, we provide a few effective approach to ticks control methods:
Misting treatment is a fine mist that can spread evenly on hard to reach areas to kill ticks. It provides a full coverage onto surface areas. Residual spraying of insecticide treatment targets a direct approach solution measure to address the source of the problem. To eradicate the pest problem immediately and prevent any future infestations issues problems.
